- Joined
- May 21, 2020
- Member Number
- 977
- Messages
- 143
Starting a thread here to share the stories of my racing effort. I have been following along on a lot of the other team’s threads both here and on the old site. All of those were big inspirations for me to get into racing. Hopefully sharing my story inspires more people to start racing.
I was also not great about taking pictures during the build process. I hope that starting and maintaining a thread gets me to be better about pictures while making improvements/changes.
A little back story, my first car in high school was a 1998 Wrangler. Despite none of my family members being into wheeling I started exploring and wheeling in the front range of Colorado.
Sometime in high school I stumbled upon an early King of Hammers race that had been uploaded to YouTube, and the idea was planted that I want to race it someday. I continued wheeling into college with both a Land Rover LR3 and then a 2004 Rubicon. Through my college’s 4WD club I made a few friends with people that also followed Ultra 4 and had desire to go race.
I graduated college in 2015 with a degree in Petroleum Engineering. To find a job during an oil bust I had to move down to Houston Texas.
In the fall of 2016 made the decision to buy a chassis and start racing. At the time I had just moved from Houston to Midland, TX and was living in an apartment with my girlfriend. Emailed back and forth with a few builders looking to purchase a rolling chassis. The though was that a rolling chassis would be the quickest/ cheapest way to start racing. It would also force myself and the team to have an intimate knowledge of our car as we will have put all the finishing touches on the car and by the end of the build have taken it apart and re-assembled multiple times. In hindsight this route was definitely not the cheapest but has made troubleshooting and improving much easier as myself and the team are very familiar with the car.
By the winter of 2016, I ended up deciding on a rolling chassis from Jimmy’s 4x4. At the time Vaughn’s Brocky build was just released and being a ford guy I also wanted to have the classic bronco skins. Randy also hooked me up with a good deal on some used parts to keep the cost under control. Fun fact, the rear torque 14 axle was used in one of the car Top Gear used while filming about King of the Hammers!
The plan for the build:
Jimmy’s Chassis with Bronco skins
Rock Jock 70 front axle
Torque 14 rear axle
351W based engine
TH400
Atlas transfer case
32 Gal Jaz
3.0” King IBP Coil Overs
PSC Steering
CBR Radiators/Cooling
I was also not great about taking pictures during the build process. I hope that starting and maintaining a thread gets me to be better about pictures while making improvements/changes.
A little back story, my first car in high school was a 1998 Wrangler. Despite none of my family members being into wheeling I started exploring and wheeling in the front range of Colorado.
Sometime in high school I stumbled upon an early King of Hammers race that had been uploaded to YouTube, and the idea was planted that I want to race it someday. I continued wheeling into college with both a Land Rover LR3 and then a 2004 Rubicon. Through my college’s 4WD club I made a few friends with people that also followed Ultra 4 and had desire to go race.
I graduated college in 2015 with a degree in Petroleum Engineering. To find a job during an oil bust I had to move down to Houston Texas.
In the fall of 2016 made the decision to buy a chassis and start racing. At the time I had just moved from Houston to Midland, TX and was living in an apartment with my girlfriend. Emailed back and forth with a few builders looking to purchase a rolling chassis. The though was that a rolling chassis would be the quickest/ cheapest way to start racing. It would also force myself and the team to have an intimate knowledge of our car as we will have put all the finishing touches on the car and by the end of the build have taken it apart and re-assembled multiple times. In hindsight this route was definitely not the cheapest but has made troubleshooting and improving much easier as myself and the team are very familiar with the car.
By the winter of 2016, I ended up deciding on a rolling chassis from Jimmy’s 4x4. At the time Vaughn’s Brocky build was just released and being a ford guy I also wanted to have the classic bronco skins. Randy also hooked me up with a good deal on some used parts to keep the cost under control. Fun fact, the rear torque 14 axle was used in one of the car Top Gear used while filming about King of the Hammers!
The plan for the build:
Jimmy’s Chassis with Bronco skins
Rock Jock 70 front axle
Torque 14 rear axle
351W based engine
TH400
Atlas transfer case
32 Gal Jaz
3.0” King IBP Coil Overs
PSC Steering
CBR Radiators/Cooling
