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Team Saabworks Completes Rally of the Tall Pines
Posted by James Fox (more from James Fox) on Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:09:02
In Reply to: , Kok Chen, Sat, 17 Dec 1988 12:00:00

just got back from competing in the rally of the tall pines in bancroft
ontario. finished 20th o/a and 5th in open class (no g5 in canada so i
get bumped up to open). the rally was fantastic and lots of people were
excited to see an old saab rallying. one guy even came up to me and said
he saw people on saabnet chat talking about me being at the rally :)

the roads were amazing, a mixture of real tight 1 lane roads with close
trees and lots of rough bumps, rocks etc all the way to wide open and
smooth 1.5 lane roads with the trees trimmed way back from the road. spent
a scary amount of time at the top of 3rd (around 6-6500 rpms) and even
wound out 5th in a few spots. road conditions varied from a light snow
dusting over frozen gravel to glare ice to loose gravel and mud. in short
this rally threw every condition possible at you! we started the day on
gravel tyres and only wished for ice tyres on 2 stages. for the evening
stages we switched to hakka q's just in time for some real icy stages and
some late evening snowfall.

we were running strong all day- catching cars in front of us on almost
every stage, on one stage we caught and passed 3 cars! we positively flew
on the iron mtn. spectator stage- this one was a real town maintained dirt
road, all gravel and fast fast fast. we were taking corners flat out in
furious slides to the delight of the crowd. we launched a killer jump on
stage 5 (the iron mtn. spectator stage) and got such good hangtime that i
had time to notice camera flashes going of while we were airborne. as soon
as i find some pics i'll post them.

on the mechanical side the engine was running excellent. all my previous
problems with flat spots above 4200 rpm were taken care of. I finally got
time to wire and plumb my 5th injector. this fires fuel into the upper
intercooler pipe above 3/4 throttle. the rally car is an official rocket
ship, as nick jacob can verify. we figure she's got about 200 bhp and 250
ft/lbs of torque. we had a slight toe-out issue that wasn't resolved from
the triple rollover at black river stages. i just ran out of time to align
the car. the body is fairly straight and the roofline was hammered out to
get a new windshield in. some spray paint and she doesn't look half bad.
no accidents this time!

when we landed the big jump on stage 5 we cracked the return fuel line by
the accumulator. we completed 1 stage leaking more fuel than i want to
think about before we could limp into service. nick jacob did an
excellent job as crew, patching the line with rubber fuel line and hose
clamps and getting us out of service on time. the repair held for the
rest of the rally. on the beginning of stage 10 we blew the rear upper
shock bushings and the washers started slide-hammering through the sheet
metal. we tried using an alternator bushing to take up the space at the
service before stage 11 but alas it only held for .5 km. we were forced
to back way off for stage 11 (stage 10 run backwards) but were able to
pick the pace back up a bit for stage 12 (stage 10 run backwards)- the
road was very smooth. because of this we lost 3 minutes but it only
dropped us down 1 position.

we also lost a lot of time when we encountered blocked stages due to cars
getting stuck at washouts (thest were 'filled' with grapefruit sized rocks
and listed as double and triple cautions), 2 minutes on stage 2 and then
the car we caught up to wouldn't let us pass- we followed him for 10km to
the end of the stage. on stage 6 we encountered another stuck car at a
washout and lost another 2 minutes. on stage 7 the car in front of us
spun out and blocked the road for a minute but they let us pass a km
later.

all in all it was a fantastic rally. a lot of people were surprised at
how fast the saab was :) we couldn't have done it without nick jacob
patching us back together- thanks for crewing for us!

check out the tall pines website for the results, including stage times.
we posted several top-twenty times at a national event.
http://tallpinesrally.com/

james
team saabworks
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