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Originally Posted by sperry
First I have to admit, I'm a rally n00b.
From what I understand, it's not how soft your suspension is, it's how much travel it's got that's important. That means you'll need long stroke, and enough ride height. If the softest setting on the AGX's will allow 'em to bottom out, then it's too soft. I chased a beat-ass volvo through the twisties at Rim of the World between stages a few years back, and I was astounded to see how flat that car cornered, considering it was an "off-road" vehicle.
Stock rims are probably better for rally, since you'll be able to have more sidewall on the tires. Lots of people will use snow tires for rally-x since they're the best non-rally specific tire for the job. High profile is your friend! I'm not sure how the 225 proxies factor into that theory though.
Where's JC when you need his opinion!?
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Too true, although I've heard that snow tires can be a bad idea due to softer sidewall. Never experienced it, though.
If you look at professional rally cars, it's fairly easy to tell that their suspension sits high enough to give them good travel. As far as wheels go, you want 15" with rally tires for durability and handling. The problem for many of us, unfortunately, is that we have no way of carting our cars to the rally-x track, and rally tires are not street-legal.
SCCA does stock rally-x events that pretty much limit you to the car's original setup and street tires, so it's possible to do simple rallying on stock suspension (which is usually fairly high) and 16" wheels.
Don't forget, though, that by definition, rally racing is simply based on time score from point-to-point (or time score on a closed circuit in the case of rallycross), and does not necessarily involve off-roading. There's plenty of tarmac rallying and auto-x to be had. . .
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It certainly looks like a ton of fun, but it's about eleventy-billion times harder on your car than autocross, and the chances of a major incident (roll-over) is much higher. My race car would be *destroyed* by off roading it at any sort of speed due to the tarmac suspension.
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I know, that's where the sigh comes from. I obviously don't have the funds to really drive my car the way I want to, and it's a drag. I've only had my RS for a couple of months, and I'm still trying to decide if I want to orient my mods towards tarmac or off-road. Off-road rally is my ideal motorsport, but it's probably too expensive to maintain.
