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We set out to race the 4600 class at koh this year. We finished the jeep the night before load up day. Zero testing except running it up and down the street. The motor was pre broke In at the engine shopso that was a relief. We got to the lake bed Friday and woke up and instantly started testing and tunning
We had tech Saturday night needless to say our attention to detail and following the rules paid off. We passed tech without having to come back to make any changes or revisions to the car.
We ran into an issue with our shock bodies being to long and entirely collapsing the shock before hitting bump Stop. We battled this all week, till speaking with bilstein on Monday, Tuesday Caleb drove 3 hours away to the bilstein headquarters to pick up 4 7100 shocks. We lowered the jeep down an inch and installed the new shocks. The jeep was instantly improved.
We battled a slight running issue with jeep shutting down randomly come to find out one of the fuel lines was loose and was scavenging air. As fuel pressure never dropped on the gauge it was difficult to diagnose.
Thursday morning we left the line 19th in the stock class and 129th out of the entire field. We had a very good 13 miles to pit 1a and we’re passing cars left and right. The first section was tough and abusive with small rock trails scattered through the high speed desert. Steve did a flawless job of navigating us through every turn and rock.
We pulled into pit 1 with Caleb instantly telling me to turn off the car. Unknown to us we had contacted the oil pan with the trac bar and caused the crank to wear a hole in it. The guys at pit dropped the track bar down and as Caleb patched the pan with jb weld rtv and Gorrila tape. All in all took half an hour. We then set back off keeping an eye on our oil pressure gauge.
We caught back up to a few cars that passed us in pit and made it to cougar butte, it was definitely different as there was no definite go this way basically like pulling into devils den go however you want. Once finding our way through we made it through no issue, no spotting and no wicnhcing needed
At race mile 41 our track bar snapped splitting a ruffstuff tube insert down the middle. Steve and myself ratchet strapped the track bar into place loosing 45 minutes. We drove 3 miles like that before it let go again. I drove the next five miles like that with no steering and battling our oil leak. Once to pit 1b we swapped the oil pan, and welded the track bar. As getting ready to head back out we were told the marine base is now closed and the car would be impounded if we went on the base to finish lap 1.
It wasn’t the outcome we had hoped for. We built a stock class car in 29 days, we workedday and night to finish it. We raced king of the hammers. We are racing the entire series this year and look forward to it. Time to rebuild what the hammers did and get it back to race ready.
All in all it was a great time and we can’t wait for next year. The 4677 of straight jacket Motorsports did well. Can’t wait to see all of you at Pennsylvania if you make it there!
We had tech Saturday night needless to say our attention to detail and following the rules paid off. We passed tech without having to come back to make any changes or revisions to the car.
We ran into an issue with our shock bodies being to long and entirely collapsing the shock before hitting bump Stop. We battled this all week, till speaking with bilstein on Monday, Tuesday Caleb drove 3 hours away to the bilstein headquarters to pick up 4 7100 shocks. We lowered the jeep down an inch and installed the new shocks. The jeep was instantly improved.
We battled a slight running issue with jeep shutting down randomly come to find out one of the fuel lines was loose and was scavenging air. As fuel pressure never dropped on the gauge it was difficult to diagnose.
Thursday morning we left the line 19th in the stock class and 129th out of the entire field. We had a very good 13 miles to pit 1a and we’re passing cars left and right. The first section was tough and abusive with small rock trails scattered through the high speed desert. Steve did a flawless job of navigating us through every turn and rock.
We pulled into pit 1 with Caleb instantly telling me to turn off the car. Unknown to us we had contacted the oil pan with the trac bar and caused the crank to wear a hole in it. The guys at pit dropped the track bar down and as Caleb patched the pan with jb weld rtv and Gorrila tape. All in all took half an hour. We then set back off keeping an eye on our oil pressure gauge.
We caught back up to a few cars that passed us in pit and made it to cougar butte, it was definitely different as there was no definite go this way basically like pulling into devils den go however you want. Once finding our way through we made it through no issue, no spotting and no wicnhcing needed
At race mile 41 our track bar snapped splitting a ruffstuff tube insert down the middle. Steve and myself ratchet strapped the track bar into place loosing 45 minutes. We drove 3 miles like that before it let go again. I drove the next five miles like that with no steering and battling our oil leak. Once to pit 1b we swapped the oil pan, and welded the track bar. As getting ready to head back out we were told the marine base is now closed and the car would be impounded if we went on the base to finish lap 1.
It wasn’t the outcome we had hoped for. We built a stock class car in 29 days, we workedday and night to finish it. We raced king of the hammers. We are racing the entire series this year and look forward to it. Time to rebuild what the hammers did and get it back to race ready.
All in all it was a great time and we can’t wait for next year. The 4677 of straight jacket Motorsports did well. Can’t wait to see all of you at Pennsylvania if you make it there!
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