No Limit's "K-10"

[Lolyin58]

Great job guys!! Good to see the trucks kickin some butt over the car guys. Have fun at LS Fest.

[oldman3]

Congrats, and keep at it....Jim

[widewhite70]

Here's a shot of you in the pits, awesome truck!
Calvin

[67cheby]

well if that is a shot of "him" in the pits he is much better looking then i remember ....and he has a nice set of legs..just sayin !

[widewhite70]

Originally Posted by 67cheby

well if that is a shot of "him" in the pits he is much better looking then i remember ....and he has a nice set of legs..just sayin !

LOL that is a good point you make there! Thats actually my girlfriend, I didn't even realize she was in this picture until we got back to town.

[67cheby]

oh.......well then ...well done sir !! LOL, she looks like a keeper !

[widewhite70]

LOL thanks buddy

[robnolimit]

OK, back in the shop. So, here's a recap of our adventures.
I started out tuesday the 26th, early in the am, with three days to get to Des Moines. I've never really been through the panhandle region, so I planned my route to pass that way. Day 1 Santa Rosa NM. Day 2 north/west Misouri. So, the panhandle looks like it's being taken over by big food producers, and everything else is in decay. I could be wrong, but thats what it looks like where I was. In Des Moines I learned about weather apps for the I-phone - not needed here, but usefull. Thursday night I ran out after hearing a radio promo to see the "Mother Trucker" band at a local bar. No kidding. How could I pass that up! Des Moines is always a big and fast track. For a moment I had the overall lead (about 45 min.) then Brit Marloff in the RideTech Camaro ran a dream lap and pulled ahead by 3/10's - I never caught him. 2nd overall is a good finish.
The showdown between Hellboy and the Saturday Night Special, now dubbed "Snoopy", had some drama. Trent and the boys missed friday, and couldn't make up the track knowledge we all had in a day. They also had some track bar issues. In the end, they conceeded and vowed to come back in Columbus. I struggled with fadding brakes all weekend. If you were there, and saw me jockying the truck back and forth before each ran, I was trying to warm up the brakes so they would stop. It was pretty inconsistant.
Monday I drove the long way (hwy 50) to Jasper and RideTech. Nice guys there and always willing to put up a traveler. Tuesday I used there shop to fix the brake problem, I think. Wilwood says that I didn't bed them in properly. So I pulled them apart, sanded all the surfaces and re-assembled it, and went out and really bedded thm in. No better. So, I started bleading and adjusting and finnaly got them to start working. I really don't know what it was. As I was working on that problem, the shop was buzzin getting ready for Columbus. Brad Coomer and Jason Brady stopped by to get some gusstes made for thier track bar, and to pick up some take off tires from Brett. (thats budget racing) Off to Columbus. I got in wed, and Tina (my wife) flew in wed afternoon. Our friends from Va. showed up late wed night. They had no power for a week and then said screw it, lets go. Friday morning the pits were filling up and it was already hot. As we ran in the morning it was becoming obvious tha Trent and the boys were on to something. I made a gear change at lunch while the Street Machine cars were running. From 3.55 to 3.31 to calm the tire down. After lunch we kept gaining ground, and Coomer and Snoopy had the line down and were pulling ahead. Saturday morning was the Sponsor Shootout. I stumbled on the starting line and ran a 34.087 Qualifying lap. Not good. That was probably my best lap of the weekend, not counting the time I lost on the line. In round one I ran the Roadster Shop C-10 and edged them out. Round two put me up against Brian Finch's 70 Camaro. I went in to hot on the far end and that was it, lost the round by .256 sec. Coomer and Snoopy had run the fastest lap to qualify 1rst, and that gave them a bye run in round three. The final was Coomer vs. Finch. Coomer ran a flawless lap for the win. I was so ecxited I ran out on the track to congradulate him. (got a talking to about that)
It was great to have a truck win the shootout. I never did catch Coomer, he was on fire all weekend. And so we are 1 and 1 in our battle. I still feel like I won, as Snoopy is outfitted with No Limit suspension front and rear. And in the bigger picture, Trucks kicked ass! And, EVERYBODY was talking about TRUCKS!!!!
Here's the recap. Trucks ran the FASTEST LAP, Won the Sponsor Shootout, We had 3 trucks in the top 10 overall, 4 in the top 12. There were 9 trucks in the 71 entries. The SLOWEST truck was 36th overall, yes, faster than 35 cars! Hats off to all the guys who ran there trucks. Great job. Yes, it was HOTTT!, but what a great weekend.

[robnolimit]

still the best quote of the weekend. "my shorts are so wet I could keep goldfish in there"

[Lolyin58]

Thanks for the recap Rob. Sounded like you guys had a blast. Congrats and keep up the good work!

[widewhite70]

Here's a video of Rob in Columbus
http://youtu.be/9ajpzXhGYwA

[ERASER5]

Originally Posted by robnolimit

still the best quote of the weekend. "my shorts are so wet I could keep goldfish in there"

So who was Mr. Fishpants?

[ohsolowtrent]

Well said sir Well said ! Until we meet agian on an Autocross track or country road cause you know this **** ain't done........ LOL
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[low88burb]

i want to thank ohslotrent for autographing my sons chevy truck shirt saturday of good guys in des moines, he wanted robs too but was to far from the fence. it made his week.

[ccracin]

Here is Rob doing his thing in Columbus! Truck looked awesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY42kYvjIBA&feature...

Here was his competition in the trucks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQgZdhsNt4s&feature...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTuwGq5Cpy8

The trucks were representing!

[oldman3]

ccracin, thanks for posting....Jim

[robnolimit]

thanks for the video. you can learn something from every run. I still can't stop smiling at how trucks kicked ass in Columbus.

[Lolyin58]

Awesome and thanks for posting!

[NewType72]

where'd all the updates go? I'm havin withdrawals

[mcmlxix]

I just watched the Hot Rod TV episode about DSE and there is a shot of the truck driving away from the camera ...

[robnolimit]

Since Columbus, we had some time lost in getting the truck back home, so not much happening. In the last few weeks we went out testing at AMP, our locak playground, and made some imrovements. We had gone to a softer rear sway bar back east to try to get it bite more in a corner, all the while not knowing that the "gold drive" posi unit was too tight. OK, WAY too tight. That makes it get loose easy. Now that we have the posi set up correctly, it's a lot better. We went out to AMP last saturday for the So Cal Challenge, and did great, we ran a 44.76. Thats our fastest lap yet, thats the good news. To get that we had the rear shocks as tight as possible. - that tells me I need a stiffer rear bar. Hmmm.

[gringoloco]

Full circle- funny how that works sometimes...
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[NewType72]

damn man glad to see her warmin up those camaros better look out the trucks will be setting the standard now

[68 TT]

Good to hear you found the trouble spot with the posi being too tight and are getting quicker. Sounds like your original rear bar was the right choice to start with and the posi was making things unpredictabe. I hadn't thought about the handling impacts of too much clutch pack preload.
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[lolife99]

Congrats Rob on getting the cover of the Nov. 2012 issue of StreetTrucks magazine.
Great feature inside also.