Totally Offroad Radio Wednesday night talking about the KOH race

Caddishack18 · Sep 25, 2008

Gotcha, thats pretty cool. I went to the radios website and they do put up past shows. This ones not up yet. The sucky deal with Levi and the KOH is if they make him wait till hes 18, thats 3 years from now. he turns 18 after the KOH. the first one he will be legal foe is KOH 11! He MIGHT have some skillz by then!!!

InDaShop · Sep 25, 2008

Brian update your Real Player on your computer to listen. I listened last week and this week they must have made an upgrade. I ended up going to download.com and snagging Real Player 11 for free to get last nights show to play for me. Wierd.

I'm almost twice Levis age, and have half his skills. I thought you were supposed to get skills as you got older :dunno:

He's talented for sure!

BamaTJ · Sep 25, 2008

They also mentioned something about letting Levi drive the current car as he is building a new on and that is when they talked about him being too young. Shannon seems like such a normal, down to earth guy, that is why he is so cool!

P · Sep 25, 2008

Matt O. said:
They also mentioned something about letting Levi drive the current car as he is building a new on and that is when they talked about him being too young. Shannon seems like such a normal, down to earth guy, that is why he is so cool!

that and he said " **** " on the air.. laughing1

Cole · Sep 25, 2008

P said:
that and he said " **** " on the air.. laughing1

Thats pretty good if thats all he said ;D

wngrog · Sep 25, 2008

Backdoor is really not bad. The left 1/3 is the easy part. You will be able to practice it a bunch I am sure before the race. The right line is the hard one. Bash Buggy went up both, no sweat. It is funny, all the really hard stuff at the Hammers is 1/2 as hard as the normal stuff the BTG guys run every weekend. You guys will be fine. It will just be a combo of hitting it hard and hitting it hard enough. It should be interesting to watch.

doug38s · Sep 26, 2008

if the front of your car is light better put some water in to get up the waterfall. better get used to using the front winch to control the suspension on the climb as well or you could be there for awhile. the waterfall WILL be the gatekeepers for the 10-15 that make it in. those that make it will hit the waterfall in 1-2 shots.

the rest of backdoor is techinical but really no big deal. I would imagine they will go all the way to the top with a quick descent down the backside and then through the side of the hill back to the starting line.

I would get out there at least by Tuesday so that you can run backdoor and then on Wednesday prerun some of the KOH course and get back early so you can prep your car for the next day.

Get ready for the pounding that the WHOOPS will put on you and the car. They are no joke.

P · Sep 26, 2008

doug38s said:
if the front of your car is light better put some water in to get up the waterfall. better get used to using the front winch to control the suspension on the climb as well or you could be there for awhile. the waterfall WILL be the gatekeepers for the 10-15 that make it in. those that make it will hit the waterfall in 1-2 shots.

the rest of backdoor is techinical but really no big deal. I would imagine they will go all the way to the top with a quick descent down the backside and then through the side of the hill back to the starting line.

I would get out there at least by Tuesday so that you can run backdoor and then on Wednesday prerun some of the KOH course and get back early so you can prep your car for the next day.

Get ready for the pounding that the WHOOPS will put on you and the car. They are no joke.

Thanks doug, I tried to call in to ask your perspective or opinion on what folks that have never been there and never run "desert" should be thinking about most in preparation. Since you went out last year kinda unknowingly and with the just go out there and see what its about attitude and placed so well , I figured if anyone would be unbiased and straight forward about running KOH or the LCQ for that matter out there it would be you.

they had the wrong call in number on the website so I got text'd back with " Who is this? On the air" laughing1

BamaTJ · Sep 26, 2008

The front of my car is HEAVY. I plan to run Backdoor till I am sick of it...

doug38s · Sep 26, 2008

we went out there with the idea that we really wanted to trail ride for the next day. that was my whole philosophy and thats what i kept saying while we were hauling butt. thats what I will say again this year. its a long freaking ride to go out and catastrophically break in the race. keep it together in the desert and the rocks are what they are. we all know how to drive it in the rocks. some faster than others but the rocks will break you but not catastrpohic.

blowing a motor up or frying a tranny or tcase would bring the suck in the desert.
I have no expectations again this year. none at all. I'm in it to expand the sport, have a great time and to challenge myself in finishing the race again.