General Update (October 2nd, 2019)
Quick update for you all.
Things are starting to trickle in for the racecar!
First is our tires for this build.
We first did some test fitting while it was still stock because why not. We tested the tires from a personal vehicle. Looks good! Of course, 35's on any 4runner is nice.
But these are what we will be running!
They are
General Tire Grabber x3's in a 35x12.5r17 flavor! We are pumped on these tires. Huge shoutout to
General Tire for supporting our team and coming aboard as our tire sponsor for the foreseeable future. They got us started with 2 full sets to keep us rolling in case we had a couple failures. Though we don't plan on it being an issue we did not want tires to be the thing that kept us from finishing a race so we are well prepared with this setup.
We just need some wheels and we can get these mounted up! Still deciding on what wheels to run. We are chatting with a company that works mostly in Europe doing things like
Rally Cross, Dakar, and other series but hoping to bring some attention to their product in the US market and in our application. So hopefully more on that at a later date. THEY LOOK REALLY GOOD as well.
Next is our Medium Duty Epic Recovery Kit from
Warn Industries.
This kit is going to be awesome for races that we find ourselves needing it, everything gets packed nicely into a
backpack. Being organized and able to pull this out in a pinch with no hassle can save us valuable time. This will also be great to have at events we are not participating in so we can help the staff with recovery or emergencies.
Excited to get the rest of our Warn recovery gear.
We finally tracked down a good supplier for our steel as well, we have about 200ft of tube in our shop as of today as well as the means to get the cage started. I want to give a huge shoutout to Scotty at Addicted Offroad for his advice and time on this subject. He pointed us in the right direction on where to get our materials at a great price here locally.
Lastly, the first episode of the series is live!! If you guys want to watch the build process as well as read it, definitely check it out and share it with your friends who like race car things.