FAST Fabrication 94 b4000 turn into SNORE class 7 race truck build thread

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Originally Posted by alwaysFlOoReD

I watched the first six minutes of the first vid. Looks good but unfortunately I don't have time to watch all of them. My suggestion; compile the best parts into a two minute clip for those like me. Also remove the music while people in the vid are talking. Thanks for taking the time to post these, I wish I had more time.

Richard

Its to hard to put 5.5 hrs of footage into 2 min, think in 43 min is pretty good. All the racers want to see all the passes and hard hits so thats what I did. As for the sound. I didnt want to just end the song and start a new one. I couldnt figure out how to take a portion of a video or song and only turn down the decibals on that part it would do it for the entire video.

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2nd and 3rd lap watch right after 8:35 and at very end you can hear the trans go bang

[06RangerXLT]

seriously, quit playing with my truck and put it back in my garage...


LMAO. i wish. beautiful work, great driving and an amazing performing truck. If i had $150,000 to toss around, everybody knows id drive that beasty to work!!

Keep the updates comin!

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deleted first two lap 1 part 1 videos and replaced with the new 720 HD complete version so you have all three videos from the race in 720hd 25fps

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time for carnage

Redline At Stateline, trans filter mix up burned up, planetary gears ground off


After Redline, motor gets new tune, get new gaskets/clutches/steels and a used forward drum, planetary gear, and input shaft.
soon as take it on street pump gasket tore due to stripped bolts in case and drum broke.


the new solid drum by dynamic next to stock... DONT BUY FROM MIKES TRANS they are theif and sent a chipped up product and cost 100 more then the dyanmic one. still have not got refund


6 alto reds in a 5 clutch forward drum


Imperial 250, heli coiled all case bolts, put all new bushings and upgraded to the c6 babit, all new sealing kit, alto reds in the forward drum with an upgraded solid drum and a 6 clutch kit, direct drum got borg warner gears and 5 clutch kit, all new thrust washers. Only thing we didnt get to use was the vasco 300m shaft i order because i was sent two 24 spline drums when i wanted 26 spline. So i used the stock one i bought before along with the planetary.




another damage was the driver rear rim on lap 1, not sure how long i rode on the flat, but probably through most of gypsum. rim broke like a mile from start finish









going to put moogs in and get new adjusters and weld them in

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here is pictures of the fluid holders we built before the imperial race. holds 4 engine oil, 3 trans and a power steering (or two trans and a brake and ps), 1 gallon of coolant in door.






here is my co pilots first tire change

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I like the fluid holders.

Richard

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Here are our photos from the Imperial 250. At the end of our first lap we had the flat, which we notice destroyed the rim. After getting the rim dismounted, not only was the rim destroyed but our new grabber with only 40 miles was shredded on the inside. After the second lap we notice we had drastic negative camber, and were down on power by plowing through the sand. On the third lap the transmission went. Tech in El Centro






Race day








Broken down DNF on 3 of 4 laps, you can see the camber


The rim damage, GNARLY







The new General grabber didn’t hold up to the damage



Steering swinger passenger side all twisted and bent and cracking welds on the sides. Being replaced with new ones and some extra gussets.



Passenger beam also is buckling on the top and back side, but did not take a hit. We are going to wrap it with 3/16 chromo plate as a temporary fix.


Next I will post the upgrades we have done since the race to prepare and get the truck ready for one great USA off-road race the HDRA Fireworks 500. Right now we are set up to continue our points in 1400 class but with all the bonus money we are considering switching to class 7 if the truck meets the track width with the changes we made. Will know that this weekend, truck is 95% complete and we are ready to compete and finish our first race. We got a fully built transmission done by a professional and hoping we have had the last of our transmission issues.

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FAST Racing and Dana Sniff Racing Transmission teamed up, look for their logo in our next Gopro footage shown on TV. Dana took my transmission and the upgraded parts I had and went through the entire transmission. We got a new pump body for the trans. He fully rollerized the transmission, no more thrust washers that were not even lasting a race. We have his modified/reinforced sun drum; he lightened up our other drums. We kept my welded forward drum, if it does not hold up we will switch to Dana sleeved forward drum. Dana put a rigid band in there with new lining, these are hard to find. Got a new 300m input shaft, used planetary to replace the stripped one. Future upgrades will be a billet servo.




To fixed track width and stress on the snouts and ball joints. We first installed new moog ball joints and then we ditch our 17x9.5 4” BS rims and replaced them with 17x8.5 4.75BS rims. You can see the difference just by looking at the two rims. Goal will be to switch all our rims out for these 8.5’s. We have 7 rims and tires now, the two fronts are the new 8.5, as you can see their polished to, just what was available in our time frame.

9.5


We took our window nets and sewed a access point for better view of the mirror and access. We also sewed on camelback pouches onto the back of our PRP Seats, these are the ones that come from PRP if you order them with your seats.




Got two new tires, if we have no flats at Reno they will probably used up after 400+ miles. Got some axles from Yukon we just need to have one end cut and splined. Then we will have a spare set of axles.



Here are our new swingers, we are going to box in the inside to keep from twisting, as well as plate in the mount. Picked up a 9” skid hopefully it fits with very little modification. That sets us up with a front skid plate, full belly skid, pinion skid, 9” skid, and rear fuel cell skid.



We wire a GoPro hard wire kit into our in-car camera that controls the intercom audio. We modify the GoPro case so its not completely open like skeleton case and less chance of cable coming out. We picked up a bunch of 32 gb cards (we have enough for two for each camera). In car will have hard wire kit and our front and rear camera both will have a battery back pack and we have a spare battery for each. So 3 batteries for each front and rear camera. If we time the card change right at our pits we should get the entire race on all three cameras.


New transmission is back in truck and working, we got a new trans filter mount. Just have some few minor things plus mounting our two new tires and getting new swingers on to complete the truck. We are expecting to have it race ready this weekend, got some more graphics being made next week for this next race. We leave Monday July 1st, see you in Reno.

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Looks like your truck is taking a beating.
Would a steel rim survive any better?
Good luck,

Richard

[f.a.s.t.clothing]

Originally Posted by alwaysFlOoReD

Looks like your truck is taking a beating.
Would a steel rim survive any better?
Good luck,

Richard

steel would just bend... this rim bent first got flat and i rode on the flat at full speed for like 10 miles before it cracked... think it did its job.

[f.a.s.t.clothing]

We leave for Reno in 7 days. Cannot wait for this week to be over.

We got the old swingers off the truck, and we were really lucky they did not break completely. The new design swingers (with more metal and inset welds over the butt welds, and gussets) along without inside gussets to keep them from bending and twisting should hold up great. Got to love racing.









Swingers are back on the truck.


Track width is now under 85”, we got few more adjustments to make with the ride height and camber adjusters, before we lock everything in and get a final number.


The new axles showed up, just need to get cut and spline them.


The 9” skid has been modified and installed





Built some number plate fins, we plan to move our rear light box down to in between the fins (it won’t be a box just a front face, so I will sell the box) and then we are going to enclose up to the cab. Just a future plan we have, it will help with air just going to coolers as well as real estate for rear facing camera. It’s pretty thick aluminum so should keep from flapping.






Picked up some metal today and started building our rear boxes for the trailer. There not as big as the one we made on the front of the trailer, but there will be two of them. Going to knock out second box tomorrow.