does anyone take locosts and do rallying? i presume that a full rollcage would be needed but ive never heard or seen anyone competing on a rally stage with a locost - perhaps becuase of the issue of an open top?

Hmmm closest i remember was a mad westfield at the barbados rally carnival. I think it had a blackbird engine . It was a rocket on the straights but hopeless on the corners due to lack of traction on the muck.

[Edited on 17/10/08 by scotlad]

very brave, I'd be worried about going sideways into a tree, that's bad in a production car but in a 7? I'd want very hefty side bars on the cage.

remember to wear goggles for all those branches

Better off with a mid engined dune buggy surely?

just scale one of these up...



[Edited on 17/10/08 by Mr Whippy]

I thought Fluke motorsport used to use a 7 in rallying? but cannot remember of the top if my head if it was road only.

I believe this is the fluke car - bike engined westfield.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_lPs9FEMKk

and shake down testing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAtbVuDqi6w

and some more...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVMjdy_N3U&feature=related

I have done a lot of rallying from single venue tarmac events up to WRC and pretty much everything in between.

For a typical single venue on tarmac I would imagine a quick 7 could clean up. I don't see why no-one has tried. The prep would not be that excessive. It's a long time since I did any. Have the rules changed to outlaw non homologated cars on single venues now?

Here's the westfield/fluke rally car.

http://www.racedandrallied.com/detail.php?siteid=61&show_still=1

AFAIK for most types of rallying you need to have a fixed roof on the car.

I think theres something about 2seater sports cars in msa regs.

Things like stratos's get away with it as they pre-date the rule. This is going on info from a mate when we were trying to beat the no rwd conversion rules they proposed few years ago..

I asked this a while back too...linky

What about mr Hicost on here he dose rallying of a sort