Robert Shibao's Killer Mazda GLC 

 
Josh and Rob Tallini give the Corolla 
a check up. 

 
Lu takes a break at the service area 

 
Rob Shibao grabbing a quick bite 

 
Inside Robert Garcia's rally car 

 
Bruce Brown 

 
Robert and Lisa. Josh is fueling up 
the Laser. Robert is putting away 
his tow rope. 
 
 
Bruce's 323 GTX. His wife is his 
navigator 

 
Josh and Jeremy give Robert's car 
a once over 
 

 
Tony Chavez, Lu Ryba and  Robert 
Garcia 

 
"I came this close to the edge" 
Robert tells Bruce 

 
Robert is using the Split Second 
Hot Wire MAS conversion 

 
Tony "Glad to be Alive" Vu 

 
Setting up for the nite stages 

The RRE crew will be at the service area from about 
1:00 until we are done servicing the cars (3:00-4:00 or so). 
If you come to the service area, bring warm clothes. 
You are welcome to come hang (and help) with us. 

From there we go back to the hotel to wait for the cars to 
finish. First car to finish is scheduled to be at 6:20pm if 
all goes on schedule. 

I am not sure where the spectator stage will be but if 
you arrive early (before 10:00am) you should be able 
to find out and have time to get there. 

Running from our shop will be : 

Robert Garcia / Tony Vu         92 Laser RS        2wd Open  
Tony Chavez / John Elkin         91 GVR-4          4wd Open  
Robert Shibao / Matt Gabler    85 Mazda GLC   Stock Class 
Paul Timmerman / Suzy            88 323GTX        4wd Open 
Bruce Brown / Mrs. Brown      88 323 GTX       4wd Open 
Lu Ryba / Eke Ryba                84 Corolla GTS   2wd Open 

Rally Headquarters 
The Holiday Inn 
924 W. Huntington Dr. 
Monrovia Ca 

Come by and check it out. 

Mike W 
 
 11/15/98 

Hi Everyone, 
We are back from the rally, Good news. 

Tony Chavez in his GVR-4 Rally car won his first Pro 
Rally over all. He has won his class before in his old 
Golf and FWD Eclipse but this is his first overall win. 

On the first leg (three stages) up the mountain to Mt 
Wilson, Chavez  lost a little time with a loose I/C hose. 
He was 30 seconds behind Lauchlin O'Sullivan in an 
Audi Quattro. Ron Wood (Audi Quattro) broke 
a rear axle and had to go on with 3WD. Rui Brasil's 
Audi Quattro hit something and lost a lot of time driving 
with about 5" of toe-in. 

On the way back down the mountain Chavez won 
every stage. There was a lot of hugging and kissing 
going on when he got in and realized he had won. 

Chavez is now running 2G 8.5 pistons, a 2G ported head 
on a early 1G motor, a 1.6 Mirage Turbo intake manifold 
(2G size w/1G coil mounting) and 1G automatic cams. 
He has a VPC/AFC, 550cc injector combo with a 
TDO-5 16G 8cm turbo. He uses a Starion I/C. We tried 
to set it up as the ultimate all around bottom end-top 
end motor. 

Paul Timmerman's 323 GTX broke the transmission on the 
first stage. Possibly it was damaged 2 weeks ago when 
he rolled the car testing. 

Bruce Brown's 323 GTX ran fine with no problems and 
he finished 3rd in AWD Open class. 

Robert Garcia ran his FWD Laser with Tony Vu as his 
Navigator. When he came into the service area, Tony 
looked glad just to be alive. The front of Robert's 
bumper was smashed into the skid plate so I asked 
Robert what he hit. "Everything" he said. I guess they 
spent some time stuck on a berm almost hanging over 
a big drop off. Some workers helped get them going 
again. Robert finished 3rd in 2WD Open class even with 
getting stuck. 

Robert Tallini hurt his back at work and was not able to 
drive his Corolla GTS. Lu Ryba (he does a lot of the 
fabrication here at the shop) rented the car for his first 
time rallying. He has a lot of experience in SCCA Pro 
Racing and IMSA road racing, this was his first time 
playing in the dirt. His wife navigated for him but got 
car sick on the 3rd stage. He lost some time driving 
solo and ended up with a respectable 2nd in 2WD open. 

Robert Shibao got booted out of Stock class because 
the guy that owned the car before him had installed an 
adjustable rear brake bias control. That meant he had 
to run his Mazda GLC against RX-7s, Robert's FWD 
Laser Turbo, 1.6 Corolla GTS's, and a Saab Turbo. 
Well Robert must turn into some kind of Incredible 
Hulk when he drives because he ended up with 1st in 
2WD open class. This is a 1.5 liter, carbureted, 8 valve 
old POS ! The only mods he has is a head he ported him 
self here at the shop, a Mutiny cam, and a straight 
exhaust. His navigator Matt must have been pedaling too. 
 
We ended up with 1st and 4th in 4wd Open Class 
and a 1st, 2nd, 3rd sweep in 2WD. 

Mike Welch