racinfarmer

Not sure why, but the wife doesn't seem to care for binge drinking Hamm's or PBR's in the shop with me.

6 hours ago, Palu49 said:

The 4000 series?

 

Watercross guys should have to pay over retail. Nothing screams repressed homosexuality quite like bolting the rail directly to the front arm mount point and taking your seat and muffler off to do four 3 lap races a day around a 1/2 acre pond.

The water skipping thing is one I really don't understand.

I just think to myself "You know, you don't have to do this.  Jet skis are a thing.  People do race them."

14 hours ago, krom said:

Nope.

AC lost market because the competition came out with new product, period.  I was there, we had customers apologizing to us for switching brands saying they just couldn't wait any longer for ac to release a new chassis, or 850.

Went from a 2015 Cat 700 XT to a 2019(?) Sportsman 850.  

That Cat was a very good machine, but that Sportsman is way ahead of that Cat.

It is a shame they axed pretty much the entire dirt team out of St. Cloud.  It was a pretty passionate and smart group.

The yardstick that all other cars are measured by.

6 hours ago, Skidooski said:

The early ones were labeled Widow Makers and they didn't even have 700hp. Jesus, I'd get into trouble quick with that one. But an S4 with 700 sounds like fun to me and it's been a while since I over drove an AWD car   

And now you put modern tires on them and they are pretty good cars that won't kill you once the whistle kicks in.

Next on the chopping block - Taiga.  

4 minutes ago, Not greg b said:

I am pretty much ready for that. However we are supposed to get 0-10 feet of snow tomorrow night 

Think I have 2 engine rebuilds and 1 engine build to do this summer, and at least 1 whole sled rebuild and 1 sled build.  

Time to start the annual teardown and figure out what shit we tore up in the whole 3 days of riding we did.

31 minutes ago, 01mxz800 said:

I would settle for a 730 diesel wide front with 3pt

When we started raising kidney beans, there were a lot of very early mornings on one of those or a D17 windrowing.

7 minutes ago, NaturallyAspirated said:

Do you by chance have a trooper ha?

 

 

Neal

I don't think I'd get the same reaction out of tickling a highway patrol in a 911 hotter then a $2 pistol.

4 minutes ago, SSFB said:

First thing I thought of!

 

The visor mirrors in those are removable for lines of the cocaines.  

Time to turn this thread around...

8 hours ago, p51mstg said:

You had one, too?  I'm a retired Chief, and one of my predecessors was able to get out from under a business that was losing money when a fire conveniently gutted it.

One of my regional fire school seminars was taught by Jamie Novak, a very respected fire investigator.  I think that was the most interesting class I ever had as a firefighter.  

One day of the class was all classroom.  As we were in class, the local fire department was at an old farmhouse, setting each room on fire using a different method.  The next day, we had to go to the house and figure out how each room started.  In my assigned room, it was just charred remains.  Jamie suggested that we wash down the room with water from a fire truck conveniently located just outside.  Once we did that, the pattern of a liquid accelerator was clearly visible on the floor, and we were able to piece together what happened without any further assistance.  After we'd covered all of the rooms, we went back to the classroom where he showed us video of each fire.

I learned so much from Jamie, that was a great experience.  After that, I've been to several fires that made me suspicious and where we called the state to investigate.  Arson is a lot more common than people realize, especially when money is somehow involved.

Back in the hood, one of our neighbors was a real headscratcher. 

Decent house (1 income), top of the line tricked out truck, all the toys, biggest toy hauler they made, tricked out Rzr, etc.  

That toy hauler sat tight to the house the entire time it wasn't in use.

The one night it happened to burn to the ground, it was in the middle of the back yard with the Rzr and maybe a motor cycle in it.

His insurance company stopped over to see if we noticed anything unusual that night.  I mentioned that was the only time it was every parked there, guy just shrugged his shoulders and left.

9 minutes ago, Not greg b said:

Yeah pretty much. I have someone else buying me a new truck this summer. I told them I wanted a nice 1/2 ton. They said no wanna get you a 3/4 ton diesel in case you have to tow something. 

It'd be a shame if you got a diesel and worked yourself into a tight spot.  

Best get a 1 ton and a jumbo sized toy hauler to make sure you fulling utilize the truck.

48 minutes ago, Sled_Hed said:

Not just the skirts on those pistons. The rings don't get along with hirth chrome bore, don't ask me how I know.

I think my friend lunched a few cylinders due to that issue.  I think he had to buy a different ring or rings to make it work.

4 minutes ago, Sled_Hed said:

Hope for your sake it's not the parts unlimited piston.

I like dropping skirts, what is wrong with that?

1 minute ago, ZR6000RR said:

It made  HUGE difference on all my 600 based sleds. 25 degrees. 

Imagine how much of a different something that actually deflects shit into your tunnel would make.

4 minutes ago, mnstang said:

Oh crazy.  I think I remember seeing thosIe three sleds when they were introduced but totally forgot about that one till now.  

I'd rather go with the catalyst 

I didn't think they actually made them until I was surfing Marketplace out in Spokane this summer and found one.

36 minutes ago, Palu49 said:

Procross sleds don’t even run 120-130 consistently. They run 105 or they run 160+

Bingo.

3 minutes ago, mnstang said:

Hcr?  There's that hill race at Giants Ridge coming up 

This thing.

10 hours ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

more ice than terrain races next winter?

sounds like a good time to turn the RXC into a 128/129 @racinfarmer and @Palu49

I found a pair of M8000-R's for sale, or whatever they called those things.  Tempted to pick one up and try a hill climb or tree on it.

4 hours ago, Not greg b said:

I priced out a set of ohlins and they $15,000 sek a set. The ac5 sounds interesting 

I don't remember Ohlins being that expensive for the Procross chassis.  Not even half that.