2 Rally VX photos...

[VehiGAZ]

What freak drove the Opel GT off-road? And how did he keep the carb tuned long enough to finish the course?

Hahahhah - I guess I shouldn't be so mean to the GT... if my father didn't have one when I was a kid, I wouldn't have learned so much about tools and fixing things!

[transio]

LOL! I love Opel GTs! Cool little cars! I always wanted to get one and drop a V8 in it!

[VehiX]

It's funny how in this pic, the VX is pretty much mangled yet that cool plastic window visor didn't even suffer a scratch





That bronze cladding would look awesome on a black VX

[VehiGAZ]

Transio, this is definitely one of those cases where you need to be careful that you don't get what you ask for!

Opel GTs are pretty neat little cars, but they are notoriously unreliable and require almost weekly tune-ups (I won't even bring up the rust issue). Of course, if you drop the original engine out, you can bypass some of those problems.

I saw one a couple of months ago near me - it was half gutted, and the guy wanted $2k. I wouldn't have offered him more than $200!

[Joe_Black]

LOL, a cousin once had an Opel GT with the aluminum Buick V8 conversion back when we were in high-school. I wouldn't ride in it.

The Opel GT in Heraclid's photos is owned by an English fellow who is a professional race mechanic and currently instructing at the European Rally School in Starke, FL. It's a fully prepped rally car and also has a custom Haltech fuel-injection set up. It runs very well and always turns good times. He basically rolls it off the transporter, rallies it, and takes it home. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Unfortunately I didn't get to add to the PV2 noise on the course due to an issue with my rally tires. Darn recessed valve stems.

[VehiGAZ]

Yes, that that is the only good way to own an Opel GT... Do the fuel injection conversion and be a race mechanic! :-)

[VehiX]

Unfortunately I didn't get to add to the PV2 noise on the course due to an issue with my rally tires. Darn recessed valve stems.

What

[Joe_Black]

I put recessed valve stems on my rally tires 'cause I was always getting dirt packed in around the regular rubber ones making them leak constantly. Recessed stems have a screwed-on metal cover and fit neatly down in the valve well. They're also all metal and built very solid. The issue with my front-left tire (which gets the most abuse on the directional Yokohama set) was that either the mounting nut inside the wheel had loosened or that the rubber sealing washer had shrunk or hardened. In either case, with me running the event and taking care of everyone else I'm left with little time to fidget with my own problems. So no rallying for me that day. I'll need to just de-bead the tire and put a new sealing washer on the stem plus use some good thread-locker.

Although the next rallycross in December will probably see me driving the $75 Jetta since it just came back from the shop, especially since it's a night event too and we're planning to have some fun bolting auxiliary lights all over the thing. We're going to flog it around the course Sunday and see if it holds together first.

[mbeach]

Joe,
I realize that this is off track, but I have to ask.

Exactly how many cars do you own anyways?