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Every part on our web site or in our catalog that has this
symbol, are off the shelf parts we use on our race Bronco. This means these
are not extra fancy or supper expensive racing parts they are just our
standard high quality off the shelf parts we sell every day but have been
tested and proven to hold up in one of the most famous and roughest races in
the world.
If you don't see the Baja proven symbol it doesn't mean
the part wasn't good enough for testing in the Baja but because the class 3
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The Ledgendary Mint 400 is back. We will be racing the Mint 400 Saturday March 26 2011 in Las Vegas. If you are near Vegas or Freemont Street come on by and have a great time you can catch the race, the party's or just come out and have a great time with us.
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| Texas Race Schedule |
March 26th-27th Austin, Texas
May 14th-15th Shamrock 200 Erick, Oklahoma
July 23rd- 24th No trees,Texas
September 23rd-25th Texas 400 Odessa, Texas
For more info about the texas races go to texasoff-road.com
or email John at john@texasoff-road.com
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Our 2011 Season Race Sponsors |
Thanks to all of our sponsors for making it possible for us to race the 2009 race season
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| OUR FIRST YEAR RACING THE
2003 BAJA |
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| A FEW
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Q Why does BC Broncos race?
A Three reasons, The main
reason: to test parts we design and sell. What better way to test out our
parts than to abuse them in the most extreme environment, 1000 miles of
Hell. I have heard that 1000 miles in Baja is like 50,000 miles of normal
day-to-day driving. If that is true, the Bronco has done very well. The
second reason: to get more people excited about Broncos and to continue the
legend of the Bronco. The third reason: off-road racing kicks ass. Once we
did it we had to do it again. Anyone can join the team, and if you do, you
will never forget your experience and will want to do it again.
Q Why did you paint your Race
Bronco like the American flag? Who suggested it?
A Jason suggested it because we are patriotic and love America. He got out of the Army after
4 years of service 4 days before 9/11, and we wanted to show our pride in
America and our Bronco. |
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| AT THE STARTING LINE |
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| READY FOR PAINT |
The flag on our Bronco is not a sticker, It is taped off, painted, air
brushed and shadowed to give it the wave affect.
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| DOING SOME TESTING |
LOTS OF TESTING
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| THE DRIVERS ARE THE HARDEST WORKING |
Hey, you are supposed to be racing not sleeping! Only 30 miles in we heard over
the radio "the truck doesn't turn left". We told them we would meet them at the
first road crossing and try to fix the steering. It was a good thing we had
them stop. The reason the Bronco would not turn left was, we were trying a new
lower track bar mount design. The way it was mounted it was actually pushing
the right radius arm off the front-end, shifting the front-end to the right
and not letting the driver turn left. This caused a major problem. The
center section of the front-end housing smashed into the oil pan leaving a
large hole. Jason yells, "kill the engine we are leaking oil".
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| THE PIT CREW DOING A GREAT JOB |
The first thing we needed to do was to stop the oil leak.
We drained the oil
and welded up the holes in the pan. We then moved on to the original steering problem.
We had only two options; call the race because it was too dangerous or to
move the track bar mount to a semi-stock location and shorten the track bar.
We had some steel so we decided to go that route. Jack welded up a track bar
mount with the steel we had and got us out of the pit stop in under 2 hrs.
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| AIR CONDITIONING |
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Yes, thanks to Vintage Air, the BC race Bronco
has AIR CONDITIONING. Why would you put A/C in a race Bronco that doesn't
even have a windshield? This filtered A/C is designed to go directly into the driver and co-drivers
helmet, cooling the head and keeping a positive pressure in the helmet to
keep from breathing dirt. When it gets cool at night we can shut off the
A/C and just have fresh air blowing in the helmet.
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| REAR SUSPENSION |
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The rear suspension has been stretched 10" and the shackles are
longer for more flex. We are using Deaver springs.
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| OLD HORSE
RACING |
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This is the place to go for info about racing early Broncos, if you want
to race your early Bronco or want to be part of the pit crew. here is the
forum link. http://www.oldhorseracing.org/BRF/ .Started by Chuck and Dan to help
promote and support the Broncos legacy in racing and to continue that
tradition. |
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| THE 2005 CREW |
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| 2004 3rd PLACE FINISH |
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After 1017 miles, one broken cross-member, a few flat tires, lots of cactus
smashing and a rollover, we took third place.
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BAJA IS HARD ON
EQUIPMENT |
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| NEW PARTS |
DESIGNED AS A DIRECT RESULT OF OUR
RACING IN BAJA
ADJUSTABLE TRACK BAR |
| Our Adjustable Track bar is the first part we designed as a direct result of
Racing Baja. We found in testing that the standard adjustable track bar
would break at were the upper end threaded into the main part of the bar
track bar and that the upper bushing would go bad, making the Bronco harder
to handle at high speed. Here is the link to check it out.
http://bcbroncos.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=327
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RADIUS ARMS
Two days before we left for Baja, Jason and Wes took the racer out for a
quick test run just up the driveway (1/4 mile long). They got out of the
wash, the truck got a little squirrelly and they just hit the edge of a
cement pylon about 5' long and 18" in diameter at about 50 mph
with the front tire. They were wearing their helmets and 5 point seatbelts
so they were not hurt. They said they didn't think they hit it that hard.
When they got back to the shop, they said the Bronco was a little hard to
turn. We got it in the shop and put it on the lift and found a few things
wrong. The radius arm was trashed, the new 4x4x2 power steering box sector
shaft was twisted and cracked, and on the new F150 left side tie rod, the tapered
shaft was actually bent into a slight "S" shape. We now have the steering
sector shaft, steering knuckles and spindles cryo-treated. This is also the
reason we decided to build our new radius arms. This is WHY we race, to see
what breaks and how to make it better. Click the picture for more info. |
HEIM TIE-ROD AND DRAG LINK STEERING WITH
TAPERED STUDS |
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This was the third product we built because of racing the Baja 1000. We
ran our cut down Heavy Duty F-150 tie-rods until the 2004 race during the
race at round mile marker 900 Chuck and Wes rolled the racer, when
they got it to the pit stop we saw that the tie-rods were really sloppy
and we had to take some extra time to change them out .We don't know if it
was because of the tie-rods being sloppy that caused them to roll over or
the roll over damaged the tie-rods but we know with the new heim steering
set up it won't be a problem in future races. Click the picture for more
steering parts. |
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| Here are some parts that we have been working
on and have been testing in Baja but have not worked out yet. We are sure
this section will grow as we try new things. |
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| In 2005 One proto-type that didn't work out too well.
The track bar was
actually pulling the radius arm off the axle wedges, moving the axle to the
passenger side, keeping the Bronco from turning to the left.
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