dunefreak

I hope nobody is expecting some good smooth dunes for Thanksgiving weekend. What a killer weekend it was out there. I pulled in Friday night and met up with vegas style and mr.brown sand. It was a bit windy but I knew it would be gone by the morning. Saturday morning arrived and it sure was nice. The Dumont gods did a great job cleaning up the dunes very nicely. We went over to see raspadoo and his buddy, Doug, in there Funcos and then we all hit the dunes. The sand was super smooth and almost sketchy to read, but we got a good moderate run in and chilled at the north pole for a while. My buddy Jason showed up and had some fuel issues with his car, but luckily we got it handled after finding out his fuel filter plumbed incorrectly. At that point Lou B showed up and we did a couple good runs until I managed to rip off a control arm tab on the rear of my car. I was coming back from Talladega when I opened it up across a stretch that was fairly smooth except for an off-camber bump. It wasn't much but the angle that the car landed it must have been a bit of hammering on the left rear. It didn't help that my heims were pretty sloppy too. That played a big part. Lou ran back to grab a ratchet strap and luckily they found us just before it got dark. My new whip light helped out. The ratchet strap held it together well enough that I was able to drive it all the way back to camp. Sunday morning we performed surgery on it and it was a success. Huge thanks again to Lou. I'm glad he had all those kickass tools and welder when he came out. It saved my weekend. So I was back in business again. After a moderate test run I was confident it was going to hold. At sun down we did a RIPPEN run for about 35 minutes straight. There was nobody in the dunes and we were haulin a$$. THAT was a good run. Monday morning I got a good solo cruise in on the Raptor finally. It's nice to just cruise around and take pics every now and then. I went out to the south end, past the south pole (I think I saw dinicolada), and back to comp for some more pics. We squeezed in a few more runs on Monday before I had to finally pack it up and head back to reality. I made the most of it though and stayed until about 6pm. I burned through a good amount of race gas this weekend and other than the little hiccup with the tab break, the car performed amazing as always. I really love that thing. It has made duning so much more for me. Other than all the good runs...the company was awesome with PLENTY of laughs all weekend. The weather was bitchen. Pretty much long sleeve t-shirt most of the weekend and sunny except for Sunday which was really overcast. That was ok though. It made for some good duning. No rain other than maybe 20 drops on Sun night but not enough to even make for damp sand. Let's see what else...got some fun times on the ATC70 in camp. We had a fun figure 8 track going and I managed to run my foot over and crash trying to chase Lou around the outside of camp. Vendor row was just getting going for Tday with H Town Performance, a few t-shirt places and it was cool seeing Pete from Got Sand partnered up with Racin Dirty in the big RD rig. Good to see some RD presence again. Throughout the weekend we saw 80grit and crew, happy hour and crew, and I recognized a few other DDR people like crazybanshee out there as well. I'll quit yappin now and get to working on some pics. Killer weekend for sure. Those dunes are going to be rough this weekend. Have fun!

I'm really happy to hear this. That's awesome Andy!!!

Hell yeah. Friggen awesome trip, Ken! Good seeing and hanging with you again. Pics and report to follow when i get some time at the computer.

When I pulled in Friday night there were fresh piles of gravel along the road. As of now they are all graded and smoothed out at the road is in very good shape for T-Day weekend. Just thought I'd give everyone an update. You can do the speed limit without hammering your equipment. Thanks BLM. I'd give it an A-

It's been an awesome weekend.

It is GORGEOUS out here today. We just got back at 11am from being out in the dunes for about 2 hrs. The dunes are very smooth and razored out...nothing like Halloween. I feel sorry for those coming out for Tday. These dunes are gonna be jacked from all the duning we're doing.

It's gonna be badass tomorrow. Mike where are you parked? We're going on a run tomorrow am and you should join us.

That is awesome but they're just as useful as Kelso! Damn it.

Man. I never thought I would hear you say that. This sucks. Every single "tres hermano" has completely gotten out of tearing it up in a sandrail. Ahh the good ole days...long gone. Miss ya, buddy.

I want to say a 20mm is a bit too big for stock. You can just measure the original one and see if DRATV sells one that size.

YIAH, let's do this!

C'mon out. I'll be there through Monday and a few others will be there for the week to follow.

Man o man. I can't wait to get out there. This weather is amazing.

Yo Andy, how's your boy doing? Got an update?

That was last weekend at Gordon's. It was Veterans weekend but that isn't even a busy place let alone busy weekend. Busy weekend or not...it can happen any time. It only takes one guy making a bad call.

Anytime you are running boost, whether it be a turbo or S/C, you are going to usually need to run a race gas. I am running a turboed 3.5 Honda on 10lbs of boost. I could turn it down and run 91 octane, but don't be ridiculous.

Damn, Rebel 100 Octane is up to $6.79 a gallon.

ouch, but where's the video?

Looks great, Mike! Very stout and the lines flow well with the body..

I know this has been floating around quite a bit today, but for those who haven't seen it yet it is worth watching. It shows just how dangerous it can be to fly off a blind razor with no spotter. Be careful out there, guys. This dude was extremely lucky and it could have been much worse. <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/A30JI4xC3sg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Yep, those carbs are cheap! You'd be surprised.

I am so looking forward to shredding some sand without a bunch of tunnel-vision morons in the dunes. Anyone else heading out this weekend? At this point it's looking like Fri-Monday for us.

holy sh*t spellcheck!!!! PLEASE lol

Hell yeah, Mark. Welcome to the club. Get going on that thing and have it ready for the regatta!