The final weeks of preparing for a race like the Baja 1000 involves a few big things but typically a million little things. Lets start with the big things… Like Repainting the whole car! In addition to that we have been working on the vent […]
BFG Tires
No good race car is complete without amazing tires. We have had incredible luck with BFG All Terrains. I mean, how can you go wrong, they hold to to the crazy abuse we put them through and somehow they manage to protect the 50 year […]
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 […]
Correcting our Rear Suspension.
Which springs to use? This is a question we didn’t dig into until it was too late. Back in 2012, we novices built our first Class 11 car from the ground up. We aren’t able to do anything once. Cage, wiring, transaxle, paint… We learned […]
Adding Strength
The car has been a great car but our most recent incident at the Mint 400 we learned that we need to stay on top of the fatigue that the car is seeing. There are going to be many more things that break on the […]
The Mint 400 Aftermath
Well, the Mint 400 didn’t go as planned, we hoped for a finish, we ended up breaking the car in half. I suppose that is how it goes in Class 11. The issues we had were not because of lack of trying, the car was […]
We’re Going to The Mint 400
Racing is expensive and we are fortunate to have a good crew of team mates and good support from some great sponsors. That doesn’t cover all of the costs nor does it even get close much of the time, so our pet name for this […]
All The Small Things
Just because 1137 is mostly wrapped up, tested, and running strong doesn’t mean there isn’t a ton of other things to take care of. Waivers need signed, hotels need booked, Food needs purchased and prepped, spare parts need collected, the trailer needs packed. We have an […]
Testing, testing and more testing
Over the past two months we have been out nearly every weekend testing the bug. If it is going to break we want to know about it and if we are going to encounter it we may as well have a plan to try to […]