Guanaco.13 Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 :bowdown: :drool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xjrev10 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Well its KOH week. Did you make it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exxon Valdez Jeep Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 i havent seen him but was wondering. the modified stock class raced last Sunday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
89eliminator Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 here is some video of testing. his thread on Pirate is much more active... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN56AX1U ... r_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-MwmGU ... r_embedded word is they broke the rear axle and got a DNF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exxon Valdez Jeep Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 at least he got it built and out there, thats half the battle :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codymanche Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Can't wait to see it the king of the hammers looks fun and a bad @$$ rig good job guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockMJ Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Awesome rig! Props to you guys on some serious work RockMJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejeepguyonline Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 did you get it done in time for the KOH? if so how did you do? i was there and didn't see the mj. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW86 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 they made it. i was watching some footage on youtube and in the beginning of this vid he passes someone and its them! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exxon Valdez Jeep Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
89Comanche4x4 Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 not much of a comanche anymore :rotf: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Bruchal Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Its so beautiful!!!!!!!!!!! ส็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ส็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRodHooligan Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 From build thread on Pirate: So' date=' as some of ya'll know, I made the 35hr drive from Fort McMurray in Canukistan to co-drive for a 4x4 shop owner/operator based out of Edmonton, AB in the stock modified class at KOH this year. I originally offered just to wire the 5.3L V8 up for Barry (Bear) and wound up wiring the entire truck up front start to finish Took me nearly 3 months to finish it working on it every weekend. Literally put all my time off work into driving the 300 miles south, wiring all weekend, then driving 300 miles north again for work. Fortunately, I was single for 95% of that time, and had most of it finished before I started getting a bit distracted on the weekends Anyways, literally finished wiring it the day before it was loaded up and hauled down south to the Johnson Valley. I had to go back to work for a couple of days before I chased everyone down. On my way down, I stopped in Great Falls and was treated to breakfast and a hot shower (thanks Cole!) after a freezing cold night in a camper without working heat. From Great Falls I made the rest of the trip down to Idaho Falls where I picked up Eric and his truggy Horton. From his place I drove down to Ogden, UT where we met up with Keith for supper and spent the night. The next day we made for Las Vegas where we spent the night and waited for the rest of the guys to catch up with us after testing and tuning in Boise. They were supposed to be a few hours behind us, but wound up being very very late becuase of tire problems on one of the trailers. After we left Vegas to make the rest of the trip, one of the toy haulers broke a leaf spring near Barstow. We managed to find a spring at a tiny little shop way out in the boonies and fixed it in their gravel parking lot. Finally made it out to Hammertown late that night. Other than Dave Cole and his friends / family, we were the first to arrive on the lake bed. The next day we got camp all set up and took the truck out on it's first run. We were super impressed with how well it drove and things seemed pretty good. That was the only run that we didn't break something on Joe from Bilstien was one of the first vendors to show up, and he came right over and really took us under his wing as we went out shock tuning. We thought that the thing drove well before we tuned the shocks, it was nothing short of incredible afterwards! While shock tuning, Joe told us to get into it a little bit more on the big whoops and suffered our first major failure of the week. The limit straps were a bit too long up front and allowed the front driveshaft to drop enough that it bound and locked up. The CV grenaded at 50mph and destroyed all kinds of stuff under the car... The carnage list included the transmission housing & oil pan, winch battery cables, vent lines and of course the driveshaft itself. We located a new transmission housing and got everything repaired over the next day or two, as well as got the front limit straps shortened to prevent a future failure. We also had the driveline shop clearance the CVs a bit to give that extra bit of angle. We worked on the car till 3 or 4am to get it going for the next day After finally getting the car going again, we went out for some pre-running and very quickly found that the transmission was not working properly. We pulled it again and found that the intermediate band was burnt up and that the valve body was partially engaging two bands at the same time causing it to drag like crazy and big time over heat. Again, transmission came out and a brand new Art Karr went in. Of course, the new transmission had the wrong output shaft, so we had to tear it down and swap in the old stock shaft from the bad transmission. We were up till 3 am getting everything installed, again. By the time we got it rolling again and ready for tech, we had not spent more than 30 or 40 miles out in the desert shock tuning and pre-running combined. 30 miles of that was shock tuning too. Tech went well, some goofy electrician hooked the alternator charge wire up to the wrong side of the kill switch, and we didn't have the rear marker lights on with the ignition so that had to be changed too. I also installed a backup camera becuase you couldn't see a bloody thing out of the inside of the car. We took the car out again and got the shocks / bypasses totally tuned up that afternoon. When we ran the every man challenge, we made it approx 3 miles when we hit a bush during a last minute lane change and felt a funny vibration. We figured we had blown a tire and pulled over. When I got out to change it, I saw the front wheel had some serious camber issues, and quickly discovered that we had completely broke the bottom half of the inner C off the F9 Currie front diff That was a race ending failure for us, unfortunately... We welded the C back together to get the truck back to camp, and were figuring out how we could brace it to make it last when John Currie stopped by our pit and told us to take the diff to his shop in Anaheim to have his boys repair it with a new inner C. We had all kinds of bracketry welded to it, so it wasn't an easy thing to do. Currie replaced the inner C and welded all our brackets on, but didn't do any pre-heating or post heat treatments and almost all their welds cracked and split afterwards. We spent most of the night getting it welded up properly. Of course, we also had to replace the knuckle, ball joints and the heim on the steering arm as side damage to the C failing. After getting the truck back together, we got Wayne Hartwig out to help us do some tuning on the PCM and went to check out the LCQ short course up Chocolate Thunder. We decided that we had to winch up the gate keeper and would probably be alright after that. When we ran LCQ, I got Bear winched up the first rock (shoulda tried the strap the night before, the one I brought was way too bloody big!) and as he was making it way up I heard a "tink" out of the rear end and one wheel stopped turning. Then another "tink" and he lost the other wheel. That ended our LCQ attempt in failure, and we spent 15 minutes trying to get our car off the course so the next guy could go. Once we got it home, we discovered that we had broken the rear locker's side gears due to our axle shafts being too short and walking around due to missing retainer collars. Currie stepped up with new axle shafts, but unfortunately they messed up the machining on them and we could only use one. The other we jerry rigged up to make it work using two drive slugs and bolts / washers etc to keep it where it belonged Of course, we thought we were out for good at that point until the sudden announcement that everyone who tried for LCQ was in. There was much rejoycing in the camp then a sudden realizeation that the rear axle had to be fixed, as well as new injectors for the 5.3L as it was falling flat on it's face at 4200 rpm when the injectors ran outta steam. We installed new injectors, got the rear axle patched together and had Wayne work his magic getting the car tuned up properly. We then realized that we had to pay the entry fee and that we were all pretty much out of cash. Wayne again stepped up to the plate and covered our entire entry fee So the race was on! The first 30 miles went great! The co-driver for the Gen right buggy gave me his GPS info and totally gave us a good shot at making it out there. Our first trouble happened when bear missed a turn and went to back up. His shifter didn't work. Got underneith and discovered the shift cable had been melted by the exhaust. We installed a new Russell shifter on the truck, aka I got out and crawled under to shift it manually each and every time Since we were stuck in first gear, we were big time slowed down. After stopping at pit 1, we lost our rear brakes on the way down a hill. Then the fronts. Then we broke our sector shaft while running on Elvis and only had the hydraulic steering ram left. We drove the last 18 miles like that to make pit 2A where we finally had to call it and called our DNF in. All in all, it was a really crazy experience! We broke a ton of stuff on the car I met a whole bunch of CK5ers too, which was really cool! I will definitely be back next year, but I am going to be coming down with my Tahoe and will just be spectating / volunteering Much less work involved, and a lot more wheeling too We earned a reptuation as a team that simply doesn't give up, regardless of the carnage, let downs or failures and have decided to re-name 4502 from "The Rental" to "Relentless". We had all kinds of people over helping us out, and it was simply awesome! I got to meet all the Gen Right guys, Joe from Bilstien, Wayne Hartwig, and a whole bunch of fans who stopped in the pits to say hello! Many thanks to the fellas from Texas who brought their service trucks (lemon and lime baby!) and totally stepped up to help us when their car didn't make the race. A very special thanks to Kota4by for bring us a TH400 when we broke our transmission the first time! That was really cool of you to do that for us! We will be back next year for sure![/quote'] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reson46 Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Anybody have a link to the Pirate thread? Thanks, Willy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neohic Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Anybody have a link to the Pirate thread? Thanks, Willy http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1008871 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeepcoma Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Wow! :clapping: Just read that start to finish after not having seen it before. Very impressive and it looks like it was a great experience! I have to admit, I really got a laugh out of the fact that you ran out of money at the entry fee. :rotf: I would have been done at day 1! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da_Bear Posted March 22, 2012 Author Share Posted March 22, 2012 Wow! :clapping: Just read that start to finish after not having seen it before. Very impressive and it looks like it was a great experience! I have to admit, I really got a laugh out of the fact that you ran out of money at the entry fee. :rotf: I would have been done at day 1! Thanx man....truthfully it was as stressful as it was funny!! Truthfully we did not expect to be in on the big race after all the breakage and dollars spent to keep her going.......but when the big race was announced we had a great guy, Wayne from Just Differentials, step up and just pay it for us. We are very greatfull for him stepping up and getting us in that one!!! We had already made up our minds to get her home, fix all the issues associated with an untested rig and get ready for the next race in the season. The first break alone sat us back over 5000 bux just to get ready for EMC so although we were tapped(three huge events in one week.....what a feat!!) we used a good portion of the budget right there. But great sponsors and an incredable team kept us in the hunt for a finish, we may have fell short but our resolve to get accross a line this year has not diminishes one bit!! We now have the truck at home and are tearing out the steering for a complete redo, pulling the 5.3 LM7 and replacing her with a fresh L76 6.0L and putting her on a diet amonst some of the fixes/upgrades. With some time we can get her ready for some test n tune this time instead of rolling out for an event green as grass!! The next event is the Vegas to Reno race in august and we feel with some more seat time and trail testing the major bugs and confidence will be worked out so that we can focus on a finish this time instead of getting to know the car and wonder if we are good to go with the loud pedal!! It was a great experience both for learning and just being able to participate in such a great racing body......we are stoked for the rest of the season for sure!! Thanx again.......BTW we are hoping to make her look a little more like a truck for the next EMC in 2013 but getting some larger box sides on her for that event too!!!! Bear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny quest Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 theyre still in the race!! just watched them on the live feed http://www.ustream.tv/ultra4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiNi Beast Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Mans its been a while since I been able to get around on this site and just now getting to catch up on your build. Last I seen it 6ou was pulling the engine back out. This thing is sick! I dig the exo as I'm weird like that, back half is sweet as well. Turned out killer in the vids. Love the sound! Will reference this build in future upgrades on my build. Its not a KOH build by no means but we all have our own beautys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny quest Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 last i heard, this got drawn and quartered, before heading to the junkyard in the sky :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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