RCRocs Race thread. Who's in?

[dan58]

From Bruce on pbb:
Hey guys sorry I should have gotten this info up sooner. Here are the plans for the race...

RCQ movie 930PM friday night in Pine Grove

Fri

3pm Prerun
7pm-830Tech

Sat

7-8:30am Tech
9am drivers meeting
9:30 Staging for race
9:45 Race Ready (not 959:flipoff2:)
10am Race start (lined up or not)

The whole race will be on the new property (pits , start/finish and course). Please check-in at the office for registration and to get your race pack. The course for this 1st race will be about 6 miles with 5 laps. The course goes past your pits each lap so no problem pitting each lap if needed.

We will be setting up for the race Friday AM so please don’t ask about early prerunning on Friday before 3pm because we won’t be ready. The NE property will be 100% shutdown for this race so there are no worries for others being on course and we don’t need to worry for crossing the road for this race also.

Let me know if I missed anything detail wise for the event.

Bruce

I'm in. Looks like the race is only 30 miles. I may even make it without swapping propane tanks. :lol:

[Heavychevy]

The good news: I'm trying to get my junk together.


The bad news: Wife is co dawging. This could be the begining of the end.

[Happy Bear]

I should be there racing. EMS and the Balducci's are helping me get patched up from Line Mountain.

[Broncolou]

In!

[ne14jpn]

Lots to do but we will be there!

[otter]

Im in, BUT kinda broke, need to hustle my ho on the street a bit

[gr8whytyj]

Im in, BUT kinda broke, need to hustle my ho on the street a bit

If you need to expand your business to Baltimore I'd love to help set up shop.

[domba]

we're in

[otter]

If you need to expand your business to Baltimore I'd love to help set up shop.

will you be my first man ho,,,i think dobo needs a some lovin:puke:

[breakinshit]

Weather is looking pretty good for this weekend. Who is going to be camping? So far, I am planning to pit for Happic and anyone else who needs a hand. Trying to decide if we are going to stay or just make it a day trip.

[dan58]

I'm camping Friday and Sat night. Kenz should be cooking up a storm.

[davenjeip]

I'm coming up to watch on Saturday.

Might try to wheel on Sunday, if I can get off my lazy ass to get the Jeep and trailer ready.

[doug38s]

we're out. aint gonna make it.

[Happy Bear]

we're out. aint gonna make it.
Shenanigans, what's your excuse?

The buggy is gone from EMS and now the Balducci's are prepping it for me, which is awesome, thanks guys!

Here's a look at the new crossmember

[Ripster]

Here's a look at the new crossmember

Not enough dimples. :flipoff2:

[zucruisers]

there's more dimples on the other half :lol:

the new crossmember is nice :cool:

[breakinshit]

The more dimples the faster you go right.

[Typhoon]

Speed Holes
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:T6Q4phDy9FiSqM:http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr294/gbreault85/aasaaasasasasasas.jpg

[gr8whytyj]

we're out. aint gonna make it.

You have a powerlifting/squatting comp or something?

[Broncolou]

i may be in need of some pit help...... I will be camping as well. We can do a big ole wing fry evening if yall wanna do that. LMK.

[breakinshit]

i may be in need of some pit help...... I will be camping as well. We can do a big ole wing fry evening if yall wanna do that. LMK.

Let me know what you need as far as pit help. It would be good if you setup semi close to happy's junk so I wont have to run.. LOL

[Broncolou]

I am not getting anywhere near Happy's "JUNK"......:flipoff2:

[ne14jpn]

I am not getting anywhere near Happy's "JUNK"......:flipoff2:

Always gotta turn it ghey...I think you like it.

[Broncolou]

Always gotta turn it ghey...I think you like it. You're just jealous:flipoff2:

[breakinshit]

We all know how you Bronco boys are! :flipoff2:

[dan58]

Nick is comic down to help pit too. Pearson, you and Mikelyn Are camping. I made up your mind for you. :flipoff2:

[doug38s]

Shenanigans, what's your excuse?

The buggy is gone from EMS and now the Balducci's are prepping it for me, which is awesome, thanks guys!

Here's a look at the new crossmember

waiting on a new radiator. one of the cores must have ripped when I rolled on that last lap.

[Happy Bear]

waiting on a new radiator. one of the cores must have ripped when I rolled on that last lap.
Stopleak?
Pinch the core shut?
Ratchet strap my old radiator in your rig?

You've got Dannon in your corner and a popped core is going to stop you from racing!? :lol:

[doug38s]

You've got Dannon in your corner and a popped core is going to stop you from racing!? :lol:

I know I know.

I said that yesterday to play with everyone and Dannon called me last night and said the core was fawked. Thats what I get for playing around.

Custom Aluminum Radiators in Kingman, AZ is building and overnighting us a new radiator so we'll be good by this weekend.

[breakinshit]

Nick is comic down to help pit too. Pearson, you and Mikelyn Are camping. I made up your mind for you. :flipoff2:

We will have to play it by ear at this point. My dog has not been doing good the last 2 days. I don't want to drop him off with my mom if he is not going to be able to get up to go out on his own. We gave him a bunch of pain meds and he seems to be doing better this morning so we will see. Hoping for the best.

[Happy Bear]

I know I know.

I said that yesterday to play with everyone and Dannon called me last night and said the core was fawked. Thats what I get for playing around.

Custom Aluminum Radiators in Kingman, AZ is building and overnighting us a new radiator so we'll be good by this weekend.
There's a couple of good same day service radiator repair places down in Baltimore. I'd be looking them up.

North Point Radiator Services made two repairs to my old radiator and they never gave out in all the racing the chassis has seen. Get it fixed and then you have a spare or if the new one doesn't show up in time you're not SOL

[dan58]

Alternative Automotive Service in Elkridge will fix ya right up too, just in case UPS doesn't come through.

[Happy Bear]

So I don't know if everybody caught wind but the lap length has changed from 6 miles to 14 miles. They are still planning on 5 laps which puts the total race mileage around 70 miles!

[Numidian]

I think Paige and I are going to come up Friday, Paige has to leave Friday night though. I can stay until after the race Saturday, then I gotta jet back to Hazzard to help Paige with my cousin's kids...

[CoveJeepsXJ]

I will be there.

I have a feeling I will be in the mood to drink some beers on Saturday evening...

[breakinshit]

Looks like we will be up friday and I will be in the passenger seat rather than pitting. Planning to camp at least friday night now.

[Typhoon]

Heather and I are thinking about coming up for Saturday for the day.

Is there any reason to drag the Jeep up there to get a better spot to watch the race?

[Happy Bear]

Heather and I are thinking about coming up for Saturday for the day.

Is there any reason to drag the Jeep up there to get a better spot to watch the race?
I don't think so, my understanding is the NE property is closed to everything except for race and volunteer vehicles.

[blee1099]

Might head up there Saturday to watch and take pics with my new camera. Umm do we know how far of a distance the comp course is from the staging/office area?

[dan58]

Hopefully Bruce can chime in here.

http://www.rc4x4.org/rcforum/index.php/topic,10782.0.html

SPECTATOR INFO:

Spectators should check-in at the park office to get their wristband. The spectator fee is $7 age 16 and older (15 and under are free). If you are wheeling that day, your wheeling wristband will allow you access to the race venue, however, you will have to park your vehicle and hike in as only competition vehicles and park staff vehicles will be allowed on the NE property during the race.

Spectators can either remain parked in the main parking lot and walk across the street to the pit area/Start-Finish, or can drive down the road to the lower entrance (where Lincoln Road and Molleystown Road intersect), and park there and hike in to spectate.

There will be a map provided highlighting where the hardcore rockcrawling action will be and other good vantage points. Spectators are advised to use extreme caution while out on the property during the race.

[CrawfishStu]

I don't think so, my understanding is the NE property is closed to everything except for race and volunteer vehicles.

So if you brought your jeep out and volunteered....you'd get a good spot.

[Typhoon]

Heather and I are a Maybe currently :(

[CrawfishStu]

Dan and I did some prerunning today. It's bumpy out there. The only real obsticle is running down devil's den. I see the potential for a multi buggy pile up with trucks having no choice but to use rolled or broken rigs for traction.

We had just come down off of devil's den when we had a loud clunking. We stopped and found the yoke nut was gone and when the suspension unloaded at the end of devils den it pulled the yoke off the tc. We also had a cooler line with a hole in it that emptied the tranny for us. It looked burned through but was wrapped in DEI fire sleave. We cut out the bad section, exhaust wrapped it for extra measure, and rewrapped in the fire sleave. We were having a hard time finding someone with a pinion nut to fit. I left to come home to pick my nephew up at the airport and stopped at my shop in Baltimore. I grabbed two pinion nuts. Dan just texted me saying it was back on and ready to roll. So someone had one.....now we have spares.

[CrawfishStu]

Time to head back up there.

Sleep when you're dead.

[blee1099]

I should be heading out of here shortly..

[Jack]

Good luck!

[Ripster]

Good luck!

X2!!

[b4wscrambler]

Any updates on the race?

[atjeep]

Bigelow won
Dan came in 7th
Happick came in 9th

I think 13 trucks finished.

[Ripster]

Bigelow won
Dan came in 7th
Happick came in 9th

I think 13 trucks finished.

Wow! Well done!! Go Creepers!!

[blee1099]

Here's a bunch of pics.
http://www.blee1099.com/RCRocs/

Should be up by 5pm.. still uploading.

[davenjeip]

Congrats!

Helluva job guys. :thumbsup:

[Ripster]

I think 13 trucks finished.

How about Lou? Miller?

[rj91jeep]

Facebook says Miller DNF. lost a powersteering pump

[frosty]

1. Bigelow
2. Murphy
3. Alan Woodson
4. Lou Levy

As said Miller lost a power steering pump on lap 4 and DNF'd.

Edit: Correction from Pirate which is where I got the above results. Correction: based on corrected time, Alan Woodson was 3rd, Lou 4th. Smoluck 5th, Cochran 6th. Total of 12 finished out of 22 starters.

[CrawfishStu]

Nice day for racing. The only thing we changed was the pressure in the rear bumps. It rode well. Dan did an exceptional job driving the new truck and there is plenty of room for it to get faster. It really excelled through the rock sections. We dont know how much the gopro recorded but it should be nice footage.

[BBoarder]

Nice day for racing. The only thing we changed was the pressure in the rear bumps. It rode well. Dan did an exceptional job driving the new truck and there is plenty of room for it to get faster. It really excelled through the rock sections. We dont know how much the gopro recorded but it should be nice footage.

Did you ride shotgun with Dan? How many propane tanks did he burn through?

Very respectable finish!

[CrawfishStu]

Yeah i rode with dan for this race. 2 laps per tank. 2.5 tanks.

[Heavychevy]

The funniest part of the race was meeting Happick head on after somebody tore down the caution tape. It was a great course.

Doug was flying out there! Great job Dan. It's really impressive to get it done like that after a fresh build.

[CrawfishStu]

http://photos.imageevent.com/mark99tj/rauschcreek/RC_Race_Results_7-31-10.jpg

I'd like to consider it 1st place for group B. :flipoff2:

[Broncolou]

I think Dan and Stu did an awesome job for a shakedown race! Things will only get faster.......

[blee1099]

The fun part for me was almost getting run over by team 609 on that sharp right turn right near the Muddy Run. His navigator must have told him to turn left when it was a right..

[dan58]

What fawesome time at the race. Prerunning turned out to be less than stellar, with a mystery hole in one of my tranny cooler lines, and the yoke nut on my D300 somehow came off. Stu fixed the lines, and I searched everywhere for that stupid 7/8 fine thread. Nothing. Pearson came through, and we were ready for the race.
The first lap was nothing spectacular because we only got to prerun about 3/4 of a lap. We knew the truck wasn't going to be terribly fast, but the goal was to finish. We pitted between each lap, mostly for an oil and tranny fluid check. We were able to get two laps per propane bottle, which was surprising. By midway through the 2nd lap, we got the shifting sorted out where Stu would operate the t-case, and I'd just drive. It's a helluva lot easier this way because I could keep my eyes on the course, and it's tough to look down at the shifters. I expect to have to change the shifters because I can't look down with the helmet and neck roll very well. The 4th lap was pretty quick once we really go into that "groove" so to speak. I think I pushed a little harder that time, but at no point in the race did I feel like I was really driving the truck really hard. We were too focused on finishing too much to make a mistake by overdriving it. The suspension worked very nicely, and it really worked better once we got the COs warmed a bit. The last lap was just cruise control it seemed. The fast guys were already done and were working on their 2nd beer at that point, so we didn't have to worry so much about the rear view either. :lol: When we got to the finish line, I couldn't believe how many people were out cheering for us. I figured we were about 18th or so, and I was one of the last guys out there. A 7th place was stunning. Like Lou said, not too bad for a shake down race. It was the 4th time the truck was on the trail.
Andy, thanks. Can't wait for you to get to a race to see it for yourself. Your work resulted in a helluva day for us. Huge thanks to Stu for helping prep the truck last week, the codriving, and the smarts to keep the driver's foot out of the gas. Nick did a killer job in the pits, and did everything I could as for. He makes a pretty good partner at cornhole too (we retired undefeated). Randy Wood took care of us like no other; I appreciate it!

Thanks to all of the other competitors who were cheering at the finish line. I'm still in awe of the camaraderie at these events.
Last, thanks to the RC staff and volunteers. We had an awesome time on that course. Can we add more black section rocks, please? :D

[dan58]

Here's a bunch of pics.
http://www.blee1099.com/RCRocs/

Should be up by 5pm.. still uploading.

Nice pics. Any chance you have them in a hi res and can share? I'm 6153-67. Those are the only pics I can find of us on the course. :o

[Happy Bear]

Dan, so did you guys have to get out of the truck any on course?


Here is Pearson and I's race recap:
Lap 1: (48 minutes) Automatic circuit breaker in fan wiring trips and causes 1 fan to stop running and it started warming up. Pitted at the end of the lap, hot wired the fan, checked fluids.
Lap 2: (45 minutes) Moving along, getting a feel for the course(no chance to pre run), pit to make sure the fans are both running
Lap 3: (1hr 20 min) As we come to the bottom of devils den we grab an air pocket in the fuel pickup and the motor cuts out. Push the truck off the course, investigate, find some fuel left, off we go. Half mile later lots of racket and bind in drivetrain, stop find out the caliper slide managed to fall out and caliper is binding against the wheel, waste lots of time, remove tire, tie caliper to frame, tire back on, on the way again, pit for fuel, brake fluid, and steering fluid.
Lap 4: (38 minutes) Ok we actually know the course now, have fuel, moving a little better, but skeered to go fast because we only have 1 front brake caliper
Lap 5: (37 mintues) Really wanted to speed it up, but knowing our current position, and that this was the last lap, we wanted to finish it out rather then wrecking or breaking.

[Mike]

Congrats on finishing. Are the lap times posted anywhere?

[Happy Bear]

Congrats on finishing. Are the lap times posted anywhere?
Page 3 :flipoff2:

[Mike]

Page 3 :flipoff2:

I meant this:

http://photos.imageevent.com/mark99tj/rauschcreek/RC_Race_Results_7-31-10.jpg

[dan58]

Dan, so did you guys have to get out of the truck any on course?

Luckily, no. We pitted 4 times, so that killed the times a bit.

[Ripster]

It looks like Brett's last lap was something to be proud of, one of the top four fastest laps of the day! :thumbsup:

[blee1099]

Nice pics. Any chance you have them in a hi res and can share? I'm 6153-67. Those are the only pics I can find of us on the course. :o

Yea just PM me your email address and I'll send em out. The full resolution ones are over 7mb at 4272x2878 resolution.

[dan58]

Short clip of a slow truck with a GoPro HD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJng0TrvZyg

[CrawfishStu]

Thought I did a better job than that of keeping that thing clean.

[blee1099]

Pics were too large to send out to you Dan.. I sent you a email with a download link

[dan58]

Got 'em. Thanks!

[gr8whytyj]

I think Dan and Stu did an awesome job for a shakedown race! Things will only get faster.......

I wish Scott's shakedown run went better. We were out of the jeep 12 times, before it caught on fire and ended our day. But we beat the Balducci's and Miller:flipoff2:

[zucruisers]

I wish Scott's shakedown run went better. We were out of the jeep 12 times, before it caught on fire and ended our day. But we beat the Balducci's and Miller:flipoff2:

you finished one more lap than us, but the lap times aren't anywhere close to erik's or mine :flipoff2:

[Heavychevy]

It looks like Brett's last lap was something to be proud of, one of the top four fastest laps of the day! :thumbsup:

Thanks for noticing! I think 1/2 the guys don't believe it and the other 1/2 just won't say they don't believe it.:D

We didn't short course and I beat the poop out of it. That's all I know for sure.

[Broncolou]

Thanks for noticing! I think 1/2 the guys don't believe it and the other 1/2 just won't say they don't believe it.:D

We didn't short course and I beat the poop out of it. That's all I know for sure.

I only believe it because I know you're 1/2 nuckin futz:flipoff2:

[gr8whytyj]

you finished one more lap than us, but the lap times aren't anywhere close to erik's or mine :flipoff2:

Yea try and rationalize it to help you sleep at night. Bottom line... you got beat by the produce truck:o

[Broncolou]

Yea try and rationalize it to help you sleep at night. Bottom line... you got beat by the produce truck:o

No shit talkin unless you FINISH........:flipoff2:

[dan58]

No shit talkin unless you FINISH........:flipoff2:

Hey, I like this Broncolou guy. :lol:

[Happy Bear]

I was going to say non of it matters for shit if you can't make the finish line! Ask how I know!

Luckily, I am 3 for 3 at finishing the RCROCS races, hopefully I can increase my placement a little bit this season.