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Apr 29, 2024 09:18
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- CAT INTERCEPTOR
- Nov 9, 2004
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Basically a male Margaret Thatcher
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That'd be a boatload of work to try and get done by the end of October for the rally, there's barely even a cage in the car; not even any door bars to speak of.
For starters we'd need to bend up, bead roll, and weld in new wider sections of floor to both sides of the center tunnel to be able to fit modern seats and have enough headroom to clear the cage.
Bend, notch, and fit proper curved door bars and FIA spec windshield support bars.
Make a shedload of oversized taco gussets to meet RA, ARA, NASA, and FIA rules all at once.
Add a full X-bar to the main hoop, weld in those taco gussets, and add an extra roof bar to meet the grandfathered cage rules for NASA.
Paint the whole drat thing, then get an email back from one of the scrutineers about adding even more gussets, grind the paint off, and weld those in too.
Even after all of that work we'd still need to spend two entire days working on seat brackets and mounting plates for the new six point harnesses, that'd be bonkers to do a week before the race.
As would fabbing up a passenger side footrest to brace against
and importing 165/65-14 gravel rally tires from the UK while also replacing the destroyed trailer tires.
The real kicker would be discovering with two days left to go before the 13 hour drive to New York that the trailer suspension is completely worn out
and that the rally wheels sold with the car as spares don't actually fit because the factory wheel studs are laughably short.
You'd have to be some big dumb idiots to try all of that stuff 
Yeah pretty normal for rallying.
(That's no where NEAR an attempt at a piss week joke. Ugh, I know your pain all too well)
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