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June 19th, 2002, 23:52
Nevada 1K Wednesday, June 19, 2002 9:33:58 PM
From the On-The-Road-Off-Road-Team of Thompson & Tellier
TECH & CONTINGENCY
• Weather: Hot & Sunny
• Mood: Festive
• All Ways Racing/Chuck Hovey uses a special aluminum stem in their high-lift – but the mount burred one of the ascending holes so that at the end of the 500 Chuck couldn’t ratchet “up”! Now they have the detent pins beveled to obviate any such snags. Hovey also has a fine heat shield over the intake tract. This is available from Wally Palmer @ ORW. They use HUGE rubber boots on the outward side: “The ‘normal’ boots’ bellows chafed on each other, tearing them.” The car as large-diameters axles (from Fortin) with leather boots on the inboard side – to prevent brush and foreign-object damage due to off-course excursions.
• Tim Scalzo will be driving with Casey Jones in the Aceco truggy, but has not steered it yet.
• Mark McMillin runs a RaceRunner shock upside-down as a jack.
• Bucky Strunk will be chasing sons Shiloh and Shane along with Quadster Skyler Stewart.
• Nils Castillo will be racing in ProTruck with Kevin McGillvary.
• Barry Beacham, on the “500” (he took over from Mike Groff after the driver got his wrist caught in the Momo: “I dropped a wheel off past Mike’s and then did what I always lecture my drivers about – I made it worse.”
• Kory Scheeler lamented their latest wiring woes: “ (The main bus) wires went out! Now we have Tom Oliva – he does the Herbsts.” He then offered a “short funny story”: “Larry (Job) was in the car (one time) as it got dark and he said that the light bar blocked his view. So I got a phone and duck duct-taped it to a horse collar and put it in the seat. Don’t’ tell him I said this.” OK!
• “Wild Bill” Wiederhold will be riding shotgun in one of the Scaronimobiles. Since Bill has a BFG suit …could it be in the ProTruck?
• Matt Scaroni will race the SMD ProTruck with Scott Steinberger.
• Lucas Hand promisises some historical off-road films transferred onto video in the (near) future. Luke said that his golf cart – fitted with a Rotax snowmobile engine blew its motor. Or, rather, Lucas did it: “We were drinking (Duh) and I turned it over (Duh duh) and some oil ran out (Duh^3) and that was stupid.”
• Kevin Colan’s old Bunderson is the Rudy Cortez/Dale Ebberts Laughlin rig
• Bob Shepard’s ProTruck arrived late after blowing a motor. “Bob will drive the entrie race. The Ron Shaver $12K motor is gone; we will use the old reliable engine – the one that gave us all our wins and all our finished.” – Larry Foddrill. They had a Garmin GPS that was preprogrammed to sound an audible “squawk” when a trouble spot was approaching – or when they were approaching, actually.
• Tommy Koch’s ProTruck had all four corners intact – in Tech. What happened at the “500”? – “The whole corner.”
• Mark Beeler (AZ Class 8) was up with LeeBob Finke. He is struggling through a tough period of surgery. He will have his last surgery at the Scottsdale Mayo Clinic in a month and “then go racing”. Mark suffers from colitis so that he had to have his colon removed – then lost 45 pounds. He said that “When I wasn’t racing I found out that I didn’t need to work!”
• Ensenada is in the middle of completing the agreements with Shell Oil for a $500,000,00 oil off-loading facility Bruce Conrad’s partner, Matais Arjona, is the City manager (a/k/a Vice Mayor”).
• Greg Foutz’ V10 SuperDuty F250 uses 0.250-wall tubing for the skid plate and the rear end.
• Jim Price is racing in his old “10” car with DoR Steve Stroble.
• Tim Lawrence is driving with Scott Douglas in the “4112” Bronco – “We built it in six weeks. It has 518 horsepower.” John Currier sold the black Truggy to an Aussie via Rich Minga. The blue Truggy is half-owned by Chuck “CNC” Neal and 25% each of Tim and Currier.
• The Groffs have a crew with two high-resolution cameras which will follow the people side, rather than the race, per se: planning, personnel, . support, e.g., 14 crews.
• Chase Troubles: Rob Reinertson 1234, Rich Johnson, 1243 with identical color schemes.
• The Hot Site for fasteners in LV: McFadden-Dale Industrial, 4477 West Reno Ave: (702) 251-8059, South of Tropicana, west of Arville. They have everything, for example Grade 8 3/8-16 in quarter-inch increments, brass bolts, flat bastard, round sumbitches, Grade 5s, metric, 1-inch hex keys.
• The Wilson 1020 has Steve Downing on the body panels.
• Doc Glass: “We have the same team and we’re ready. But I’m pissed: I want to race all day, all night, three days, no fix-it time. Make it tough! We’ll change radius rod bushings on Day Two. We’ve had not flats in two-and-a-half years then two at Terrible’s Town! We used up the stock of spares for the 7/8-Kusters. Now we have new Kings. We moved the valving and hoses to the back side.”
• PARKER:
Jimmy Beaver: “What you read on Desertracing.com is pretty much the way it is.”
John Calvin: “Big meeting on Wednesday in Parker. Whiplash will be out.”
• Jay Reichert’s “Auto Warranty America” Pony Express runs a Kawasaki ZX1000 with a 1 mm bore. The normal countershaft sprocket spline drives a pulley to an auto alternator then to a normal power steering pump. The output goes to the reverse box, solenoid actuated. The body is carbon fiber ... a very slick car. With 33x10.5 15 A/T. The dif is a Toyota Supra with 4130 flanges and 930 CVs Danny der Fod made the rear arms and the spindles. The tubing IS light: .063, .085, .090 wall.
• The Feldkamp Wiks Scat car has Greg Woodington listed – a Syko guy!
• Dave Sykes has Mike Lesle signed on with Duanne Hammes
• Foutz’ SuperDuty weighs 8,000 US pounds.
• Class 4100’s John Sunderland has to get their ’86 Bronco out of SUV Stock – “What sort of four-wheel drive SHOULD I use? Ask everyone!”
• The Mongos: “Hey! We’re set! We got a new 351W motor … since at Pahrump the air cleaner stud broke off and fell into the Secondaries.
• Casey Jefferies said that they weren’t actually chased out of their shop by the Cajon Pass fire: “But we did get the race car out!”
• 2052 has a “jgtranswerk” sticker.
• Steve Wheeler said that “Me’ n' Foutz are going for it --- five guys plus BFG.”
• Foutz has the partially-completed “7” on the blocks. A fine piece.
• John Baker is on the Henn’s Hummer.
• Jeffro Lothringer is up to help the Hunters cars in “10”
• Wake-up call at 0400. See ya!
Tony Tellier
From the On-The-Road-Off-Road-Team of Thompson & Tellier
TECH & CONTINGENCY
• Weather: Hot & Sunny
• Mood: Festive
• All Ways Racing/Chuck Hovey uses a special aluminum stem in their high-lift – but the mount burred one of the ascending holes so that at the end of the 500 Chuck couldn’t ratchet “up”! Now they have the detent pins beveled to obviate any such snags. Hovey also has a fine heat shield over the intake tract. This is available from Wally Palmer @ ORW. They use HUGE rubber boots on the outward side: “The ‘normal’ boots’ bellows chafed on each other, tearing them.” The car as large-diameters axles (from Fortin) with leather boots on the inboard side – to prevent brush and foreign-object damage due to off-course excursions.
• Tim Scalzo will be driving with Casey Jones in the Aceco truggy, but has not steered it yet.
• Mark McMillin runs a RaceRunner shock upside-down as a jack.
• Bucky Strunk will be chasing sons Shiloh and Shane along with Quadster Skyler Stewart.
• Nils Castillo will be racing in ProTruck with Kevin McGillvary.
• Barry Beacham, on the “500” (he took over from Mike Groff after the driver got his wrist caught in the Momo: “I dropped a wheel off past Mike’s and then did what I always lecture my drivers about – I made it worse.”
• Kory Scheeler lamented their latest wiring woes: “ (The main bus) wires went out! Now we have Tom Oliva – he does the Herbsts.” He then offered a “short funny story”: “Larry (Job) was in the car (one time) as it got dark and he said that the light bar blocked his view. So I got a phone and duck duct-taped it to a horse collar and put it in the seat. Don’t’ tell him I said this.” OK!
• “Wild Bill” Wiederhold will be riding shotgun in one of the Scaronimobiles. Since Bill has a BFG suit …could it be in the ProTruck?
• Matt Scaroni will race the SMD ProTruck with Scott Steinberger.
• Lucas Hand promisises some historical off-road films transferred onto video in the (near) future. Luke said that his golf cart – fitted with a Rotax snowmobile engine blew its motor. Or, rather, Lucas did it: “We were drinking (Duh) and I turned it over (Duh duh) and some oil ran out (Duh^3) and that was stupid.”
• Kevin Colan’s old Bunderson is the Rudy Cortez/Dale Ebberts Laughlin rig
• Bob Shepard’s ProTruck arrived late after blowing a motor. “Bob will drive the entrie race. The Ron Shaver $12K motor is gone; we will use the old reliable engine – the one that gave us all our wins and all our finished.” – Larry Foddrill. They had a Garmin GPS that was preprogrammed to sound an audible “squawk” when a trouble spot was approaching – or when they were approaching, actually.
• Tommy Koch’s ProTruck had all four corners intact – in Tech. What happened at the “500”? – “The whole corner.”
• Mark Beeler (AZ Class 8) was up with LeeBob Finke. He is struggling through a tough period of surgery. He will have his last surgery at the Scottsdale Mayo Clinic in a month and “then go racing”. Mark suffers from colitis so that he had to have his colon removed – then lost 45 pounds. He said that “When I wasn’t racing I found out that I didn’t need to work!”
• Ensenada is in the middle of completing the agreements with Shell Oil for a $500,000,00 oil off-loading facility Bruce Conrad’s partner, Matais Arjona, is the City manager (a/k/a Vice Mayor”).
• Greg Foutz’ V10 SuperDuty F250 uses 0.250-wall tubing for the skid plate and the rear end.
• Jim Price is racing in his old “10” car with DoR Steve Stroble.
• Tim Lawrence is driving with Scott Douglas in the “4112” Bronco – “We built it in six weeks. It has 518 horsepower.” John Currier sold the black Truggy to an Aussie via Rich Minga. The blue Truggy is half-owned by Chuck “CNC” Neal and 25% each of Tim and Currier.
• The Groffs have a crew with two high-resolution cameras which will follow the people side, rather than the race, per se: planning, personnel, . support, e.g., 14 crews.
• Chase Troubles: Rob Reinertson 1234, Rich Johnson, 1243 with identical color schemes.
• The Hot Site for fasteners in LV: McFadden-Dale Industrial, 4477 West Reno Ave: (702) 251-8059, South of Tropicana, west of Arville. They have everything, for example Grade 8 3/8-16 in quarter-inch increments, brass bolts, flat bastard, round sumbitches, Grade 5s, metric, 1-inch hex keys.
• The Wilson 1020 has Steve Downing on the body panels.
• Doc Glass: “We have the same team and we’re ready. But I’m pissed: I want to race all day, all night, three days, no fix-it time. Make it tough! We’ll change radius rod bushings on Day Two. We’ve had not flats in two-and-a-half years then two at Terrible’s Town! We used up the stock of spares for the 7/8-Kusters. Now we have new Kings. We moved the valving and hoses to the back side.”
• PARKER:
Jimmy Beaver: “What you read on Desertracing.com is pretty much the way it is.”
John Calvin: “Big meeting on Wednesday in Parker. Whiplash will be out.”
• Jay Reichert’s “Auto Warranty America” Pony Express runs a Kawasaki ZX1000 with a 1 mm bore. The normal countershaft sprocket spline drives a pulley to an auto alternator then to a normal power steering pump. The output goes to the reverse box, solenoid actuated. The body is carbon fiber ... a very slick car. With 33x10.5 15 A/T. The dif is a Toyota Supra with 4130 flanges and 930 CVs Danny der Fod made the rear arms and the spindles. The tubing IS light: .063, .085, .090 wall.
• The Feldkamp Wiks Scat car has Greg Woodington listed – a Syko guy!
• Dave Sykes has Mike Lesle signed on with Duanne Hammes
• Foutz’ SuperDuty weighs 8,000 US pounds.
• Class 4100’s John Sunderland has to get their ’86 Bronco out of SUV Stock – “What sort of four-wheel drive SHOULD I use? Ask everyone!”
• The Mongos: “Hey! We’re set! We got a new 351W motor … since at Pahrump the air cleaner stud broke off and fell into the Secondaries.
• Casey Jefferies said that they weren’t actually chased out of their shop by the Cajon Pass fire: “But we did get the race car out!”
• 2052 has a “jgtranswerk” sticker.
• Steve Wheeler said that “Me’ n' Foutz are going for it --- five guys plus BFG.”
• Foutz has the partially-completed “7” on the blocks. A fine piece.
• John Baker is on the Henn’s Hummer.
• Jeffro Lothringer is up to help the Hunters cars in “10”
• Wake-up call at 0400. See ya!
Tony Tellier