scott

I have 2 potential issue that could hold my arrival up until Saturday morning.. Wife may have to work Friday and new trailer is due in early next week but will need a few things done to it before I take delivery. Having said that, noon or later would be better for me if that is the case because I probably wont get to Dumont until 9 or 10AM Saturday. I am still hopeful that I will get there Friday.

Thanks for pointing that out! I must have just missed the post. I guess it is settled.. We will be camping with YNOT! I am getting excited!! Cant wait to take the rail out in Dumont! The big dunes are calling!

Thanks for the invite! We will take you up on that! I just missed your post and started a new thread... When are you heading out there? We plan on getting there Friday morning..

Unfortunately, I dont think we can make it into the soft stuff with our RV so we probably wont be able to camp with the main DDR group. We are looking for others to camp with.. We will have the kids with us.. My 5 year old daughter who rides a quad, 9 year old son who has a KX65 with paddle, 16 year old daughter who will probably be riding one of our other quads, the wife and myself... If you are planning on heading out there with the family and would like another family or 2 to join you, please let me know. We plan on getting there on Friday the 27th in the morning. Thanks!! Scott

Im in! When and where?

If any of you are going to be camping in the hard stuff and want some company, let me know. I dont think I can make it into the soft stuff with my rig. I will be with the wife and kids.

This is like Family Fued! Do we have a Spare CV on the board???

That was pretty much my plan.. Make a run for it and get as close as possible.. Are you going to be on the other side of the last finder or on the parking lot side of the last finger by the woops on the way to comp?

If I can get to the camp site, I'll chip in! No punn intended. Count us in... Even if you guys cant tow the rig in, we got the rail and will commute! How about chile??

Hmmm.. Good question. That could be a problem unless there are some good 4x4's.. I can air way down but that may still be an issue. I was wondering about that when I saw the map you posted earlier in the thread. Last time I went to Pismo, I had 2 4x4'x pull me way back into the dunes but I may need to find another group who plans on camping in a more RV friendly area..

We are planning on coming out as well.. Pete, do you mind if we hang with the group?

Since I got my rail, I have become very good at getting stuck and getting out of it. No one story in particular, but I have been to Pismo 3 times this summer and pretty much gotten stuck every time. This is with a 39' pusher and a 24' loaded to the max toy hauler behind it! One thing that helped me out big time is the RV's levelers...When I get stuck I use them raise the rear wheels or front wheels and a shovel to fill in the hole. After learning to air down after my first trip, learning to ditch the trailer on the hard pack before barreling into a camp site and adding a hitch receiver up front on the RV for easy tows. I do much better. I now have a set of Staun deflators (priceless) for the RV and and another set for the trailer (s) as I learned that I really need to air down every single tire. I air the RV down to 30 (front and rear) and the trailer down to 15. Deflators are a must have!! Screw them on and kick back for about 5 minutes while 4 tires air themselves down to a preset level! Who ever invented these things deserves a medal! The second trip out before I had them, my friend and I spent more than a hour perhaps as much as 2 airing down the RV, 2 trailers! (14 tires total). On the last trip, after getting these, the RV one trailer (10 tires) were done in about 10-12 minutes and my fingers weren't sore from holding a screw driver into the valve stem! I also had some auto inflators made. The RV uses CO2 tanks to fill up 2 tires at a time preset to 110PSI in about 7 minutes per pair from 30 PSI!! You just clip the hoses onto the valve stems and walk away. This was an expensive set up but if you ever tried to fill an RV tire up using a compressor, than the few hundred dollars that this set up cost me would seem well worth it. I had a different but similar set up made for the trailers and chase truck if it comes along. Clip on to 2 tires and set the pressure on the valve and fire up the compressor. It takes about 5-6 minutes to fill up 2 trailer tires to about 65PSI from 15. This cost much less and does a great job! Between the deflators and inflators, airing up and down is now a breeze! The last trip to Pismo, I met up with another group who convinced me to camp further back in the dunes (normally I try to camp just above the high tide mark so I can get out).... They promised they would get me up there. I was reluctant but I agreed. I aired down and un-hitched my trailer on the hard pack and figured I would make my best attempt up sand highway without the use of a tow vehicle.. I actually got pretty far but did get stuck. The sand was way soft! Now they proceeded to hook up a pair of 4x4's (one in front of the other) to teh front of my RV and gave a whole new meaning to "pulling a train".. To my amazement, they drug me without any problem. The funniest part was watching the truck in the middle go sideways from being pulled in the front by one truck and having me attached to his bumper!

I am out here at Pismo Beach with the rail. The weather is great.. Dunes are packed with people but managed to get some good jumping in and have some pics to prove it.. This was a pretty big jump. The landing was a down hill slope into a bowl. We were landing on all four wheels about 40-50' down the hill. These pics are on the way up. I will try to get some more!

I have an LTR450 with the yoshi RS5 full exhaust, yoshi PIM, modified airbox with Pro Flow intake and K&N filter.. I also added trailtech Bars and bar clamp as well as Trail Tech HID lights. Fenders are shaved and stock light is removed. I added full skids plates and Bling Star nerfs. It screams compared to stock! I also have a 06 YZ250F with a White Bros full exhaust, jetted with a Vortex ignition.. Also night and day over stock.

I have the LTR450 and love it! Like you, I started with the Cherry bomb (CB), air box lid removal and spark arrestor removed. By they way, mine did not leave the dealership as new without the above 3 so I would add the cherry bomb now and not worry about it. Shortly after I bought it, I added the full yoshi which was a nice bump in power. Then, I added the PIM which was a nice change from the CB as it was much "snappier" and seemed to pull much harder than the CB which PIM replaces. I am now running a K&N filter on a pro flow intake and also cut the air box down some as the seat restricts airflow big time with the airbox stock. This added even more power. Now the bike with the PIM, full yoshi with no spark arrestor, air lid removed, cut down air box and a K&N filter with the intake to match flat out screams! It is such a night and day difference over stock that if you were blind folded, it would feel like going from a 250 to a VERY strong 450. The bike has soooo much potential with a few mods that it is scary! Pipe, PIM and cut airbox will add several HP over stock with the spark arrestor removed, air box lid removed and CB.. By the way, dont run the bike with the lid removed or sparky removed without the CB.

Here's my new baby... :shocked2:

Great point! I completely forgot about that and I think I would have a cooling issue due to the radiator location as well as the scoop on the intercooler.. I too like the wind in my face so, I guess we just officially scrapped the wind shield idea.

Would you believe that we didn't take any pics!! Frankly I wasn't expecting to really go off on the rail like I did so I was a bit ill prepared. I cant wait to get to Dumont.. I am sure those rasor backs will be quite interesting (scary) for me.. At least the first few times. I am sure I will take it very slowly and at a good angle.. Frankly, I think I will be dependent one you guys to show me the ropes going over the rasor backs. The whole digging the front tire in is not somting I want to experience. It would seem to me that you dont want to brake going over the edge and instead, would really need to hit the gas once you are over the edge to keep the front end light and keep the car tracking down the hill.. I guess I will find that out when we get to make the Dumont runs later this year. One thing I would like to look into is a wind shield but I just dont like the idea of tearing up the powder coat on the frame where mount points would need to be added. I actually thought about doing a complete tear down and re powder coating but after looking at the wiring behind the dash, it looked like more of a nightmare than I care to dive into right now. Funny thing is that I dont think I have laughed so hard in my life like I did when I was out in the rail.. Still can't get it out of my mind and it still keeps me smiling! I wish pismo was not the nigtmare that it is since it is so convenient for me at 160 miles away! Dumont is 230 miles but the damn 15 Fwy is a nightmare with all the bumps at every overpass between Barstow and Baker. I thought I was going to blow my tires out about every 5 minutes.

Well as some of you may know I got my first rail. Probably in over my head but that is my life story. Pismo was a nightmare last weekend. I have a class A which hauled the toy hauler with the quads and a Suburban which my friend drove with the sand rail trailer. The Suburban had and issue where the check engine light would flash when the truck was going up a hill and would loose power. After stopping on the way and deciding to chance it by babying the truck under load, I opted to not turn around. The truck made it to Pismo my relief. Once we got there, I realized that it was more packed with people than I have ever seen it. Got there Friday and could not find a camp site that was close enough to the packed sand that I was willing to take my Class A into.. After driving up and down the beach and getting stuck once trying to turn around, I opted to pull up along the side of the tide line and cool my jets.. I was ready to turn around at that point and head home. Camp sites with one or two campers and hundred of feet of beach roped off... Not cool. So we pulled off to the side and did not bother to unload. After making friends, we got a spot lLate Friday. Early Saturday morning I pulled the rail out of the trailer. and took it for a first ride. Frankly I was shocked.. I have raced street bikes (Yamaha R1) at Willow Springs Raceway so I am used to fast vehicles. I also have a 68 Camoro that is pretty happy as well as owned a number of fast cars.... I have NEVER been is somthing so violently fast! The car us like docter Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde. Jeckyl is 800 RPM to 3000 RPM. Very cruisable. Hyde is 3000 RPM up... A very fast 3000 and up. It is hard to shift quick enough let alone see straight. One of my friends was too scared to get in it again. Not because I scared him with my driving but because the sound of the Turbos and engine coupled with the acceleration was too much for him.. His wife was a different story.. She loved it and went out a couple times. So we tooled around in it.. I jumped it a bunch.. Some really big jumps and was really surprised.. My first jump, I really tensed up in the air expecting a big impact and I was more than surprised by how well these cars handled the rough stuff. I hardly felt the landing. My favorite was a ridge between 2 half bowls. The ridge was at such an angle that when I took off, the right side of the was much higher than the left side which set me up for a perfect landing on the side/face of the bowl. We did it close to a dozen times. I would hit the jump in the power band of 2nd gear and fly 30-40 feet. The landings were perfectly smooth and soft every time. I could not believe it. The wife and friends wife could not get enough of it. My wife kept screaming "dukes of hazard" and my son now thinks I am Robby Gordon! Needless to say after never having even been in a sand rail before, I am more than sold... While I don't think I will take it back to Pismo I cant wait to get it to Dumont!! Those hills will be a blast. I am sooo stocked and my face still hurts from perma-grin!!!

I could have got the tires off Ebay for $670 delivered but I ended up paying $800 mounted and balanced including tax from my local tire dealer whom I have an account with. I didn't want to wait an extra week for them to cross the country and I did not want to deal with mounting the tires to the rims. Too many bolts to torque! I bought the 16x7 bead lock rims from Joe at Fullerton Sand Sport for about $800. He has always taken great care of me when I needed sand tires and rims for the quads and I was thrilled to know that was carrying the BTR rims and at a very competive price. If you ever need rims or sand tires, I highly recommend him!

Here are some pics of the off road tires on the car. I drove it around the block this morning and it is definately too fast for the street. Red line comes extremely fast once it hits boost! :shocked2: I cant believe how fast it is!

I got my off road wheels and tires and installed my GPS. I made a small bracket to mount the GPS antenna above one of the lights. It worked out pretty well. I need to clean the bracket up a bit and polish it or paint it to match the light. Here are some pics.

Took some pictures..

Careful I will be!!! About 12 years back I flew off the top of a dune wide open at Pismo by mistake.. I was on a quad and very fortunatly I landed on all four wheels flat at the bottom of a 30-40 ft dune.. I never crashed but was very sore and pretty frightened. I remember screaming ohh $hit once I was airbourn and realized what had happened. Frankly, even since then, the dunes kind of scare me... At least to the point that I am VERY cautious and try read the terrain much more carefully... Not to mention that I ride much slower.. I am sure it will be pretty easy to take it easy with the car since the power by itself is enough to scare the hell out of me. I am sure I will be laughing like there is no tomorrow on my first several runs!

Well, the car was delivered this morning. I cant believe how big it looks in the garage. I took one spin around the block in the passenger seat and that was enough!!!! It is CRAZY FAST!!!! The former owner took me on a get to know it run around the block on some cheesy wheels/worn tires that he borrowed... I didn't even want to drive it after that! He got on the gas and I could swear the front wheels were off the ground and he barely got it into the power band. It hits hard! After the spin around the block, we put it in the garage and put the paddles on it. I cant wait to take it to the sand! Next week I should have a new set of 15x7 bead locks with 35x12.50 d*ck Cepek/ Micky Thompson Fun Country 2's and I will take it for another spin.. I will take some pics shortly..