Building your own Rally Cars

[benzoboy]

Anyone else do this? I like making WRC-spec cars out of ones never used in WRC. Right now I'm doing a Caldina GT-T. Should be fun.

The official rules of WRC are/were:

• Modified front and rear suspension layout and attachment points
• Add-on turbocharger even if the production car does not have one
• Modified transmission and additional transmission tunnels in order to fit a 4x4 transmission even if the production car is 2 wheel drive. Consequently differentials and gear box are free.
• Modified engine intake and exhaust systems
• Modified engine position (the engine can be relocated by a maximum of 20mm as compared to its original position and can be tilted by 20° around the crankshaft axis)
• Modified wheelbase (±20mm) and track widths (1550mm max)
• The maximum car width allowed is 1770 mm
• Minimum length of 4000mm

...but I find these a bit restricting, so the ones I set my self are:

• Must be 290-300bhp
• Must be 4WD
• Must be turbo-charged

But if the WRC isn't your thing then the Super 2000 (Hatchback) class is a bit more interesting. As before, I made up my own rules, these being:

• Must be FWD
• 250bhp maximum

...and the one final rule for both classes is that all cars need to be race-modded. If they can't be race modded then new rims will suffice.

Discuss!

 

[homeforsummer]

I've often done similar with GT2 and other GT games. One of my favourite F2 cars is the Megane Maxi so I was glad the race modified Megane in GT2 has the correct livery (even if it doesn't modify the bodywork correctly like the Saxo VTR > Saxo Kit Car does with the racing modification). To my knowledge, the Megane Maxi produced as much as 280bhp and I seem to remember the Megane in GT2 maxes out at about this power.

I've also tuned a Vauxhall/Opel Tigra to S1600 spec before in a couple of the different GT games, as well as oddities like the Mazda Demio. I quite often pick cars around a certain capacity - say 1.5-1.6 - and tune them to a psuedo-S1600 spec, before taking them on the rally stages.

It's just a pity there hasn't been a GT yet with a genuinely good set of rally courses to test them on.

 

[RenaultLagunaRT]

I used to do touring car sets, but the only car that properly changed livery-wise (that I noticed, vs the real livery(ies)) was the '98 Primera.

 

[Clark]

WRC cars also have to have 2.0l fours.

 

[homeforsummer]

I used to do touring car sets, but the only car that properly changed livery-wise (that I noticed, vs the real livery(ies)) was the '98 Primera.

You weren't looking very hard then. The Laguna, Mondeo, Peugeot 406, Alfa 155, Audi A4 and Vectra all had authentic liveries from the BTCC too. If you bought the Opel Vectra (if you'd selected a mainland European language instead of English at the start) you got an authentic Opel motorsport white/yellow livery too, and the newer Alfas (156 models) all had a livery very similar to that of the European Touring Car team. Finally, the BMW 3-series models in the game all gained a Warsteiner-like livery (like the BMW Team Schnitzer used in the BTCC) when racing modified.

Incidentally, I found a video:



Back to rally cars, I remember that the 94 Subaru Impreza turbo (I think it was, anyway) looked like McRae's old Impreza rally car when it was modified. That went down well with me.

 

[blazing escudo]

Back to rally cars, I remember that the 94 Subaru Impreza turbo (I think it was, anyway) looked like McRae's old Impreza rally car when it was modified. That went down well with me.

oh,the 94 Impreza WRX? Yeah it seem like Colin's old rally car.
have anyone taste the race-modded Celica GT-Four? With correct setting,this car could go like Didier Auriol WRC spec if not a bit weaker.(it went well with me)
(not so important)PS:my grandmother was passed away at May 30th,at 6.00 PM(GMT+7).May her soul rest in peace.Amen

 

[benzoboy]

Yeah, both models of Celica GT-Four turn into the Castrol rally cars, pretty nifty. I had both properly set up at one point before I restarted on the PS3.

Also, sorry to hear about your grandmother. RIP.

 

[LeGeNd-1]

Don't forget there's also the New Celica Rally Car you win from the Laguna Enduro. But that's a Race Car from the start so I guess it doesn't really belong here.

For rally converted road cars I had a lot of fun with a fully tuned AE86 at Pikes Peak Downhill. Touge FTW!

 

[benzoboy]

Wow, grave-digging one of my old threads here. But this is a quiet forum, can't be that bad?

Anyone still do this? Post pictures and stuff up if you do

 

[tankuroded]

I used to made FC RX7, Lupo, Civic, Opti, Vivio and more other cars to rally spec.