Rust in rallyX?

[plymouth]

I am sure this has been asked before(I looked a little and didn't see anything), but how much rust (if any) can a car have and fail/pass inspection at your average rallyX? My omnis floors are not down to carpet YET but they are not in…..uh….a rust free state if you know what I mean, and I was wondering if this would keep me from being able to rallyX it.



Thanks for your help guys

[RallyTaco]

Not in Detroit it wouldn't. To be honest no one I know of checks floorboards other than if they happened to see daylight steaming in through a giant hole or something. If you have carpet still and don't have a hole big enough to do Fred Flintstone style braking you are golden.

[plymouth]

That’s good for me that they do not check that because my floors are truly paper thin but it’s still “metal” if it where to go the entire floor would be Flintstones worthy. Even though the supports and things all look rust free it’s just the flat parts like under and in front of the front seats majorly soft.

On a side note the car has a full interior so carpets and all the seats are blocking the view to my ruined floor panels.

Also this raised my hopes of really racing in the dirt not just messing around on fields and back roads to bad the first Ft Wayne rally cross is the same day as turbo-palooza or I’d go.

[noisycricket]

If rust was illegal, no car except for brand-new ones would be legal...

Where's the pic of the CRX? They had to stop running it because the floor finally separated from the sides.

[plymouth]

Cool, so I guess I don't have much to worry about that means the omni will be out in full soon:muhaha:
Thanks guys.

[ahudgins]

Im sure there is no rules aboiut rust but doesnt it sound dangerous to be applying that must force on the floor boards (hard gas/brakes/turning). I would hate to be driving my car hard and then while im going 30mph sideways you hit the dirt literally...

Love the omni though lol

[LGT-FST]

rules say car must be safe. If your feet can go threw the floor it is not safe.

[plymouth]

The carpet will keep my feet from going down passed the floor.:thumbsup:

[noisycricket]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNEgmS039gk

The CRX eventually fell apart.

I think it was at this rallycross where my rear suspension mounts were held in with angle iron zip-screwed to plates under the seats, because the floor was too cheesy to weld to.

[cghstang]

The best thing to do is contact whoever is in charge of the event you're going to and ask them what will pass tech. Some might not care, some might.

I did this when I had the escort with the weird windshield "hole."

[WAM]

Not much rust in California, but broken windshields similar issue.

Most of the time if you ask if you can run with a cracked windshield they say no.

Most of the time if you just show up with with a cracked windshield, you run.

If you think it's unsafe, stay home. Otherwise some questions are better unasked.

[noisycricket]

Yeah... I leave the event stickers on my VW's cracked windshield. "Well, you let me run last month..." Finding body or glass parts for this orphan is basically impossible.

Actually, I've never had issue with it. Detroit region requires floor mat removal, which is not possible on my VW (glued in) and is dangerous on the RX-7 because there's a hole in the floor that my left heel gets wedged into.

Fixing that is on the List for this winter. I just dread removing all of the undercoating and interior coating to get to the floorpan. (And this is what I consider a "rust free" car)

[plymouth]

I feel safe in the car I don't see the bad floors as a issue because all the good big chunks of metal for the support of the fame and things are fine

and rust repair SUCKS bad I feel your pain.