http://rallynotes.com Stories, pictures, and video about building and running a rally car. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:30:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Rallynotes.com team were out in Ridgecrest last weekend helping to teach and instruct the 2010 California Rally Series Rally School. Matt Farah and the guys from The Smoking Tire showed up with a couple of Mitsu's and it looks like they had a blast sliding around the test course. ... http://rallynotes.com/archives/wp-313 How fast a year slides by... I'm sitting in the study behind my desk. This desk is just down the hall, across the living room, and out the patio door to the garage. Inside that garage sits my rally car. Not in Yorba Linda, not in San Clemente, and certainly ... http://rallynotes.com/archives/wp-312 Let me dust off the old RSS and post.php here and get an update on rallynotes.com. :) What's been happening and what's planned for the rallynotes.com rally team? New Headquarters: We will be moving to Long Beach, CA in the next month. We bought a house with a garage and enough ... http://rallynotes.com/archives/wp-308 Long time readers and friends of rallynotes.com should know that I wouldn't have gotten into this sport if it wasn't for spectating. When Christine and I decided to take on organizing a rally we knew that we would want spectators at our event. So - You are invited! Bring your friends ... http://rallynotes.com/archives/wp-307 Okay. So you want to build a rally car. You've been working on this used Galant and you are totally going to rally next year. You're ready to make the jump off the (couch / drag-strip / PS3 / rallycross / TSD / keyboard / underground racing club) and actually ... http://rallynotes.com/archives/wp-296 Road Trip USA III Gallery is up. http://rallynotes.com/archives/wp-306 Just a quick post to report that we pulled in yesterday around 3:00PM. Some quick stats from the trip: 3325.15 Miles (from NJ) 15 States 48:56 Drive time 67.9 MPH Driving average 1291 APRS Packets 27 MPG 123 Gallons of gas $215 on gas card I will have a full update with pictures, etc, later tonight three weeks from ... http://rallynotes.com/archives/wp-305 Total Miles: 2953.40 Weather: We bring the rains States: NM, AZ Made great time to Brian and Vanessa's house in Phoenix. We had steaks on the grill. Just when we were used to the warm Southwestern weather, we wake up to some rain. Just a reasonable commute to home now. http://rallynotes.com/archives/wp-304 Texas once again disappointed me this morning. For years I've been telling people this cute story about how they have shamrock shakes YEAR ROUND at the McDonald's in Shamrock Texas. Lies. Damn lies... We pull into the drive-through. I desperately scan the board for the little plaque that reads - (Shamrock ... http://rallynotes.com/archives/wp-303 Total Miles: 1894.28 Weather: Clear and cold States: TN, AR, OK The extra hour from CST that got us to TN last night helped get us going at a decent time this morning. New years day on the I-40! Another 600+ miles under foot. The highlight of the day would be the guy ... http://rallynotes.com/archives/wp-302