SlowerThanYou

Cylinders are machined & shipped today with pistons; supposed to be here Fri. Need to get the crank to Crank Works for a rebuild & longer rods. 2BKING 💲💲💲

There're only 2 guys that I know of that do this. Myself & Tedder, I use the DMX & Tedder is go to a DM. If I could change cylinders, I would go DM & more stroke. I would have to buy different cases to go to a DM cylinder. The quad has always been a secondary play toy with us & not a priority. We mainly race against motorcycles, bracket or index racing. We occasionally run heads-up & if we get the DMX done. The next heads-up race will be in Oct. at the Kingman Street Drags against motorcycles. 2BKING 😉

Ordered the new cylinders today & need to get some longer rods. Time to redo the infamous DMX. Here's to having a bigger motor! 🍺 2BKING 🙃

Well, that was a waste of money. Need to replace the cylinders too much corrosion in the water jackets. Someone used hard tap water in the cooling system & let it set. It wasn't under my care! We got ahold of CP today to check on new cylinders. Looks like we might be going to an 85 bore. I'm taking a few days to stew on spending more $$$ on this headache! 2BKING 🤑

Got two Polaris Trail Boss 350L Wiseco pistons ordered for the DMX & should be here this week. Plan is to have it back to the track in 2 1/2 weeks. We are going back to focusing on 1/8th mile times. We will have to run 1/4 mile but will cut the throttle at the 1,000' mark. Not going to win many races that way, but it is what it is. The reason the focus is going to be on 1/8th mile, Kingman Street Drags is scheduled for Oct. 2026. 2BKING 😜

Sorry, I've been pretty busy; sucks to be retired! I work harder now, then when I had a career. We put a hole in the right-side piston on the DMX this past weekend on the 1st run. We got a fresh can of Q16 & opened the power jets 1/2 turn. Thought the boy was only going to take to the 1/8th mile as discussed, the night before. Guess he forgot & the motor went sour at the 1,000'! As for the Q, it's what we did with the Cub after a discussion with VP tech director. He stated way back then it will make more HP than methanol, he was right. It will not make the mid-range torque of meth & he was correct on that. We only care about HP & keep the engine in a very narrow rpm range. It works for our program. We are using a standard lock-up for now. While I had the engine out for the new billet trans, I did mock-up the multi-stage lock-up. I have to do some machine work to make it work. Don't really want to monkey with either of the outdated systems. I'm looking at the Gen II multi-stage, basket driven system if I'm going to continue mess around with this shit. To be honest we have never used a white stripe with the quad or our other drag vehicles. Our 60' tuning has spoken for itself in proof of the 60'. Good to see you took some interest in the infamous DMX, it had a lot of teething pains over the years. If I had to do it all over again, I would have never gotten rid of the 443cc Cub. It was one bad Bitch on Q16 against bigger cc quads be it 300', hill shooting, 1/8th & 1/4 mile. It hurt a lot of feelings & hardly ever let us down. Water under the bridge, just old Cub war stories now! 2BKING 😉

Made it to the track this past weekend. It wasn't pretty for the 1st two runs & not much better on the last two. We had bog issues at the hit & blubbering down the track on 1st two runs. The next two passes were alright after we leaned out the power jets a full turn. Plus, we were almost a second slower than our passes last year. We were bucking a 25-mph head wind on all runs that has a good effect on slowing our runs. We attribute the other issue to old fuel. It was an un-opened can of Q16 that was 11 months old. I guess that's why we had to lean out the power jets that much. We did make some minor changes for this coming weekend races. New can of Q16 & I'm sure we'll have to richen the power jets back up. We changed the final gear ratio from a 1.94 to a 2.0. We also made an adjustment to the clutch lever switch that activates the 2-step for a quicker reaction time. The new transmission worked great. 2BKING 🥱

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I made 3/part throttle runs today through the override gears. It shifted like butter. Next weekend will be the true test at the track. I have to spend some more time with the back brake. Even though I flushed the fluid & bled, it's not working very well. Other than that, everything looks like it's ready to go. Thee one & only 1700Camaro/STY! ♿

Finally got around to firing the DMX today with no drama. Tomorrow, I test the new transmission. If everything goes well, it goes for track testing next weekend. 2BKING 🤔

I'm making slow headway on the DMX. I took some extra time to mockup the muti-stage lock-up. I need to do some machining on the inner clutch hub to make it work with the 8 plate Hinson set-up. The engine is in the chassis & mostly put together. I ordered some small stuff today to complete the cooling system. It's getting close & I found an old co-worker to help me start it. I plan on starting it next week some time & running it down the road to check out the transmission. That's all for now. Thee one & only 1700Camaro/STY! 👽

This is very good advice! 2BKING 🫵

Working on it; Getting older sucks, only good thing is retired 4 years ago! 2BKING 🍺

Nope, spent a couple days bench testing the trans. Had some troubleshooting & backyard machining correction to do. The engine is still on the bench & almost done, hope to get it hard mounted tomorrow. 2BKING 🍺

Thanks Bill for posting the picture of our Camaro!

I was going to update this thread with a picture & I don't do the Tap Talk BS. The Camaro was totally redone about 3 years ago. The motor SBC was reconfigured for a ProCharger & Holley Terminator X Stealth EFI. The car is pretty fast with a mild tune & only 15 lbs. of boost. When we 1st brought it out, I tried flipping it over on its back a couple times. We did some things pretty quickly to calm it down on the wheelies! 2BKING 🙃

The transmission was delivered today. The plan is to install in the lower case tomorrow & bench test it. The last time I did that was many moons ago & I had a 2nd person. I'm going to attempt by myself. If that doesn't work out, I'll have to call the boss lady to the shop. Anyway, hope to get that done & the top case glued to the bottom. The plan is to install the engine on Sun. & get things all hooked up. I need to start the motor sometime within a week or so. That's going to be fun, trying to remote start it my myself. The whole family is going on vacation to CA. I want no part of going there! I'll try & figure out something, some people say it can be done. We plan on testing it on the weekend of Jan. 23rd at the track. The following weekend we'll be racing it at the local points races. Thee one & only 1700Camaro/STY 🥱

I've always enjoyed your replies not just to me but mainly others here & on FB! You have a good head on your shoulders. I'm waiting on the new billet transmission to get here. The shop is a mess with both the DMX & Camaro all torn apart. We will be testing/racing both in 3 weeks, hopefully. My lightened frame & wallet is off the table for now. Been thinking about building an engine with more stroke & bigger bore. The only reason we want to do that is for the Kingman Street Drags. We can be competitive in heads-up in the motorcycle class on the street. Pretty sure we can do it with the DMX as is, but more CC would be nice. The problem with Kingman is rolling the dice if the event will happen or not. The plan this year is to run 1/4-mile bracket racing against the bikes. Really wish it was 1/8th mile racing to knock some mph out of the quad. Thee one & only 1700Camaro/STY! 🙃

We're a little north of 150 hp. Plus, our heavy chassis/rider weights are going to push the limits of the output shaft. The only saving grace may be the slip in the clutch at the hit. I really wanted to put in a Robinson billet but couldn't get ahold of them by phone or email. Not a peep back from them, that's no way to run a business! 2BKING 😉

The ones we heard of snapping were large stroke &/or nitrous. I guess we'll find out with our small 10mm. Should be testing/racing it in Jan.

Anyone running/racing a Driveline Performance/Tyson Racing Billet transmission? I just purchased one yesterday, should receive it in 2-3 weeks. Looks & sounds like a great product. Thee one & only 1700Camaro/STY 🤑

You are a Fucking Spammer, hit the road D-Bag. He's quoting people & inserting his spam link.

Brett, Glad you posted! Yep, we have been following & the 1/8-mile numbers they are putting down are insane! Who knows if they will go 1/4 mile or not. It's pretty hard to keep them alive that long under power. I would like to see them try it though. As for us even getting close to them numbers. Not going to happen with our heavy body's & quad. They're easily 300+ lbs. lighter total than us in total weight. I thought about building a titanium chassis & all the lightweight components. That would knock out about a -120 lbs. off the total. As for knocking weight off the rider, we would probably have to become a crack addict & still be 50 lbs. heavier. Plus, there's no way I'm paying a crack head rider to pilot my quad; it's for my son's & my use only. As for the titanium BS, that would get us somewhat faster but wouldn't even put us on the radar! So, what do we have now? An OG heavy weight quad museum piece. Thee one & only 1700Camaro/STY!😁

Neighbors don't mind & we don't abuse the privilege. We live in a rural area & the town is off road ATV, UTV & motorcycle friendly. We were just discussing what to do with the DMX. When they cancelled the Kingman Street Drags, it kind of took the wind out of our sails. The priority has always been the drag car/Camaro & the quad shit is kind of the Stepchild. We need to figure out something to do with it, other than being a conversation piece. Thee one & only 1700Camaro/STY 👽