Hi guys, been a while since I posted here, but finally after 3 years Targa Tasmania tarmac rally is back up and running and we got accept to compete in the full race category in the Stratos.
It was a massive event, over 2000km and around 400km competitive over 6 days, and the Stratos got through with flying colours. We didn?t drop a single stage and even got a couple of top 10 stage times (mostly modern cars)
Issues - in the entire time we only had 2 issues. Constantly throwing alternator belts, we tracked this down to a weird resonance occurring in the belt on very heavy downshift rev ups. We installed a small bump stop inside the belt guard, that the belt would hit and knock out the resonance, total solved the issue. We also destroyed a front caster arm bush, luckily had a spare, my fault, poor design choice, on the list of things to fix.
Handling- Since I built the car I?ve done some roll centre correction, which helped, but also fixed up some rear suspension bump steer, wow what a difference, the car now turns in with some serious confidence, it really is a lot of fun to drive (and a lot faster than the alfa!)
Things to improve ? Front Brake cooling, ground clearance possibly better bump stops, some more rear aero would be nice (bit of high speed lift off over steer) and a few squeaks and rattles to attend to.
Anyway was nice to finally use the car for what it was built for, should have some video in the coming weeks too
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