Truck rebuild / build

After our roll at the West Texas 250, we had a long drive home and many conversations on our path forward with the truck. We talked about just beating out the dents, fixing the damaged suspension and getting back out there. We decided against that and said "Now's the time to do this right." We have began full disassembly of the truck and purchased a regular cab truck to rebuild with. Right now we are in the disassemble mode on both trucks. We found a 1996 Long bed F150 regular cab. A lot of the main components of the truck are still in great shape so we will be salvaging most of the truck. The truck will be a 4 linked, back halfed regular cab with a 116"-ish wheel base. Full 2.0" .120 DOM cage utilizing our current front suspension and main rear suspension. We will be upgrading our rear coil overs to Kings.

2016 West Texas 250

Due to raining conditions, the TDRA West Texas 250 was postponed until January 2016. This would be the final race of 2015. Blisteringly cold morning of January 16th, we were lined up to leave the starting line at approximately 8am. Our class was the last class to leave. The 888 truck was the second or third (I can't remember) vehicle to leave the starting line in the heavy metal/1450 class. Within 10 minutes we had picked off the drivers in front of us in our class and began to pick off nearly all of the air cooled vehicles. About 30 miles into the first lap we experience a drivers side flat. After 7-10 minutes later and finding a rock to help get our jack high enough, we were back on the track. We stopped for a fellow racer that had just rolled near the end of the first lap. We started our second lap and continued to pick off the vehicles that got ahead of us from the tire change and stop to make sure a fellow racer was alright. I think we were about 2nd or 3rd in our class at the time. About 5.5 miles into our second lap, we rolled the truck at about 50-60 miles an hour. The rear passengers side limit strap mount failed, allowing the rear axle to over travel. This caused the rear passenger coil over to come apart. Because of all of this, after the next bump on the track, the suspension over traveled, allowing the drive shaft to pull out of the slip yoke and stab into the ground causing us to roll. A good amount of damage but our safety equipment worked out perfectly and we walked away from the roll a little shook up and with our pocket books ready to be drained.

Colorado and Moab

We spent a week on the road and 5 of 7 nights in a tent. We left Oklahoma and headed west. Our first night was in a small hotel near the highway in New Mexico. Mesa Verde, Canyonlands and Arches National Park.