Mounting equipment

[99Rally]

Hi all,
I'm in the prosses of building a rally car, and am looking for ideas on how to mount the equipment (jack, safty triangles, tow rope ect..) in the back of the car. The car is a wagon, BTW, and pics of what you have done would be helpful.
Thanks in advance,
Wayne.

[409industries]

For the spare tire, we used those eye bolts that you get with harnesses to secure the spare tire in the trunk. 3 of these will do the trick.

http://www.dirtyimpreza.com/hosting/project_rs/2009-12-11-anchor_eyebolts/anchor_eyebolts_002.jpg

[subyspawn]

here is a pic of my car

Flashlight & triangles are mounted on these little brackets we found at local hardware store (made for anything round to mount in, sizes vary)

Picked up a dirt bag impact gun bag and bolted to floor

Battery holder welded to floor, picked up form Kartek off road

A few eye bolts for spare tire hold down, jack is under tire

Tool bag is held in by some 1" wide fabric strap looped to D rings that are bolted to floor

Tow strap is also held in by tire strap


http://lh5.ggpht.com/_kvjXUXvKUh4/Sl_mKcXk5SI/AAAAAAAAI_E/cRadxE-1W38/s800/IMG_2394.JPG


battery, electric impact (inside impact bag), tool bag, jack, spare tire, tow rope, flash light, triangles, and of course Idaho dirt

[99Rally]

Thanks SS, thats exactly what I was looking for.

[spiwrx]

Just wanted to chime in as this question has been posted a couple other times:

http://www.dirtyimpreza.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10906&highlight=trunk

http://www.dirtyimpreza.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12223&highlight=junk+trunk (http://www.dirtyimpreza.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12223&highlight=junk+trunk)

Also, still looking for some other pics...

[99Rally]

Thanks Subyspawn, I hope you dont mind if copy some of your setup?
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk257/canada-honda/pic1-1.jpg

[beatersubi]

I know this is picking nits, but wouldn't that stuff be better mounted closer to the center of the car for optimal weight distribution? Or do the rules dictate that it must be there?

[spiwrx]

beater, I think if we actually weighed it the rear is always lacking, so more weight to the rear (within reason) the better. Also, for my rally car anyway, the cage prohibits egress to the rear seating area.

On one of the WRC specials they showed a focus I believe, and they have a 'tub' that fits inside the rim to save space with some of there tools. They also showed some clever ways they carried some parts as well...

[hoche]

On one of the WRC specials they showed a focus I believe, and they have a 'tub' that fits inside the rim to save space with some of there tools. They also showed some clever ways they carried some parts as well...

I do something similar to that. I have a round wooden plywood disk that I bought from the hardware store that fits inside my spare (which sits in the tub rim-side-down). My spill kit and first aid kit are strapped to the disk and both the disk and the spare are held down by a single ratchet strap.

Changing a tire is a matter of loosening the strap, grabbing the disk's strap and pulling it out and setting it aside, and then grabbing the spare itself. If the conditions are sandy or muddy, I loosen the strap on the disk, put aside the spillkit/first aid kit, and then use the disk as a jack platform.

It's fast and it's compact.

I know this is picking nits, but wouldn't that stuff be better mounted closer to the center of the car for optimal weight distribution? Or do the rules dictate that it must be there?

There are no rules on the placement of that kind of stuff except for one of the triangles and one of the fire extinguishers. Different cars like to be balanced in different ways. My stuff is all centered on the rear axle (or where it would be if I had a rear axle).

[A1337STI]

T.Scalzi (my crew chief and Betsy expert) created a metal box that my rattle gun slides into and is held into place via a bungie cord. the rattle gun slides in from the rear so in a crash the bungie isn't what holds the rattle gun in. (unless i spin backwards and crash , but then objects will be flying away from me not at me)

I had a 19mm nut welded to factory wingbolt that holds in my spare tire. and my also a 19mm lug nut welded to my scissor jack.