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Hi guys, it's Ralph here from Australia. I have been reading posts and research from this forum for a long time, but decided to join the conversations finally.
I own and driving a Evo VI rally car with tarmac set ups. I had been on and off with the car in the past due to having wrong partners in the past, but now fully committed. My Evo 6 is staying tarmac set up permanently as Australia has different regulations on the tarmac rally cars, building with actual rally car regulations that all of us familiar with will put the car extremely disadvantage. (E.g. under tarmac rally regulation, you can use a stroked motor and no restrictor plate is required.)
The current set ups are:
Almost everything stock except safety equipment, coilovers, TBE. LOL. But I am having some major upgrades before the upcoming event in September or December.
Car got D2 Tarmac Rally coilover (F: 10kg R:8kg), Whiteline ARB front and rear
but will upgrade to a Proflex 45mm Group A later on when the car is more complete
Brakes are stock at the moment, but already ordered a Alcon 6 pot racing calipers and floating rotor, accompany with 18in Braid Fullrace A
The engine is basically stock, but I feel the need to up game to be more competitive. From the experience of my last rally most of my opponents are having 400whp upward (would be around 450whp for the US dyno). Luckily it was down pouring in the last leg, so I almost got a stage winner if didn't slow down for couple off cars. Some of my opponents are Nissan GTR R35, Dodge Viper SRT, Porsche GT2RS Cup Car, and of course highly modified Evos. Again, most of the tarmac events in Australia want to replicates Targa Florio , so naturally they will pick stages with higher average speed and occasionally twisty to suit supercars such as Targa Tasmania and Adelaide Rally. The only exception is Australian Tarmac Championship which is regulate by another govern body (AASA) that not related to FIA, they chooses stages more resemble to European tarmac stages (e.g. Mt Baw Baw rally, Great Tarmac Rally which over 80% of the stages a corners), and I will be focusing on their events.
As my bottom end is plain stock and have no plan to rebuild just yet I am looking to make 350whp (400whp) to compensate. Honestly I am not sure if I should make this level of power without rebuild as the current motor has roughly 140k km (roughly 87k miles) on it, is there any advise should I rebuild first? or I can safely done a bit of upgrade.
I am thinking of upgrade with
Kelford 272 camshaft,
1200cc fuel injector
255 fuel bump (new hard wiring),
Intercooler pipes
Group A style air box and intake pipe
Evo 9 turbo/ FP Green
And a good tune with E85 including ALS
A friend of mine is already helping me to build a spare motor in Taiwan which is having similar set up as above except it will be a 2.2/2.3 stroker, and will be control by a link ECU. But I also like to learn to rebuild engines myself, as it's way too expensive in Australia, I gets quotes up to 14k for a rebuild with forged internal.
There's lots of build threads in here to go through re options.
I run a GTP712 with IDX1300 and S2's but I'm built @423 Australian HP more for track and road setup. You might need to focus on reliability doing those long tarmac rallies
