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Michael Taylor had been wanting to get some in-car from his Ford Ranger rally truck for a while and over the weekend we set him up with our video system for the Seed 9 Rally in Nevada. On Friday night we installed the unit and worked with him to get the angle he was looking for. You can still see down the road, but you get enough of the wheel to really see the driving style and learn from it. It’s a little bit of a compromise when the sun is pouring down on the front of the car, but it certainly gives you the sense of speed that all rally videos should have. Here’s him catching someone on SS4!

The basic service includes: Equipment rental, video tapes, representative setup, DVD encoding, and one stage WMV encoding for your website. After the rally you receive a DVD with all the stages indexed for you to share with your team, sponsors, and friends!

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Click here to watch Seed 9 - SS4 Michael Taylor - 54MB WMV

Last week we finished up the roll cage fabrication and installed the rebuilt engine. Today, Kevin took the car back to the ‘Way Too Fast Racing’ garage to get started on the daunting task of putting the interior back in. This is one of the items the team has chosen to do themselves to save the budget. Since the car is going to begin it’s life in the Production class - it needs to retain as much of the interior as possible: plastic, moldings, dash, door panels, etc. All these items need to be placed back in the car.

As with any big project, we had a small setback. Ours was with the racing seats. Corbeau makes great products, but unfortunately they no longer carry any FIA certified seats in the United States. After some frantic rule checking, we confirmed that NASA requires FIA certified seats in its rally regulations and thus the new seats the team had ordered and unwrapped did not carry these requirements. We are looking into a Cobra seat for a suitable replacement. I’m sure we’ll have to fabricate some seat brackets for these as well.

The teams next goal is to get the wiring and basic interior in for the CRS Rally School in two weeks. There is also hope that by that time they will have enough miles on the new engine to rallycross on Sunday - we sure hope so!