Long Travel BS Thread

That was one of the best ones. AC in the dez and Christmas lights ftw.

 

Thats what im doing with my battery set up next.

Last MDR night race i was at was also my first in 2010

I went to the SNORE ones after but they're not the same.

Laughlin and primm are a blast tho haha cuz of the casinos

 

Holy shit! Do you have an aftermarket battery box?

 

It's normal for the core support to start to fail after a while... All part of the fun

 

just fab a support strong enough for it . . . . . . .



i grinded out the stock mounting tabs, welded in a new bottom plate with tabs on it to hold the batteries in place. Welded a peice of 1/4" allthread to the bottom plate, measured tight and bent a 1/8" flat bar, drilled a center hole, and used a washer, lock washer, and wing nut to tighten it down. Its all pretty stout too

 

Best desert camp EVAR!!!!! Epic race, we camped next to Socal Tundras that year...TOYOTA owned rockpile that year ahh

Yea I really wanna attend those races, but I heard SNORE is real strict and you cant really drive around and spectate where you want. We should get a good group going to Primm for BAP, i totally wanna spectate that race

Like a battery box that will cover up the battery on all corners? nop, those battery boxes are real expensive. Im just gonna go with the standard fabbed batt mounts and put it in the bed. Ive got a couple buddies who have the same setup and they havent complained when it rains.

 

^^^^trufff

 

This is what i was rocking for a couple years, I forget which batt mount i have. Bolts werent holding it down good enough while mashing, so we ended up welding it to the support at some sections. Anyways, like what nelson-matt said the sheet metal fatigues over time. I havent removed the batt yet, but Im sure there's cracks on the sheet metal. lol Moving it to the bed will help with the infamous "taco lean" as well.

 

i think im in love

http://www.race-dezert.com/classifieds/index.php?ct=orpart&md=details&id=22769

 

i think im in love

http://www.race-dezert.com/classifieds/index.php?ct=orpart&md=details&id=22769

 

Damn I hope i get this new job and I will send the truck in for that kit.

 

Opinions on this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS9wzFpuiwQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BaV5BlOWCWo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUALzt74CVI&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snc6BXYA2Vc&feature=relmfu

 

Looks to be very well made and designed but I would expect no less from Woolworth

 

How do you feel it would perform?

 

Tuned correctly it could handle just as well as any other link setup

One of my favorite cantilever link setups:

 

That truck is one of my favorites as well. To bad he rolled it first time out.

 

It had been out a few times, there is a good testing video of it it Barstow. But yeah he rolled it hard in glamis.

 

I stand corrected. I read the build on RDC and it seemed like as soon as it was all together and ready to go he posted up how he stuffed it at Glamis.

 

It wasn't long! Maybe a month or two

 

Beautiful truck. Shame to hear he rolled it. Love that rear set up. I like the one piece rocker that looks to be CNC'd.

Link to the testing video? or thread on RDC?