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2011 Mud Racing NT Titles
Posted on 20 Mar 2011
Got it out to mud racing last night and slowly improved throughout the night. The buggers are definately too wide so new tyres will need to be on the shopping list next year. But they were good enough to get me into the 3/4 finals of 4wd Modified.

Unfortunately didn't make one of the corners so had to come to a stop and she stalled on me. Luckily it restarted again and I kept on going, but I had lost too much time and handed the 3rd place win to Aqua Duck. See how we go next season!

Big thanks this round to;
Stets - crew
My brother for helping get the belly pan on
The other half, Nic for videoing the night
Boogeyman racing for the new PS box
KK Racing for the puller and pulley
RPD Contracting for the tilt tray while Top End Towing were out of town.

Anyways, here's the video from last night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9AUk_IAGuA

Grounds for Divorce
Posted on 27 Feb 2011

Very lazy with the updates here. Most are shown at darwin4x4.net or on facebook these days.

Since then the car has had an engine transplant (another Ecotec) and a few other things fixed up.  Has done several rounds at Top End Mud Racing now. Of course to race you need a car name, so fittingly Nicolle has titled it - Grounds for Divorce

We've also partnered with Top End Towing who have been good enough to get us down to most mud racing events. And we can't forget Stets and Kyatta who helped getting it race ready and doing the engine swap!

Below are all the vids and a wrap up of Round 5...

Vids

Mud Racing Round 2 - killed the motor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiamBdvAhU4

Testing with new motor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUU9wfnb75Y

Mud Racing Round 4 - new motor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5awpaUmxUs

Playing at Gunn Point
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20on7Da5S-A

Mud Racing Round 5 - running new Boggers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nqwuZhrLXo

 

Round 5 Wrap Up

Well a few hiccups this round of mud racing.

Friday night went to move the car to fit the boggers from Stets. Wouldn't start as the starter motor was buggered. Move onto mounting a 12v fan inside the cab to aid in stopping the window fogging up. Managed to score a starter motor from the boys at Last Minute Racing who Oldlux put me onto. Came home, worked twice and then wouldn't engage onto the flywheel. Took it out and took it back Saturday lunchtime. Swapped for another one out of the jump pile that had the same housing as my old one, came home and found the same issue, plus it wouldn't quite line up with the bolt holes. Second trip back to Palmerston at 2pm and we found the housings were slightly different, one being for a V8. Swapped the working motor and solenoid onto my original housing, back home at 3pm and all mounted up and worked fine.

Swapped the tyres and put Stets boggers on, packed the spares and ready for Top End Towing to collect me at 4pm.

Down the track, put new wiper blades on, rainX on the outside and fogX on the inside.

Went out on the parade lap and the track was totally different. A lot of loose dirt that wasn't there before, making the track very greasy and slushy, and a bunch of bumps and holes that made for a very average track.

Round 1 without any issues, but after Round 2 the alternator light came on. Hosed it out with copeous amounts of water but no luck, the little mouse running around wasn't producing a charge.

Ran round 3 with no alternator and by the time I got back to the pits the battery couldn't cope with another restart so had to retire for the night. Unfortunately the cruiser was out in the middle so I couldn't steal that battery and being outside the top 4 I didn't worry about aiming for a finals berth. In hindsight I should have gone and raided a battery from somewhere as there were very few cars left and I could have got into the finals if only I completed Round 4 (wow, even the boat/Subaru rolled in round 4 and still made a finals berth).

Overall times were down due to the different track (59sec at the last meeting, 69.10 and 69.90 this meeting) so it was hard to tell how much of a difference the tyres made. They are smaller so better gearing, but are wider so mean more HP to push them through the muck.

MrJJ Racing Begins
Posted on 28 Sep 2010

Well an opportunity came up for another car at a very good price so went shopping this afternoon and picked up a SWB Ford Maverick powered by a 3.8L Commodore V6. 

Plan is to get it up and running again and fix up a few small things and then see what to do with it.  Either mud racing, street register it, or part it out.

And back in hits former glory


Jumping from 12,000ft
Posted on 26 Sep 2010

What do you get someone for their birthday that enjoys an adrenalin rush? Enjoys fast cars, enjoys action?  Why not go one step further and throw them out of a perfectly good plane from 12,000ft?  Check out the video at http://www.vimeo.com/15295626

Watch for inflight action coming soon


Featured in Extreme 4wd Action
Posted on 10 Jun 2010

Issue 5 and 6 of the Extreme 4wd Action include features on Top End Mud Racing and Readers Rides.

The Recovery Vehicle features in both of these issues.

Get your copy from your local newsagent now.


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