Yeah that has been a dream of mine for a long time to do that with my car. It is currently heading that direction. I spent the greater part of the evening cutting out the excess wiring and removing some sound deadening behind the dash. Pretty much all that is left would be sorting out the suspension set-up, installing camber plates, NT01 tires, and getting the cage welded in this summer. I already am sporting the big 318ti.org vinyl
The roads look pretty similar to the roads around here in terms of how bad they are so I already have a lot of experience driving the car on something like that and the combination of the aluminum bushings and the coil-overs on the car handle them quite well. It is not too stiff and not too soft. As for power keeping a stock internal engine would definately be the ticket judging by all of the equipment failures during the rally. A nice ITB set-up would be about the most power adding the car would need in addition to the engine/drivetrain modifications the car already has. Maybe a Zionsville Autosport aluminum radiator to keep things from getting too hot. The braking front is already taken care of with Zionsville Autosport +2 kit and that is plenty of brakes to stop a car that weighs around 2300 lbs at the moment.
I guess now it is time for S10Mafia to get some seat time navigating me through some TSD rallies for some practice.
If anyone would seriously like to support the car in an event like this as the time draws near that would be really awesome. It would be pretty cool if you could offer the support and in exchange you could 'autograph' the car by sending us a vinyl replica of your signature I could put on the car, but that is a ways away in the future.