964 Rally cars?
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964 Rally cars?
Anyone know of any 964 Rally cars having been built and rallied either in NA or Europe?
Hoping to buy a C4 and build it up for regional/national stage rallying. Why? Love Porsches, love AWD and love rallying. My first stage car was a Isuzu Impulse RS. Extremely rare and out of the ordinary. Once built up - was a competent runner - what with AWD and a 200HP turbo motor and all. And it was very satisfying to NOT be in a Subaru. Nothign against them at all - they are just TOO common in the North American rally scene.
Anyone know of anyone else having done this?
RK
Hoping to buy a C4 and build it up for regional/national stage rallying. Why? Love Porsches, love AWD and love rallying. My first stage car was a Isuzu Impulse RS. Extremely rare and out of the ordinary. Once built up - was a competent runner - what with AWD and a 200HP turbo motor and all. And it was very satisfying to NOT be in a Subaru. Nothign against them at all - they are just TOO common in the North American rally scene.
Anyone know of anyone else having done this?
RK
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There is a video of a 965 Rally car, (that ends up in a tree) somewhere on the internet. He seems to be doing quite well in the beginning.
I have no idea how to convert the 964C4 in to a Rally car. But I guess the AWD on it, should be quite up to a descent level.
I have no idea how to convert the 964C4 in to a Rally car. But I guess the AWD on it, should be quite up to a descent level.
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Originally Posted by Rally Guy
Anyone know of any 964 Rally cars having been built and rallied either in NA or Europe?
Hoping to buy a C4 and build it up for regional/national stage rallying. Why? Love Porsches, love AWD and love rallying. My first stage car was a Isuzu Impulse RS. Extremely rare and out of the ordinary. Once built up - was a competent runner - what with AWD and a 200HP turbo motor and all. And it was very satisfying to NOT be in a Subaru. Nothign against them at all - they are just TOO common in the North American rally scene.
Anyone know of anyone else having done this?
RK
Hoping to buy a C4 and build it up for regional/national stage rallying. Why? Love Porsches, love AWD and love rallying. My first stage car was a Isuzu Impulse RS. Extremely rare and out of the ordinary. Once built up - was a competent runner - what with AWD and a 200HP turbo motor and all. And it was very satisfying to NOT be in a Subaru. Nothign against them at all - they are just TOO common in the North American rally scene.
Anyone know of anyone else having done this?
RK
There are a few RWD 911s rallying also. Bob Olson from Minnesota has/ had one or two 911s that he used for a few years. Bob Cutler bought (I think) the yellow one and just ran LSPR last weekend with it.
My father (Scott Harvey Sr.) has a 911 and a 912 that he has been using in the California/ Nevada/ Arizona rallies. The 912 was originally built for La Carrera and won its class in 2002(?).
All I can say - if you insist on rallying a Porsche, better bring bags of money (as if you wouldn't need to sink enough with any other car).
Pics: 1 = Bob Olson
Link: Bob Cutler (this year's LSPR) http://photobucket.com/albums/v715/A.../LSPR%202005/?
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2 = Dad's 911
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That's a really cool picture of the 964 in the snow. You wouldn't have happened to have more of those?
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Originally Posted by Rassel
That's a really cool picture of the 964 in the snow. You wouldn't have happened to have more of those?
http://stcimages.com/rally/04snodrift/index.htm
or here:
http://www.sno-drift.org/Photos/Photos.htm
And of course, no post by me would be complete without a shot of one of my toys.
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Originally Posted by Rally Guy
Anyone know of any 964 Rally cars having been built and rallied either in NA or Europe?
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Of course you could always pick up one of the 954s. They were a ball to drive, but unfortunately are collectors items now.
Too bad they only made a handful of the 953s....
Nothing like a nice rear wheel drive rally car. I loved my old Safari Spec 911.
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I'm kinda broken over AWD. I ran a RWD rally car to start and while I learned a lot - the frustration of getting blown away by the AWD cars (just coming on the scene at the time) was a demon I'm still slaying - every time I get in my Celica GT4. : )
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Hi Guys -
I'm usually not so much into rally's but I did see some cool stuff in September. I was in England on a vaction going to the Goodwood Revival w/ a tour group and one of our stops was Francis Tuthill's porsche rally shop! It was quite the amazing trip! At any rate - Mr. Tuthill was a terriffic guy and could probably answer just about anything about rallying porsches for you. His website contains all his info - www.francistuthill.co.uk - hope that is ok to post! It's a really nice prep shop for all kinds of rally's - he was getting a bunch of customer cars ready for an african rally when we were there - quite cool.
I'm usually not so much into rally's but I did see some cool stuff in September. I was in England on a vaction going to the Goodwood Revival w/ a tour group and one of our stops was Francis Tuthill's porsche rally shop! It was quite the amazing trip! At any rate - Mr. Tuthill was a terriffic guy and could probably answer just about anything about rallying porsches for you. His website contains all his info - www.francistuthill.co.uk - hope that is ok to post! It's a really nice prep shop for all kinds of rally's - he was getting a bunch of customer cars ready for an african rally when we were there - quite cool.
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Was getting close to the end of the web and came across this thread by accident.
Here's another shot of the Olson 964 (a photo I took a few years ago).
Here's another shot of the Olson 964 (a photo I took a few years ago).
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