2008 Tatum Black Widow Dual Sport
Sand Car Specs
2008 Tatum Black Widow Spider/Dual Sport (it is posted in Tatum’s photo gallery from when they first built the car, check it out, you’ll recognize the graphics “Skeletor”)
Many Dual Sport upgrades and options
2683 lbs.
0.120 chromoly frame, extra support at all stress areas, black/metallic blue powder coat (Dual Sport specs). Recently added extra gussets at rear trailing arms, inserted 0.250” wall chromoly tubing inside of rear torque tube to handle additional offroad racing stress’s
Dual skinned aluminum floor, cup holder cut outs at driver and passenger floors
Carbon Fiber body panels, dash, floor tunnel, hood. Aluminum roof, storage trunk and (3) LED tail lights in upper spoiler
650 HP (dynoed) LS-1, 383 cu in stroker, professionally built Venom Racing engines for Terrible Herbst Racing. Polished custom Tunnel Ram, jet coat headers, CAM shorty mufflers, Eagle 4340 chromoly stroker crank assembly with H-Beam rods, JE flat top pistons – 11:1 compression, roller cam/lifters/rockers, Melling high volume/high pressure oil pump Recent engine rebuild to include fresh bearings, rings, oil pump, etc. 11:1 compression, 110 octane gas needed. Formerly in Terrible Herbst Racing prerunner.
Ron Davis double pass/cross flow radiator with 3 SPAL electric fans and custom shroud. Runs 180 degrees all day long even in heat and full throttle
Mendeola S-4 tranny, dual billet sequential shifter. Fully rebuilt 2013 ($8000, ran one time since rebuild)
935 300M race CV’s with 35 spline 300M axles. . Fully rebuilt 2013
Rear Dual Sport 300M sway bar, billet control arms. All Heims and control joints Fully rebuilt 2013, all worn parts replaced with new chromoly rod ends and bolts
Boxed chromoly rear trailing arms with mid-board hubs, billet brake line hardware, 25” travel. All Heims, bushings and control joints Fully rebuilt/replaced 2013
6 piston rear brakes (new pads)
4 piston front brakes (new pads)
300M power steering rack, Howe pump and reservoir with filter. Fully rebuilt 2013
Biller front a-arms, billet brake line hardware – 25” travel All Heims and control joints Fully rebuilt/replaced 2013
Billet knuckles with 2” hollow chromoly spindles, All Heims and control joints Fully rebuilt/replaced 2013
(Front) 2” King coil overs with remote reservoirs, 2” king by-pass shocks. Fully rebuilt and trail tested/adjusted 2013
(Rear) 2.5” King coil overs with remote reservoirs, 2.5” king by-pass shocks. Fully rebuilt and trail tested/adjusted 2013
2 HID headlights
4 HID headlights on upper light bar. (currently removed for trailer ceiling clearance but easily re-installed. We actually don’t like the looks of it nor do we run much at night so we always leave off, plus one or two of the lights are broken from a Chris oops moment. The two lights are easily replaceable if anyone cared. Modern LED’s seem to be the newest choice of lighting so maybe upgrade if you’re into night rides?)
20 gallon foam filled race fuel cell
Dual Optima batteries with dual/single/off marine style switch
Autometer gauges (Tach, oil, water, fuel)
Lowrance 480 series GPS
Racer-X race radio, most of the popular crystals (channels) pre-loaded, (4) carbon fiber headsets with strap behind the head style for better comfort
AM/FM/IPOD/CD stereo, 4 speakers, 1 sub-woofer
Intercom with 4 behind the head headphones. (These are the good ones that put the metal bracket behind your head instead of on top which makes for more comfortable wearing. Actually I think one of them is broken but can be easily fixed by the company. I dragged it outside the car and f*cked it up a bit. They said send to them and no problem fixing but we never use all 4 anyway.)
Removable leather wrapped billet steering wheel
CNC brake pedals, dual reservoirs
CNC clutch pedal, single reservoir
Billet throttle pedal
Rear dual lever cutting brakes
Lighted whip/flag
4 leather Beard buckets w/5 point harnesses
Leather interior and headliner with custom patterned and padded backing
10.80 Extreme Apex on 17” billet DUAL bead lock rims front (newer tires, rims have inner and outer bead locks, very rare)
16.00x35 Extreme Eliminators, #2 cut on 17” DUAL bead lock rims rear, very rare. Mickey Thompson drag race inner tubes (newer tires)
Just completed full race prep 11-02-16. Car is super reliable, fast, handles awesome and is a blast to drive. Needs nothing, 100% ready to dune. Sacrifice at $60,000. Over $40,000 into engine alone. Full set of off road tires/rims included for those Desert runs.
Contact Chris - Email REB3036@gmail.com, car located in Cedar City,UT
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