New Rally Car

RickyBeam · **Posted:** Mon May 18, 2015 10:05 pm

https://youtu.be/aG01ya2cTbk

Ariel Nomad

If you can believe it, that's an NU2! 235HP, 220ft-lbs using a Honda K24 in a ~1500lb chassis. "Top speed 125 mph", so they've put a short tranny in it. For comparison, the duff civic tops out at 108.9mph @ 6500rpm, 4th gear. (106.2mph in 5th, power limited) [data from the Aim Solo. Speedo needle says 120+]

The bad news... it costs more than my new Lexus. And TMI isn't (yet?) making them in the US.

(I've joked about sneaking one of those in the Duff car. They never look under the hood anymore, so the judges wouldn't know until we set a top lap time.)

Chad Culbertson · **Posted:** Tue May 19, 2015 8:37 am

Thats about all that thing would be good for here, that and hitting some dunes. I guess it would make a pretty good dune buggy, although a quite expensive one lol.

Brett_Murphy · **Joined:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:02 pm **Posts:** 355

I do appreciate the concept, which is a street legal sand rail. A really nice Baja Bug would cost half of that and be street legal here.

Michael Czeiszperger · **Joined:** Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:35 am **Posts:** 861

RickyBeam wrote:

https://youtu.be/aG01ya2cTbk
They never look under the hood anymore, so the judges wouldn't know until we set a top lap time.)

Really? So you can stick any engine you want in the car? Or make it a turbo? Or completely rebuild a monster engine?

Roger McDaniels · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2015 9:07 pm

Michael Czeiszperger wrote:

RickyBeam wrote:

https://youtu.be/aG01ya2cTbk
They never look under the hood anymore, so the judges wouldn't know until we set a top lap time.)

Really? So you can stick any engine you want in the car? Or make it a turbo? Or completely rebuild a monster engine?

We could do that, and I've got a couple of monster engines sitting around that I could bolt in there, but we'll stick with the 1.6L single-cam. It would be totally against the rules to put my 275 WHP K24 Frankenstein motor in that car, but enforcement is lax and like Ricky said, after 6 years of the same car, they don't even have us open the hood any more.

RickyBeam · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2015 10:14 pm

Of course, they'd reclass us into A with 1000 penalty laps. If they carried them over, it'd take all year to get positive again.

Pete Guthrie · **Posted:** Sat Jun 13, 2015 12:34 pm

i heard of that ting.for me, baja bug,no fenders on rear,big kc lights,good tires..good stuff man.

Pete Guthrie · **Posted:** Sat Jun 13, 2015 12:39 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DvYog4m7VE baja beetle time ...remember on top gear,where they crossed africa.the penalty car was a bug.i would jsut buy a beetle up front.and say see you there..it may b slow as death.but i would get there no problem,its a bug,they can go anywhere

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