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OLD BAJA 1000 MEXICAN RALLY (AKA NORRA 1000)
The NORRA 1000 is an off road rally race that our team, Trinity Motorsports, raced this past April. This is the third year that we’ve raced, and I am going to tell you our story from my point of view along the way. This will be a long post, and I’ll try to make sense as best I can, as I am not an educated man.
I was included in last years race, as a co driver/navigator and I did a whole write up on it, it was titled “While you dudes were at desert storm, I was co driving a trophy truck in Mexico”. I don’t know how to do a link that you can click on, hopefully the moderators can assist me with that. It is a fairly long post as well, but it has some great content, and pictures. I am going to give a description off what the race is about that will be a redundancy if you read, or have read my story last year.
Basically, the race is a five day event, starting in Ensenada, and finishing in San Jose Del Cabo.each day is comprised of a mixture of special stages, the actual full speed dirt racing, and transit stages, that go from each special stage to the next, that are on a highway, that you’re only allowed to travel at 60 MPH, that will go through each town,or each finish line. The total miles are like 1200.
We raced two cars in two different classes. We have a trophy truck, that is like a hybrid of a buggy and standard late model trophy truck.....basically, a truggy. It is a mid engine, meaning the engine is directly behind the cockpit. The transmission is between the driver and co driver, and then the output goes to a v-drive between the driver and co drivers feet, that sends the power back to a full size solid axle. The class we entered this in was “Evolution unlimited truck”. The second car we ran is a 2018 Can Am turbo max. The four door job. This car was entered in the “Evolution modified turbo utv”.
A little history, the previous year had a fair amount of drama. We installed a new engine in the TT before the race. The engine was built by Morruzzi race engines, a So cal engine builder that built this LS7 deal that was pretty potent, it made like 650 horse. As a result of a trans issue destroying the thrust bearing, the motor was destroyed in our trophy truck and the race was over, 150mi in. The can am, on the other hand, was pretty close to stock, and it did awesome. It made it all the way to Cabo.
In preparation for this years event, we had a new engine built by Jeff Ginter Racing Engines. This one was a whole new complete deal. The block was destroyed on the Morruzzi, as a result of a window put in the block from having a connecting rod deciding to not contribute anymore. This new block is a tall deck Dart, shaft rocker, dry sump, solid lifter, gigantic roller cam deal. Super spicy. It made over 700 horse, at 7000 RPM and 137 MPH wheel speed on the dyno. This meant a fair amount of re configuring the intake and exhaust setup in the car itself. The car only had 150 miles on it from last prep, for the last race, so it didn’t require a full tear down.
The Can Am on the other hand, needed a bunch of work. It got all new suspension, trailing arms, hubs, exhaust, tune, auxiliary fuel tank, and a pretty comprehensive inspection.
We are not professional racers, or race car prep people by trade. All of us have day jobs, and we’ve been working of the cars after work, weekends, that kind of thing. The team is owned by two business partners, Matt and Dave, they own a company called Trinity construction, hence the “Trinity Motorsports”. We have no sponsors other than each one of us putting in the time, and the Trinity boys ponying up the cash. As we got closer to the race, we were definitely way behind schedule, and we had like one week before the race, and we finally made it out to the desert for testing. I’ve got a lot more to post up, but this is enough for now. Hopefully some of you’ll enjoy this, just like last year, I am writing this more so I can look back and remember all the stories and shenanigans that went on. Thanks for reading...
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The NORRA 1000 is an off road rally race that our team, Trinity Motorsports, raced this past April. This is the third year that we’ve raced, and I am going to tell you our story from my point of view along the way. This will be a long post, and I’ll try to make sense as best I can, as I am not an educated man.
I was included in last years race, as a co driver/navigator and I did a whole write up on it, it was titled “While you dudes were at desert storm, I was co driving a trophy truck in Mexico”. I don’t know how to do a link that you can click on, hopefully the moderators can assist me with that. It is a fairly long post as well, but it has some great content, and pictures. I am going to give a description off what the race is about that will be a redundancy if you read, or have read my story last year.
Basically, the race is a five day event, starting in Ensenada, and finishing in San Jose Del Cabo.each day is comprised of a mixture of special stages, the actual full speed dirt racing, and transit stages, that go from each special stage to the next, that are on a highway, that you’re only allowed to travel at 60 MPH, that will go through each town,or each finish line. The total miles are like 1200.
We raced two cars in two different classes. We have a trophy truck, that is like a hybrid of a buggy and standard late model trophy truck.....basically, a truggy. It is a mid engine, meaning the engine is directly behind the cockpit. The transmission is between the driver and co driver, and then the output goes to a v-drive between the driver and co drivers feet, that sends the power back to a full size solid axle. The class we entered this in was “Evolution unlimited truck”. The second car we ran is a 2018 Can Am turbo max. The four door job. This car was entered in the “Evolution modified turbo utv”.
A little history, the previous year had a fair amount of drama. We installed a new engine in the TT before the race. The engine was built by Morruzzi race engines, a So cal engine builder that built this LS7 deal that was pretty potent, it made like 650 horse. As a result of a trans issue destroying the thrust bearing, the motor was destroyed in our trophy truck and the race was over, 150mi in. The can am, on the other hand, was pretty close to stock, and it did awesome. It made it all the way to Cabo.
In preparation for this years event, we had a new engine built by Jeff Ginter Racing Engines. This one was a whole new complete deal. The block was destroyed on the Morruzzi, as a result of a window put in the block from having a connecting rod deciding to not contribute anymore. This new block is a tall deck Dart, shaft rocker, dry sump, solid lifter, gigantic roller cam deal. Super spicy. It made over 700 horse, at 7000 RPM and 137 MPH wheel speed on the dyno. This meant a fair amount of re configuring the intake and exhaust setup in the car itself. The car only had 150 miles on it from last prep, for the last race, so it didn’t require a full tear down.
The Can Am on the other hand, needed a bunch of work. It got all new suspension, trailing arms, hubs, exhaust, tune, auxiliary fuel tank, and a pretty comprehensive inspection.
We are not professional racers, or race car prep people by trade. All of us have day jobs, and we’ve been working of the cars after work, weekends, that kind of thing. The team is owned by two business partners, Matt and Dave, they own a company called Trinity construction, hence the “Trinity Motorsports”. We have no sponsors other than each one of us putting in the time, and the Trinity boys ponying up the cash. As we got closer to the race, we were definitely way behind schedule, and we had like one week before the race, and we finally made it out to the desert for testing. I’ve got a lot more to post up, but this is enough for now. Hopefully some of you’ll enjoy this, just like last year, I am writing this more so I can look back and remember all the stories and shenanigans that went on. Thanks for reading...
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