Mint 400 pics

[chuck]

Wayne likes that one and the next also. They can sure com up on you quick. I had one come up on me around mile 18. As soon as I saw him I pulled off to the right. He hit me when I was at about 45 degrees to the trail. He hit me so hard he bent the tire carrier and almost turned me over and caused my flat. I will be building a better rear bumper before I do any more lap races. The first TTs were finishing lap 1 just a few minutes after we started. All the fast classes lapped us at least 2 times, that means they all had to pass us most of the time in heavy dust. We could not see them when they came up on us until the last minute most of the time so I don't think they could see us either. When we heard their horn we would just move to the right and hope they were going to the left. I drove lap 2 so had to pull over for all of them in the first 1/2 of my 100 miles.

 

[7jwbronco14]

re 351w came up in the 70's john backer use of a 351w was ruled legal

 

[RIbronco]

Racer getting a little air about 50s in!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm0VnK6EyO8

 

[Landho]

RIBronco - thanks... i've been looking for vid clips of the racer catching air!

Skip to it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm0VnK6EyO8#t=0m45s

 

[chuck]

I need someone to take pictures, 22 guys and no one got a picture of me 8' in the air right at the main pit. Most of my guys stood there and watched but no one took a picture

 

[rhinobuggie]

Maybe try telling them your going to do it next time !!
JK

 

[chuck]

That might help, also if they wasn't getting ready to pit they might have had a camera ready. I would think they would think of everything

 

[rhinobuggie]

This what you get when you tell them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbooGpH7mI0

 

[chuck]

rhinobuggie, do you have a rhino? If so do you race it?

 

[chuck]

This what you get when you tell them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbooGpH7mI0

That is a lot of air and it landed well.

 

[rhinobuggie]

The name came 20 some years ago duck taped 1 steer horn to the hood as a joke and the nick name has stuck all these years

 

[rhinobuggie]

I dent the driver's front rim a little 5 lbs hamer back to the fun

 

[chuck]

It still landed great. Anyone can launch a EB but it takes a little planning to get them to land right most of the time.

 

[rhinobuggie]

I hit that dune about 5 times , before I went for it

 

[chuck]

I like being in the air and landing soft. I almost cleared hiway 3 in Baja once. Great fun.

 

[rhinobuggie]

It just never seems as high or as far in the truck as it is on the vid

 

[68ford]

check, do you know off hand what valve shim thickness your running you shocks?

bypass shocks help let the front axle rebound down faster? you can see in the video, that when the psiton gets to the bypass tube it starts to rebound faster.

 

[chuck]

I guess you mean me. On the front and rear I have triple pass shocks and the front also has the coil overs and gas bump stops On the triple pass the 2 compression and 1 rebound is adjustable. I am not a shock expert but the truck lands very level, do you see something that needs to be addressed?

 

[68ford]

the rebound looks a little "stiff" or "slow". looks like the axles should droop down faster when you come off the ground.

i was also asking for myself. i have coliovers currently on the front and will be adding bypass' shortly and was wondering what the shim thickness is on both, ill call and bug the guys at king.

you running the rebound valves open all the way? it almost always seems that the less rebound the better, as long as it doesnt buck.

 

[chuck]

I think you are right about the front rebould. I will have to go into the coilovers, the bypass rebound are all the way out. I think th problem is the coilovers came with 350 lbs main coils and I now have 197 lbs coils and I did not change the valves in the coilovers