LCQ Intel

wngrog · Oct 21, 2008

OK, I just got off the phone with Randy to verify the 92 mph claim. It was legit....110 in 2.0 low on the dyno and 92 on the lakebed. Pretty cool.

OK, he ran the LCQ course with Dave Cole riding shotgun on Saturday.

He says it looks like about 2 miles.

Lakebed, smooth run to Back Door, up back door, over sand dune and then straight out into the desert with a slow sweeping turn through the whoops back to the lakebed.

Dave said to peel out but changed his mind after about 1/4 mile so Randy pulled back. He did it in 7 minutes. He said without Dave in there he could have done it in 5.

Just an FYI.

When you get out there and see the course, that is a time to keep in your head from a local guy with a fast car.

I put this in here instead of in the KOH forum because I don't know how much of this is confidential and how much is for public consumption.

Please keep it here. Share this info if you please, just don't share the source.

BamaTJ · Oct 21, 2008

Thanks for the intel Nolen, the KOH hammer forum is private also FYI. Only people with access are people that have said they are competing or attending the race.

P · Oct 21, 2008

Good info Nolan thank you sir !

GStone · Oct 28, 2008

Out of curiousity Matt...what will yours run on the top end in either hi or low range? I'm putting a 2.0 atlas in mine just for xrra, it should run 66mph in drive at 6000rpms. In hi it would run well over 85mph I just ran out of sack to run it much faster on the road. That's with 5.38 gears in the axles and a th350. I'd like to run KOH but only after a year or so of tweeking and getting my set up just like I want it.

wngrog · Oct 28, 2008

GStone said:
Out of curiousity Matt...what will yours run on the top end in either hi or low range? I'm putting a 2.0 atlas in mine just for xrra, it should run 66mph in drive at 6000rpms. In hi it would run well over 85mph I just ran out of sack to run it much faster on the road. That's with 5.38 gears in the axles and a th350. I'd like to run KOH but only after a year or so of tweeking and getting my set up just like I want it.

I have 5.40's, TH350 and 3.8 Atlas. The buggy is useless for speed in 4low. I think I can only get 30 mph then I am on the limiter.

In high though it is wicked. Really wicked.

Rev limiter in 2nd is 83 mph. It runs smooth as silk up there too.

If I were building a KOH rig with XRRA in mind I would do a 4 speed Atlas so I could have the 2.0, 2.7 or 5.4:1. 4.11 gears.

Bones · Oct 28, 2008

Damn right it's smooth Nolen. drool

BamaTJ · Oct 28, 2008

GStone said:
Out of curiousity Matt...what will yours run on the top end in either hi or low range? I'm putting a 2.0 atlas in mine just for xrra, it should run 66mph in drive at 6000rpms. In hi it would run well over 85mph I just ran out of sack to run it much faster on the road. That's with 5.38 gears in the axles and a th350. I'd like to run KOH but only after a year or so of tweeking and getting my set up just like I want it.

I am 4.3 atlas and 4.88's and 4 low is pretty much useless. In 3rd it will throw you back in the seat and has great low end. Top end I have no clue. 4 Hi it will run as fast as I can handle it. Just have not run all that fast with it. Maybe 60mph or so. I need to put a gps in it and see

P · Oct 28, 2008

Randy from Jimmys4x4 and I talked about gearing a good bit when I started out with my buggy and the big dream of XRRA, they have been in it from the start but heres a lil excerpt from some PM's back and forth he gave me with that in mind...

" the flavor w/ v/8 and 40's seems to be 3.7 two speed w/ 4.56's. smaller v6 and import motors like dermo are 3.7 w/ 5.13 give or take. a few guys w/ lovell are running 4.88. "

InDaShop · Oct 28, 2008

Matt O. said:
I am 4.3 atlas and 4.88's and 4 low is pretty much useless. In 3rd it will throw you back in the seat and has great low end. Top end I have no clue. 4 Hi it will run as fast as I can handle it. Just have not run all that fast with it. Maybe 60mph or so. I need to put a gps in it and see

Nearly the same for me.

TH350, 3.8 Atlas and 4.88's. TH350 in 3rd and Atlas in Lo-side is about perfect in my mind for XRRA without alot of straight aways. At Finals my buggy would have been on the RevLimiter ALOT. Gray Rock, Hannibal, Attica seemed I still hit the RevLimiter but only for very very short instances.

I have had mine around 80mph in hiside, and it liked it and had more to give. But that was pre-C.O.T.'s and it just wasnt as stable at speed as I would have liked. Haven't been up there with the current suspension. Maybe 45-50 in Disney for very very short stretches.

If I were looking to do a KOH style dedicated buggy and lived out near the desert, I'd have an O/D infront in place of the TH350, and rock the fawk out.

blacksheep10 · Oct 28, 2008

I still want to spin your case wyatt. maybe it's just me but I swear on whatever that its in the 4 range, like 4.3. Just from being around doublers and ****.

InDaShop · Oct 28, 2008

blacksheep10 said:
I still want to spin your case wyatt. maybe it's just me but I swear on whatever that its in the 4 range, like 4.3. Just from being around doublers and ****.

sorry man its a 3.8, you even know I talked to AA last week and had to give them the serial off it, its a 3.8.