Every design element of the car has been re-evaluated, and yes, that means this is a LOT of work to figure out new solutions for old problems. One of our problems along the way has been fuel capacity. It sure doesn’t sound that bad when […]
Transmission Mounts
Way back when, in 2012 when we were welding in our King Kong, we decided we should re-evaluate how our transmission mounts. We had the option of welding the stock transmission mounts back in and using the 3 bolt nose cone to attach to the […]
How do you prepare for a race (Chase Plan)
In part two of “how do you prepare for a race” lets go over a long course chase plan, and how we go about making it happen. We are a fairly new and reasonably inexperienced team, so when we started working toward our first Baja […]
How do you prepare for a race? (The Car)
We get a lot of questions from folks who are interested in what we do, and many of those questions are pretty interesting. We are choosing the most common questions to answer. Today, How do you prepare for a race. Since this is a HUGE […]
Sponsorship, earn it
We have been fortunate to have a number of incredible companies come along to support us. No, this doesn’t pay our way across the finish line, but it certainly helps us in our quest to get there. A lot of people think that companies are […]
Piles of money, Piles of time…or both
We get asked a lot of questions but the one that has been sticking in my head lately is: What does it take to get into racing. It’s actually a complicated question, because really you have to hash out what the person is asking. Racing […]
2014 Baja 1000, through Josh’s Eyes
In May of 2010 we bought a car and stripped it down. This was going to be our race car and we were certain that we would be racing it this year. Our ambition was as big as many of our accomplishments in the past, […]
Getting approved
It is tough business being in Colorado and deciding to race offroad. We are a big tow away from the scene. It gets even more tricky when it comes to rules compliance and cage approval. Do you tow the car all the way to Mexico […]
Sponsor Update: Baja Designs
We have been eying up lighting for a while, who do we trust in order to illuminate the long hard nights in desert racing. When we headed to SEMA earlier this year we headed straight to the Baja Designs booth. After a lot of research […]
It has been over a year now…
Wow, it has been over a year since we first purchased a car and considerably more than a year since we first picked up the rule book from SCORE to start working on this project. In that timeframe we have met a lot of new […]