I now have mud up my nose and a big stupid grin on my face.
I now have mud up my nose and a big stupid grin on my face.
The camera was running, yes?
I did not dare enter the morass without someone else around with a recovery vehicle. We'll be back tomorrow. I did get some fun video of the drive out, possibly setting a world altitude record for flinging mud.
Moar HNNNNNGHH!
Keith, are you a ghost? How did you get out of the car and not leave any tracks?!
You guys are killing me. I am trying to save to build a house and this is destroying my will!
Kylini wrote: Keith, are you a ghost? How did you get out of the car and not leave any tracks?!
This is self-healing mud. My shoes prove that I did indeed exit the vehicle.
Here's a little fun until we get more video tomorrow.
Have fun cleaning that E36 M3 out of everywhere.
How long is the long travel? My friends buggies run 30+, can that kit get to 10?
The long travel kit currently only exists in digital form. Metal will get cut before too long. I think it's designed around 8" shocks, which should correlate to a decent travel at the wheel.
Dietcoke wrote: Have fun cleaning that E36 M3 out of everywhere.
No kidding. We had it back at the mud autocross course this afternoon for some magazine pics. There is now mud absolutely everywhere. We're going to have to pull the seats, everything. The first time we came out of the mud, we had to park for a while until the journalist (in the driver's seat) was able to breathe. Laughing too hard will do that.
But it was a riot Our car is still very much a track car, just lifted with big tires. The springs are stiff. Works fine for slinging mud in big messy donuts, but it would be happier with softer spring rates. Still, the point was that this car could dive bomb the Corkscrew in the morning and play in the mud in the afternoon, and we made that pretty emphatically. I'm going to grab the next set of stock springs and shocks or see if I can find some long, soft springs in the right diameter for the shocks on the car.
I keep thinking about a 4.8 liter LS and side pipes when I see this.
You need to take it to an autocross just like that, still caked in mud.
In reply to Chadeux:
I am thinking something like a GM Atlas 4 or 5 cylinder. Maybe a Ford Ecoboost 2.0l or 2.3L. I want torques but not all the packaging headaches of the V8. I understand that the Atlas is likely too damn tall.
For off-road, you can substitute gearing for torque. And don't forget it's a light car. The turbo Miata engine in this one seems to do just fine in the mud, and if we were climbing hills I'd drop in a 5.x rear.
Keith Tanner wrote:
Is this the same one as in the video? If so, did you take the wing off, or did something more 'exciting' happen to it?
Three pages of Excocet off road, and no mention of Locost off road? 
keethrax wrote:Keith Tanner wrote:Is this the same one as in the video? If so, did you take the wing off, or did something more 'exciting' happen to it?
We pulled the wing. There's no benefit in throwing high speed mud and rocks directly at a thousand dollar carbon fiber wing.
alfadriver wrote: Three pages of Excocet off road, and no mention of Locost off road?
I always liked the looks of Locost/Seven clones vs the Exocet but the change to off road versions really switches that around. The Off road o cet looks great and the Locost Off road looks awful.
In reply to Zeitgeist:
It's not hard to fix that. I see that particular picture looking bad.
The Locost concept with a live axle and independent front is exactly how a Trophy Truck is laid out.
Dietcoke wrote: Have fun cleaning that E36 M3 out of everywhere.
Need those aluminum seats with removable pads. Waterproof all the electronics. Then everytime you go mudding, you can just come back and give it a good blasting with the water hose.
I spent a considerable amount of time with the pressure washer on Friday. We didn't really build ours to be a mudder, I would definitely make some changes if that was expected more in the future. Around here, we don't get much mud so this was an unusual event.
Video is uploading now...
Skip to 2:20 if you don't want to learn anything and only want to see mud reach escape velocity.
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