Camco Rock Racing 4447 build

wngrog · Jan 24, 2011

wngrog · Jan 24, 2011

wngrog · Jan 24, 2011

The buggy looks great, comfortable and very strong. Looks like it will take a nice beat-down.

Joel, don't forget AC and Pops in the Thank You list.....

blacksheep10 · Jan 24, 2011

Will the scoop give the rad enough or do you thing you'll have to drill a few holes to give it some breath

bigsilly · Jan 24, 2011

wngrog said:
Joel, don't forget AC and Pops in the Thank You list.....

Thanks to AC and Pops for their work on getting it rolling for us and setting up the 4 link. :dblthumb:

blacksheep10 said:
Will the scoop give the rad enough or do you thing you'll have to drill a few holes to give it some breath

Kelly there will be a scoop on the roof to direct air down in as well. I have said all along that it will not cool, but everyone else tells me I am wrong. Yesterday on the test runs I pushed it pretty good and it cooled very well. We will know more this weekend, we are getting it out and are going to try to put about 80-90 miles on it Saturday. If it does not cool as good as expected it is a pretty easy fix with some holes cut in the firewall.

chris@whiterhino · Jan 24, 2011

There will be a small scoop but it's really not even needed. The radiator has about 5 inched between the wall and the radiator so it pulls plenty air. Not to mention the the volume of the system was almost doubled with the long coolant lines. I ran it for about an hour today, 30 minutes idling then ran it in the parking lot for a while pretty hard and it never got over 180.

blacksheep10 · Jan 25, 2011

while I agree that the distance off the wall with the added volume, scoop and fans ought to do the job, nothing you can do running around some woods in the nice temps can replicate what desert racing at say, the stampede can throw at it short of throwing a blanket over the rad and doing a 10 minute dyno pull wide open. Either way, I doubt you will overheat it as long as you are moving, it has a scoop and clean air if going :woody:

BamaTJ · Jan 25, 2011

I tend to agree that it may need some scoops, idle temps are on thing but but an hour or two on it running hard and see. That is when my trans started getting hot. We had to add more dimples in the skins, mobe it off the rear firewall and duct some air going down to it.

bigsilly · Jan 25, 2011

It already has an opening in the roof and a scoop in the middle of the firewall to duct air in. Chris has not finished the roof scoop yet that will catch the air and duct it down. This weekend we will get it out and stretch it out for some long runs and see how everything cools.

chris@whiterhino · Jan 25, 2011

The ram air scoop is only really used when driving anyway, just to force air were we want it. Again I believe we will have plenty of air volume through the radiator but we will see this weekend. I think between the 4 of us going we can run it long enough to give use a real world example to go with.

wngrog · Jan 25, 2011

Don't forget that when Joel rolls it and knocks the lights and the scoop off about 1/3 into the first lap, you may need a back-up plan to all that stuff up on the roof.

Just sayin

BamaTJ · Jan 25, 2011

wngrog said:
Don't forget that when Joel rolls it and knocks the lights and the scoop off about 1/3 into the first lap, you may need a back-up plan to all that stuff up on the roof.

Just sayin

True statement, lots of stuff on the roof to get crushed in a rollover

bigsilly · Jan 25, 2011

wngrog said:
Don't forget that when Joel rolls it and knocks the lights and the scoop off about 1/3 into the first lap, you may need a back-up plan to all that stuff up on the roof.

Just sayin

Don't forget the radio antenna either. laughing1

74_Chevota · Jan 25, 2011

Man this whole thread is a tease. Where the dirty pics at?

looking good!

Cole · Jan 26, 2011

Have you got it out of First Gear yet? :flipoff1:

bigsilly · Jan 26, 2011

Cole said:
Have you got it out of First Gear yet?

As a matter of fact I have :flipoff1:

And more of that to come Saturday!!

BamaTJ · Jan 26, 2011

bigsilly said:
As a matter of fact I have And more of that to come Saturday!!

Of course Cole, Reverse and Neutral have both been used! :flipoff1:

bigsilly · Jan 26, 2011

Matt O. said:
Of course Cole, Reverse and Neutral have both been used!

Do not forget park.... :flipoff1:

chris@whiterhino · Jan 26, 2011

The light bar will only be on later in the race, at least thats how I would do it. Then put it on the last pit before it gets dark.

bigsilly · Jan 29, 2011

Well we took it out today and put some miles on it. It rides and handles great. Cooling does not look like an issue either. We do have a bad vibration in the front driveshaft. We had to do a pillow block and something is not quite right. It comes on about 55 mph. You can drive through it and it is not as bad, I had it at 70 mph and you could hear it but it was not as bad sounding. You cannot really feel it vibrate, but you can hear it. We need to sort that out and I think we will be good.