You know, most people would consider it Good News that they spent all say at Disneyland. Anyway... here's a link for a team based in West Covina (Co Driver out of Thousand Oaks...represent!) that won overall at the Treeline Rally (a California Rally Series event) in a 2WD Focus!
http://www.widgetracing.com/pr/06/pr06-08.htm
But they're taking an STI to the U.S. National Championship
The Rabbit looked good. Too good. I didn't have the heart to tell the guy who had spent so much time restoring it that I wanted to cut it up and destroy it. If I were a 17 year old girl I would have asked for it for Christmas just to drive around. Anyway, my Dad says he read where the Rabbits suffer from some structural integrity issues regarding suspension mounting points. From looking under the hood, the front shock mounts seem to be tied in with the body/frame at these raised cones up near the firewall. That would allow for long travel but it very may well be weak. I don't know how much we are permitted to do in terms of bracing the body and beefing up the mounts but it may be more trouble than it's worth. The mechanic is back at work this week so he can do some more research. He can't post on the forum at work though because of the firewall... I was tempted to mess with it this weekend but i didn't want to get him fired.
ps - did anyone notice the two very different uses of the word "firewall" in that post...? Sign of the times.
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something we learn about in HR as well as something i learned is good while on the job hunt:
the informational interview. we should sit down with these bad ass locals and let them know we are curious. we will get insight and of course some tips to avoid the tedious re-inventing of the wheel...especially when you consider how important wheels are to cars.
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