http://www.desertdingo.com/blog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:52:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This light bar has nothing to do with what I'm about to write, but it took me all winter to paint, clear coat and install the TrailGlow HIDs, so you're gonna have to check it out. We head out on Friday, March 19, for Prairie City for our first race of ... http://www.desertdingo.com/blog/2010/03/11/nine-days-to-our-first-race-of-the-season-and-counting/ I'm sure this will make sense as it relates to 1107 at some point. Crusty came by the office and dropped off "Prepare to Win" (new copies go for $600) and "Tune to Win" ($14.95 new), by Carroll Smith, both published in the late 70s. Mind you, I maintain that the internal ... http://www.desertdingo.com/blog/2010/03/04/so-much-for-magic/ Shot of Jason Mace (1169) doing visualization exercises in advance of his very first race at Battle at Primm. The cool thing about running the blog is that you can pick on other racers and, unless they know how to configure WordPress, they're pretty much powerless to fight back. We've switched from ... http://www.desertdingo.com/blog/2010/03/03/scenes-from-battle-at-primm/ Ricardo demonstrates his superior penmanship. We've got three weeks til our season opener race at Prairie City and it finally stopped raining long enough for us to get some work done on 1107. Bob grabbed the engine and promised to bring it back next week ready to run. Crusty is working ... http://www.desertdingo.com/blog/2010/02/28/prepping-for-prairie-city/ Brett Svatek did a piece on the team and I spent most of my time talking about eating. INTERVIEW: Jim Graham - Desert Dingo Racing The Sporting Life, February 24, 2010 Jim Graham and his Desert Dingo racing team set out to conquer the Baja 1000 in a car that most people wouldn’t ... http://www.desertdingo.com/blog/2010/02/25/feature-on-desert-dingo-racing-in-the-sporting-life/ At night, in Baja, sometimes the conversation turns to muskrats. It's tough to describe what it's like to be strapped into an off road race prepped '69 VW Beetle at night for hours on end in the Baja 1000 when there's nothing around you and all you can see is what ... http://www.desertdingo.com/blog/2010/02/21/night-racing-is-a-whole-nother-animal/ There's gotta be enough good parts between the two of these for one good tranny. The weather's been so bad we haven't had much chance to work on 1107, but we've got our fingers crossed for this weekend. Both transmissions are on the pallet and ready for shipping to Bradford Performance ... http://www.desertdingo.com/blog/2010/02/04/march-of-the-11s/ The VW Touaregs take first, second and third in the 2010 Dakar Rally. Ok, the photo doesn't have anything to do with us beyond that we both race VWs, but with this being the off season for off road racing in the U.S., I switched to watching the Dakar Rally in ... http://www.desertdingo.com/blog/2010/01/18/engine-rebuild-begins/ Mike in mid-engine teardown. Bob brought his ace engine guy Mike over today to help us tear apart the engine and decide how much of a rebuild we needed. Initially we planned to just change the rings, but on closer inspection we decided to do a complete teardown so we ... http://www.desertdingo.com/blog/2010/01/10/engine-teardown/ The team has decided to switch to the Valley Off Road Racing Association (VORRA) series for the 2010 race season and we'll have our first race in April on the short course at the Prairie City SVRA just outside Rancho Cordova and just off Highway 50. We loved racing the SNORE ... http://www.desertdingo.com/blog/2010/01/08/1052/