rallycol

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Just dipping a toe in the water ,it would cost about from about £299 for a drive in the car ,and before you say OMG how much !!,fuel at £15 a gallon ,tyres £280 each new ,brake pads £500 a set ,and we daren't mention the clutch !!! The car is a Prodrive built S5 WRC (22b)with full active diffs etc ,RHD ,not an old shed but a currently used car ,your opinions will be welcome .

jonnyricer2

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How long and where?? Is the wrc drive cheers

Dave Y

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Yes please,where and when?

derek sti

Stick my name down definately would fancy that.

Captainfunbags

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Yup

Fat Boy

Yes please, but define what you mean by drive and where

domino46

I get to go out in them for free as a friend of a friend owns this one

adz556

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Definitely interested!! Just depends as above of where and for how long at £300

urban

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I'd say that you'll get about 30 minutes behind the wheel.

Beware though, for those that have not driven one of these machines before, they're damn hard work!

rallycol

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Good response ,I would probably look at two venues one North and one South ,before you all get excited this is just the start of the process !! and it wouldn't happen till towards the end of the year due to other commitments .

derek sti

Can you give us a bit more info ,spec of car ,how long behind the wheel anything really to wet our taste buds,what about a picture of the car that would get more interest .

Godspeed Brakes

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I doubt it would be long behind the wheel as they are damn expensive to run , I have one.

Did a rally in Ireland last month as my first proper event , bit of a steep learning curve but was getting nearly on the pace sunday afternoon.
Had a few mishaps on the saturday stages , going into a hairpin and the O/S rear wheel decided to snap all 5 titanium wheel studs which was a bit of a shock



Put us out of the rally but got it back to service and fixed it to go back out on sunday , also broke an inner CV joint !

20 new steel wheel studs £1000 !!
New inner CV joint £650 !!

Cheap they aint !!

Fuel is £4 per litre and it does a mile a litre on the stages lol , but boy are they fun


If you have the money , go for it , it will be an experience to last a long time

Godspeed Brakes

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we are about 3 mins in , wheel coming off !!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v...type=2&theater

Godspeed Brakes

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Hows things Colin , you back out in Jersey this year ? Will be taking the S5 this year

Matt_STi

That video is brilliant, bit of a crap place for a wheel to fall off, right on the blind bend!

rallycol

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Fine thanks ,will try 4wd and some boost this year !!

Godspeed Brakes

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Have you taken the plunge and bought the S5 for yourself ?

rallycol

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Its in hand as they say .

rallycol

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The ref to 4wd was that last year the diff controller packed in and 2wd was interesting .

Godspeed Brakes

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I've had to do loads to mine as it was no where near ready to rally so if you need to know anything about them give me a shout , I've had the box out to shim the carbon clutch , rebuilt drive shafts , suspension , changed loads of rose joints , changed steering arms , track rod ends ! and this was supposed to be a car ready to rally.

Had it cutting out then and changed coil packs , ignition amps ect , and it was fixed by taking the plug gap from 0.5mm to 0.4mm ! took us a while to figure that one out

I'm back out next end of June in Ireland doing Ravens rock

Infected by sti

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Christ Ian not was you was expecting!

Any idea how it gave way?

STIWR1

Please let me know - I'd be keen to do it in the south if it gets organised

Godspeed Brakes

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Yeah was talking to Paul in Jersey and he said it wasn't going well for you , we hit a wall on the friday night which put us out but fixed it to do the trophy rally on the sunday , enjoyed it , hopefully more so in the WRC this year

Godspeed Brakes

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All 5 titanium studs just snapped , apparently they are life'd , and should be changed after a certain amount of hours , we were told afterwards you may get one snap that tells you to change them all , unlucky we didn't have that !

We have bought steel ones now that are fit and forget , but slightly heavier , at the level i'm at a few ounces in extra weight won't make any difference lol

rallycol

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No, after new wheel nuts for mine alloy ones are crap !

Fat Boy

Great stuff - I'd be up for the south one. By the way - are you thinking tarmac spec or loose?

Please keep us informed.

cheers

Dave uk blue mica

I might be up for the South one too

F1 CJE UK

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sounds great, another one for down south!

urban

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Don't know what the OP has planned, but I'd be hoping for loose surface personally - much better fun