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Old 10-23-2004, 02:17 PM
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Went to my first Rally today up here in Houghton Michigan. It was really cool to watch. I was suprised at the hondas I saw. on top of this one, I saw an DC5 that fucked up its quarter panel and was dangling his exhaust, and a 2nd gen CRX. It was raining like crazy when the Pro rally cars were driving, so I didn't get to take a picture of them.
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All I can say is go FF!!! and Left Foot Braking. lots of it.
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or right hand braking lol


Oh, and one of the Pro Rally cars was an SRT4. Some guy who was I standing next to goes to his body "thats not FWD, thats 4wd. Its not a Neon, its an SRT4" I was too cold and wet to correct him.
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holy **** that is hardcore.

Rock on man, i've always wanted to do something like that.
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haha right hand braking. But seriously you need left foot braking for rally. It is a combination of throttle modulation with the right foot and the left foot presses the brake pedal SIMULTANEOUSLY. The point of this is to shift the weight of the car forward, surprisingly it works although at first glance it seems counter intuitive. So once the car weight is place forward it then pushes the front wheels down and get better traction and since your pushing the gas pedal it wll claw its was around a corner better.
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by OnePointFive &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">holy **** that is hardcore.

Rock on man, i've always wanted to do something like that. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Lol, you must of read my post wrong. I didn't race, I just spectated. I want to rally though. It would be fun as hell.

The hardest part about a rally like this is since there was a ton of loose gravel, plus it was raining, the FWD cars pushed like crazy.
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you know you shouldnt be rallying in a honda it will break on you get off the course and go back to get your groceries with your honda
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by NISSANOWNJU &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">you know you shouldnt be rallying in a honda it will break on you get off the course and go back to get your groceries with your honda</TD></TR></TABLE>

holy ****,at least he only has 2 posts left....BAN this ***!!! nice pic BTW
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-----Bump------This is kool
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by zer0_2_6ixty &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">nice pic BTW </TD></TR></TABLE>

mmm. IMO it is pretty shitty. I couldn't get a good spot to take pictures (across the road would have gotten a much better veiw, but as soon as I walked to my spot, the course was already hot so I couldn't cross) Also, since it was raining so much, I was just turning the camrea on when I saw the car coming down the straight, and by the time the car got there, I only had time to point and click. If it wasn't raing, I would have set the camera to do mutliple shots with .2 seconds delay between pics, so I would have been able to get much better "sideways" shots.
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Here are two other pics that are alright.


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wow! i don't think i have even seen a porsche on a dirt course!! that is awesome...how did it do?

do you know if any hondas took first??
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nice pictures! i love dirt events. not as cool, but here is one from me back in the day.
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there was a sport compact car issue that featured 2 rally civics a few months ago, ill scan the pictures and post them soon
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Well the civic pictured did alright. It was actually the last of all the hondas at least for the stage that I saw. I only saw the one stage, so I don't know the final outcome. The prosche held its own, and was in the middle of the pack.
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ooo Team 4 will enjoy this....
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nice although i cant see a fwd civic doing too good....compared to say...a wrx
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true, but with all racing, there are diffrent classes and handicapt.
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looks fun
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not sure if you guys know this but http://www.scca.com/News/News.asp?Ref=178
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:sad: yea, i read about that like 2 or so weeks ago. However, I have heard that there are a few organizations that are looking to pick up the pro/Club rally
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crazy
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by alleyezonme &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">wow! i don't think i have even seen a porsche on a dirt course!! that is awesome...how did it do? </TD></TR></TABLE>

Porsches have been rallying for years. . . . . check out the 959 doing the Paris-Dakar back in 1986

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nice


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