travisk
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- Location
- Fullerton, CA
So what happened? Can we get an update?
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Team NAXJA/Petty Cash Racing stock class KOH XJ build
- Thread starter Goatman
- Start date
IXNAYXJ
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Wherever the next race is.
Finished 3rd in class today after a roll yesterday in practice. I'll let Cal or Richard tell the full story once they get a chance to unwind.
DrMoab
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- The Utah Backwater
Really bummed I couldn't make it out there today. I tried. Just couldn't pull it together.
IXNAYXJ
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Wherever the next race is.
Correction: Third in the pre-lims earlier today which included a roll and second in the main race this afternoon...which also included a roll. Good news is by our math #4643 is leading the national points standings for the 4600 class.
-Matt
- Location
- Hammertown, USA
Preview of upciming video game..
jmaxj
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- in My shorts.
The 2nd roll today left them on their side for quite awhile. They got righted and were roughly 2 laps down but made up time quickly.
Here they are headed to the winners circle.
Here they are headed to the winners circle.
- Location
- Bakersfield, CA
Here's what it's like to go Ultra4 racing. Cal and friends prep the car including repairing a ripped UCA axle mount. Thurs morning Cal and Mark drive from Orange County to Bakersfield, while I go to the doctor to get the finger I broke when we rolled at Glen Helen checked out and hopefully get cleared. No luck on the finger, gotta keep the splint on a few more weeks. Cal and Mark arrive and we move 4643 and the spare parts and gear from Cal's trailer to my trailer and the three of us leave Bakersfield for Salt Lake City. On I15 between St George and Cedar City we blow a rear tire on my truck at 70 mph. These are load range G 19.5's, but the spare is not, so we move a front tire to the back and put the spare on the front. We notice on close inspection that a couple of the other tires don't look so good, so we continue on at a slower pace. We stop for fuel in Beaver UT a little after 10:00 and are lucky enough to find a tire shop that is still open, and amazingly they have a selection of 245/70 19.5 load range G tires. We buy four and are out of there a little after midnight. We pull into Miller Motorsports Park a little after 3 am.
Fri morning we finish registration and at 10 am is practice. We've walked the course a few times to check out lines through the rock sections, but it's pretty tough when we get out there. We struggle and almost roll a couple times through the first section, and struggle and almost roll on another section when we can't get to the line we thought would work, and we hear some clunking underneath. We pull off the course and back to the pits to check it out and find the other UCA axle mount has come apart. Thank heavens Rough Stuff Specialties is there and they come over and get us fixed up. We also find that our transmission is not shifting properly, and Cal checks and adjusts everything he can think of. We skip qualifying and have a few beers. It's hot. The generator quits working so we can't run the A/C in the camper. The needle valve in the carb is worn and we can't get a replacement this weekend. Around 6 pm Jeff, Mark and I head over with a bunch of other Ultra4 guys to race go karts, the park has a pretty nice go kart racing course and rental karts. That evening we drive to town and have dinner with a few of the Intermountain chapter folks.
Sat morning we go to the drivers meeting. Our prelim race is at 11:00 and our main is at 2:30. We start the prelim and on the first lap we roll at the very first section of obstacles taking a line we walked and thought would be the quickest way through. We struggle on various lines and end up having to make multi point turns to get on a makeable line. Oh well. On the next hard section we try a line we think will be quick but almost roll and save it but the save takes us almost off course and we have to do the longest possible route through the section to be able to keep going. We get through the first lap and on the remaining laps run other lines through the obstacles that aren't the fastest but we can do them all cleanly and we finish in 3rd place. The trans is shifting like crap and we can't accelerate under full power, which is pretty frustrating.
We decide to unplug the TCU and shift the trans manually without 2nd gear (which you won't get if the TCU is unplugged). We try it, the trans shifts and holds in gear, we plug the TCU back in and try it and realize we don't have 2nd gear. It's been shifting from 1st to 3rd (only when I let off the gas) and when I get back on the gas it wants to downshift to 2nd (which isn't there) so it shifts back to 1st at 6k rpm. We decide to leave the TCU unplugged so at least I can choose 1st, 3rd and 4th and it will hold in those gears and we can accelerate at full throttle. We start the main with high hopes and are in 2nd place as we complete one lap of the short course and enter the rocks. Even without 2nd gear we can at least accelerate and are much faster on the short course. We run slower lines but are clean through the rock sections until we clear the very last rock obstacle where I hit it a touch too hard and are slightly off line and we roll again. Crap, two races and two rolls in the rocks on the first lap. It takes the course workers awhile to get over to us because two other cars rolled right before we did. They finally get us over, we tap the starter a few times to make sure we're not hydro locked, fire it up and take off. Now we just want to run the rest of the race fast and clean with no more mistakes and keep moving and see what happens, which we do. Except that the car starts running really rough on the last couple of laps. We notice a couple cars have stopped with mechanical problems, and when we get to the end of the race we learn we're in 2nd place. We also finished ahead of Kevin Adler who we are fighting against for the series points lead. The car is now running so rough we don't know if we would have made another lap. Of course, yesterday it was hot but now it's raining. We get our trophy, and try to keep the dash in the car from getting soaking wet. After watching the unlimited main, great race BTW, we hang out with the IC chapter folks who have come out and we have to stay out of another thundershower. Eventually some of the guys take off and we start to load everything up so we can leave. Now the car won't start, won't turn over at all. We have to winch the car onto the trailer.
After getting everything loaded up we hang out and visit with some of the other racers, say goodbye to Jeff and Derek, and leave the park a little after 9 pm. Stop in town to fill up and grab something to eat and hit the road back to Bakersfield. We drive until 1:30 and then stop to sleep, get up at 6:30 and head out again. No problems on the way home and we get to Bakersfield mid afternoon. We unload everything, load stuff back up in Cal's truck, and the car starts up. Something got wet in the rain and messed with the starter circuits. The car is still running very rough, we're thinking probably fuel filters, but we'll have to check it out. Cal and Mark head back to Orange County to Cal's house, then Mark will drive back home to San Diego. We covered a lot of ground in four days, had probably more than our share of calamities, but we had a good time and came away in the lead for the series points championship. We'll need to check into the wet starter wiring, and figure out what's going on with the transmission, and we have more body damage since we rolled once on each side. The next race, last of the season, is in Las Vegas the last weekend in Sept. Right before we leave for Moab.
Fri morning we finish registration and at 10 am is practice. We've walked the course a few times to check out lines through the rock sections, but it's pretty tough when we get out there. We struggle and almost roll a couple times through the first section, and struggle and almost roll on another section when we can't get to the line we thought would work, and we hear some clunking underneath. We pull off the course and back to the pits to check it out and find the other UCA axle mount has come apart. Thank heavens Rough Stuff Specialties is there and they come over and get us fixed up. We also find that our transmission is not shifting properly, and Cal checks and adjusts everything he can think of. We skip qualifying and have a few beers. It's hot. The generator quits working so we can't run the A/C in the camper. The needle valve in the carb is worn and we can't get a replacement this weekend. Around 6 pm Jeff, Mark and I head over with a bunch of other Ultra4 guys to race go karts, the park has a pretty nice go kart racing course and rental karts. That evening we drive to town and have dinner with a few of the Intermountain chapter folks.
Sat morning we go to the drivers meeting. Our prelim race is at 11:00 and our main is at 2:30. We start the prelim and on the first lap we roll at the very first section of obstacles taking a line we walked and thought would be the quickest way through. We struggle on various lines and end up having to make multi point turns to get on a makeable line. Oh well. On the next hard section we try a line we think will be quick but almost roll and save it but the save takes us almost off course and we have to do the longest possible route through the section to be able to keep going. We get through the first lap and on the remaining laps run other lines through the obstacles that aren't the fastest but we can do them all cleanly and we finish in 3rd place. The trans is shifting like crap and we can't accelerate under full power, which is pretty frustrating.
We decide to unplug the TCU and shift the trans manually without 2nd gear (which you won't get if the TCU is unplugged). We try it, the trans shifts and holds in gear, we plug the TCU back in and try it and realize we don't have 2nd gear. It's been shifting from 1st to 3rd (only when I let off the gas) and when I get back on the gas it wants to downshift to 2nd (which isn't there) so it shifts back to 1st at 6k rpm. We decide to leave the TCU unplugged so at least I can choose 1st, 3rd and 4th and it will hold in those gears and we can accelerate at full throttle. We start the main with high hopes and are in 2nd place as we complete one lap of the short course and enter the rocks. Even without 2nd gear we can at least accelerate and are much faster on the short course. We run slower lines but are clean through the rock sections until we clear the very last rock obstacle where I hit it a touch too hard and are slightly off line and we roll again. Crap, two races and two rolls in the rocks on the first lap. It takes the course workers awhile to get over to us because two other cars rolled right before we did. They finally get us over, we tap the starter a few times to make sure we're not hydro locked, fire it up and take off. Now we just want to run the rest of the race fast and clean with no more mistakes and keep moving and see what happens, which we do. Except that the car starts running really rough on the last couple of laps. We notice a couple cars have stopped with mechanical problems, and when we get to the end of the race we learn we're in 2nd place. We also finished ahead of Kevin Adler who we are fighting against for the series points lead. The car is now running so rough we don't know if we would have made another lap. Of course, yesterday it was hot but now it's raining. We get our trophy, and try to keep the dash in the car from getting soaking wet. After watching the unlimited main, great race BTW, we hang out with the IC chapter folks who have come out and we have to stay out of another thundershower. Eventually some of the guys take off and we start to load everything up so we can leave. Now the car won't start, won't turn over at all. We have to winch the car onto the trailer.
After getting everything loaded up we hang out and visit with some of the other racers, say goodbye to Jeff and Derek, and leave the park a little after 9 pm. Stop in town to fill up and grab something to eat and hit the road back to Bakersfield. We drive until 1:30 and then stop to sleep, get up at 6:30 and head out again. No problems on the way home and we get to Bakersfield mid afternoon. We unload everything, load stuff back up in Cal's truck, and the car starts up. Something got wet in the rain and messed with the starter circuits. The car is still running very rough, we're thinking probably fuel filters, but we'll have to check it out. Cal and Mark head back to Orange County to Cal's house, then Mark will drive back home to San Diego. We covered a lot of ground in four days, had probably more than our share of calamities, but we had a good time and came away in the lead for the series points championship. We'll need to check into the wet starter wiring, and figure out what's going on with the transmission, and we have more body damage since we rolled once on each side. The next race, last of the season, is in Las Vegas the last weekend in Sept. Right before we leave for Moab.
travisk
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Fullerton, CA
SC Rednek
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Winchester TN
Probably blue moon.
- Location
- Hammertown, USA
holy crap, i didn't even notice that!
that looks like my blue moon..
that looks like my blue moon..
- Location
- Hammertown, USA
/Petty Cash Racing stock class KOH XJ build
- Location
- Wasatch Range
A few more laps and the rig would have "3-Linked" itself.....again. The RuffStuff bushing eye repair held up, but the drivers side plate that attaches to the top of the diff has 3 of the 4 welds peeling off.
- Location
- Wasatch Range
Here's a few shots I snagged from this weekends event, copied from my FB page, so the image quality is poor.
Nice rain shower to cool of the winners circle......
Nice rain shower to cool of the winners circle......
- Location
- San Diego
should be.
iirc the rule is the same style of suspension as OEM, so linked. doesn't say it has to be the same amount of links.
the savvy/currie car ran a 3-link when it was in stock class, although there have been some changes since then.
- Location
- Wasatch Range
3 link front is a legal modification of the stock 4 link in the Stock class
Lurch
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Long Beach, CA
- Location
- Billings MT/Rapid City SD
depends how picky they get on the interpretation. XJ has a panhard linked setup. It's not just a 3/4link. So unless you have a panhard bar it's not a OEM style.
Great job on 2nd!!
