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If your just getting into rallying, you should really consider buying a used rally for your first couple of years. Prepping a rally car is serious business. Always costs more than you think. Then once you've finally got the car so that it will survive the rally, you and your co-driver miscommunicate on the pace notes. Suddenly you start to turn left when it should have been right. Next thing you know you've got some serious damage.

In my humble opinion, power is the last thing a rookie would need in a rally car. You want a bullet proof tank of car. Something with a million spares available. Some thing that will forgive your mistakes.
If you're set on building an Audi yourself, A 4k wouldn't be such a bad thing to start with.
However, if you just want to get into rally on the cheap, check out Ben's rally page. It has a huge classified section filled with cars that someone else went through the agonizing process of seem welding and cage installation etc.
It seems as though the advice always given out to those who want to start rallying is worry about your driving first. There is too much learn without having to deal with building refining a car.
Buy a cheep used rally car. Learn from it(and with it). Then when your ready build your own.

Hope this helps.

Seth