offroading Plaster City Dec.30th - Page 2

SDTitan1 · 12-31-2007, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by 06_SMOKE_SE_CC

dammit, had to work....you guys go?? how was it?? any pics or vids to post??

4 of us went and had a great time, we hit a few trails away from the race area first, sand and dirt trails, tons of whoops, washes, etc. The trucks kicked as s, there's nothing like going full throttle on a wash. All have suspension worked on by PRG and it worked flawlessly, my truck ached for more travel and tore the bumpstops to shreds because of it but did excellent nonetheless.........I didn't take any pics, I think TitanicDJ did, hopefully he got pics of the dunes our 2wds (hooligan and I) were able to traverse with tires aired down to the teens....

TitanicDJ · 12-31-2007, 06:10 PM

Man, I haven't posted in awhile... but like SD said, we all had a blast. We all met 6am in Ramona, Hooligan, SDTitan1, DezertRunner and myself. Started off roading in Ocotillo Wells and worked our way back to Plaster City.

Just off the main road airing down

Great morning but there was absolutely no wind so the dust clouds just hung around and at some points we were driving blind

First pit stop after testing out the suspension. This road my look smooth but most of us went air born at some point...haha

TitanicDJ · 12-31-2007, 06:14 PM

Second pit stop

Deciding on the next spot up to Superstition Hill, you can see it in the background with the towers

On the rim of Superstition Hill

Land Rover Defender heading to the top of Superstition, check out the sand

Looking down from the rim

TitanicDJ · 12-31-2007, 06:20 PM

We ended up on the race course for MDR (Bud Light 200) here's one going by..

Watching next to the Red Bull Chase Truck

We all had a great time I ended up with a lot of brush scraps down both side and I'm sure Hoolie will have a story to tell....

06_SMOKE_SE_CC · 12-31-2007, 07:28 PM

looks like fun...great pics DJ....wish i coulda made it out....

if only i hadn't moved from mira mesa to arizona 7 months ago...

trucks look awesome too....

alright hooligan we're all waiting to hear your story...post it up buddy...

hooligan · 01-01-2008, 05:09 AM

WOOT!!! what a day that was!!! i always have a blast and actually hit some areas of Superstition i had not hit before especially the whoops section that just got smoother the harder you hit the gas!!! aside from Polar's kickass photos none of us took shots as we were just having a blast hauling some serious *** thru the desert. words really can't describe it, you just have to experience it really, which is really why i really don't say much about our daily desert excursions. it was finally great to get Polarbear out there so he could have some fun romping. as for me and the truck, hehe, got a wild hair up me arse and saw an MDR (mojave desert racing) Class 7 truck, me thinks, hauling *** thru a whoop section and was dying to hit. i thought, fvck it, let's hit it. peeled out, started hauling *** towards the section only to see the whoops a little bigger and tighter. had to slow down. then the section got a bit smaller at which point, i gassed it and hit it and the suspension just soaked it up. again, just does so much better at a higher speed, then out of f*cking no where a HUGE *** whoop appeared and that was the end of it. launched right off the face and while trying to brake before it i was airborn (literally) and i'm thinking whilst airborn i hit the brakes and brought my front end down and buried the front end in the hardpacked desert terrain. it was like a scene in a movie where a plane crashes in the sand. sand blanketed the windshield and flew in both windows, the cooler in the back seat exploded shooting ice everywhere hitting the windshield, making me think the tempered windshield had exploded in a million pieces. it was the feeling of shock that hit me and me co-pilot, who a split second before the big whoop, said..."look out!!! that looks big!!" LOL.... he had, for a second, thought we had flipped over, but as the sand cleared the windshield and the sunlight had reappeared and the mighty titan continued to drive on, he realized we were still upright. me, i was still trying to get my bearings. motor was still running and steering felt responsive and suspension was active so i thought, holy shat, what the hell did we launch off? despite the feeling of survival, i just knew there had to have been some sort of damage i sustained. sho nuff, after finishing the section off, got out and checked out the front only to see coolant spewing out like a stuck pig. wheels all duck-footed, camber set like a CORR truck. the extent of the damage so far is the lower portion of the bumper is bashed in which subsequently bent the bumper brackets a bit in and several components, i.e. a bracket where the coolant overflow bottle attaches to broke and cracked the bottle at the bottom leaving a crack the size of a quarter-slot in it. a-arms pushed up into the metal part of the fenders, coil-buckets bent, but frame is fine and front lower crossmember is fine. repairing the coolant overflow bottle, one thing i recommend everyone having in their toolbag is a tube of JB weld putty. that self-hardening putty is the sh!t...!!! knead till uniform in color apply to crack and wait 2 minutes till it hardens like steel. sure enough, hard as a rock in 2 minutes. re-installed the overflow bottle, filled it up, then drove over 100 miles back home and it held up the whole way home, barely. one thing i failed to do was thoroughly sand the cracked area down, since i had no sand paper (forgot to get at kragen) just fingered some sand on the area. didn't quite do a good enough job but just enough to get me home. so when i got home, i put it in park but left the motor running, popped the hood and sure enough the overflow bottle was at max but looked down and saw the jb weld putty starting to show signs of coolant seeping thru, but she held nonetheless. the next morning, coolant everywhere... LOL... well, so i must get a new coolant overflow bottle and they ain't cheap. friggin' 52 bucks for the damn thing. i'll pick it up on wednesday and R & R. coil buckets will eventually be replaced with improved shock hoops and the bumper will be replaced with a prerunner bumper which had i had one would have served its purpose. so for now, the bashed in bumper will serve as a badge of honor for launching.

can't wait to get back out there!!!! i'll just have to remember to watch out for that section...

and oh yes, the mid-travel kit is on the end of January or February, with shock hoops soon after. a bit late, but that's okay...

hahahaha... oh yeah, thank god the airbags didn't go off or i'd have one sore melon right about now...

kartman · 01-01-2008, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by 06_SMOKE_SE_CC

if only i hadn't moved from mira mesa to arizona 7 months ago...

n

From maricopa its only 3-3.5 hours to PC. I went out Sun night to film the race monday then back.

kartman · 01-01-2008, 10:48 AM

Here are a few shots from raceday. I think I drove around to almost all the same spots as you guys while lost trying to get to RM13

hooligan · 01-01-2008, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by kartman

Here are a few shots from raceday. I think I drove around to almost all the same spots as you guys while lost trying to get to RM13

great pics Kart! i f^ct my truck up between RM36 - RM37, where it ran right along Evan Hughes. we spent most of the day north of pc up in the superstition ohv. more sand but soft when landing from going airborne from the whoop-dees.

BECHLYF · 01-01-2008, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by hooligan

WOOT!!! what a day that was!!! i always have a blast and actually hit some areas of Superstition i had not hit before especially the whoops section that just got smoother the harder you hit the gas!!! aside from Polar's kickass photos none of us took shots as we were just having a blast hauling some serious *** thru the desert. words really can't describe it, you just have to experience it really, which is really why i really don't say much about our daily desert excursions. it was finally great to get Polarbear out there so he could have some fun romping. as for me and the truck, hehe, got a wild hair up me arse and saw an MDR (mojave desert racing) Class 7 truck, me thinks, hauling *** thru a whoop section and was dying to hit. i thought, fvck it, let's hit it. peeled out, started hauling *** towards the section only to see the whoops a little bigger and tighter. had to slow down. then the section got a bit smaller at which point, i gassed it and hit it and the suspension just soaked it up. again, just does so much better at a higher speed, then out of f*cking no where a HUGE *** whoop appeared and that was the end of it. launched right off the face and while trying to brake before it i was airborn (literally) and i'm thinking whilst airborn i hit the brakes and brought my front end down and buried the front end in the hardpacked desert terrain. it was like a scene in a movie where a plane crashes in the sand. sand blanketed the windshield and flew in both windows, the cooler in the back seat exploded shooting ice everywhere hitting the windshield, making me think the tempered windshield had exploded in a million pieces. it was the feeling of shock that hit me and me co-pilot, who a split second before the big whoop, said..."look out!!! that looks big!!" LOL.... he had, for a second, thought we had flipped over, but as the sand cleared the windshield and the sunlight had reappeared and the mighty titan continued to drive on, he realized we were still upright. me, i was still trying to get my bearings. motor was still running and steering felt responsive and suspension was active so i thought, holy shat, what the hell did we launch off? despite the feeling of survival, i just knew there had to have been some sort of damage i sustained. sho nuff, after finishing the section off, got out and checked out the front only to see coolant spewing out like a stuck pig. wheels all duck-footed, camber set like a CORR truck. the extent of the damage so far is the lower portion of the bumper is bashed in which subsequently bent the bumper brackets a bit in and several components, i.e. a bracket where the coolant overflow bottle attaches to broke and cracked the bottle at the bottom leaving a crack the size of a quarter-slot in it. a-arms pushed up into the metal part of the fenders, coil-buckets bent, but frame is fine and front lower crossmember is fine. repairing the coolant overflow bottle, one thing i recommend everyone having in their toolbag is a tube of JB weld putty. that self-hardening putty is the sh!t...!!! knead till uniform in color apply to crack and wait 2 minutes till it hardens like steel. sure enough, hard as a rock in 2 minutes. re-installed the overflow bottle, filled it up, then drove over 100 miles back home and it held up the whole way home, barely. one thing i failed to do was thoroughly sand the cracked area down, since i had no sand paper (forgot to get at kragen) just fingered some sand on the area. didn't quite do a good enough job but just enough to get me home. so when i got home, i put it in park but left the motor running, popped the hood and sure enough the overflow bottle was at max but looked down and saw the jb weld putty starting to show signs of coolant seeping thru, but she held nonetheless. the next morning, coolant everywhere... LOL... well, so i must get a new coolant overflow bottle and they ain't cheap. friggin' 52 bucks for the damn thing. i'll pick it up on wednesday and R & R. coil buckets will eventually be replaced with improved shock hoops and the bumper will be replaced with a prerunner bumper which had i had one would have served its purpose. so for now, the bashed in bumper will serve as a badge of honor for launching.

can't wait to get back out there!!!! i'll just have to remember to watch out for that section...

and oh yes, the mid-travel kit is on the end of January or February, with shock hoops soon after. a bit late, but that's okay...

hahahaha... oh yeah, thank god the airbags didn't go off or i'd have one sore melon right about now...

Man that sucks, so sorry about the damage.

well I guess it kinda bumps up the upgrades

but most important, im glad you stayed upright.

Ive had my share of rolling

hooligan · 01-01-2008, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by BECHLYF

Man that sucks, so sorry about the damage.

well I guess it kinda bumps up the upgrades

but most important, im glad you stayed upright.

Ive had my share of rolling

you did that???

BECHLYF · 01-01-2008, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by hooligan

you did that???

Yeah,I was in the Moreno Valley and saw a access road and could not resist.not too many places to run in O.C.anyway I found that decomposed granite is like ball bearings

lost traction in the rear then it hooked up again but then I was pointed off the road hit a berm got launched drivers front tire landed on a small bolder which popped the bead air instantly came out bent rim and sent me into a roll.

BUT that turned out to be a GOOD thing, BECAUSE I was NOT wearing a seatbelt

If I didn't roll to the left I would have run straight into a BIG GIANT BOLDER. and most likely got launched threw the windshield and hit the bolder and probably died or become paralyzed .

so I guess I'm still here for something

but I'm glad I am.(KID'S PLEASE WEAR YOUR SEATBELT) and get a cage, and roll bar and fuel cell and race seats with five point harness.

Anyway I'm glad you guys are alright.

hooligan · 01-01-2008, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by BECHLYF

Yeah,I was in the Moreno Valley and saw a access road and could not resist.not too many places to run in O.C.anyway I found that decomposed granite is like ball bearings

lost traction in the rear then it hooked up again but then I was pointed off the road hit a berm got launched drivers front tire landed on a small bolder which popped the bead air instantly came out bend rim and sent me into a roll.

BUT that turned out to be a GOOD thing, BECAUSE I was NOT wearing a seatbelt

If I didn't roll to the left I would have run straight into a BIG GIANT BOLDER. and most likely got launched threw the windshield and hit the bolder and probably died or paralyzed myself.

so I guess I'm still here for something

but I'm glad I am.(KID'S PLEASE WEAR YOUR SEATBELT) and get a cage, and roll bar and fuel cell and race seats with five point harness.

Anyway I'm glad you guys are alright.

LOL... glad to know yoo've survived a horrible crash. live and learn ehh? thankfully my co-pilot and i had our belts on (a bit tender across the chest and my neck is sore) AND thankfully the airbags didn't deploy. u should've been there with us! it was a blast!

BECHLYF · 01-01-2008, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by hooligan

LOL... glad to know yoo've survived a horrible crash. live and learn ehh? thankfully my co-pilot and i had our belts on AND thankfully the airbags didn't deploy. u should've been there with us! it was a blast!

I would have loved to go, But remember I'm still working on the house

and I've had the living room tore up and had the last ten days off.I'm skimming now then paint.that will make the wife happy,well me too its not fun sitting in a mess. and after paint I will hang the 50" plasma

and the onkyo/polk 6.1 system

I redid all the electrical and ran the speaker wire so everything looks C-L-E-A-N. Anyway when you get your rig back together maybe we can start another desert meet.I still need to get the battery hold down thing remedied.have you addressed that yet? I REALLY NEED TO PUT IN SOME OT because next time we go out I want to have a TRUTRAC AND 3:73's

hooligan · 01-01-2008, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by BECHLYF

I would have loved to go, But remember I'm still working on the house

and I've had the living room tore up and had the last ten days off.I'm skimming now then paint.that will make the wife happy,well me too its not fun sitting in a mess. and after paint I will hang the 50" plasma

and the onkyo/polk 6.1 system

I redid all the electrical and ran the speaker wire so everything looks C-L-E-A-N. Anyway when you get your rig back together maybe we can start another desert meet.I still need to get the battery hold down thing remedied.have you addressed that yet? I REALLY NEED TO PUT IN SOME OT because next time we go out I want to have a TRUTRAC AND 3:73's

well, gonna have to figure something new out with the battery tray as the OEM one is broken since the ball joint in the a-arm shot right up into the fender pushing the metal up, cracking the plastic battery tray causing the battery to slope forward. thank god for spiral-gel batteries ain't nothing leaking out, hehe