2025 KoH; Attending for nOOBs: How/What/Where/Why

[Sandy Johnson]

He said it is way better than his last car.... the one he got to the front row of the start line with 8 years in a row.

Of course he is an incredible driver, but , can't wait to see how well this new car runs.

Dumb question, but does anyone know what all he's changed with the new car? To me it looks a lot like the old car. I'm not sure I could tell the difference between the two without them side by side.

 

[Tech Tim]

Dumb question, but does anyone know what all he's changed with the new car? To me it looks a lot like the old car. I'm not sure I could tell the difference between the two without them side by side.

Complete new car, though I believe he is running the same engine. Rumor is the old car has been sold to another racer.

I do know the new IFS is designed by Dallas again (same person who designed both of Scherer's IFS) and it is designed to optimize the geometry with the 74WELD portals.

 

[Sandy Johnson]

Complete new car, though I believe he is running the same engine. Rumor is the old car has been sold to another racer.

I do know the new IFS is designed by Dallas again (same person who designed both of Scherer's IFS) and it is designed to optimize the geometry with the 74WELD portals.

Ah, interesting. Both cars seem to have a lot of similarities(makes sense because he was so successful in the last car), so I'd be interested to find what the changes were that made it so much better. Didn't know the new one was on portals.

Old Car:

vs new for comparison

 

[ridered3]

Complete new car, though I believe he is running the same engine. Rumor is the old car has been sold to another racer.

I do know the new IFS is designed by Dallas again (same person who designed both of Scherer's IFS) and it is designed to optimize the geometry with the 74WELD portals.

Correct on the old car being bought by another racer. Monkey with a Knife Team (helicopter fly out of broken race car at KOH 22’) bought it.

 

[Austin]

New Irate toy delivered today…..

Will have it set up at camp for Red Skulls to share

 

[SurfnSnow]

New Irate toy delivered today…..

Will have it set up at camp for Red Skulls to share

Good! that means we can stream the latest episode of Asian Anal Rampage Volume 9

 

[CDA 455 II]

An antennae?

 

[ridered3]

An antennae?

It’s Elon Musk’s innerwebs.

 

[Sandy Johnson]

Will have it set up at camp for Red Skulls to share

Better throttle pornhub or you're gonna run out of bandwidth quick.

 

[Honky Lips]

i can bring an inflatable screen (like 160") and projector. for nighttime movie watching. anyone got any wheeling videos so we dont have to attempt to stream anything? i assume streaming movies would be a fail.

 

[Sandy Johnson]

i can bring an inflatable screen (like 160") and projector. for nighttime movie watching. anyone got any wheeling videos so we dont have to attempt to stream anything? i assume streaming movies would be a fail.

Last year I streamed the shootout to the TV on the side of my motorhome and maybe I'm getting old, but it was waaaay better than fighting the crowds to see what was going on.

Granted we could sort of see the top of the hill from our camp, and hear horsepower noises, but not having to wander around to find a good spot to sit/stand and watch was pretty solid.

 

[crazybluerider]

Last year I streamed the shootout to the TV on the side of my motorhome and maybe I'm getting old, but it was waaaay better than fighting the crowds to see what was going on.

Granted we could sort of see the top of the hill from our camp, and hear horsepower noises, but not having to wander around to find a good spot to sit/stand and watch was pretty solid.

We were streaming the shootout on a phone over on the far side of Claw / lower Johnson while the group behind us tried to recover a toyota that decided to try to do a cartwheel down the side of the mountain.

 

[Gregj50!!!!!]

Currently processing plans on how I’m gonna make this trip….. 90% sure I’m headed down!!!! Do we need a pass or some sort of prepaid admission???

 

[Austin]

Currently processing plans on how I’m gonna make this trip….. 90% sure I’m headed down!!!! Do we need a pass or some sort of prepaid admission???

Get your tickets here: Tickets – King of the Hammers

Gregj50!!!!! you'll need to provide a case of beer to get into irate's camp...but just you!!!!!

 

[fl0w3n]

Has anyone adjusted plans with weather? I’m assuming it’s going to be a sloppy messy shit show?

 

[Sandy Johnson]

Has anyone adjusted plans with weather? I’m assuming it’s going to be a sloppy messy shit show?

If it's actually muddy, there's a 90% chance of me staying the eff away. That place turns into a tow rig trap when it gets sloppy.

 

[SurfnSnow]

If it's actually muddy, there's a 90% chance of me staying the eff away. That place turns into a tow rig trap when it gets sloppy.

So far, it's looking relatively dry and mild. I'll be stoked if it stays in the upper 30's to low 40's at night.
Johnson Valley, CA 10-Day Weather Forecast - The Weather Channel | Weather.com

 

[fl0w3n]

Sweet, I hadn't actually looked at the weather and just assumed it was getting dumped on like the rest of California

 

[willis_racing]

i can bring an inflatable screen (like 160") and projector. for nighttime movie watching. anyone got any wheeling videos so we dont have to attempt to stream anything? i assume streaming movies would be a fail.

06h3 posted up a shit ton of Ultimate Adventures into a google drive not too long ago and I saved it. There's something I think we can all get behind

 

[ridered3]

06h3 posted up a shit ton of Ultimate Adventures into a google drive not too long ago and I saved it. There's something I think we can all get behind

I’ve slowly been working my way through what 06h3 posted so thanks for the reminder to start watching them again.

 

[Austin]

Whats the latest on the JV area?

 

[SurfnSnow]

Whats the latest on the JV area?

yeah, if that holds, I'm not looking forward to the drive down but not too concerned about the rain at the Lakebed

 

[tribal4krawler]

Looking at pics Miles posted last couple days doesn’t look like HT is wet at all. I wouldn’t be sad if we got some rain to keep the dust down during KOh week as long as it doesn’t happen until we’ve already parked and got set up in town. Lol

 

[FordFascist]

Get your tickets here: Tickets – King of the Hammers

Gregj50!!!!! you'll need to provide a case of beer to get into irate's camp...but just you!!!!!

Any indication of where Irate camp is going to be? Perhaps we can agree on an Irate4x4 lakebed HAM frequency somewhere in the 2M or 70CM bands.

 

[Austin]

Any indication of where Irate camp is going to be? Perhaps we can agree on an Irate4x4 lakebed HAM frequency somewhere in the 2M or 70CM bands.

We will be in Hammer Town Heights. I'll be there late afternoon on Tue the 7th, will be hoisting a flag.

 

[Sandy Johnson]

We will be in Hammer Town Heights. I'll be there late afternoon on Tue the 7th, will be hoisting a flag.

If you can, try to get someone in there earlier to rope you off a good section. We usually have one of our guys in there the Thursday or Friday before.

 

[FordFascist]

We will be in Hammer Town Heights. I'll be there late afternoon on Tue the 7th, will be hoisting a flag.

I too will be at HTH. I’ll look for the flag.

 

[SurfnSnow]

I'm shooting to be there on Monday the 6th, and will have the small Irate flag on my rig

 

[Scooter]

I will be there no later than the 3rd so I guess I'm it. Great, pick the guy that has been there once.

 

[90supra]

I'm still on the fence of making it. Would be there 8th-11th ish. A group of my buddies are going for sure, I just don't know if I'll make it. If I do make it, I'll be in either a stock white Tacoma or with my buddy in a Wagoneer on 40's.