JM PRO
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No dog in this fight.
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Looks like RG and Max put on a good show at the Long Beach Gran Prix with the stadium truck racing.
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Max running the RPM TT again at BITD. Suits with all the Speed brands
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That Geiser flat works.Max running the RPM TT again at BITD. Suits with all the Speed brands
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It flat works in qualifying and short races. That two motor set up is wild and usually creates problems in the longer races. Not many top tier trophy truck drivers at that race. The top UTV qualifier was only 7 seconds off his qualifying time.
Put Max in a Mason Awd and he would be on the podium or winning races in Baja. No doubt Max can drive a trophy truck and just about anything.
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Watched that at lunch today. Seemed to handle the soft sand well.
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Yep, drove out once he figured out the seatbelt power limiter.
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I drove in my friend's Speed UTV a few weekends ago. He was racing it at the DP4 race in Barstow. The car scoots in the desert and is pretty planted. The suspension needs some work as you can really feel the square edge stuff. Could be partly due to the 35" tires he runs. The ass end likes to buck. We did some adjustments to the shocks and got it better, but still a little rougher of a ride then I was expecting.
Learned a lot about the Speed UTV helping them work on it. During the race they got hit by another car which resulted in the oil filter that is at the bottom of the oil tank getting a hole in it. Had to jump in my H2 with 2 others and go out on course with a new filter and oil. When you fill the oil tank you have to blead the air out of the system to build up oil pressure. Luckily there were some other Speed UTV guys there that walked us through the process. By the time we got them going again they were down a few laps, but still finished the race.
If you want to cut up your hands those reservoirs on the shocks have super sharp threads and a Speed logo that is as sharp as a knife. Definitely do not want to be doing in knuckle busting loosening of bolts near those things.
The H2 was right at home in the rough terrain of Barstow. Put 80 miles on my car.
Learned a lot about the Speed UTV helping them work on it. During the race they got hit by another car which resulted in the oil filter that is at the bottom of the oil tank getting a hole in it. Had to jump in my H2 with 2 others and go out on course with a new filter and oil. When you fill the oil tank you have to blead the air out of the system to build up oil pressure. Luckily there were some other Speed UTV guys there that walked us through the process. By the time we got them going again they were down a few laps, but still finished the race.
If you want to cut up your hands those reservoirs on the shocks have super sharp threads and a Speed logo that is as sharp as a knife. Definitely do not want to be doing in knuckle busting loosening of bolts near those things.
The H2 was right at home in the rough terrain of Barstow. Put 80 miles on my car.
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Ass end bucking from running out of travel, or needs some rebound changes?
The oil situation is... odd.
The oil situation is... odd.
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Dry Sump, Race type system, multiple drain points and internal screens.
It is what it is... Daily drivers these are not.
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Car has plenty of travel. We made some changes to the rebound and it helped calm it down. We also change right height in the front and rear of the car which also helped.
The oil set up is not bad once you figure it out, just a pain in the butt to fill the tank due to where it is placed.
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DP4 races are fun, and a great place if you just want to do a little racing. You usually get a few of the pro's out there just making some laps.
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Yeah. Was more about where the filter and oil tank (especially the sight glass) are... On an offroad car...
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It was a cool race and my friend will be doing more of them. There was a factory Polaris racer there that whooped up on the field and some other legit race UTVs. I think there was close to 50 entries.
I have not been out to Barstow in several years. I forgot how stupid rough that place gets.
The other fun of the weekend was sitting passenger in my other friend's Jeepspeed mobbing the crap out of it.
Yeah the shock reservoirs will tear you up bad. If I bought my Speed one other things I was going to do is pull the reservoir cans off and turn them down making them smooth. The stupid Speed logo leaves extra sharp points, it’s like grabbing a cactus.
Part of the oil system is it was designed wrong and has to pull oil through the oil filter under the oil tank. You should push oil through a filter not pull. This is why you have to do all the bleeding and it can be quite the process if you do a full oil drain, which Speed does not suggest unless you know what your doing, and have the tool to crank the engine over at the primary cmutch. Issue is the oil filter on the tank was later designed in after the initial oiling system & flow design and they could not change it. The original primary oil filter which was originally a synthetic cartridge filter in the engine block is now not even really needed or used. Thats a whole other issue and you can’t use that filter as it can collapse, thus they swapped with a metal wire mesh canister style filter that only stops big chunks. They now depend on the oil tank filter as the primary oil filter and with it pulling oil vs pushing is why the also felt the Wix filter was not flowing enough and had to make their own Wix knock off filter and charge 4X the price or as we call it the Speed Tax.
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You would of thought they would of changed that up, but maybe they have a race upgrade for the shocks. LOL!
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it would seem to me from what you described above, the filter that is at the reservoir should just be a 100micron SS filter to keep debris from entering the pump and then the secondary filter would then function normally "AND" it would not have to be bled because the oil would flow right through the first filter and prime the pump on its own.
the issue is exactly right, filters are not designed to be sucked through and they have anti drain back valves which lets no oil flow through with gravity. that is its a poor design! and doing SS 100 micro filter would not be expensive and wouldn't have to be cleaned very often
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My neighbor, if in town races it, Chase Carr, he can fly.
