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Palouse Rider lives just north of Spokane but you won't see him post much.

Nearest town is Odell about 10 minutes away; Hood River is about 25 minutes. Fairgrounds has a building with real bathrooms and a snack bar possible; not sure if we can arrange that as yet.

This is the closest link I could find to the Hood River Fairgrounds. http://www.hoodriver.org/HRCCC_MemberTemplate.asp?MemberINDX=68&CategoryINDX= There is camping available at the fairgrounds. There's certainly a car wash available in nearby Odell (I think). You'll find this a great site.

You should hit PAP and pull the rear disks off one of the Turbos out there and install those instead of replacing the drum. You won't be sorry; it's one of the better upgrades. Also, get a set of the vented disks for the front off an EA81 wagon if you don't already have them.

Yes. My 5 speed conversion from the manual 4 speed dropped the rpm at 60 mph by about 500. I can cruise all day on the highway at 70 mph (or higher) somewhere in the low 3000 range (I'd have to look, but it's certainly below 3500).

I hope you didn't get me during my little off course excursion on run rhree. I'm looking forward to the video. I hope they do another event soon; this one was too much fun.

More photos of the afternoon run by Doug Chase: http://www.chaserace.com/photo/20040229rallycross.html

As far as I know, Scott has retired the Durango from rallycross competition. He showed up at the NWR event last weekend in a Toyota AllTrac. Personally, I think the ORG group made the correct decisions on this. Brats are in Truck; the wagons and such go back to Production. There is a limiting factor to this since there's not likely to be much of an increase in Brats running in the class. Having just gotten my Brat back from the bodyshop with a new rear bumper, the availability of parts (actually, lack of parts) will cause the number of Brats to be significantly reduced over the next few years.

Apparently the organizer's couldn't tell the difference. It is funny though.

That was the rallitek baja. Eric got to drive it as well as his own car. Way too cool. Check back on the photos for the pics of Ken's Brat next to the black Baja.

Rob, More dominating than you thought----actually 6 Subes in the top 10! Including Ken's Brat.....good job Ken. I guess you're really hooked now! Eric, you did great in 5th in a box stock Impreza; too bad the announcer couldn't find the time to broadcast your time on any of your runs, but I could tell you were going fast...so smooth; great to watch. Funny how they couldn't spell your name right either. I bet you were running stock tires too; wouldn't that put you in PGT?

So where are you located? If you're not local to Seattle I can mail you one for the price of mailing. My kids used to lose them all the time so I have lots of spares. See me an email if you still need one.

Give Durango Boy a break. He's not really such a bad guy. He's currently running a Toyota all-trac. He didn't do well since the car's not really prepped for rallycross. Scott was up until the wee hours of the morning fixing some last minute problems on the car just to get it there and show up and run. He still needs to fix some obvious shortcomings with the suspension but he did manage to get his four runs in okay. I had a short chat with him yesterday and he was decidedly pleasant. He seems to have taken his new perspective as rallycross chairman seriously and I think the decisions that have come out about the rules situation of last year are correct. I was surprised to see how few people from Oregon showed up for the event; Scott was one of the three I saw there.

Congradulations to Ken and Jeff--you smoked them today! Thanks Craig for pix of my Brat that actually look like I'm moving! It was a fun day today with a fast wide open course that favored horsepower if you could keep it under control. Thanks to Northwest Region for hosting it. Excellent job!

1.2 ohm or 1.4 ohm; shouldn't make a difference. As a matter of fact, the higher resistance coil would draw less current and hence be less likely to fail. And coil resistance has nothing to do with the oil dripping out of the unit; bad sealing more likely. I'd take it back to get a refund and then apply it to an MSD is that's your choice.

Jeff, If you're running Production, you'll be running in the morning session. If you like, you can follow me down. I plan on leaving just before 6AM so I can help set up at 7AM. Give me a call if you're up to it.

Spectating is free. You could even volunteer to work some of the corners and get closer to the action.

I don't know if injecting grease will make it last longer, but it can't hurt. The wheel won't fall off unless the castle nut or lug nuts are loose. However, if the CV joint should split at highway speed the axle shaft could do significant damage to the car. I've heard of people going months without it breaking, but sooner or later it will. Used axles are cheap and easy to come by if you're near a pull a part wrecking yard (free practice on how to remove the axle too). Rebuilt axles sell for around $55 to $100 with a core charge. Try http://www.cvaxles.com for the $55 price and let them know you heard it here.

Sounds about right. Tacoma will take about 2 hours and another hours to the rallycross from there is very generous.

I'll be there but I plan on arriving at 7am to help set up. I'll be looking forward to the caravan.

http://www.cvaxles.com is your best bet for a quality rebuild; $55 plus shipping (and refundable core charge). Otherwise you have seven Pull a Part type yards in the Portland area for a good selection of used axles.

Check the past posts on lifter clatter--there's lots of fixes before you consider going into the engine. I'll see if I have an extra axle on my shelf, but don't count on it since I've been reducing inventory because we need to clean out the garage to sell the house. Your local pull a part yards have axles for about $25 each. You could do your friend a great favor to pull one and install it for them. Good luck.

Justys can be very competitive in this sport. There are two guys running Justys that win their class between them almost every time.

Here's the link: http://pub35.ezboard.com/foregonregionsccafrm16.showMessage?topicID=18.topic And more: http://pub35.ezboard.com/foregonregionsccafrm17.showMessage?topicID=10.topic

Great date and great location for a whole number of reasons. I will be there, but the timing just missed my middle son's wedding (early August---in Bolivia!).