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Title: Lada Niva Rally Project - The Red Bear
Post by: Villager on January 11, 2020, 12:08:11 pm

Hi everyone,

First of all apologies for my lack of website integration, I have been very busy and had some changes in my life, but I'm back now :)
I thought I'd share my latest project with you all, I'm quite a lada enthusiast, I have 2, ones my daily and one (the red bear) is going to be built to FIA rally spec.
It's going to mostly be videos but I'll post them on here and what not.
Since starting I have made some decisions on the power plant, which will be covered in a later video 8)

https://youtu.be/3uPU_-O5Fdc

Title: Re: Lada Niva Rally Project - The Red Bear
Post by: Villager on January 11, 2020, 12:09:45 pm

Stripping the bits out in this video

https://youtu.be/GF1GgM9DlTA

Title: Re: Lada Niva Rally Project - The Red Bear
Post by: Villager on January 11, 2020, 12:10:46 pm

Doing soem calculations on arch tubs in this video  :)

https://youtu.be/IXZ4luD6T5w

Title: Re: Lada Niva Rally Project - The Red Bear
Post by: 406steve on January 16, 2020, 03:38:02 pm

That's going to be a massive project. I seem to remember the fiat twincam engine was a popular swap for the Lada's.

Title: Re: Lada Niva Rally Project - The Red Bear
Post by: Villager on January 22, 2020, 10:15:00 pm

Yes fiat twin cam was a common swap, quite hard to come by now. They share the same engine block as the lada so we're a straight swap. My powerplant swap Is going to be a more modern approach 👍

Title: Re: Lada Niva Rally Project - The Red Bear
Post by: 406steve on January 25, 2020, 09:22:53 pm

We found making cross section of cills to look like this l/ prevented them bellying quite so bad in challenge events.

Title: Re: Lada Niva Rally Project - The Red Bear
Post by: Villager on March 09, 2020, 05:39:58 pm

Yeah that's essentially how the cills will be shaped on this one