Friend almost flipping his truck forward
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yeah thats awesome
WOW! I'll bet he needed a new pair of pants after that! Awesome truck though!:thumb:
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ive seen joes truck run several times. very nice truck with a ton of power. ive looked it over a few times at different bogs where it was sitting. awesome work...... didnt you build it tab?
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Haha Joe's famous! I have had 3 different people send me these videos today.
Really he didnt have a chance?? I wouldn't thnk that would be possible with 1200HP under the hood.
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This is actually the third version of it. I built the first one 6 years ago when we didn't really know what we were doing and without all the parts at the time. It was mostly a round tube frame and primarily for the dunes. Now it's more for the mud and since the first build there are things that need to be placed in other spots for better weight distribution and to make room for the second complete fuel system for the nitrous ect. Two years ago he built another one with some tweaks but it still wasn't where he wanted it. Last year he finally built this one and it's obvious his skills have gotten better and its about how he wants everything. Its a more basic frame made out of rectangle tube and it finally sits a lot lower now too. Now I just cut all the brackets and give some advice, not that I know what I'm doing on a "mud" truck. Plus he refreshes and builds up the motor about every season.
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Sorta. He cetainly had the motor for it and he hasn't even needed to run the nitrous yet. He smoked the first guy he raced so he let up about half way up and afterword he saw that the rear truss for the upper links was bent and a weld broke so he didn't even run anymore. It was finished about an hour before being put on the trailer so it still had some bugs. Plus he probably would have ended up losing because with his setup it puts him in the classes with the mud skippers and sand dragsters. Although when he takes it to sand drags they all laugh but after he spanks a couple of the dragsters with his "big dumb mud truck" they sure like to come over and crawl all over it when he's not around.
The boggers are cut by a guy in wisconsin or minn. He takes something like 70 pounds off each tire and his wheels are only like 8-10 pounds each.
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I saw that in person too, it definatly seemed like it was sitting on its nose for a while. What about that blue chevy? I only saw it run once but it looked like it was a runner also.
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There is nothing dumb about that mud truck.
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Not sure of the specifics (except hp and tq numbers) but I know its a 5xx something with I think Dart heads. It has an aftermarket block but can't remember if it's aluminum or not. I know I've heard the terms billet, forged crank, blah, blah, blah. But two words that are always used are "expensive" and custom". It does indeed run very strong and the compression isn't that high since it was built to be able to run at least a 500 shot of nitrous, although I don't think he's even shot it yet since its latest buildup.
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the guy that drives that truck did awesome at berville hill and hole last year. the trucks very impressive to see it run in person
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Those are cut 44's in the videos. Scott in Wisconsin cuts the tires. http://www.racinginthedirt.com/
He definitely would have had something for the sand draggers at the snow challenge if he would have sprayed it. Those guys were all over the place and in/out of the throttle.
He definitely would have had something for the sand draggers at the snow challenge if he would have sprayed it. Those guys were all over the place and in/out of the throttle.
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