Damn it! Was really hoping a buddy and I could finally come out and watch you guys race and pre run but I'll be shooting a wedding on Saturday. Truck's looking too good, best of luck to the Sherpa crew!
Ready for the Big Sky 200 with Ultra4 and Yellow Stone Offroad Racing.
Shocks have been rebuilt and revalved by our friends at Rockware with the help of Locked Offroad. Fronts are back to 8" shafts and now on a 800lbs spring.
Really excited to see how it rides. We are now also able to run much lower pressures in the shocks. Used to be running around 250 psi and current setup we are at 100psi. Excited to see how it does pre-running and mess with it from there.
Here she sits after some tom foolery.
Excited for this one, tune in this Saturday to The Big Sky 200 (Broadview, MT) North series | Ultra4 Racing to watch the race live!
Curious about the nitrogen pressure too. How do you determine how low you can go?Exciting stuff!
What's the reason you guys are running lower PSI in the shocks? I've always heard that higher PSI means less cavitation, which means less heat and less shock fade.
Exciting stuff!
What's the reason you guys are running lower PSI in the shocks? I've always heard that higher PSI means less cavitation, which means less heat and less shock fade.
God damn she looks good.
I'm curious why 800 lb coils in the front.
Also where'd you get the rear axle hydro bump plates? Gonna need something like that when I deal with mine.
Damn it! Was really hoping a buddy and I could finally come out and watch you guys race and pre run but I'll be shooting a wedding on Saturday. Truck's looking too good, best of luck to the Sherpa crew![/QUOTE
Would have been awesome to have you out, catch us at the next one!
Curious about the nitrogen pressure too. How do you determine how low you can go?
We listened to the wizard that worked on our shocks. 100psi worked great, we almost dropped the rear to 80psi to balance it out as the front was a bit softer than the rear causing it to buck every now and again.
lower pressure means less IMFs (intermolecular forces) = less friction and heat.Weird. I wonder if it has to do with higher pressures creating more damping force and turning the kinetic energy to heat faster. More heat = more shock fade. Maybe the lower pressures makes the shock less effective and generating less heat, leading to more consistent results.
Noooice. The rear looks balanced but the front looks to soft. Has to feel better that before though.
Sucks that your guys' class doesn't allow more shock than single 2.5" per corner. You guys are squeezing every bit of performance out of those 2.5's. Definitely some challenges to work through.Yea our shock guy is wanting to go up to 850's but we want it to still handle the rocks well and get some slow speed up travel so pushing for stiffer compression and a slower rebound. Leaving the rear alone to see if it balances out with the front changes.
Some bypasses would make alllll the difference.Sucks that your guys' class doesn't allow more shock than single 2.5" per corner. You guys are squeezing every bit of performance out of those 2.5's. Definitely some challenges to work through.
Super pumped with how we did for our first year. It was a win to even be able to drive it back and on to the trailer after the abuse. Excited to be better off next year!@Alex Fleming Just watched your KOH and High Desert 100 videos. Cool stuff and Way to go guys!!
Shitty situation at KOH though, maybe next time
Got everything buttoned up. Not an insane amount of work. By far the hardest part was the steering rack as it required a good bit of modification to the motor mounts outside of passing the bolt through the lower control arm mounts.
Instead of plating the motor mount all back in, this was my quick fix to reinforce the mount.
Didn't want to rebuild our bump mounts, so we made a simple strike pad. This worked great.
We got all new factory hardware for everything that came out and needed to be reused. So new diff mounts/bolts, upper control arm bolt, and a few others.
Everything went back together smoothly. Everything looks great except the damn droopy headlights. Someone needs to make a stronger housing.
The ground clearance is awesome!
The front end handled great at the most recent race. Recap coming soon.
They have to modify the perch for the steering shaft to clear. I don't think the DMZ kit would work.You might want to consider the dmz motor mount reinforcements. I think they offer more reinforcement than your workaround. My driver side sank into the frame.
SexxxxxyyyyyGot everything buttoned up. Not an insane amount of work. By far the hardest part was the steering rack as it required a good bit of modification to the motor mounts outside of passing the bolt through the lower control arm mounts.
Instead of plating the motor mount all back in, this was my quick fix to reinforce the mount.
Didn't want to rebuild our bump mounts, so we made a simple strike pad. This worked great.
We got all new factory hardware for everything that came out and needed to be reused. So new diff mounts/bolts, upper control arm bolt, and a few others.
Everything went back together smoothly. Everything looks great except the damn droopy headlights. Someone needs to make a stronger housing.
The ground clearance is awesome!
The front end handled great at the most recent race. Recap coming soon.