The team barely finished the buggy and arrived at CalRocs just in time. The question is "Without a test run will it work OK?"

Who needs a stinkin test run! Run #1 will work out the kinks.

Heres a picture at the bottom of run #1.....

Dam this hydralic steering is sensitive. Now if I can just nudge it over a little.........

I noticed that you weren't running beadlocks, and were one of the few who were not.....did you have any trouble because of that? Your buggy was looking great by the way, hard to belive that was the first time it had been driven EVER!!!!!

No, not this way.............

You guys did awsome for not knowing that thing. Just think if you would of wheeled it a little before the comp. You would have whooped ass. theres always next time.:usa:

Good twist.....................

Dam Wilson, your strong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just hanging around......................

Watch that flag........................

Hey Nick I know in the beginning you said you wanted to be at about $2000 for this rig. what did it end up at?

Nice view..................

Hang on tight Wilson...................................

Wilson..........Thomas............Where the hell did you put that eject button?

Just needed to look at the under carriage........................

the eject button was located right next to the defibulator retraction unit! dumbass :D

Excellent spotmanship Wilson....................................

Run Wilson run............something doesn't feel right...........

Dam, I'm getting use to this...........................................

By the look on Thomas's face Nick is trying to sell the interviewer a bridge somewhere................................

All trails run and the buggy is still running. Total trail repairs consisted of: 3 hose clamps, some hose, a few zip ties, JB Quik, and most importanty duct tape!

Job well done .................. It's Miller time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey guys (Team Xtreme & Skulltoy) Nick's not posting these or online right now---I am (Toyfamily Senior). Nick is probably sleeping right now catching up on many hours of lost sleep.
Same with Thomas and Wilson. I'm sure Nick will reply when he wakes up (in about 3 days).

TF Senior

Nice job. Quite the good run for the first time out.
Amazing you had such few problems. Looks like you guys
put it together well!

Jay

real question is what are you going to change ?

very impressive, congrats on the calrocs run! Looks like it works very well, probably could drop the rear some. What was the roll count? he he

Damn that thing turned out killer. Excellent work Fellas.

looks bad ass nick congrats. sweet flex looks like you tore up that trail. later Rob

What's the weight on the buggy. I watched you two flip it back up on seven. Looked like it was working well.

Joe

We're going to weigh the buggy later this week. We're still thinking that it's going to be around 2000 lbs. Because it is so narrow it has to run in the unlimited class, so the changes are going to be rear steer, sway bar, get the coilovers working right and front wheel drive. Those are the major changes. The pedals are going to need to be reworked and some of the components need to be moved a little. One of the front shocks rubbed through a radiator hose. The toy carb will probably stay. Other than the problems on 2, it worked flawlessly. We lost the main vaccum cap on 2, so the engine wouldn't idle and didn't want to start. Something also caused the front brakes to lock up. Nick drove most, if not all of the day with the front brakes on! After the comp, we bled them again and they work fine now. The flop count was 4, we self-recovered 2 of them, didn't attempt on course 1, and on course 4 the rear wheels were bound on a rock and the buggy had to be dragged with a winch before we could right it.

If we had the time to pre run the buggy we would have done a little better. Going into course #1 I had 3min on the blacktop and a run up the hill next to staging. So the learning curve was the begginning coarses...... but as some of you saw as the day went on I started feeling the buggy and Wilson and I started getting used to eachother and it all started coming together as we posted the fastest coarse time on trail #7 INCUDING a roll and we lifted it back over. That was a better time and score than Walker Evans!! (at the end of the day Brutus beat our time by 3 sec :flipoff2: goodjob B)

What I thought of the buggy????I couldn't be happier with it on our first run. I just needed to know how to drive it. I will be cruising back to Moon rocks to play and also to get paybacks on those early trails that beat us. And for the guys who talked shit about us having the carb (on course #2), we had a vacuum line come off, that's why it didn't run. That Carb KIECKED asss it ran during all of my rolls and at way extreme angles Wit ha few moe tweeks WERE KEEPING THE STOCK CARB and :flipoff: to those fuckers who were talking shit!!!!! It was the buggy's second course , it's gonna have bugs! (it wasn't a Carb/angle prob) Oh yea and watch who your talkling shit around, I heard my mom (105lbs) gave some fuckers a piece of her mind after that :D (GET IT Mom)

What we need to do now is go back to Bent and Twisted and get the right spring rate for the rear coilovers and get them working right. Reinforce some of the tubing since we now have the time. And to even the playing field Jess (hi angle d-line) is working on rear disconnect for us and we might have rear steer in time for then next one, one hint the buggy is all Toyota. Sky Manufacturing arms and FJ 80 ROD ENDS held up to the hydro maybe it will be on the back too :D

And I was intereviewed for the CalRocs video so were possibly in that too

Were gonna have to get some more sponsors to help out for the next one we ain't fuckin' around this time!!!!!

Since one of the questions we were repeatedly asked (weight) we'll weight it and post this week

simply awesome fellas. to build a rig that competitive in that short a time is unthinkable. :beer: :beer: :beer:

-Steve

Nice:eek: I like!:beer:

I really like that guys, you did a great job. Hopefully after I learn to weld and bend like you guys I can build something to that effect. :blender: drinks are on me (you just have to make it to NH :D )

We, Team Poor College Boys Kicks some serious ass in the comp. For it being its virgin run it performed awsome. I am sorry to say i will be gone for the rest of this season and the folowing season until dec. ( leaving the country)But then i will be back and hopefully toyfamily and wilson will be doing well. I do smell a fleet of Poor College Boy buggies in the future though. They work sooo well and are such a buget build.
Once we get all the kinks worked out i feel we are going to be quite the competitors.
Again thanks to all our sponsors and even the manual labor help from Mike at Bent and Twisted. Mike it could have never been done with out you. Or any of the other sponsors.

Originally posted by schuss
I really like that guys, you did a great job. Hopefully after I learn to weld and bend like you guys I can build something to that effect. :blender: drinks are on me (you just have to make it to NH :D )

If we had some sponsors to help cover it I'd love to strart running CalRocs and Pro Rocks and maybe even ARCA but we have to get dialed first.........

Originally posted by skulltoy
Hey Nick I know in the beginning you said you wanted to be at about $2000 for this rig. what did it end up at?

Are you talking weight or price??? we haven't weighed it yet (this week) and I haven't added all the reciepts...

That looks nice dude.....looks like you may need a few more shields to protect the driver but otherwise it looks light and killer....

Hey NICK- Glad to see your hard work paid off - you kik ass dude , you go out and prove it !!!! got to love that- and a big thanks to mike and his sponsorship too- can't wait to make a few upgrades and go kik it again! :D - nice driving man! and wilson nice spotting - !!!! :D the one spot i saw you run was looking real good no worries just hammer it- man you were going for a ride out of the rocks on #4 i believe - and that disconnect will even the odds- Jess:D

That looks nice dude.....looks like you may need a few more shields to protect the driver but otherwise it looks light and killer....

There will be plexiglass on the sides we just left them off because we didn't have any time for non nacessities. (anything that doesn't make it run)

Hey BTW Thanks for giving 4x4 Grrl and I a ride to the pits on Sat :D

Originally posted by onetoncv
Hey NICK- Glad to see your hard work paid off - you kik ass dude , you go out and prove it !!!! got to love that- and a big thanks to mike and his sponsorship too- can't wait to make a few upgrades and go kik it again! :D - nice driving man! and wilson nice spotting - !!!! :D the one spot i saw you run was looking real good no worries just hammer it- man you were going for a ride out of the rocks on #4 i believe - and that disconnect will even the odds- Jess:D

thanks for your support! My front shaft (4ft) would have been all over the rocks if it wasn't for your sweet custom two piece driveline....I never would have thought of having it done otherwise....and you new disconnect is gonna make us more competitive....
BTW I need a small sticker to take to the t-shirt shop and get scanned....