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22 hours ago, DRFVDR said:

Oh you are going to hate me then  I found mine in a barn in Tauranga, non runner but pretty good body wise, had a fuel issue ( turned out being a blocked pickup in the tank now fixed) 200,000 km on clock for $600, runs mint, no oil use does not over heat

 

Hell yes I'm jealous as S***. Currently the budget and skills won't let me find a decent one without looking at 5k plus =( one day, one day.

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20 hours ago, DRFVDR said:

Meh i have my dream  1989 Brumby, stock standard, fun to drive  only owes me $1000 so I guess it all depends on what is your dream car

 

I got a brumby too! My old man had one when I was a youngun so picked one up for a cupla hundy buuttt upon tearing S*** apart to see how much work it was I found so much hidden rust it wasn't funny. The hunt for a reasonable one continues.......

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Righto point taken, CS does not support street racing. Neither do I by the way and I quote myself "street and track spec" but never mind dream killed cheers all.

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I think everyone is missing my posts point lol get a tarmac wrc car, mod the engine to suit road and track spec with the engine of your choosing (think of the ex possum bourne vantage sposored GC8) and then it would dust up 99% of any vehicle out there. And money no object, are you subie lovers saying you would rather a mclaren?! Blasphemy!!!

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25 minutes ago, boon said:

The WRC cars aren't really that fast as road-cars go, breathing through a straw will do that to you. They only make about 300hp, impressive but not earth-shattering torque figures as well. Put it this way, you would get your arse handed to you by a Commodore with a cam or an Evo with a boost tap.

 

You could widebody a Spec C and spend $20k on suspension followed by another $20k on brakes and you would be most of the way there. Add a cage and some nice seats, steering wheel and a pedal box if you really wanted for that authentic racecar feel.

A lot of the changes they make do f*ck all for performance, they're just there to stop the car falling to bits during a rally stage. They do get some very trick driveline components though, and the gearbox is a work of art.

 

They move the strut towers so you couldn't quite achieve the same geometry with a regular car.

 

In terms of importing and getting one road-legal-ified... tricky, as I dare say they don't meet any of our regulations for impact or emissions.

True that mate. But imagine getting rid of the restrictor and/or giving it new mods to make it more streetable and faster. Granted a lot of the work done to them is to help durability in a rally but how badarse would the real thing be compared to converting a standard issue (or spec c as you say) rolling around. Yes compliance would be a bitch. Probably the only real hard part to make road legal. I wonder if you used a fully compliant (NZ) engine and then modified that, would it be deemed emissions compliant?

If I had the dollars I would be sorting my own spec c into a widebody monster but alas I didn't purchase my lotto ticket from Thames.

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41 minutes ago, Joker said:

Or a Rally Spec WRC car able to hop curbs & S***

lol Yuck, no kerb hopping for my dream haha all about the (tarmac spec) lows.

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This is a bit of a dream of mine (and by no means do I have the money to do it), but I have seen a Japanese dude on instagram (@junya1730) who dailys an actual ex-wrc subaru coupe. It got me thinking- how would you achieve this in NZ? Forget driveability of the current engine as it would need to be tuned accordingly but I love the look of the S12 hawk-eye model wrc model. Hell, I even love the S10 (I think) blob-eye model too! Money would solve everything but lets hear your comments! Tarmac spec wrc car rolling down the road ready to put the shits up anything it comes across!

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