Our Rally car prepared for the 2011 season

[paulwoodford]

Hi all

We've been hard at work over the winter repreparing the rally car for this season. What with new regulations, lessons learned from last season with the car and general developments a few things have changed.

Quick pic for now, will update when I have more time with a full spec as things stand if anyone is interested.

Thank you to Chris Temple at Templerallysport and Colin for helping solve my numerous handbrake headaches!

Cheers

Paul

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o95/paulwoodford/1-12.jpg

[Mochachino]

SIK CAR M8 NDZ LOW3RIN DOE

Id expect some poeple commenting saying "needs lowering" to come on not realising its a proper car lol

Look forward to the spec list :) When does the season commence?

[paulwoodford]

Haha - we did have that comment at a local motor show we took the car to last year.

The season has already started really, but I am involved in rallying in other ways so wont get a lot of chance to compete this year, perhaps a handful of events towards the middle of the season.

Here is the spec, excuse how much detail we've gone into on certain things, was done for our website:

Shell:

Full seam welded, lightened and strengthened shell
Polycarbonate windows, fronts with sliders, thermoformed rears
Weld in S1600 cage with suspension pick ups
Quick lift jacking points welded into the sills
Peugeot Sport sump guard
Peugeot Sport twin tank guards with sill mountings
4mm Kaylan mudflaps front and rear with additional flaps for rear Proflex
Cut away rear bumper valance
External ignition cut off and extinguisher activate
Peugeot Sport lamp pod with Hella spot and driving lamps
Bonnet pins

Suspension:

Peugeot Sport Bilstein adjustable Cup Car fronts (gravel)
Proflex 3 way adjustable remote reservoir Rear dampers
Heavy duty bottom arms/top mounts
Strengthened rear beam mounts integrated into cage mountings

Engine:

16V 1600 VTS engine
Cat cams (708s)
Peugeot Sport Cup Car ECU (rev limiter 7650rpm)
Raceland SS manifold
Peugeot Sport exhaust
Group N induction system with cold air feed and green cotton filter

Transmission:

MA gearbox with gripper 90% plate limited slip differential and 5.1 final drive
Heavy duty competition driveshafts
Rosejointed gear linkage
Quickshift

Brakes:

Standard VTS disc set up all round with front Mintex M1114 compound pads
Compbrake hydraulic handbrake lever
Earl’s front and rear brake hoses
Earl’s Aeroquip cockpit hoses/fittings
Earl’s Aeroquip engine bay brake hoses/fittings
Tilton 6pt lever bias valve (in cockpit)

Cockpit:

All brake/fuel lines run through car
Sparco Pro2000 seats
TRS Magnum 6pt 3" aircraft release harnesses
Motordrive carbon fibre footwells with integrated footrests
Sparco pedal extensions
Sparco suede steering wheel
Dashboard ends removed and replaced around cage modifications
Terraphone in-car intercom system with mic headsets
Modified electric window switch pod on transmission tunnel
Foamex door cards (co-driver includes map pocket and pen holder)
Mini interior pull handles
Carbon fibre centre dash panel with aux switches for horn, spots and extinguisher activate
Carbon fibre co-driver dash panel with Brantz trip computer and remote control
Fire retardent rollcage padding
Dash mounted ignition cut off
Plumbed in mechanical 2.25l extinguisher with nozzles in engine bay and cockpit
Hand held extingusher mounted in co-driver footwell
Helmet hammock
Jack and wheelbrace mounting in rear
All unnecessary interior trim panels/head lining/carpet removed

Wheels/tyres:

Sparco Cromodora 15"x6 wheels in silver (ET19)
Hankook RS2 tyres
PTS stud conversion (tapered nuts)

[Craig_B]

Spec is sweet!!

Any more pictures or vids??

[paulwoodford]

There are plenty of photos on our website www.teamwoodspeed.com, and here is a vid from 2010:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CLklPonVak

[Craig_B]

Enjoyed watching that!! good video!!

[paulwoodford]

Cheers - despite a few issues (note stuck throttle!) everything came together and it was our best result!

[lilbenchy9192]

haha lush car mate!!!! that vids funny its one of them perspectives that makes it feel like ur not going very fast lol, ("looks") bet u were hammering it

[paulwoodford]

haha lush car mate!!!! that vids funny its one of them perspectives that makes it feel like ur not going very fast lol, ("looks") bet u were hammering it

Yeh it's quite high up and far back on the rollcage.

We beat two S1600 kit cars to take third on that rally, so I can assure you we were hammering it lol!

[tomshaw89]

I want one !!! thats a lovely car !

[andywiddss1]

got to love manby plenty of flat out stages there

[paulwoodford]

Have you done Manby Andy?

[scrapyardcity]

very very nice,nice spec list.

[paulwoodford]

Cheers!

Here are some more photos, if this works....

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=353027&id=742810007&l=6e46f22169

[sn3ddon]

looks a good a rally car

[CHIP]

Looks good that does. Very nice spec list too. Good luck for when you do get to hit the stages :y:

[lilbenchy9192]

funny question, are ur rally tyres road legal?? if so were can u buy them?? would love some nice chunky tyres for myne cus i love the rally look

[paulwoodford]

funny question, are ur rally tyres road legal?? if so were can u buy them?? would love some nice chunky tyres for myne cus i love the rally look

Do a search for a thread I put up about Hankook RS2 road legal track tyres. That's what we ran on the last couple of rallies.

Prior to that we were running Kumho rally slicks which, being rally tyres are a grey area for the law - in theory you can run them while competing on a road section, similar to forest tyres. But try explaining that to the police office who stops you because you appear to be running moulded slicks!

I've run a number of different type of rally tyre, and Pirelli RS7s were by far the most amazing tyres I have ever driven on!

[paulwoodford]

Sorry to say, this is now sold - so no more rally Saxo updates from this camp for a while!

[Colin]

Very sorry to hear its now sold Paul! Onwards and upwards though, always looked liked you love driving her and she did you proud :)

[paulwoodford]

I'll be honest - everything has its price and I got made an offer I couldn't refuse. It's a very good rally car and I've had a LOT of fun out of her, but the TV stuff needs to take priority at the moment. I'll post some pics from our last rally on here in a bit,

Paul

[paulwoodford]

Here is a vid of us getting it sideways at Harewood Hillclimb at a test earlier in the year!

YouTube - ‪Citroën Saxo rally car at Harewood Hillclimb‬‏

[paulwoodford]

And some photos from the last event at Blyton where we came 4th in class and 16th overall...

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o95/paulwoodford/photo5-1.jpg

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o95/paulwoodford/photo4-4.jpg

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o95/paulwoodford/photo3-4.jpg

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o95/paulwoodford/photo2-5.jpg

And I introduced my friends little baby to rallying!!

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o95/paulwoodford/photo1.jpg