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Mr Bull,
I just wanted to personally thank you for your undieing support of the Kore Race Team. It was your pit and your support that made it all possible.
Tim just let us drive up late, pull in next to him, fed the King a Krispy Kreme, and offered his pit to us. It was a first class job and we apprieciate it. Thank You!!
Congrats with the high finish in the race and congrats on Toyo Tires dominating again.
No flats on the Kore Race truck, even in the rocky conditions of Parker. The truck lost 4x4 at mile twenty-five with a broken passenger side axle/ half shaft. The same Toyo's that we run on the street were on the Kore Race truck. Two wheel drive through the gnarliest sand and rocks on the planet. The truck made it all the way to the pit, in 2wd, at mile 90 where our pit crew changed the axle in 15 minutes. Back on the course and charging like only team Kore/Kroeker could do. With codriver, Robin Stover, of Four Wheeler fame aboard, Kroeker propelled himself to finish the lap. At mile marker 120 ( 133 mile in a lap) he lost the 4wd again. The truck still limped along, charging where it could, and slow where it needed, to finish another 20 miles. At that point mechanical failure caused the end of the race. It was a valiant effort for the might KORE/DODGE CUMMINS!!!! We only had two weeks to prep, and ended up breaking parts that were fatigued in the Baja 1000 in November. Kroeker dropped the Kore truck off at the DRC compound Sunday morning for a little TLC. We will have her back together in no time and ready to race again.
Some of the people that made this race and all races possible are:
SaraMae Kroeker/ Kore pit Boss ( and money man )
Tim Sanches/ Toyo Tires
Peter/ SBC
Brad/Fass pump
Fox Racing Shocks
Kore suspension
Banks Engineering
Newline Products
Robin Stover/Four Wheeler feature editor
Deaver Springs
Thanks again to all who helped,
Greg Boardman
Desert Racing Concepts
I just wanted to personally thank you for your undieing support of the Kore Race Team. It was your pit and your support that made it all possible.
Tim just let us drive up late, pull in next to him, fed the King a Krispy Kreme, and offered his pit to us. It was a first class job and we apprieciate it. Thank You!!
Congrats with the high finish in the race and congrats on Toyo Tires dominating again.
No flats on the Kore Race truck, even in the rocky conditions of Parker. The truck lost 4x4 at mile twenty-five with a broken passenger side axle/ half shaft. The same Toyo's that we run on the street were on the Kore Race truck. Two wheel drive through the gnarliest sand and rocks on the planet. The truck made it all the way to the pit, in 2wd, at mile 90 where our pit crew changed the axle in 15 minutes. Back on the course and charging like only team Kore/Kroeker could do. With codriver, Robin Stover, of Four Wheeler fame aboard, Kroeker propelled himself to finish the lap. At mile marker 120 ( 133 mile in a lap) he lost the 4wd again. The truck still limped along, charging where it could, and slow where it needed, to finish another 20 miles. At that point mechanical failure caused the end of the race. It was a valiant effort for the might KORE/DODGE CUMMINS!!!! We only had two weeks to prep, and ended up breaking parts that were fatigued in the Baja 1000 in November. Kroeker dropped the Kore truck off at the DRC compound Sunday morning for a little TLC. We will have her back together in no time and ready to race again.
Some of the people that made this race and all races possible are:
SaraMae Kroeker/ Kore pit Boss ( and money man )
Tim Sanches/ Toyo Tires
Peter/ SBC
Brad/Fass pump
Fox Racing Shocks
Kore suspension
Banks Engineering
Newline Products
Robin Stover/Four Wheeler feature editor
Deaver Springs
Thanks again to all who helped,
Greg Boardman
Desert Racing Concepts
The KORE truck rolled in the Parker Python track in the middle of the very long pit area. Gee, on second thought, glad I wasn't strapped in the box. :-laf :-laf
Guess, if racing wasn't without it's pitfalls, so to speak, it wouldn't be racing, now would it. However, everyone lived to race another day!! Oo. Good luck rebuilding and next run.
Ouch 
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Wow, I'm out of touch for two weeks at work and look at everything I miss!
Congrats on a noble effort. 15 minutes to change an axle shaft? That's some wrenching! What mechanical failure ended the race for you, the loss of 4wd? Or did you have to quit when the truck rolled?
Will the KORE team be competing in the rest of the Best in the Desert series? I'd really like to make it down sometime for an event.
Congrats on a noble effort. 15 minutes to change an axle shaft? That's some wrenching! What mechanical failure ended the race for you, the loss of 4wd? Or did you have to quit when the truck rolled?
Will the KORE team be competing in the rest of the Best in the Desert series? I'd really like to make it down sometime for an event.
Link to the crash on video
Here's a link to the KORE rollover... it's at the end of the video so you'll have to view most of the video to see Kent gettin' at it... .
http://www.dirtcore.net/BITDParker2-2005large.wmv :--)
Desertbull
Here's a link to the KORE rollover... it's at the end of the video so you'll have to view most of the video to see Kent gettin' at it... .
http://www.dirtcore.net/BITDParker2-2005large.wmv :--)
Desertbull
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I have some current news Gents,
I was at the KORE R&D facility today. I saw some great new products that will be soon offered. Mucho Bling Factor and Function. I also brought home $5000 worth of new body parts, including a new SRT 10 hood. Tomorrow I get to Sawzall the bed off the truck! WOooooo HOooooo! I wont be enjoying that too much! The rebuild of the truck will start soon after that. I will start the Body work Saturday. It still needs to be scrubbed with degreaser, and prepped for the reapplication of sheet metal. It will be better, cleaner and better than ever. I will be posting the pictures of the rebuild from the DRC compound.
Greg
I was at the KORE R&D facility today. I saw some great new products that will be soon offered. Mucho Bling Factor and Function. I also brought home $5000 worth of new body parts, including a new SRT 10 hood. Tomorrow I get to Sawzall the bed off the truck! WOooooo HOooooo! I wont be enjoying that too much! The rebuild of the truck will start soon after that. I will start the Body work Saturday. It still needs to be scrubbed with degreaser, and prepped for the reapplication of sheet metal. It will be better, cleaner and better than ever. I will be posting the pictures of the rebuild from the DRC compound.
Greg
Gents,
We had a rough day of racing.
The "Parker 425" is a brutal course. It seemed like every sand wash, rock field and whoop section had conspired to stop our efforts. We experienced one mechanical failure after another until finally, the roll-over ended the day.
For various reasons we had lost our four-wheel-drive capability. The man-made section of the course consisted of deeply-grooved sand. In some spots, the grooves were so deep that the front differential would dig in and slow the truck to a crawl. We were trying to "get on top" by keeping the speed up. Getting on top in a 2wd, 9000 lb. truck is not easy.
In desert racing you must never violate the 80% rule. If you're mashing the skinny pedal down all the way, you're "giving her all she's got" - as Scotty would say. That's 100%, so you don't have any extra power to save you if something unexpected happens. You always need an extra 20% to immediately break the tires loose, counter-steer or lighten the front end when required. I call this "maneuvering power; it's a safety tool. " I was intentionally violating the 80% rule because I didn't want to get stuck in the sand ruts. I was caught in a classical desert racing "Catch 22" and I knew it. I was trading one risk for another - getting stuck vice completely tossing it away.
I had just radioed Jared Robinson, our home-pit boss, alerting him to our decaying mechanical condition. Ten seconds later Robin Stover and I were on our roof, hanging like bats in our harnesses. With big inertia, a slipping clutch and no extra throttle to spin the rear tires, when a deep rut caught the right front tire, there was nowhere to go but upside down.
Nice driving, Kroeker. At least it’s only a flesh wound. Following KORE tradition, I still drove back from Arizona to California. Got some funny looks from oncoming traffic. No windshield and some maniac wearing Nomex and a full-face helmet doing 75 down the interstate in a half-mashed race truck will raise an eyebrow or two. Good thing the CHP wasn’t out in force Sunday morning. I was trying to think of preemptive excuses like, “I hit a condor” or something…
Driving home with body damage was a bad ending to a bad day, but two race highlights stand out in my mind.
The first was tearing the entire front clip off a Class 5 Bug whose driver had the audacity to nerf us as we were pulling away from a check. He didn't know it at the time, but he had made a big mistake when he tapped The Beast on the rear bumper. When The Beast has room to breathe, stand by. Only Class One cars and Trophy trucks can get by us in the wide open spaces. Ten miles after he touched us, the course opened up and I had him cornered. We were doing 85 mph. down a cross-grained sand wash. I aligned my right rear tire with his left front and slowly moved into him. Amazingly he didn't lift until our big Toyo sent his entire front fiberglass quarter panel and hood flying 20 feet in the air. Mike Sedway, riding third seat in the Beast, laughed maniacally for ten minutes after that one.
The second highlight was King Boardman replacing the passenger side stub shaft in under 15 minutes. Boardman was in charge of our forward pit. We radioed ahead, letting him know what needed to be done. The u-joint had exploded and turned the stub shaft into a mangled, clanking, two-piece unit. He had everything prepped when we arrived and before we knew it, we were back on the course with the GPS reading 93 mph! All I remember about that pit was a Boardman whirling around under the wheel well like the Tasmanian Devil - tools and parts flying from the blur. Great job, DRC!
Aside from tossing it away in the rough, my only regret is missing the purported foot race that was held between The Desert Bull and King Boardman. The story was that after our pit stop, the two of them polished off an entire box of Krispy Kremes and then went for a two mile jog up some hill. Don’t know who won, but I’m sure there was carnage left in the aftermath - talk about a Battle Royale of titanic proportions...
Anyway, you can't win 'em all and sometimes you can't even finish. That’s racing -- and that’s what makes it an adventure….
Many thanks to everyone who contributed to our effort.
Best Regards,
Kent Kroeker
We had a rough day of racing.
The "Parker 425" is a brutal course. It seemed like every sand wash, rock field and whoop section had conspired to stop our efforts. We experienced one mechanical failure after another until finally, the roll-over ended the day.
For various reasons we had lost our four-wheel-drive capability. The man-made section of the course consisted of deeply-grooved sand. In some spots, the grooves were so deep that the front differential would dig in and slow the truck to a crawl. We were trying to "get on top" by keeping the speed up. Getting on top in a 2wd, 9000 lb. truck is not easy.
In desert racing you must never violate the 80% rule. If you're mashing the skinny pedal down all the way, you're "giving her all she's got" - as Scotty would say. That's 100%, so you don't have any extra power to save you if something unexpected happens. You always need an extra 20% to immediately break the tires loose, counter-steer or lighten the front end when required. I call this "maneuvering power; it's a safety tool. " I was intentionally violating the 80% rule because I didn't want to get stuck in the sand ruts. I was caught in a classical desert racing "Catch 22" and I knew it. I was trading one risk for another - getting stuck vice completely tossing it away.
I had just radioed Jared Robinson, our home-pit boss, alerting him to our decaying mechanical condition. Ten seconds later Robin Stover and I were on our roof, hanging like bats in our harnesses. With big inertia, a slipping clutch and no extra throttle to spin the rear tires, when a deep rut caught the right front tire, there was nowhere to go but upside down.
Nice driving, Kroeker. At least it’s only a flesh wound. Following KORE tradition, I still drove back from Arizona to California. Got some funny looks from oncoming traffic. No windshield and some maniac wearing Nomex and a full-face helmet doing 75 down the interstate in a half-mashed race truck will raise an eyebrow or two. Good thing the CHP wasn’t out in force Sunday morning. I was trying to think of preemptive excuses like, “I hit a condor” or something…
Driving home with body damage was a bad ending to a bad day, but two race highlights stand out in my mind.
The first was tearing the entire front clip off a Class 5 Bug whose driver had the audacity to nerf us as we were pulling away from a check. He didn't know it at the time, but he had made a big mistake when he tapped The Beast on the rear bumper. When The Beast has room to breathe, stand by. Only Class One cars and Trophy trucks can get by us in the wide open spaces. Ten miles after he touched us, the course opened up and I had him cornered. We were doing 85 mph. down a cross-grained sand wash. I aligned my right rear tire with his left front and slowly moved into him. Amazingly he didn't lift until our big Toyo sent his entire front fiberglass quarter panel and hood flying 20 feet in the air. Mike Sedway, riding third seat in the Beast, laughed maniacally for ten minutes after that one.
The second highlight was King Boardman replacing the passenger side stub shaft in under 15 minutes. Boardman was in charge of our forward pit. We radioed ahead, letting him know what needed to be done. The u-joint had exploded and turned the stub shaft into a mangled, clanking, two-piece unit. He had everything prepped when we arrived and before we knew it, we were back on the course with the GPS reading 93 mph! All I remember about that pit was a Boardman whirling around under the wheel well like the Tasmanian Devil - tools and parts flying from the blur. Great job, DRC!
Aside from tossing it away in the rough, my only regret is missing the purported foot race that was held between The Desert Bull and King Boardman. The story was that after our pit stop, the two of them polished off an entire box of Krispy Kremes and then went for a two mile jog up some hill. Don’t know who won, but I’m sure there was carnage left in the aftermath - talk about a Battle Royale of titanic proportions...
Anyway, you can't win 'em all and sometimes you can't even finish. That’s racing -- and that’s what makes it an adventure….
Many thanks to everyone who contributed to our effort.
Best Regards,
Kent Kroeker
0013 said:
Thanks for the well wishes. The truck will be a piece of cake to finish. There is no damage to the structure of truck. It is truly amazing, not eve a ripple in the a pillar or the b or c pillars. Just a little cosmetic damage. Two doors, a bed side, a fender, the roof and the windshield. The truck was driven home from the race. Parker to 29 palms is about 100 miles. It drove great and tracked straight. Today the bed comes off, Thursday the fiberglass gets ordered. New SBClutch is coming, New transmission, and all will be well. Today the body guy is coming over to start pulling sheet metal off. We should have her ready to rock by mid March/Early April. I will keep you posted!!!
Greg
After a careful study, and multiple replays, of the vid I have the problem diagnosed!!! Oo.
A simple matter of mass and centrifigal force. I noted the cumulative mass of the crew and pit crew and this unfortunate incident probably, note: I said probably, could have been averted IF you would have taken the simple precaution of reducing the in-cab mass, i. e. co-driver, by simply installing a scrawny little sucker... . like moi perhaps, neh? (a little French lingo there, to get Kent on a rant, :-laf ) PS: didn't Conde delicately give them frogs what for :-laf
Now, what I need to know is an appropriate email so I can fire off a minor contribution out of my hoarded KORE suspension saving fund to help get this pup back on the track?
Okay, okay, it must be a real honest-to-good email address. So I don't expect to see a bunch of "volunteer" email addresses sprouting up here abouts. :-laf I still have some bucks sitting in my PayPal account from a killing on an ebay tent sale that's burning a hole in my pocket. So a simple email transfer from PayPal would work great. A snail mail address would work fine too, but like most folks, sometimes the extreme effort involved, i. e. licking a stamp or painfully writing a check, overcomes the good intension.
Besides, this way maybe some of the other folks who were sitting on the sidelines rooting for "OUR TEAM" would be inspired to chip in and help out Did you guys see the hammering suspension must take on that course - whew (anyone say KORE)!. Also looks like we need to start praying for some decent replacement u-joints
As a disclaimer, I have NO affiliation with KORE or any of their product - beyond bling lust.
A simple matter of mass and centrifigal force. I noted the cumulative mass of the crew and pit crew and this unfortunate incident probably, note: I said probably, could have been averted IF you would have taken the simple precaution of reducing the in-cab mass, i. e. co-driver, by simply installing a scrawny little sucker... . like moi perhaps, neh? (a little French lingo there, to get Kent on a rant, :-laf ) PS: didn't Conde delicately give them frogs what for :-laf
Now, what I need to know is an appropriate email so I can fire off a minor contribution out of my hoarded KORE suspension saving fund to help get this pup back on the track?
Okay, okay, it must be a real honest-to-good email address. So I don't expect to see a bunch of "volunteer" email addresses sprouting up here abouts. :-laf I still have some bucks sitting in my PayPal account from a killing on an ebay tent sale that's burning a hole in my pocket. So a simple email transfer from PayPal would work great. A snail mail address would work fine too, but like most folks, sometimes the extreme effort involved, i. e. licking a stamp or painfully writing a check, overcomes the good intension.
Besides, this way maybe some of the other folks who were sitting on the sidelines rooting for "OUR TEAM" would be inspired to chip in and help out
Did you guys see the hammering suspension must take on that course - whew (anyone say KORE)!. Also looks like we need to start praying for some decent replacement u-joints As a disclaimer, I have NO affiliation with KORE or any of their product - beyond bling lust.
Please Please Please,
Just send checks to Greg Boardman!!!!!!
!!!!!!! Just Kidding
That Kroeker guy is a skinny little guy too OTD. So is Robin Stover the CoDriver. Now to help with right side rollovers, we need more ballist in the drivers seat!!!! I probably out weigh that skinny little Kroeker by 50 lbs. I might even be able to keep it on two wheels a little longer. Bicycling is what I have heard it called.
Just send checks to Greg Boardman!!!!!!
!!!!!!! Just Kidding That Kroeker guy is a skinny little guy too OTD. So is Robin Stover the CoDriver. Now to help with right side rollovers, we need more ballist in the drivers seat!!!! I probably out weigh that skinny little Kroeker by 50 lbs. I might even be able to keep it on two wheels a little longer. Bicycling is what I have heard it called.
I love this stuff!
I understand that is extreme abuse, but I can't help but wonder, American vs a Dana? Hhhmmm... ... ...
Say, tell us how that fancy suspension is holding up, eh?
I understand that is extreme abuse, but I can't help but wonder, American vs a Dana? Hhhmmm... ... ...
Say, tell us how that fancy suspension is holding up, eh?
Very cool stuff there guys! Keep up the good work, and sorry for the roll over. But heck, you needed better ventilation anyway... . right? :-laf
15 minute shaft swap? wow, you win the prize! Go go gadget swap!
Nice job guys, but please... ... . MORE VIDEOS!
I bet when I pray tonight it will have something like "And please let my truck grow up to be like a KORE truck!"
15 minute shaft swap? wow, you win the prize! Go go gadget swap!
Nice job guys, but please... ... . MORE VIDEOS!
I bet when I pray tonight it will have something like "And please let my truck grow up to be like a KORE truck!"
Sled Puller said:I love this stuff!
I understand that is extreme abuse, but I can't help but wonder, American vs a Dana? Hhhmmm... ... ...
Say, tell us how that fancy suspension is holding up, eh?
The Dana would be a great swap to try. Only problem is that in the class we race you can only run the oem driveline. As for the suspension, it is just getting broken in. I am pulling the front axle housing in the a. m. and taking it to the diff Dr. on Monday or Tuesday. That means that the truck will be sitting in the driveway of my shop for a week or two. I guess we'll have to pull off the sheet metal right there.
Just another day at the office!!! :-laf :-laf :-laf Sometimes it truly sux to be me!!!!Enjoy,
Greg
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