After 2 years in Hiding the Beast is back
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Well the old saying if something works dont fix it. Against the advice of my bro at SPS Racing I decided to put a larger turbo on and it stung me in the arse. Trex was slow today, 100yds of lag was just too much. Put her in the trailer and raced the m8t all day. M8t did much better than trex btw, it beat or ran with everything but the big dogs. Will have the old turbo back on in a couple days and see if I can find some races before the end of the season. Shouldnt be hard, more snow now than ever.
Diamonds S Yamahas were fastest at FV today. Glad to see a local win it, his stuff runs good. Wish I could have given him some competition. His fastest competition was his own other sleds.
Diamonds S Yamahas were fastest at FV today. Glad to see a local win it, his stuff runs good. Wish I could have given him some competition. His fastest competition was his own other sleds.
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summit-x
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OK guys hope this doesnt come across as tacky. Some people like stockers, some people like to boondock climb jump pose etc..... Its all fun and sledding is just a great sport altogether. Me, real simple, I like HP. Im sure some of the tards on the forum will jump in here with there banter but I dont care. I gotta thank some of the peeps that helped me get my beast back together cause it was a big deal.
Thanks to Simons CPR for doing a kick a$$ job on the motor. Simons CPR the Original Superman Block(tm)
Thanks to B1Dodge (snowest) for helping me reassemble the motor from boxes of parts that have been in my garage for almost 2 years.
Huge thanks to the crew at SPS Racing for countless hours of refab in the shop for the past 2 weeks.
Thanks to the cool peeps on Ty4stroke for being such a great resource!
Thanks to my family for living without a Dad for 2 weeks.
Thanks to Boss Noss for providing incredible Nitrous system for this beast.
Thanks to Kevco (snowest) for naming her with such a cool name.
Thanks to ACmtncat(snowest) at Summit Graphics in Orem Utah for the sweet graphics!
A little history on the TReX. You dont have to read if you dont want to.
2 years ago almost to the day the trex had a nitrous backfire which took out a rod, piston and motor. Right after going undefeated at the fairview shootout in 07 I was trying to start the sled to ride back to the truck and the battery was dead (garbage Batcap battery.) Trying to save power for a jump start I disconnected what I thought was the hand warmers but turned out to be my nitrous switch. BOOM!
That summer I sent the block to Simons CPR where it sat for over a year on the shelf. Jeff was very cool about it and didnt lose any of my parts!
After a week with B1doge (top fuel mech) from Snowest reassembling the motor I took the sled over to SPS Racing for some serious refab. We installed a new turbo, refab'd the intercooler, modded the rear suspension and basically worked the sled over front to back. We made so many changes to the turbo system that it can no longer be considered an mcxepress but now is a custom SPS Turbo. SPS Racing does Polaris Dragon Turbos, Razor Turbos, any custom EFI turbo, suspension work and metal fab work. Brook Beckstrom the owner is a former world champ hillclimber for team Polaris and a well respected guy out here in the west.
The Boss Noss Nitrous system capable of an estimated 200 hp was all in working order and simply had to be cleaned up a little bit. It works so well I decided to take my water methanol off, I simply dont need it. Jims Nitrous flat out works. After 2 years of sitting in my garage my custom "hold my butt in the sled" Boss Seat looks like new as well!
Im out of time with the shootout on saturday. I dont have any more clutching to throw at it so Im gonna have to hope for the best. Shootout may be a bust with the blizzard like spring conditions we are having right now but we'll see. Ive had her on the snow for a quick test run to make sure she ran and she ran good. Ive been having a little low end prob, possible residual issue from the backfire. Last night we thought we got it cleaned up but you never know. Now Im just hoping she runs well and holds and all is done right.
how much horsepower does this put out with nitrous?
Only 800 that gave my CPC ho M8 a run was Jeremys super retro polaris turbo running 20+lbs with nitrous, we traded some wins. Tjs SPS turbo was fast but he was running less boost so couldnt catch me. I was running 16lbs all day and it took it very well. Still running when I pulled it in the trailer. CC and his pg twisted 1000 took off early but I dont think it would have been much of a race after seeing what it did to the other 1000s. The wastegate actuator only let me run to 16 lbs, couldnt go any higher. And on 16 lbs with the Boss Noss I ran the belt right out of the primary and blew it to pieces. Needs more gearing. Diamond drive only good for 86mph and I know we were blowing past that.
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twsandrew
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I don't know what you were seeing but my camera saw a much different story. I only saw you beating sps consistently and not keeping up with pretty much everything else on the so called monster M8. I know at least 1 1000 that lapped you consistently at a lot less than 16lbs and I know how that 1000 compared with every other fast sled out there.
andrew I know what happened. Where were you?
I didnt say I beat all the 1000s. A 1000 should beat my m8 but I beat many of them. I certainly beat any pg 1000s, yes there were a couple fast 1000s and 1200s but no other 800 beat me all day. produce the video if you think you got it which you dont. If you saw anything like you say you saw me on a test run. It was after all my first real day on this setup and I had to do some dialing.
I didnt say I beat all the 1000s. A 1000 should beat my m8 but I beat many of them. I certainly beat any pg 1000s, yes there were a couple fast 1000s and 1200s but no other 800 beat me all day. produce the video if you think you got it which you dont. If you saw anything like you say you saw me on a test run. It was after all my first real day on this setup and I had to do some dialing.
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priest lake rmk
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And the race is on.
Good times a comin!!
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twsandrew
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Zeb and I were racing my white 1k all day. I let him run it more because I know he spent a lot if time getting his Apex ready and he was bummed it didn't run. Plus it was a whiteout. I am not calling you out or anything like that. I don't care who is fastest or what brand anyone likes. I have owned 1 CPC non turbo, 4 BD sleds, one Twisted, one Impulse and on from Obrien.
I only brought this up because you indicated before the shootout that the 8 was going to beat good running 1ks. You should beat every pump gas 1k at that level of boost but I didn't see you beat one 1k or over sled. I raced against everything there but Travis OVS 1200 and I will say this list of sleds was faster than you. Most all of them should be and ccs obviously make a difference but you were claiming that you were going to beat down the 1k and over sleds with your 8 and that simply was not the case. Also, as you have stated in the past the bunny hill gives slower sleds a far better chance. On the big hill the difference would have been more. If you spray it and get it to hold together it will be closer but this is what I and many others saw.
Diamond s sleds plural
Dustin
Every 1200 on the hill from BD and OVS
My 1k and one other Twisted 1k
Jed's BD 1k
Jed's BD Nytro
Jeremy's 800
Travis' Apex
Lance's 1200 on 10lbs
Not calling you out or stating my sled is faster. I have 200 more ccs and boost so it should be. Just stating the truth. You said you could beat the big bore boosted sleds before Fairview and now you are saying you did beat some. Just wanted to set it straight for those that didn't see it themselves. Many others sent me PMs already agreeing with this fully. I agree that you have a very fast 800 boosted sled and I did see it beat Brook many times but I don't think you were beating 1k and up sleds with boost and others agree.
I only brought this up because you indicated before the shootout that the 8 was going to beat good running 1ks. You should beat every pump gas 1k at that level of boost but I didn't see you beat one 1k or over sled. I raced against everything there but Travis OVS 1200 and I will say this list of sleds was faster than you. Most all of them should be and ccs obviously make a difference but you were claiming that you were going to beat down the 1k and over sleds with your 8 and that simply was not the case. Also, as you have stated in the past the bunny hill gives slower sleds a far better chance. On the big hill the difference would have been more. If you spray it and get it to hold together it will be closer but this is what I and many others saw.
Diamond s sleds plural
Dustin
Every 1200 on the hill from BD and OVS
My 1k and one other Twisted 1k
Jed's BD 1k
Jed's BD Nytro
Jeremy's 800
Travis' Apex
Lance's 1200 on 10lbs
Not calling you out or stating my sled is faster. I have 200 more ccs and boost so it should be. Just stating the truth. You said you could beat the big bore boosted sleds before Fairview and now you are saying you did beat some. Just wanted to set it straight for those that didn't see it themselves. Many others sent me PMs already agreeing with this fully. I agree that you have a very fast 800 boosted sled and I did see it beat Brook many times but I don't think you were beating 1k and up sleds with boost and others agree.
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MPS
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What? Are you two having a sausage party?
I beat plenty of 1000s. I also beat the boondocker 901 and the 1200. I heard the bd sleds turned up the boost and came back and beat my sled after I left but we did get them at least once. As for saying I was gonna beat 1000s I believe I said I would beat CCs 1000 and Shanes if it ran like it did at Fairview when we raced before, both of which are true.
Now lets go back to my claim that got your panties ruffled in the first place,
I guess where I said what it did to the other 1000s was misleading but I did beat many of them, whether they were low boost, bad runs or ill tuned I did beat many 1000s. Either way whatever, I know how my sled did and people asked so I told. CC talked a lot of smack and he took off and Im pretty sure I would have beat his sled since I know what boost he was running. I dont know when you left but my sled was faster at the latter part of the day and maybe you were gone. Ask Jeremy how it ran. And if you really want to prove something come to Tony Grove in 2 weeks and lay some $$$ down against the Terex and your m1000 or any other badass sleds you think you have. Afterall the Terex is a fair match cc for cc. Sad thing is I feel like my m8 is slow, its just funner sled for boondocking and runs well against others in its class. Try pulling the trigger on the trex with nitrous and youll experience a whole new religion.
Now lets go back to my claim that got your panties ruffled in the first place,
It was the fastest 800 there period, other than jeremys who was running 22-25lbs with nitrous the whole way up.
I guess where I said what it did to the other 1000s was misleading but I did beat many of them, whether they were low boost, bad runs or ill tuned I did beat many 1000s. Either way whatever, I know how my sled did and people asked so I told. CC talked a lot of smack and he took off and Im pretty sure I would have beat his sled since I know what boost he was running. I dont know when you left but my sled was faster at the latter part of the day and maybe you were gone. Ask Jeremy how it ran. And if you really want to prove something come to Tony Grove in 2 weeks and lay some $$$ down against the Terex and your m1000 or any other badass sleds you think you have. Afterall the Terex is a fair match cc for cc. Sad thing is I feel like my m8 is slow, its just funner sled for boondocking and runs well against others in its class. Try pulling the trigger on the trex with nitrous and youll experience a whole new religion.
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Just so ya know I was there on a 700 RMK 10lbs boost I hope that the 1000 can beat me and the 800 sould to I would say for a 700 it runs good and will run that way for a long time we where hoping th Trex would do the job. My boy was on a 800 13lbs and Micah was a 800 on 12lbs. Tj runs good but we never said we could win fairview. The 1200 Ski-Doo was a kit that we done as well.
Tony's in two weeks? I'm there for sure. Are we drag racing for cash or are we going to climb some stuff too? Some kind of winner takes all or what? The race hill at Tony's will be very interesting as that hill is much different than the bunny hill at Fairview. Tony's actually has a couple of hills that will let the turbos stretch thier legs a bit, not to mention some wicked climbs. Would like to get some Canadians down for that as well. Probably too late for this year, but I would like to set up some sort of Pig Iron Shootout at Tony's and get us a good turnout.
Its gonna be good. Not too late, tons of snow. Taking the place of the BDSO so bring down the Canooks. No hockey jerseys allowed though
edit: racing and hill chuting. dukechuterider promised to show up and throw some cabbage in the pot.
I say Tony's in two weeks IF weather permits. If weather is bad we should make it another weekend. If there is one cloud in the western United States it will be hovering over cornice ridge where we will be racing.
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sledchick
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is this post in wikipedia somewhere?? Along with an autobiography??OK guys hope this doesnt come across as tacky. Some people like stockers, some people like to boondock climb jump pose etc..... Its all fun and sledding is just a great sport altogether. Me, real simple, I like HP. Im sure some of the tards on the forum will jump in here with there banter but I dont care. I gotta thank some of the peeps that helped me get my beast back together cause it was a big deal.
Thanks to Simons CPR for doing a kick a$$ job on the motor. Simons CPR the Original Superman Block(tm)
Thanks to B1Dodge (snowest) for helping me reassemble the motor from boxes of parts that have been in my garage for almost 2 years.
Huge thanks to the crew at SPS Racing for countless hours of refab in the shop for the past 2 weeks.
Thanks to the cool peeps on Ty4stroke for being such a great resource!
Thanks to my family for living without a Dad for 2 weeks.
Thanks to Boss Noss for providing incredible Nitrous system for this beast.
Thanks to Kevco (snowest) for naming her with such a cool name.
Thanks to ACmtncat(snowest) at Summit Graphics in Orem Utah for the sweet graphics!
A little history on the TReX. You dont have to read if you dont want to.
2 years ago almost to the day the trex had a nitrous backfire which took out a rod, piston and motor. Right after going undefeated at the fairview shootout in 07 I was trying to start the sled to ride back to the truck and the battery was dead (garbage Batcap battery.) Trying to save power for a jump start I disconnected what I thought was the hand warmers but turned out to be my nitrous switch. BOOM!
That summer I sent the block to Simons CPR where it sat for over a year on the shelf. Jeff was very cool about it and didnt lose any of my parts!
After a week with B1doge (top fuel mech) from Snowest reassembling the motor I took the sled over to SPS Racing for some serious refab. We installed a new turbo, refab'd the intercooler, modded the rear suspension and basically worked the sled over front to back. We made so many changes to the turbo system that it can no longer be considered an mcxepress but now is a custom SPS Turbo. SPS Racing does Polaris Dragon Turbos, Razor Turbos, any custom EFI turbo, suspension work and metal fab work. Brook Beckstrom the owner is a former world champ hillclimber for team Polaris and a well respected guy out here in the west.
The Boss Noss Nitrous system capable of an estimated 200 hp was all in working order and simply had to be cleaned up a little bit. It works so well I decided to take my water methanol off, I simply dont need it. Jims Nitrous flat out works. After 2 years of sitting in my garage my custom "hold my butt in the sled" Boss Seat looks like new as well!
Im out of time with the shootout on saturday. I dont have any more clutching to throw at it so Im gonna have to hope for the best. Shootout may be a bust with the blizzard like spring conditions we are having right now but we'll see. Ive had her on the snow for a quick test run to make sure she ran and she ran good. Ive been having a little low end prob, possible residual issue from the backfire. Last night we thought we got it cleaned up but you never know. Now Im just hoping she runs well and holds and all is done right.
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