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10/28/2007 9:36:13 AM

my underwear see's more mud than his truck ever will

10/28/2007 12:11:06 PM

oooo, you nasty. you and zxappeal should hang out.

10/28/2007 3:46:44 PM

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"speaking of off-roading, i was talking to this dude the other day who said he and some buddies always hit up this trail off six forks just north of the upper barton boat launch. i drove by it today and there is definitely a trail head on both sides of the street that has recent activity on it. the guy said that very few people go out there and there has never been an issue. he said there are some tough parts that require winching unless the truck is fully locked but there are paths that go around the tough parts. he also said there is a mixture of mud holes just to play in and rock hills that actually require skill. i figured one of y'all would check it out. maybe optmusprimer could sneak up there one day since he ain't far. i ain't taking my shit off-road. i just looked at it on google maps and there is definitely a trail. i think the part that guy was talking about is on the left if your northbound six forks. that trail goes down into the woods a bit to the lake. the right side doesn't go very far. http://tinyurl.com/2s7ww4"

yeah if you are northbound (toward 98) there is a powerline trail there. i went on the eastward side about a month ago, its basically flat BUT leads to what would be a nice little fishing spot if there was more water in the lake. i met a guy who lives up there in duxford who says during the summer the neighborhood guys beach there boats there and walk back and forth to their houses.

havent been to the western side yet

10/28/2007 7:01:08 PM

10/28/2007 10:07:31 PM

how did that go

are there trails there or is it just a bunch of boulders in the woods??

10/28/2007 10:31:56 PM

it's a big trail system. it was really fun

10/28/2007 10:33:42 PM

from the harlan trip right?

10/28/2007 10:57:47 PM

^^^both combined. trails with a bunch of boulders in the woods.

^yeah

10/28/2007 11:09:38 PM

^^^^^i hope thats not your brake bluid splattered all over the rock

[Edited on October 29, 2007 at 7:22 PM. Reason : .]

10/29/2007 7:22:23 PM

or gear oil

10/29/2007 7:23:07 PM

^how was uwharrie?

10/29/2007 7:34:31 PM

pretty fun, muddy as hell

then ryan fux0red my cargo door LOL

10/29/2007 8:17:55 PM

those aren't my fluids on the rock

10/29/2007 8:18:59 PM

i bet those arent your fluids on barrons jeep either

10/29/2007 8:21:11 PM

i have no idea what you're talking about.

10/29/2007 8:43:01 PM

10/29/2007 8:43:54 PM

10/29/2007 10:36:11 PM

I don't really know much about the whole riding around in the woods thing, but those last few pics look pretty damn cool! It appears to be a lot more purposeful than rednecks flying through mud puddles?

10/31/2007 10:36:52 PM

yeah, this is definitely a whole other level from rednecks driving through mud. mud sucks. comparing mud to rockcrawling is like auto-x to track days.

10/31/2007 11:10:30 PM

I concur.

10/31/2007 11:11:10 PM

Cool. Maybe I'll try it out after I get out of my sports car phase.

10/31/2007 11:13:50 PM

more like comparing Capital Blvd drag racing to track days at VIR

10/31/2007 11:16:25 PM

Mine in the same spot. (with a little fender relocation work)



Andy going through in the buggy.



The rock garden.



Whoops.



[Edited on October 31, 2007 at 11:21 PM. Reason : .]

10/31/2007 11:20:18 PM

^^Do you do this? I thought you were in the EVO club with Gloveboy.

^Yeah, that's awesome. So I guess you can do that with like a Blazer or bigger truck or anything? You have to have a Jeep or a steel pipe thing?

10/31/2007 11:22:09 PM

I am...Evo is a fuckin' killer performance platform.

I've had a 240 rwhp Miata, and an S2000 that prob made about 360-370 at the crank.

had a few bikes, including a YZF-600 and a GSX-R 750...and ridden the shit out of my dad's Valkyrie and Goldwing.

had a Jeep...wheeled it some (not like this--it was just a stock YJ with a small shackle lift and 31" ATs)

but while I'm a backroad ripper (sports car or sportbike) at heart, I like offroading, too...and for that matter, even a little drag racing never hurt anyone. In short, I pretty much like it all.


Evo's actually for sale...planning on picking up another 4x4 (get back into the sports car game when I get back to NC, maybe after my first deployment. prob another Evo or an Elise, or maybe a comparatively cheap, purpose-built little track monster like a Miata or something).







those last 2 are me wheeling my friend Steve's FJ-40 somewhere NE of Wichita over the summer. We crawled some rocks there, too, but he has all of the rock pictures, and hasn't sent them to me (i think he's still in Iraq).



anyway, i won't say i've never played in the mud, and i won't say i didn't enjoy it when i did...but it takes a lot less skill than crawling rocks or other stuff does. It's also a fucking asspain to clean all of that mud out of stuff when you're done...and it'll do a number on bearings, etc...and you'll also end up getting water in your diffs and stuff, too. It just generally tends to fuck things up (although rockcrawling tends to snap drivetrain components and beat the hell out of body panels, so take your pick. At least you can overbuild a lot of that shit preventatively.)



[Edited on October 31, 2007 at 11:34 PM. Reason : asdf]

[Edited on October 31, 2007 at 11:37 PM. Reason : asdf]

10/31/2007 11:33:20 PM

jeep lights on a cruiser?? DISGRACE!

10/31/2007 11:37:18 PM

ahhh haha

"jeep lights"

it also has a chrysler engine, rear end, and trans (727).


in his defense, he bought it that way...and he also uses the lights pretty regularly. in Kansas, they have this huge network of dirt roads. it's basically a grid that covers the state. you can pretty much go anywhere you want on dirt roads, but they're unlit. Most of them are nice and smooth (you can go 60-70 mph on them just like any other road). A few of them require a truck, and maybe even 4x4.



we drove on these roads for about 2 hours at night on the way home from wheelin', and for prob 20-30 minutes another night on the way home from the drag strip (we took his alky burning, 454 resto-modded '70 Chevelle out during the day, swapped it for the FJ in the afternoon, then drove that for the rest of the night).

At any rate, we had all of those lamps burning at night on those dirt roads...we were doing 70 mph in plenty of spots.




check out how low those power lines are along spots of those dirt roads. i think a tall guy could prob jump and grab them in some places.

[Edited on October 31, 2007 at 11:45 PM. Reason : asfd]

10/31/2007 11:44:08 PM

i was talking about the tail lights. other manufacturers parts are cool. jeep parts on a cruiser are not.

11/1/2007 12:05:02 AM

oh, shit...i didn't even notice those.

i'll email Steve and suggest he remedy the situation.

11/1/2007 12:06:11 AM

i mean, it's not like they're any better than stock cruiser tail lights. i vote recessed round led's though.

11/1/2007 12:07:51 AM

i've always had mixed feelings on those. i think they look sharp, and they're functional...but they look out of place if the rest of the truck isn't slickly executed, and to me at least, they kinda stink of yo-boy and/or trailer trash truck-rice.

[Edited on November 1, 2007 at 12:11 AM. Reason : asfd]

11/1/2007 12:11:28 AM

yeah, but they don't get broken easily, are highly visible, deal with shock/moisture better, and draw very little current. this sport is all about function.

11/1/2007 12:22:56 AM

I like the old Land Cruisers. I know the new ones are alot, but aren't the old school ones pretty cheap now?

11/1/2007 12:31:03 AM

^^ oh yeah, agreed. definitely the functional choice.

11/1/2007 12:44:10 AM

the old days

11/1/2007 7:48:29 AM

^diggin the runner. you ever get rid of the buggy? that thing was badass.

11/1/2007 8:59:08 AM

in the vein of posting our old shit

11/1/2007 9:48:16 AM

slrav/jeepman, where it that at?

11/1/2007 9:58:15 AM

harlan, ky.

11/1/2007 11:57:48 AM

where the fuck is a pic of the yarrrr charrrgerrr ?????

11/1/2007 12:00:33 PM

yeah i sold the buggy to a guy here in charleston. had a new rolling chassis built with rocks and sold it to pay for my wedding.

11/1/2007 6:21:03 PM

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"had a new rolling chassis built with rocks and sold it to pay for my wedding."

there's something wrong with this sentence, i just can't figure out what it is...

11/1/2007 9:27:16 PM

11/2/2007 4:28:15 AM

cocaines a hell ofa drug

11/2/2007 3:31:46 PM

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" there's something wrong with this sentence, i just can't figure out what it is... "

yeah if you had told me i would say this 5 years ago, i would have called you a dumb nigger.....

11/2/2007 4:43:20 PM

ditched the running boards and put some 31x10.50s i had lying around on it...

now i've just got to find a 4x4 front end and transfer case....

11/7/2007 6:17:37 PM

I just got me a rockhoppin vehicle w00t I'm comic out wid ya fools all on my own next time let's do it!

11/9/2007 2:35:21 AM

hell yeah, what'd you get? we need to hit uwharrie once more before it closes for the winter.

11/9/2007 2:47:39 AM

i think im gonna sell this gas burner

11/9/2007 7:09:05 AM