Big Dogs June 5 thru 7

I run no thermostat in everything I own in the summer. To avoid the extremely rare instance that the water is flowing to fast to cool down A restrictor plate is added Summit and Jegs sell them but I usually use a hollowed out thermostat. I have ran for a long time with this set up and had no trouble until recently. As for the fans. Both move the same 1800cfm rating with one pushing and one pulling . They do not fight each other. Tons of air flow. As for the timing, 12dg btdc right where it should be for the cam that is in it and the propane. No "dieseling" when I shut it down and not hard starts. It's on. The next step is to pull the heads and look for a very small leak or most likely just a thin spot in the gasket between the combustion chamber and the water jacket. That will super heat the water without actually blowing cyl. pressure into the cooling system,No coolant/oil mixing will occure either. just overheating under a load, wich is what I have. I'll pull them in a couple weeks and see what I have. I want stronger valve springs anyway so thats a great time to do that. I also want to drill and tap some other holes in the front of the heads to mount alt. and p/s pump higher.

okay 4 days till Big Dogs. I need a list of whos going and what days so I can put a food list.

I will be down Thursday and bringing the wife, kids staying home for this one. Staying through sunday. We will be bringing our own food though.

Joe...count nicki and I in.

Oh and don't worry I think I already got my Big Dogs injury accounted for. I landed on top of my parents white german shep in the pool and he grabbed me by my throat - does that count as a Big Dogs injury because I can't take much more if not!! Luckily he let go instantly and it wasn't anybody else that ended up in his mouth or we'd probably have a real mess!

I heading down thursday night after work. I can meet you at you house joe at 5. unless thats to late. it will be just me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w85nlC6ST7k&feature=related

A couple more mph and that would have been Joe or Tony!!!

if that was me I would of cleared the mud pit in the air. Also nick, is nicki sister and husband comming down again?

Matt 5 sounds good to me.

food list
nick + 1
matt
me + 1

No sir...they said they're never coming again because some drunk bastards tried burning them out of their tent and chucked beer and mud at them. j/k but no, they're not coming again until maybe next year.

we never threw mud at them, maybe muddy beer cans.

That's what I told them - hey that's what he gets for #1 taking a nap when we got back and #2 going to sleep early like a puss

WTF a drunk bastard throwing stuff at them, im appauled that they think that. I wasn't drunk, I just had a good buzz on . they should be happy I only tried to set their tet on fire unlike that one dude that got mad at me last year for setting him on fire.

Anyway most likely for the first two days I will be running with a grand cherokee group I belong to but sunday if the rig is still in one piece I would like to run the pennsakentuckian trail with you all if your down for it.

I'm always down for that trail

I'm down for that trail...although i'm itching to get onto insanity or something i haven't ran yet.

insanity is a level 11 trail that busts trail buggys.

I'll likely be the first to arrive on thursday. Do we want the same area we were for icebreakers?

No trail 11 - I thought it was "doable" - something with Red/11 lines but high level black otherwise...don't need to drag my junk in there then

I'm not sure about camping area...our last area was cool EXCEPT for the mud. The icebreaker spot may be a much better choice but i'm indifferent.

What's the Gulch supposed to be like? It's rated an 8 and looked cool when i saw some clips on you tube but that's all i know of it.

This is a good video showing a few sweet trails. Also some insanity footage in there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7CxjLr3GLQ

Nice, thank you enjoyed that run.

Locked_N_Loaded wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w85nlC6ST7k&feature=related

A couple more mph and that would have been Joe or Tony!!!

Just saw that... yeah I flew thru the mud... but didn't flop...

I did slam on the brakes to avoid the tree at the exit though... kissed it with the bumper, but no airbags

Note to self... research disabling air bags for next run...

doesn't matter to me, either spot will be fine. As for insanity I heard the same that it was a buggy trail or rigs with out alot of sheet metal.

Yah...I was just hoping it was one of those trails where you could avoid the nastiest parts...i don't need to go into a buggy eater with a batter yj

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S h a n e wrote:

Twisted Willys wrote:

I'm gonna miss this one. No point in comming out, I haven't worked out my overheating yet. Hope ya alll have a great time!

whats the problem? Get a set of nissan fans from crazy rays. i have a taurus fan here ill sell you, or even a pro-form 16 incher.

hey shane is that 16" a pusher or puller?

its reversable.

I'm leaving work to pack for big dogs. I'll be there around 6 or so. And to all those not going...SUCKS TO BE YOU!

Rockn93YJ wrote:

And to all those not going...SUCKS TO BE YOU!

That's awesome hahaha

Great times - have i told anybody how much i LOVE big dogs yet?!? Awesome time!! It was great seeing everybody and we have an awesome group that know how to have a great time.