Looks like hella fun but I think im out

Watch "ETRSCCA RallyCross #1 RJ Till Cobalt SS/TC 1/26/14" on YouTube

 

WRBalt?

 

Well watching that was a waste of a minute and 48 seconds

 

I want to see what the actually car looks like.

 

Its not a great video the point was who would rally cross their cobalt I figured it would just fall apart

 

Took mine "off roading" once...

Once.

 

driving chicago area roads is rough enough for me, thank you

 

Why? Just why? It's a sports car built for tracking, not for dirt haha.

 

I almost cried.

 

wouldn't do that to my car....EVER!!

 

Took my tc down a rock road once and have regretted it ever since

 

Still 100% fine :









If you REALLY think its that hard on your car read my article, because I'm not going to waste my time trying to convince people with a bunch of mods that driving on dirt isnt the end of the world (while theyre out grenading 3rd gear on the street)

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/sto...y-x-1510441255

I can't preach it enough - go race your car! If you're not, you are completely missing the point of it, and I feel desprately sorry for you.

 

i wouldnt do it to any vehicle i own, also its front wheel drive. lol

 

Hey look ill give ya points for having the ***** to do it and for showing what our platform can due in other venues but ill stick to the occasional auto x and dragstrip now lets not pretend dirt hitting paint isnt abrasive and doesnt do some damage and you do have a current thread going about the drivetrain moving around in your car but in the end i agree with You the people who dont race their ss in some way are really missing out on what this car does best personally ill just leave the rally x to you

 

How did I miss this?

 

The drivetrain movement is just a trans mount, I figured it out. Its been going for some time now - and I suspect it is the odd angle that the driveway meets (there is literally no way I can get out of the driveway without picking a tire up a ft off the ground) and it finally got to the point that It needs to be fixed.

But the car does have 100k miles on it.

I guess I'm biased on the paint issue because:

1: I bought the car in CO and the previous owner had run it through carwashes with salt still on it (or so I hypothesized) and it already had some swirling, rock chips and general wear that paint gets in a winter climate.

2: It really needs to be repainted, but is a sold 5 footer. If I were to get it painted I may reconsider doing rally x without throwing some plastidip on it first.

3: I've got a guy who will do a touch up respray for what amounts to basically nothing. Its just taking the time to prep some small issues and tape it that has kept me thus far

 

http://www.etrscca.org/wp-content/up...14_scoring.pdf

^^ Me and a friend of mine who rallys his cavalier ran in the same class. PF (I was number 77) - I not only improved by 20s over the event but also my last run was faster than all of the Modified Awd (MA) class. This includes STIs, Evos etc. Also the cavalier was in 5th overall.

FWD cars make excellent (and very very fun) rally cars. They do tend to be more momentum oriented as I wont argue that AWD will pull you out of a hole and let you back the car into corners - but a well driven fwd car will be damn near as fast as an AWD one in similar levels of prep - and maybe even faster on a higher speed stage as the AWD system adds weight and drivetrain loss into the equation.

Is it ideal? Maybe not - but the relatively long travel of the FE5 suspension and good dampers and spring rates makes it surprisingly competent on dirt. The tail end is VERY happy and the LSD pulls it out of corners very well.

 

I rally. In the snow on the road. Car hates back roads as I've found out by just a normal drive.

 

Shitty PA roads are like a rally course.

 

And yet I see maserati's, r8's and aventadors in town driving like nobody's business. I'm curious what their underbody looks like after a year in this area.

 

good for you man. I love rally, just wouldn't do it with my DD personally. If I had another car, maybe.

 

Fully locked and the cars not turning. Looks like fun lol

 

That was my first run and a fairly epic e-brake fail. I figured out quickly that with fwd you just play the liftoff oversteer with a bit of trail braking to get rotation. Cool picture though.

 

I bet it's not pretty.

 

I really want to get my car on a lift so I can do a good inspection the roads around here aren't as bad as yall are saying but this car and its tires seem to pick **** up of the road all the time im kinda worried what the underside of this thing looks like