Meat Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 (edited) I'll be in South Edmeston, NY on Saturday August 11th. Our team will be racing round 4 of John Pellan's "6hr's of ATV America" series. We won the New Hampshire 6 hr in 2006 and we're lookin' to win again on the 11th. We'll be racing in the "utility expert" class, I'll be one of three pit guys. One of our riders, George, broke his collerbone a few days ago racing a harescramble at Rausch Creek so we will have a new rider on the team, bob o'brick on the team. Bob has raced a highly modded KFX700 in the GNCC's for the past two years, so he's has alot of hardcore racing experience. We're sponsored by TPC Powercenter in Bloomsburg Pa and our team name is "TPC Powercenter". We're racing a 2007 Suzuki King Quad. If anyone is in the area and would like to try this unique style of ATV racing, check out http://www.6hoursofatvamerica.com/ for all the info. Or just come by and introduce yourself, i'll be working all day long in the pit. Edited August 3, 2007 by Meat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenBB Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 Right on mang, good luck!!! That's just gotta be a serious torture test for the quad, hope you're doing more kicking back in the pits than thrashing on something broken :cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meat Posted August 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2007 Right on mang, good luck!!! That's just gotta be a serious torture test for the quad, hope you're doing more kicking back in the pits than thrashing on something broken :cool: Ben we usually have alteast 2 mishaps per race, sometime more. The pits are pretty busy for the whole solid 6 hours, if we're not fixing a broken quad, we're keepin lap times, video taping, discussing strategies, helpin our racers in the pits, preparing for anything. We keep busy, 6 hrs goes by REALLY quick and the pit guys are tired at the end of the day. 12 hour races are really crazy. DaleGoldson hung out in our pits at the Texas 12 hour and JKJK bros and Banchetta hung out for a little at the NH race last year. We had the KingQuads frame gusseted for this race. they broke the frame in half at the Texas 12 hour, the belly skid and lower frame rails held the quad together till the end of the race. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKJK Posted August 4, 2007 Report Share Posted August 4, 2007 Denny good luck to you+the TPC boys in the race!+have a safe trip. :biggrin: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meat Posted August 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2007 Denny good luck to you+the TPC boys in the race!+have a safe trip. :biggrin: Thanks man. After 6 hr of racing we won the NH race by only a half a lap and after 12 hrs in Texas we only won by one lap, so we'll take all the luck we can get. http://www.tpcpowercenter.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Sheenut Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Thanks man. After 6 hr of racing we won the NH race by only a half a lap and after 12 hrs in Texas we only won by one lap, so we'll take all the luck we can get.http://www.tpcpowercenter.com/ Hey Denny, didn't know you were into racing.....very kewl and congrats. Sue and I were at Rausch two weeks ago for the races. We say your injured rider come into the pits. A friend of mine, who posts here, races an LTR in Open C Class. He's actually coming up with his Banshee to ride with us this weekend up your way. Since you'll be away, I guess you won't be ridng....hehe. Anyhow, take care and good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meat Posted August 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2007 Race notes: We got second place. 5 minutes behind 1st place. We did 21 or 22 laps. We finished the whole 6 hours of racing. Had 4 Utility teams racing. It was the largest turnout for any 6hr event, there were 38 teams racing. The winning ute team was racing a new Yamaha Grizzle with the power steering. I put over 400 miles on the jeep. Trip up to the track was just shy of 4 hours long. The race was held at Thunder Ridge MX park, and Unidilla was only a 1\2 mile away. Central NY state is pretty damn nice country. We're coming back up to spectate the Unidalla GNCC in mid September. My cousin Lance had the fastest laps at 16:30 at his fastest and on average 16:50. Had only one problem, the aftermarket ECU was garbage and we replaced it with the stock unit after the very first lap. It completely died on the first lap and my cousin had to limp the quad back to the pits because of the ECU. Its along story, but we didnt get a good start because of the ECU and the first lap we lost nearly half of a lap because the ECU went into a "safe mode" and Lance couldnt get it past 1\4 throttle. We were prepared to swap out the ECU, so when he got back to the pits, we ripped the ECU out and put in the stock one, the whole swap took about a minute. So right from the very start we were WAY back in last place in our class. We raced good and smart and got back into second place, but couldnt reel in the guys on the Grizzly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Sheenut Posted August 13, 2007 Report Share Posted August 13, 2007 Race notes:We got second place. 5 minutes behind 1st place. We did 21 or 22 laps. We finished the whole 6 hours of racing. Had 4 Utility teams racing. It was the largest turnout for any 6hr event, there were 38 teams racing. The winning ute team was racing a new Yamaha Grizzle with the power steering. I put over 400 miles on the jeep. Trip up to the track was just shy of 4 hours long. The race was held at Thunder Ridge MX park, and Unidilla was only a 1\2 mile away. Central NY state is pretty damn nice country. We're coming back up to spectate the Unidalla GNCC in mid September. My cousin Lance had the fastest laps at 16:30 at his fastest and on average 16:50. Had only one problem, the aftermarket ECU was garbage and we replaced it with the stock unit after the very first lap. It completely died on the first lap and my cousin had to limp the quad back to the pits because of the ECU. Its along story, but we didnt get a good start because of the ECU and the first lap we lost nearly half of a lap because the ECU went into a "safe mode" and Lance couldnt get it past 1\4 throttle. We were prepared to swap out the ECU, so when he got back to the pits, we ripped the ECU out and put in the stock one, the whole swap took about a minute. So right from the very start we were WAY back in last place in our class. We raced good and smart and got back into second place, but couldnt reel in the guys on the Grizzly. Congrats on placing so well in the race......!! Tough luck with the ECU on the quad... It sounds like that time lost would have been a first place finish. Finally met Del Saturday at Gap Racing. NY State is gorgeous. We take our sleds up there in the winter. You should see it when there's 8 feet of snow on the ground..!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenBB Posted August 13, 2007 Report Share Posted August 13, 2007 Damn electronics heh, still sounds like a good time and a good finish, congratulations!! Even in a 6hr race the start has gotta make a difference, you guys woulda had it in the bag if not for that...good thing he could at least ride back to the pits tho :ninja: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meat Posted August 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2007 The guy who builds these 6 and 12hr racing quads is one of our riders' fathers. Dave is the rider, Skip is his dad. Skip builds these quads rock solid, he makes my job easy cause we only have small minor problems to fix during the races. Well me and Skip both agreed that the new aftermarket ECU was a bad idea. Three reasons why... 1. It was largly untested, they got the ECU too close to the race date and they didnt put much time on it. All three riders said that the new ECU really woke up the quad and they were pullin' power wheelies and toppin' the quad out at 75mph. 2. The power gains could be offset by loss of reliability. Specifically the drive shaft, and rear axles. Our first King Quad would snap rear axles all the damn time, Suzuki fixed the axle problems in 2006 and we havent snapped an axle with our '06 and '07 quads. But this quad we raced on Saturday is the same quad we race in the Texas 12hr and the NH 6hr, there were alot of miles on these axles. I was counting on the increased HP from the new ECU to snap an axle. 3. The new ECU made the quad really hard to start. The engine would turn over for 3 or 4 seconds before it would fire, and when my cuz started up the quad in the pits before the race, it let out a big backfire. These races are won by having a rock solid quad to ride, nothing can go wrong mechanically.... that damn aftmkt ECU bit us this time. We got the ECU for free in a sponsorship deal. I don't even remember the companies name, I was too bummed out that they wanted to use it, so I can't remember the brand name on the part. We used a PowerCommander module in the past and that thing worked great. We could upload different fi map with a laptap computer. The PowerCommander worked with the stock ECU. The three riders on the team did a great job trying to catch up the 1st place guys, but we just ran out of time. All we needed was for them to break down, or wreck.. but they just kept pumpin' out the laps. We did the same amount of laps as the 1st place team, we were just 5 minutes behind em at the end. Had another great time tho. If you ever get the chance to see one of these races, dont miss the opportunity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKJK Posted August 14, 2007 Report Share Posted August 14, 2007 Congrats Denny!!! :thumbsup: I'd expect nothing less than a podium finish from you guys. :smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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