It’s Friday, 8:00am and time for the tech inspection. We are starting early to avoid the high temperatures in the afternoon, around 105 degrees. I took lots of pictures, check them out in the gallery. We are using the old black truck. This truck should tech easily, it’s already been done 19 times before. Registration [...]
Silverstate 300 Photo Gallery
Click on the picture above or go to the Photo Page to to visit the Silverstate 300 gallery.
Tech Tip #2
If you need machine work done on rims to fit a specific truck then make sure you know what you want (i.e. lug pattern, hole size, flat seat or tapered) before taking them to OMF Performance in Riverside, CA. They are not mind-readers. Also, bring the lug nut being used with you, it may help.
Week 2
Not too much work done this week on the new truck. We picked up more parts from GT; bearings, trans, third member. We are still missing parts and we’ll go back the first of October to pick up what is left. Most of our time has been spent getting ready for BITD‘s Silver State 300. [...]
Week 1
Well, it took 4 days to just get the truck off the trailer. First we had to get it down to Wicked Sand Toys to get Shawn’s and Ronnie’s opinions on the new truck and to go over what they thought they could help us out with. We picked the wrong day! They have been [...]
The New Truck
Here’s the big surprise: We just purchased a truck and all the parts needed to make a new race truck for next season! This truck is a Dave Clark/Kyle Taylor creation that is 80% done. The package came with (3) full race 475 hp dry sump 4.5L V6 engines and (2) freshly prepped Mogi built [...]
Vegas to Reno Video
New video is up at Sopwith Motorsports. Go HERE to check it out.
Damage Report
As many of you have read our beams took a beating. We cut them off and took them over to Giant Motorsports. I was impressed with their website, you should check it out. It turns out that the King Pin front end that we run is not compatible with what they carry. We would need [...]
