Offroad-Express

I have made this so we can add all the footage in one spot.

I would like to say on behalf of Andrew Gibson and I that we are so thankful for all of those who helped us achieve this event, the sponsors that provided prizes and support, the marshals who helped were beyond amazing, the media crew were great, the competitors were awesome. Great attitudes all round helped with making it an awesome event.

We had an absolute blast running the event, we hope everyone enjoyed it.

Big thanks also to my partner for picking up the slack, keeping us fed and warm to ensure we could continue to run the event.

Thanks also to my mum Averil and her partner Darryl for coming up from Warkworth to freeze in the rain to provide us with a lovely spit, also to Lewis for dropping down a mean Hangi as well.

Thanks again guys, it was an awesome weekend...

Any feedback on the event is welcomed, good or bad

Didn't manage to get any footage myself so have stolen some from others:

top event guys ,you all need tom be congratulated, excellent stages and well organised a big thanks to all the sponsors and especially all the marshals without you guys and girls events like this cant happen
We were having a ball until the clutch decided it had had enough obviously couldn't handle the increase in power and torque even though it had done under 100km
for the next one could you please pre book better weather .

Yes great event, thanks to the marshals and all the others behind the scenes.. Great work Caleb and Andy... Had a ball...
Here is our first effort...Helmet cam vid...

Cant wait to see who else got what....

Big Thanks to Focus Photo for attending in the terrible weather...

http://www.focusphoto.co.nz/#!king-of-the-palace/c17dt

Here is the one and only stage we completed for the weekend,


Great event, stages looked awesome. Can't wait for the next one.

Great effort from the guys at Focus Photo for coming up and taking some awesome pictures.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 168&type=1

suzukisport wrote:Here is the one and only stage we completed for the weekend,

Great event, stages looked awesome. Can't wait for the next one.

what did you break mate the truck seemed to be going fine right through to the end of the stage

As I marshalled the next stage, I can answer for him...
About 10 feet into the stage he popped out of a ditch, front wheels were a couple of feet off the ground and both spinning well. When it touched down the front diff popped and that was all she wrote.............
There was talk after of going to Nissan 8 inch diffs next.

derk wrote:what did you break mate the truck seemed to be going fine right through to the end of the stage

Yeah it was running mint. Started stage 3 and tried to drive the creek right at the start, ended up smashing the something in the front diff. If it hadn't of let go we would have drove out of it as it was climbing out when it blew.

Here it is,

suzukisport wrote:Here it is,

was that it..?

Big wrote:was that it..?

Yeah you can hear when it blew, it seamed to break pretty easy...

was the landing with ya still having the throttle up it.. Weird it broke so easy though.. as Ive been airborn and not broken anything yet.. The day will come just when I do not know..

I realise that, it can't help having the locker in and running a brand new set of sharp Silverstones at low pressures either. I've had it airborne many times before and a lot higher than that with out problems

have you pulled it down yet to see what's broken in there

oh well the price you pay for fun..

Not yet. I'm a little scared too as the air locker compressor started to run non stop once it blew, hopefully it's just the copper tube broken...

Oh shit front diff #2

Sounded like your R&P letting go. Who did the setup? Toyo diffs extremely sensitive in terms of setup. Many failures are just due to incorrect setup.

Yep diff number two Good proof to show the strength in the Longfield axles and cv's Didn't have time to set it up myself, a mate did it who would have set up hundreds of them as it's what he use to do for a living so the set up should have been fine. I can see a set of Nitro ring and pinions not too far away.

if you ripped a few teeth off your diff wouldn't have lost air pressure it might be a bit more broken inside , are those prado arbs 4 or 2 spider

Madaz wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGvet0l2DDc&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PHrjK0G5rc&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTSOT65W0OU&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co5Hn2iNRdg

Well done.. looks like fun Poor navi on last vid..

nice

are fiddles allowed?