Archive for June, 2009
Sunday, June 28th, 2009
Preparing for the Playa
Scott retrieves a dropped bolt. Or nut. Or wrench.
Actually Scott is bolting in the co-driver’s race seat. We designed it such that it requires a contortionist to get one of the bolts properly torqued.
1107 is coming back together now that we’ve had time to go through it from stem to stern. The reinforced bumpers went [...]
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Sleep deprivation at the Baja 1000
You think you know a guy…
So Travis here was a first timer with us at the Baja 1000. Totally unflappable. Can-do attitude. Attacked the dirtiest jobs with gusto. Sometimes he attacked them with verve.
So most of the team had been up for more than 24 hours when we crashed out of the race after the [...]
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Did I mention our comm must be Mil-Spec?
The brainstorming on a robust, long range race car to chase truck communications system for the Baja 1000 continues, this time between A.J. and me via instant messenger this morning:
A.J.: Ok looks like we can build our own satellite pager with built in gps. this little bad boy can do it all and all from [...]
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Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Logistics can be cool. No, really.
We’re gonna need more laptops.
Desert Dingo Racing’s Logistics Department held its first planning meeting in preparation for the Baja 1000. We had bbq’d tri-tip, potato salad, salad and lots of beer. And we discussed logistics. Figuring out where to set up shop this year (we had some equipment stolen in 2008), how to move chase [...]
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Bilstein rocks
We run Bilstein shocks and they’ve been working great for us.
We’re going through the car from stem to stern. Looking at the front shocks, we noted the hoses between the shocks and reservoirs were a bit frayed from rubbing against the inside of the fenders. I got in touch with Joel, the Off Road MotorSports [...]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Rust and flagging
Rust gets everywhere.
Richard, Bob and Crusty were kind enough to unbolt the light bar so I could take it home and start sanding it down. With a couple of months before the KC Hilites Midnight Special, we’re going through the car with fine-tooth comb. I’ll sand off all the rust, Richard will weld another support [...]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
KC Hilites Midnight Special map – should be a walk in the park
SNORE just released the map for the KC Hilites Midnight Special race coming up in August. It looks relatively flat, with the course skirting any major mountains. I’m sure they’ll make up for it with lots of silt and big rocks.
Work on the car continues. Richard had pulled the fuel cell. He and Crusty disassembled [...]
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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
We’re probably going to need this
Taking a look at the steering box.
Updated: Photos! We’ve got photos!
Crusty, Bob, Scott ‘n Carrie set to work on the car on Saturday. We found a problem with a sleeve inside the front beam. A problem in that the sleeve was trashed and we’ll need to figure out what happened and what we can do [...]
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
International Diabetes Federation announces 2009 World Diabetes Day theme
We’ve been working with the great people at the International Diabetes Federation in Brussels, Belgium since before our first attempt on the Baja 1000 back in 2007. We’re the official World Diabetes Day race car and take every opportunity at races to distribute information (like our hero cards) to race fans. We also do a [...]
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Men at work
Shawn and Bob work on the co-driver side front drum brake.
In advance of our first logistics meeting for the Baja 1000 on June 21 at Seth’s place, the team put in time doing advance prep on the car. Crusty continued stripping out the car, eliminating rust and painting any bare metal. Shawn and Bob worked [...]
