New R4 Car - Think Tank

[Sulland]

But the FIA docs said nothing about that private teams/tuners could not adapt the chassis to take onboard the R4 kit, did it?

I guess that can be done cheaper than 45 000€ ?

[Ricardo Filipe Matos]

I want see the first 308 R4-Kit!

[PLuto]

Following a tender, the FIA is pleased to announce that ORECA has been registered as a supplier of R4-Kits for cars that can compete in FIA regional and national rally championship events. http://www.fia.com/news/r4-kits-regi...nal-rally-cars

Oreca was from beginning only one supplier, directly asked by FIA...

[AdvEvo]

Its 108.000 euro ex tax for the kit.

Above that

You need do buy an orginal street car wealding a cage into it and make new mounting poiints for subframe and the car needs a tunnel to fit shaft to rear into it.

Then seats steering wheel etc.

Then build everything together.

[RS]

So by the time you have finished it will cost nearly the same as an R5.

[AdvEvo]

proberly the price of a second hand R5 yes.

But then how does the R4 car get homologated.

No way you can get a licence plate on a car which has standard fwd and turned into a 4wd car. How is that gonna be solved.

Skoda Ford etc rather sell you an R5 then homologate you're home build R4 car.

[Sulland]

When do you think we will see some Oreca R4 mule car testing?

[tolx]

proberly the price of a second hand R5 yes.

But then how does the R4 car get homologated.

No way you can get a licence plate on a car which has standard fwd and turned into a 4wd car. How is that gonna be solved.

Skoda Ford etc rather sell you an R5 then homologate you're home build R4 car.

Isn't this the other way around?
You buy a car and install homologated kit to it, so make it legal. That should be the sole purpose of it, to add way around official manufacturer homologation, like it is with R5.

[Zeakiwi]

Parts kits available from the beginning of 2017 summer (June '17)
http://www.oreca.com/blog/2017/01/27...er-of-r4-kits/

I would not be surprised if there is no car built to test the parts. Engines - dyno, transmissions -they would just use an off the shelf proven sadev etc?, shock absorbers - use proven basic shock absorbers.
How much does it cost to put a brand new R2 Fiesta together now?

[AdvEvo]

If you grap a street fiesta 1.6 fwd with registration plates and build into a R4 and make it 4wd. The car has no official approval for the road anymore. Maybe in other country s it s more easy to get registration.

I know in finland the rally organization gives you plates you can only use during a rally.