Blew ‘er up on the trail last night.

There are a lot of atlas' dead on the EC. Hero and SCS (not selectable) hold up well over here and I know a couple people dropping the Midnight into their rigs so we'll see. There are a lot more improvements to the Midnight than just the case. Plus they are going to start doing more with gearsets, shafts, etc.

 

Aha!! Apply that concept to the pcv valve itself so that it remains closed at extreme angles. Yo… people will buy that , for real.

 

It takes less than a cup water to hydrolock an engine

 

I mean baja and ultra 4 do the same. But I'm just talking about normalish rigs. It's more the trails at certain times. I've seen shit that shouldn't break broken it's pretty friggin' wild. But out of all the offroad racing stuff if you want something seriously tested give it to 1000+ hp bouncer crowd for sure!

 

Honestly that chute is kinda easy…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez2LOXCKELs

 

my SR-5 goes anywhere

 

The catch can is a temporary solution for this problem. Depending on the incline and the amount camber, the can potentially fills up fairly rapidly.

 

Ahhh this makes perfect sense to me now.

Sounds like one would need to jerry rig and design an emergency spillway like a reservoir water dam.

 

Ooooh….”Off-Road” is just a marketing term to sell trucks, even the highest trims like TRD Pro, Raptor, ZR2, TRX, etc…are still pretty low on the capability side. If a person doesn’t realize that, then too bad for them.

Could go throw $100K in “off-road parts” at my Tacoma and still couldn’t get where I can get my bike in.

 

Well as my video showed, the Chute at Sand Hollow is doable with a moderately upgraded Tacoma. However, I've yet to see any videos of dirt bikes attempting it.

 

Hold my Feeding Tube……

 

Lol! Just because you haven’t seen a video of it, doesn’t mean it hasn’t been done! See if this link works for now. It is a cake walk on a bike.

https://fb.watch/cU11hZOOfz/


Grinding Stone was pretty gnar this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqCSQfW_CnM&t=1086s

 

I covered this in another thread, but I had the smoking on an incline occur several times. At the recommendation of another forum user, I installed the catch can but soon noticed that depending on the camber, the incline, and the length held in that position, that the catch can would fill up fairly rapidly.

This is the second 3rd gen I’ve owned, and I’m in the process of offloading it. My wife’s 4runner doesn’t do this, my 80 series land cruiser doesn’t do this, and my ram Cummins doesn’t do this. There are many things I like about this truck, but for a person who lives in the sticks and does a lot of wheeling, this has ended up being a dealbreaker

 

Yeah, i hear ya. After a few surgeries for busted bones, it was hard to get health insurance. They all wanted to put writers on that sport.

 

I wouldn’t go so far as to say “just a marketing term” all the time, crossover “off road” packs sure but those trucks you listed are all significant upgrades over the non-off road versions.

It’s about perspective, take your average person on a blue or hell even a green trail at an OHV area and they’d think you’re mental.

Outside of an OHV area or a snowed in mountain I need to work hard to find an open road or trail that pushes my moderately built TRD off road, hell even when it was stock and I live in Oregon with our vast expanses of public land and unmaintained roads.

Comparing factory off road packages to heavily built wheelers and buggies is like comparing an M3 to heavily built track cars and purpose built race cars.

 

Well my shave razors are called Turbos… for the life of me I can’t find a turbo in them. lol! (Marketing)

I take the term “Off-Road” with a grain of salt, especially when it is plastered on the side of vehicle.

I have an OR and a SR, I can get both trucks in the same spots, even if the one doesn’t say “Off-road” on the side of it or has the same suspension bits. All the commercials showing these trucks bouncing through the desert, doing donuts on playas, sliding around in the mud…it is all marketing to sell trucks. Sure they are pretty good off pavement, but they have their limits.

 

Not the same obstacle. The Tacoma video starts in a tight canyon:



The bike video starts off on a ridge. Is that in Sand Hollow or elsewhere in Utah?

 

What bike do you have? I've got a yamaha wr250r, unfortunately being from long island there aren't many legal places to ride.

 

Next time we are down there, I’ll get video of me doing it. Supposed to head there this fall. Seriously it is a cake walk.