Volkswagen put together a Highlight reel with COTU media of our adventure in Baja. I can’t believe how quickly they put all of this together! Watch 58 hours of racing in just a couple minutes!
Baja Prep: Fuel Cell
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Webisode #4: Making Progress
Well it has been a while since we have done a Webisode. Too long in fact! Now is the time to get you guys some updates on what we have been up to! Check out our 4th webisode and don’t forget to check out the […]
Where’d we come from?
Yeah, we know you are asking yourself, “Where’d these guys come from?” and “they have no idea what they are getting into.” A lot of this can be found out from our individual bio’s but in general lets give you an idea of what we […]
The Big Teardown
We were prepared with saws grinders, and nearly any cutting device you can imagine. Anticipating the worst we dug into the car. For the last two weeks we have been soaking the bolts in penetrating oil, especially the bolts that looked excessively rusty hoping that […]