2012 Lil Sahara Raptor Dune Run - Pics, Videos, and Report

[Yukon Joe]

Yes you did. You should get one framed.

Joe

 

[Yukon Joe]

Whtrapta where are all those picture you and your dad took??? He was in some good vantage points. Would love to see some.

Joe

 

[MotuMute]

58 Foot Dune Jump - Should have stopped with this one haha, but went on to do just one more (ouch!). On this jump, the camcorder died and lost the landing. I had my truck-attached GoPro running, and didn't know it but Cory had picked his GoPro Hero off the sand and caught the truck as it went by... This landing was saved by the heroes!


YouTube

 

[Yukon Joe]

The video is private...

Joe

 

[MotuMute]

I guess "private" is the default setting... ok should be fixed

 

[Allied Offroad]

sweet!! where is the video of the big jump!!

 

[Jerryballs]

That's totally insane! Nice execution!! How hard was that landing... Looked silky.

 

[Wilson]

nice air

 

[MotuMute]

That 58 foot jump turned out perfect, which is why I should have stopped there. All I wanted was some cool pics and a nice video to post up of my performance test of the Fox 3.0's (which are amazing through whoops and jumps).

But then I had to go and look at the HD camcorder footage right away... Couldn't wait. The wind was really blowing a lot of fine sand and too much in the camcorder gearing caused it to grind to a halt just as the truck was about to land - definitely couldn't see the 3.0's do their thing. So decided to do one more jump...

After a several more passes without getting big air, we decided the ruts were getting too deep and shifted a little bit to the right. This made a big difference and after several test passes, I upped it by 5 mph on this last run - no hang ups and it really crested the dune.


Raptor Dune Run- Project X 76 foot Dune Jump - Lil Sahara 2012 - YouTube


Truck soared 76 feet... which was really cool until I landed. I overshot the downslope of the dune and managed to impact the driver's side first - HARD! (Steep learning curve here - We were jumping the left side of the dune so now it makes sense that the truck would tilt more left - this was more noticeable on a longer jump with a flatter landing. Plus the left side is also heavier with full tank of gas and driver weight). Truck with 3.0's held up well.

 

[Yukon Joe]

So after the run I noticed the steering wheel was of center ever so slightly. I took it back to the dealer to have them check the front end alignment. Even though I have the alignment cams, the toe setting was way out. Had to get another alignment. Makes sense after airing it out.

Cody and John, how are you alignments?

Yukon Joe