BMan
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End result:
- Ging (my son) with Zac co-dogging took 1st place in UTV
- Richard with Ryan aka Skillet co-dogging took a 4th in Mod Trail.
Pre-Run:
- Going into it we new we had a few things to do on KitKat
- We re-wired the fan override switch relay. Turns out relay went bad.
- We took the new Fox Podium RC2s outta da box and slapped them on so tuning was needed.
- Ging and I did a prerun lap.
- KitKat was like a big stay puff marshmallow man and bottoming out.
- It was also getting real high on temps even with new sensor (as Jesse & Andrew predicted would happen).
- Shooting with IR the top hose was 135 degrees and bottom 90 degrees with radiator at 85ish but the aluminum thermostat housing was 240+ which is where the sensor is.
- We tracked down some header wrap (thanks to Chris May) since I was thinking the exhaust was forcing the aluminum housing temps higher. Helped but didn't solve the issue. Took more temps and decided to outboard the old temp sensor. Plan is to relocate the temp sensor up higher in the coolant circuit.
- We had to track down an extender for the shocks because they pu ta lip on them for protection and the regular screw on nozzle would not work. Thanks to Todd Krueger we were in business.
- We added more Nitrogen and that helped. We ran out of time to dial in compression and rebound since they're dual zone compression settings one for high speed and the other for low speed.
- Richard shows up....
- Him and Skillet head out.
- They take a "kicker jump" very hot and lands hard on the front end breaking off a bunch of ring gears in the front.
- No luck getting one local even after Ging, Zac and Skillet go into town searching at a 4x4 shop a guy who was wheeling there owns.
- Richard and I head to the shop and remove the ring gear so it can be run in 2WD
Race Day:
KitKat #13 UTV Class
- There are 4 ProUTV cars, 1 from Brave Motorsports and 3 from HESS racing and two sportsman. Us and Wes who is Derek West's engine builder. He had is 15 year old son codrive. He was the guy in the RzR at the Choccolocco race.
- We started 5th in line in front of Wes and behind the ProUTV cars.
- Ging kept it going well with no Pro cars passing him for 3 laps. On the second lap though Wes appeared to have passed him and some of the procars. I didn't think to much at the time but he came directly into the pits. We helped him change a rear passenger Rhino CV driveshaft that broke. Later he told me he thought he screwed up and short coursed it to get to the pits and Big decided this was the case.
- Ging passes the RzR in the pits getting fixed. We're now back in the lead.
- Finally the CV shaft is back on the RzR and they're off.
- At this point Zac and Ging ar calling in over the radio about the UTV cars rolling and breaking. BJ driving for Brave busts two rear Knine Racing Prototype shafts and one even caught on fire. One the Hess cars rolls...... Then Wes rolls.
- Ging comes up on him in the middle of the trail (caught in GoPro footage) and jumps out to help. They roll it over and they're all off.
- Zac and Ging are doing great still holding off everyone and then they hit a trench pretty hard and started up a steep hill climb and KitKat just dies! They try to start it but now the starter and/or idler gear and stripped because it's just grinding. Not sure why it died yet..... They start to roll back down the hill and he ditches it into the embankment. Ironcially it was right where the Brave car broke. I think it was a Hess Hex laid down by the Texas gang! LOL!
- Wes goes on to complete 5 laps but in the end instead of Big DQing him for short coursing he bumped him to 2nd place and we get the win. Not the best way to get it but we'll take it. It's all apart of racing!
- We go out with Josh in the WEROCK/Dirt Riot Cherokee and recover KitKat via the main road coming in. We get held up near the start where the track crossed the road and into the woods. So we waited and watched as Richard and Skillet's take off.
#1111 Mod Trail Class
- Richard and Skillet off the line hammered the heck out of the 4.0 and came in hot and heavy into the first "kicker jump" all sideways, dust flying up and #1111 kicking it's butt out to the driver side. I thought they were going over it sideways but Richard gets it under control just in time!
- The first mud hole we hear on the radio; "The white cherokee just stuck it!" The line they thought they could take there got all gnarly with the UTVs using it and just deep or muddy enough for a 2WD to get stuck.
- Skillet does the winching duties and they get out.
- They get back on it hard and heavy, cuz that's how Richard rolls! If it ain't floored he ain't tryin hard enough I reckon! LOL!
- After a bit we get a radio call that they're now overheating and it won't start. They get it cooled down some and finally complete one lap and into the pits where we have a gallon of 50/50 antifreeze and distilled water ready.
- Steve, me and Richard purged and filled the radiator and filled the overflow too.....
- They are back out.
- Back into the mud hole and winch the second time (I think this is correct, Skillet or Richard?)
- A bit later another call on the radio #1111 is hot and they now can't get it started.
- A good bit of time goes by and finally the leader takes the checkered flag and Richard and Skillet's race is done and they come in 4th.
- Richard does manage to get it restarted under it's own power and drives it back to the toy hauler/camping area.
Misc:
- We had Brave's tires and such at our pit to help.
- We helped Wes out. Steve P was the man on this one.
- We also helped Todd K with radio duty, gas duty etc for him in the SuperMod class. He ended up blowing the motor and not being very competitive this race unfortunately. Regardless, once again Steve took on this challenge!
- Kudos to my boy for stopping at one of the Hess cars to insure they were OK and then again when Wes rolled and his efforts to help the roll it back over. I'm very proud of my boys first UTV race and Zac for co-dogging! I think I've lost my seat and got demoted to Pit crew! hahaha
All in all a good TCR showing and we once again helped out other teams cuz that's how we roll! :2thumbs:
TCR VIP Award:
- The team voted on it after the race and we decided Steve Powers was the recipient of the Ogio Gear Bag! Congrats my brotha! :cheers:
I'll post the Image ORP (Thanks Christy, Brittney and Jacqueline!) shots once I have them in the next day or so. Here are the few we took. Yes there is GoPro vids so we'll get those up asap too.
HUGE THANKS to all our sponsors who help make this possible!
- MLS Powersports
- SuperATV
- GMZ Race Products
- Daves Offroad Supply
- Evolution Powersports
- Factory UTV
- GoPro
- PolarPro
- Ogio
- LifeProof
- Ryno Power Sports Supplements
- Mid GA Offroad
- Filthy Motorsports
- 4 Wheel Parts
- Deaver
- Tom Woods
- Fire Logs.com
- Ironman4x4fab.com
- Ging (my son) with Zac co-dogging took 1st place in UTV
- Richard with Ryan aka Skillet co-dogging took a 4th in Mod Trail.
Pre-Run:
- Going into it we new we had a few things to do on KitKat
- We re-wired the fan override switch relay. Turns out relay went bad.
- We took the new Fox Podium RC2s outta da box and slapped them on so tuning was needed.
- Ging and I did a prerun lap.
- KitKat was like a big stay puff marshmallow man and bottoming out.
- It was also getting real high on temps even with new sensor (as Jesse & Andrew predicted would happen).
- Shooting with IR the top hose was 135 degrees and bottom 90 degrees with radiator at 85ish but the aluminum thermostat housing was 240+ which is where the sensor is.
- We tracked down some header wrap (thanks to Chris May) since I was thinking the exhaust was forcing the aluminum housing temps higher. Helped but didn't solve the issue. Took more temps and decided to outboard the old temp sensor. Plan is to relocate the temp sensor up higher in the coolant circuit.
- We had to track down an extender for the shocks because they pu ta lip on them for protection and the regular screw on nozzle would not work. Thanks to Todd Krueger we were in business.
- We added more Nitrogen and that helped. We ran out of time to dial in compression and rebound since they're dual zone compression settings one for high speed and the other for low speed.
- Richard shows up....
- Him and Skillet head out.
- They take a "kicker jump" very hot and lands hard on the front end breaking off a bunch of ring gears in the front.
- No luck getting one local even after Ging, Zac and Skillet go into town searching at a 4x4 shop a guy who was wheeling there owns.
- Richard and I head to the shop and remove the ring gear so it can be run in 2WD
Race Day:
KitKat #13 UTV Class
- There are 4 ProUTV cars, 1 from Brave Motorsports and 3 from HESS racing and two sportsman. Us and Wes who is Derek West's engine builder. He had is 15 year old son codrive. He was the guy in the RzR at the Choccolocco race.
- We started 5th in line in front of Wes and behind the ProUTV cars.
- Ging kept it going well with no Pro cars passing him for 3 laps. On the second lap though Wes appeared to have passed him and some of the procars. I didn't think to much at the time but he came directly into the pits. We helped him change a rear passenger Rhino CV driveshaft that broke. Later he told me he thought he screwed up and short coursed it to get to the pits and Big decided this was the case.
- Ging passes the RzR in the pits getting fixed. We're now back in the lead.
- Finally the CV shaft is back on the RzR and they're off.
- At this point Zac and Ging ar calling in over the radio about the UTV cars rolling and breaking. BJ driving for Brave busts two rear Knine Racing Prototype shafts and one even caught on fire.
One the Hess cars rolls...... Then Wes rolls.- Ging comes up on him in the middle of the trail (caught in GoPro footage) and jumps out to help. They roll it over and they're all off.
- Zac and Ging are doing great still holding off everyone and then they hit a trench pretty hard and started up a steep hill climb and KitKat just dies! They try to start it but now the starter and/or idler gear and stripped because it's just grinding. Not sure why it died yet..... They start to roll back down the hill and he ditches it into the embankment. Ironcially it was right where the Brave car broke. I think it was a Hess Hex laid down by the Texas gang!
LOL!- Wes goes on to complete 5 laps but in the end instead of Big DQing him for short coursing he bumped him to 2nd place and we get the win. Not the best way to get it but we'll take it. It's all apart of racing!
- We go out with Josh in the WEROCK/Dirt Riot Cherokee and recover KitKat via the main road coming in. We get held up near the start where the track crossed the road and into the woods. So we waited and watched as Richard and Skillet's take off.
#1111 Mod Trail Class
- Richard and Skillet off the line hammered the heck out of the 4.0 and came in hot and heavy into the first "kicker jump" all sideways, dust flying up and #1111 kicking it's butt out to the driver side. I thought they were going over it sideways but Richard gets it under control just in time!
- The first mud hole we hear on the radio; "The white cherokee just stuck it!"
The line they thought they could take there got all gnarly with the UTVs using it and just deep or muddy enough for a 2WD to get stuck. - Skillet does the winching duties and they get out.
- They get back on it hard and heavy, cuz that's how Richard rolls! If it ain't floored he ain't tryin hard enough I reckon! LOL!
- After a bit we get a radio call that they're now overheating and it won't start. They get it cooled down some and finally complete one lap and into the pits where we have a gallon of 50/50 antifreeze and distilled water ready.
- Steve, me and Richard purged and filled the radiator and filled the overflow too.....
- They are back out.
- Back into the mud hole and winch the second time (I think this is correct, Skillet or Richard?)
- A bit later another call on the radio #1111 is hot and they now can't get it started.
- A good bit of time goes by and finally the leader takes the checkered flag and Richard and Skillet's race is done and they come in 4th.
- Richard does manage to get it restarted under it's own power and drives it back to the toy hauler/camping area.
Misc:
- We had Brave's tires and such at our pit to help.
- We helped Wes out. Steve P was the man on this one.
- We also helped Todd K with radio duty, gas duty etc for him in the SuperMod class. He ended up blowing the motor and not being very competitive this race unfortunately. Regardless, once again Steve took on this challenge!
- Kudos to my boy for stopping at one of the Hess cars to insure they were OK and then again when Wes rolled and his efforts to help the roll it back over. I'm very proud of my boys first UTV race and Zac for co-dogging! I think I've lost my seat and got demoted to Pit crew! hahaha
All in all a good TCR showing and we once again helped out other teams cuz that's how we roll! :2thumbs:
TCR VIP Award:
- The team voted on it after the race and we decided Steve Powers was the recipient of the Ogio Gear Bag! Congrats my brotha! :cheers:
I'll post the Image ORP (Thanks Christy, Brittney and Jacqueline!) shots once I have them in the next day or so. Here are the few we took. Yes there is GoPro vids so we'll get those up asap too.
HUGE THANKS to all our sponsors who help make this possible!
- MLS Powersports
- SuperATV
- GMZ Race Products
- Daves Offroad Supply
- Evolution Powersports
- Factory UTV
- GoPro
- PolarPro
- Ogio
- LifeProof
- Ryno Power Sports Supplements
- Mid GA Offroad
- Filthy Motorsports
- 4 Wheel Parts
- Deaver
- Tom Woods
- Fire Logs.com
- Ironman4x4fab.com
Now to bust da chops a bit further. Last year I had the fastest lap time at Gray Rock and the first race at DTown in our 2 banger UTV! ;D LOL! But I digress! It was good seeing you out there! We need more folks racing! Will you be coming to Sturgis? 
I'd also like to see some more HL folks including UTVs join the series. Sturgis is our next race and it'll be a very cool short course that Bill Baird owns. It's a great venue and will draw a lot of race cars and spectators especially know that its bike week there aka "Little Sturgis Bike Week" not the one further up north. LOL!
