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UHMW means ultra high molecular weight, and refers to polyethylene.
A good choice, but any kind of polyetheline should be fine, and possibly alot cheaper.

RyanHuber wrote on 08/23/6 at 00:24:13:


Ryan is right CIS-E and Digifant are fuel injection sytems that were used in late 80's-early 90's Golfs. CIS-E stands for Constant flow Injection System - Electronic, I believe. They are both Bosch systems.

If this is your first season of RallyX, I don't think you need to worry about playing with the fuel injection. Get a skidplate and a helmet and get your butt in the car. You will find many people that will tell you that Driver experience will make more difference than a few horsepower from playing around with the fuel injectors.

Except for Ryan and his new drivetrain that he was showing everybody. (You got that in there yet Ryan?)

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No, not really, the other guy did. I was just trying to save you a bit of money if you went plastic shopping.
There are lots of plastics suppliers that will sell small peices, but if you could get something used, that would be better (cheaper)

FWIW, and not even a rally-X competitor, but have done/seen enough in the grassroots...I'm with DaveC on this.  Unless you have some undiscovered god-given talent, in your first year your "stage" times will be down more to technique and less on squeezing out that other 3 hp in any one of 6 systems under the hood.  Case in point, Louis Cabardos at any winter rally in a "well used" Tercel, light car, great technique, smooth, and no special parts. I'm sure that there are lots of people out there that could beat me silly in my own car, so, it's not all about the car until you've reached it's own limit.  Find your limit first, then worry about all that silly $$$ stuff.  Get a helmet, a simple skid plate, tight seat belts, and some snow (or used rally) tires. Go have fun before it's all about the money.

My 6061 plate for a MkII cost ~ $200 custom fab, I think it's 3/16". It takes a lot of abuse and I've never worried about the underside since.  Plastic stuff will behave differently from metal.  There are even some that say 6061 is too hard, that you want a softer metal so that it bends a bit when you really hit it to absorb more energy.