1971 f250 DESERT truck- 10/24 race prep

[1971ford]

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[CrypticRacer13]

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Sick pics man ill send you a friend req. later tonight

[1971ford]

Went to a buddies a ways away and he let me torch off some hangers off his ranger, so i did just that!
Cleaned them up and got them on my truck in position, burned them on and got busy installing the springs
Cycled the suspension while talking to Alcan, and then soon enough it was rolling again.
Then I picked up some rustoleum hammered paint in a quart, and brushed the frame and cage. looks soooooo much cleaner.
I still have a ton of stuff left to do to make the truck "cleaner".




Droop. about 17" of travel axle to frame.
It should be getting 20" axle to frame but the 16" shocks are limiting it. Regardless, I have more travel, and obviously it is going to be a way nicer ride too! I almost doubled my up-travel...

[Ranchero50]

I love the hammered paints, blue and copper are my favorites.

Jamie

[CrypticRacer13]

Some day i have to get out to a race an see that thing in person tearing it up on the track

[ezernut9mm]

aww man, i really liked the blue stripes. congrats on the sponsership and all that you have accomplished. the truck looks amazing.

[1971ford]

I love the hammered paints, blue and copper are my favorites.

Jamie

THe hammered line is my new favorite line of paint. I'll be using it on everything i think

Some day i have to get out to a race an see that thing in person tearing it up on the track

Heck yeah!!!! come out to a desert race!

aww man, i really liked the blue stripes. congrats on the sponsership and all that you have accomplished. the truck looks amazing.

Have no fear, for the strips are coming back!

[1971ford]

Took the race truck out saturday for some testing. It went great! But found a problem. The shackle bolts were sticking out too much and hammering into the cage and frame during compression, not allowing the shackle to move! The first jump after getting on the course that day I could not believe how well the rear soaked everything up.

So this morning i fixed these small clearance issues with a grinder and headed back out.
It felt so amazing. Very impressed with the Alcans! They're ridiculous. my brother took some great footage of the truck and is working on putting together a short video of the truck, it will be up within the next couple days.
I've reviewed the footage on the computer in super slow mo,  I can tell that the front drivers side is way softer than the passenger side. The drivers side bump completely bottomed out. Passenger side still has half it's stroke left. Crossover nuts appear to be the same on both shocks, spring rates and valving are the same, it must be a loss of pressure in the drivers side coilover? After looking at some of the footage i can see the passenger tire bouncing like maybe it's low on pressure. I haven't checked since the race so it's a good possibility both need to be charged again.

On one of the jumps it looks like the rear came close to bottoming but not quite. Pretty damn good if you ask me. There is no bigger jump than this on the race courses.

Time to figure out why the drivers side is softer and maybe do some revalving. I dont think i even need to touch the rear!

Thanks to my brother Trevor Piggott for filming both days with his camera gear. I pulled the action pictures from his footage.
Almost forgot.. I cleaned up the front frame/suspension and brushed some rustoleum hammered paint on.

[robroy]

Good afternoon Ryan,

Those photos look fabulous, and it's amazing that they were pulled from a video!  I look forward to watching that when it's ready.

Robroy

[stephen44]

love that last shot !

[jp2005]

Look at that Bump Fly! Reminds me of the movie the Mr. Majestyk.  Very cool!

[1971ford]

Thanks guys!
Here's the video.
Oh man quite a few bugs to work out. Front end is way too soft, drivers side is way WAY too soft, exhaust leak, and a few other small things.
Time to pull the shocks apart, re-valve and find out why the drivers side is softer than the passenger side, and work the other bugs out and go test again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCphVbRZAOc

[Lowered IQ]

Very cool video! Looking really good Ryan.

[CrypticRacer13]

i love the opening shot of the truck the camera work is great

[robroy]

'Evening Ryan,

Your video's truly awesome!!!  I hope your brother has some kind of good dirt shield for the camera.  

Robroy