Unorthodox Rally Cars

[Delray Sandusk]

Here's something I've been wondering; has anyone else been trying out non-standard rally cars? By that I mean trying to build a road car into a rally car, or by slapping dirt tires on any race-ready car that will accept them and taking them for a spin.

Some of you might remember I was trying to get a New Beetle RSi to work on the dirt courses, and while it wasn't the smashing success I had hoped it would be it did manage to clear out the first two Tahiti courses with some effort. And recently I discovered that putting rally tires on an otherwise unmodified Astra Touring Car makes for a very unusual and sometimes unruly (but fast!) ride. Take it out to Smokey Mountain and check out the comet-trail of sparks it leaves on the paved section!

Anyone else have any unstandard rallyers they've been using lately? Maybe some suggestions of cars to try?

 

[troy]

yes, i buy rally tires for any car i can. My faves are the skyline, rx-7 rx, and the SVT Cobra.

 

[vat_man]

There's been a few spoken about. The Tickford's good fun for tailout action, and we were talking about the Ruf CTR (I think - the 4wd one anyway) which when fully tuned is actually pretty handy.

I ran one of my 900-1000ho Skylines there, and I must say that car takes an awful lot of pulling up at the end of straights...

 

[Duke]

I have to admit, I've wanted to try my TommyK ZZII - which after all, is AWD.

I know the SVT Cobra has a lot of supporters as a rally beast.

 

[Gil]

Try the FTO LM. It is awsome in the dirt.

 

[vat_man]

I was thinking about winning another one to try that.

 

[Der Alta]

I've attempted the rally section in an Audi TT, and the S4. S4 works great, TT just doesn't have it. I wiped out the entire rally section in 2 marathon sessions with a Mine's Skyline.

I tried it once with the RUF, but had a miserable time trying to get traction.

AO

 

[viperguy]

i've done that too, but i feel more satisfied using actual rally cars.

 

[Max Powers]

Impreza LM race car works great for rally, juice it up with some Turbo and you'll destroy all competition, It handles really well too.
I tried using the Escudo for rally and hated it...that car is way too fast for rally racing
or any racing for that matter.

 

[TypeR]

The Mine's Skyline is great for rallying since it has the best handling among GTRs IMO.

 

[hondamobile]

the Escudo Pikes Peak was made for the Pike's Peak hill climb, a tough real life rally event. it's perfect for rally kinda. just slam the brake early.