Desert Dingo Racing

Category: Yerington

  • Rewiring 1107


    It’s amazing how much you can stuff in the back of a VW, including Bill “The New Guy” Rickard.

    The Yerington 300 is Memorial Day Weekend and we’re continuing buttoning up 1107. Bill is working on a complete rewiring. Crusty has been working on reinforcing the frame and repositioning the oil breather so it won’t spray oil all over the engine compartment and Bob came by to reinstall the transmission.

    Crusty has also reinforced the fuel cell box, reworked the front bumper and mapped out what needs to be done to relocate the battery on the pan. Engine should go back in on Tuesday.

    A gallery of photos here, mostly of wires.

  • First VORRA desert race at Yerington in just over two weeks


    This may have been 1107’s first wiring diagram

    Bill “The New Guy” Rickard came by the office yesterday and picked up the GPS unit, the VHF radio and our satcomm display to work his magic on 1107’s electrical system. I accidentally forgot the GPS/Iridium transceiver in the car and Richard picked it up earlier today and he will drop it at Crusty’s tomorrow.

    All this means we should be able to travel backward and forward in time finish a race without a short circuit knocking us out of the running in time for our first off road desert race of the season Memorial Day weekend at Yerington, Nevada.

    A work day this weekend. Updates as they occur.

  • Rock crawler in Scotts Valley


    This has nothing to do with us, but it was cool to see a rock crawler in Scotts Valley.

    Work continued apace on Tuesday with Billy and Crusty working on rewiring 1107. Bob made a run down Bradford’s in Prunedale to pick up the last of our spare transmission parts and a bell housing that he’ll re-fashion into a tranny stand.

    A little over three weeks to the 250-mile desert race in Yerington on Memorial Day weekend.

    Now go back and check out that sweet rock crawler.

  • Thanks to Soccer Mom Off Road for getting us to 1,000


    We’re batting 1.000

    I wanted to say thank you to Soccer Mom Off Road Racing of Phoenix, Ariz. for getting us to 1,000 downloads and to everyone else for taking the time to download our iPhone and Android apps. SMOR is a full stock race team and they’re fun to follow on Twitter.

    I’m still learning how the mobile app design process works, but to show my appreciation, I’ve released an updated version of the app. It should appear automatically on everyone’s phones.

    Onward to 1,000,000!

    Also, should have some interesting news in advance of our first VORRA off road desert race of the season in Yerington at the end of May.  Coming soon.

  • Prepping for Yerington

    Dented, but undaunted.

    Work day today with remarkably little to do. Crusty had already pulled the engine, Bob pull the tranny and Richard brought a slide hammer to massage some remaining dents. This coming week Crusty and Bob will make some adjustments to the spacing of the rear skid plate, adding some bushings to increase the distance between the place and the engine and headers, Billy “The New Guy” Rickard will replace wiring going into the engine compartment. Richard will spend some time this week on other prep work. Crusty’s also going to be doing some reinforcement on the FuelSafe fuel cell. Realistically, we could have the car ready as early as this coming weekend for the May 28 race in Yerington, Nevada.

    Some photos from today’s work.