Maybe the guy at the Pet Store forgot to tell you to disolve it in water first. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

I heard about this from Crafty as we ate carne asada on Fri. nite, with Ward660R standing right there, sheepishly grinning....

It seems Ward was looking for a cheap, reliable secret weapon back in the garage to put him over the top and secure his domination over all comers. As he feverishly looked throughout the garage, he noticed his dog had always had plenty of energy and figured.... what the he!!.

Preliminary testing revealed that indeed, there were significant power gains in Kibbles-N-Bits. Unfortunately, during preliminary testing, too much was used and just like nitrous, the head gasket blew. There's no shame in trying.

The Craycraft crew had his engine disassembled, removed some very large chunks of kibbles and reassembled it all faster than you can ladle gumbo into your bowl. Obviously, some more R&D needs to be done on the metering system before the next FSW...

Serious part: My prayers are with you and your wife. I sincerely hope that all is well. If there is ANYTHING at all that we can do to assist, please keep us posted.

And thanks for the gumbo, it was delicious!

Regards, Steve

 

Ward660R,

You averaged 51 miles an hour.

Did you have a hard time staying awake?

 

Thanks alot for all your thoughts and prayers! We still don't know whats wrong but I will keep ya'll up to date.

The dog food came out of the air filters and went throught the carb, I wonder why it stuck open just before it quit running. I guess a squirl or rat put it in the filters before winter while I was building the motor. I swear it wasn't just to add compression.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif[/img] I caught, and figure I will still, chatch alot of flack for this for awhile. Its is really funny though.

2badraps cooks some great carne asada. Thanks for the treat.

Chet, no problem staying awake. I stopped on the way for 2.5 hours and stopped on the way back for 3. Next time I will have to find a buddy to tag along.

 

Ward660R,

dog food

I saw that in Blueleaders pictures. I thought it was a joke and one I didn't get.

Just goes to show even small animals like Raptors.

 

with a story like that i'd say we're all just glad you lived through it.
so let me get this right....was it "dust" from the food that was sucked through the filters? or was there kibble inside the filter. i cant imagine a big chunk of dog food being pulled through those k+ns unless they were ripped by those evil squirrels. the "geico" commercial was a warning to us all. i keep a cap cover from a baby bottle in my exhaust just incase. i really hate it man. i regret not going but it was out of my hands. may be next year. and i hope whatever is wrong with your wife is o.k. by now. god bless ya.
later.

 

No it was not dust, it was full size kibbles and bits!!!! they didnt get sucked through the filters, they got placed into the filters(which were still attached to the intake) while they wre off the bike...

Crazy stuff!

RoostKing...

 

After we replaced the head gasket and fired it up it had a mean bark to it. The second dune ride out(the first ended in a broke tire rod end 100 feet from camp) he stopped at every bush and lifted 1 rear tire. LOL

Ben Ward was a great guy!!! I enjoyed conversing with him. Class act from mississippi!

 

Is it that easy to break tie rod end there? I have read other posts which I can't point to right at the moument where breakage occured.

Is there a tie rod monster!!!![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/img]

 

Speaking of class acts, the whole Craycraft Racing team is a class act!

And yes, there appears to be a tie rod eating monster out there! In my case, I got sucked over a small razorback and dropped into a witches eye, which bent the tie rod. A few kicks with the boot got it "close enough for Gov't work" and we got back to camp.

Then Mark (14mins) sold me his $20 tie rod for $10 just to save me some bucks and a trip to the shop.

Regards, Steve