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12-28-17, 08:22 AM

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2018 Rally America Championship

Hey Everybody, just wanted to drop a note as 2018 is almost here. RCR is currently scheduled to run 4 national events with the Lexus and are working to add 2 more for a solid national championship attempt.

I will post our schedule once finalized in a couple weeks. Hopefully we will see some of you guys at the rallies!!

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01-12-18, 01:01 AM

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Wow awesome build!
And congrats to the awesome results in 2017..
How do you feel the chassi in the car is? Is it easy to get a good balance in it?

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01-27-18, 04:26 AM

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Chassis balance

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Originally Posted by Bempa

Wow awesome build!
And congrats to the awesome results in 2017..
How do you feel the chassi in the car is? Is it easy to get a good balance in it?

thank you. 2017 was short with only two events late in season but 2018 is going to be great with 5 nationals.

the balance is really good. The car is very heavy, powerful, and rear wheel drive so it's interesting on gravel. It generates lots of grip and stops/goes /turns surprisingly well

i have lost the wheel place unexpectedly a couple times which has been completely unexpected. Once was at 100 plus mph on nearly straight gravel road with trees. The later turned out to me tow issue which the car is VERY sensitI've to do to 11" travel in rear. If it's toed out you will know! The other spins I think are related to tow and forgetting I can keep it floored. Sounds silly but after 10 years of low powered rally cars it's easy to forget when I first jump in this one.

Figs has some great ideas to increase stability in the rear and we will be implementing in next couple weeks. We will post results/vids on our Facebook oafevRiver City Rally -RCR. Also just put last weeks tedt vid up.

More to come, thanks for interest!

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04-13-18, 10:42 PM

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Wow, nice to see someone approaching the 2IS chassis differently and with execution. Excited to see more progress.

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04-15-18, 01:18 PM

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sub'd!
how did I miss this great thread in the beginning!
I am going to read through in more details when I get some time and I am sure I will have a list of questions!
Great job!