FAST Fabrication class 7 unlimited build

[F.A.S.T.clothing]

thanks for the compliments... as for weight, I do not know exact, but I guess at race weight with driver and co driver in we are either close to or over 50000, which makes us a big underdog with a stock sohc 4.0, lucky if we are getting 150 hp at the wheels

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[F.A.S.T.clothing]

Here are our photos from the Imperial 250. At the end of our first lap we had the flat, which we notice destroyed the rim. After getting the rim dismounted, not only was the rim destroyed but our new grabber with only 40 miles was shredded on the inside. After the second lap we notice we had drastic negative camber, and were down on power by plowing through the sand. On the third lap the transmission went. Tech in El Centro






Race day








Broken down DNF on 3 of 4 laps, you can see the camber


The rim damage, GNARLY







The new General grabber didn’t hold up to the damage



Steering swinger passenger side all twisted and bent and cracking welds on the sides. Being replaced with new ones and some extra gussets.



Passenger beam also is buckling on the top and back side, but did not take a hit. We are going to wrap it with 3/16 chromo plate as a temporary fix.


Next I will post the upgrades we have done since the race to prepare and get the truck ready for one great USA off-road race the HDRA Fireworks 500. Right now we are set up to continue our points in 1400 class but with all the bonus money we are considering switching to class 7 if the truck meets the track width with the changes we made. Will know that this weekend, truck is 95% complete and we are ready to compete and finish our first race. We got a fully built transmission done by a professional and hoping we have had the last of our transmission issues.

[F.A.S.T.clothing]

FAST Racing and Dana Sniff Racing Transmission teamed up, look for their logo in our next Gopro footage shown on TV. Dana took my transmission and the upgraded parts I had and went through the entire transmission. We got a new pump body for the trans. He fully rollerized the transmission, no more thrust washers that were not even lasting a race. We have his modified/reinforced sun drum; he lightened up our other drums. We kept my welded forward drum, if it does not hold up we will switch to Dana sleeved forward drum. Dana put a rigid band in there with new lining, these are hard to find. Got a new 300m input shaft, used planetary to replace the stripped one. Future upgrades will be a billet servo.




To fixed track width and stress on the snouts and ball joints. We first installed new moog ball joints and then we ditch our 17x9.5 4” BS rims and replaced them with 17x8.5 4.75BS rims. You can see the difference just by looking at the two rims. Goal will be to switch all our rims out for these 8.5’s. We have 7 rims and tires now, the two fronts are the new 8.5, as you can see their polished to, just what was available in our time frame.

9.5


We took our window nets and sewed a access point for better view of the mirror and access. We also sewed on camelback pouches onto the back of our PRP Seats, these are the ones that come from PRP if you order them with your seats.




Got two new tires, if we have no flats at Reno they will probably used up after 400+ miles. Got some axles from Yukon we just need to have one end cut and splined. Then we will have a spare set of axles.



Here are our new swingers, we are going to box in the inside to keep from twisting, as well as plate in the mount. Picked up a 9” skid hopefully it fits with very little modification. That sets us up with a front skid plate, full belly skid, pinion skid, 9” skid, and rear fuel cell skid.



We wire a GoPro hard wire kit into our in-car camera that controls the intercom audio. We modify the GoPro case so its not completely open like skeleton case and less chance of cable coming out. We picked up a bunch of 32 gb cards (we have enough for two for each camera). In car will have hard wire kit and our front and rear camera both will have a battery back pack and we have a spare battery for each. So 3 batteries for each front and rear camera. If we time the card change right at our pits we should get the entire race on all three cameras.


New transmission is back in truck and working, we got a new trans filter mount. Just have some few minor things plus mounting our two new tires and getting new swingers on to complete the truck. We are expecting to have it race ready this weekend, got some more graphics being made next week for this next race. We leave Monday July 1st, see you in Reno.

[F.A.S.T.clothing]

We leave for Reno in 7 days. Cannot wait for this week to be over.

We got the old swingers off the truck, and we were really lucky they did not break completely. The new design swingers (with more metal and inset welds over the butt welds, and gussets) along without inside gussets to keep them from bending and twisting should hold up great. Got to love racing.









Swingers are back on the truck.


Track width is now under 85”, we got few more adjustments to make with the ride height and camber adjusters, before we lock everything in and get a final number.


The new axles showed up, just need to get cut and spline them.


The 9” skid has been modified and installed





Built some number plate fins, we plan to move our rear light box down to in between the fins (it won’t be a box just a front face, so I will sell the box) and then we are going to enclose up to the cab. Just a future plan we have, it will help with air just going to coolers as well as real estate for rear facing camera. It’s pretty thick aluminum so should keep from flapping.






Picked up some metal today and started building our rear boxes for the trailer. There not as big as the one we made on the front of the trailer, but there will be two of them. Going to knock out second box tomorrow.

[Dezertpilot]

Looks good, good luck with your race.

[Dezert00Taco]

Did you guys move the steering back on the pass side swinger on purpose? It looks like the steering is in two different locations on the old one compared to the new one. I could be wrong though.

[F.A.S.T.clothing]

Did you guys move the steering back on the pass side swinger on purpose? It looks like the steering is in two different locations on the old one compared to the new one. I could be wrong though.

nope same spot, in fact its the same mount. we just pulled off the swingers, the mounts are the old ones.

[baja619]

Tires may go flat in off road racing weather they are new or not. Sometimes it just happens. Usually by the end of you figuring it out and stopping the wheel and tire are totally trashed.

Get used to it.

[F.A.S.T.clothing]

Tires may go flat in off road racing weather they are new or not. Sometimes it just happens. Usually by the end of you figuring it out and stopping the wheel and tire are totally trashed.

Get used to it.

Yea, we heard this loud bang towards end of first lap and then a vehicle pass us though thought we got nerf. Little after that I kept saying I think we have a flat in the rear, but I had thought i had flats before and was wrong so I decided I wait till the pit. Like 5-10 miles later it starts bouncing and at that moment I knew we had a flat. There is bend in the rim, guessing we hit something on the inside of the wheel, then after driving it full speed for awhile it finally cracked and broke the rim and tore up the tire. I heard its hard to tell with link rear ends cause of all the travel. I know some guys putting tire pressure systems in for that reason so they know when tires loose air so they dont end up destroying a rim or tire. I am sure the more flats I get the more ill be able to realize when I have one.

[charlie_brown]

what paint did you use on your swing set or is it powder coated?