Kawasaki UTVGuide.net's Race Teryx

[Crowdog]

This Teryx started off as a project for the King of the Hammers race last winter:

Then I added Funco Long travel, changed a few other things and raced in VORRA at Prairie City:

Now it is stripped down to the frame for some serious changes!

Going for a full-on welded cage with boat sides for the rocks. Fuel cell and radiator in the back. Hopefully some longer 8" shocks, and then some performance goodies. Plan to do King of the Hammers again and also some VORRA races (short course and desert). Might try to make it transformable so I can do some playing as well.

I will update this post as progress occurs. Should be a unique build.

 

[Wild Earp]

Cool, Im excited to see some purpose built KOTH UTVs. Ill be following the build for sure.

 

[JoeyD23]

cant wait to see this build...whose doing the fab work Jon??

 

[Crowdog]

Bob Roggy - Roggy Enterprises. He did the first roll cage and drove it in KOH last year.

 

[JoeyD23]

Awesome!!

 

[loco]

Bob Roggy - Roggy Enterprises. He did the first roll cage and drove it in KOH last year.

Bob is an awesome fabricator. What people said can't be done, i've seen him do in rockcrawling.

 

[Crowdog]

A little bit of progress to report.

First off, I am switching to a 2009 EFI engine. It is up at Muzzys right now. Doing a 840cc kit with large valve heads and large throttle bodies. I actually got to meet Rob Muzzy over at Infineon Raceway a few weeks back when I dropped the engine off. Rob is a super cool guy and sure knows his stuff when it comes to Kawasaki. Can't wait to see what he comes up with!

Next I am going with a set of longer shocks from Fox Racing Shox. These will have their new bottom-out cups built in.

Here are a few pictures of the chassis:

 

[Rusty5150]

Looks good. I like the boat side.

 

[Grant@funco]

A little bit of progress to report.

First off, I am switching to a 2009 EFI engine. It is up at Muzzys right now. Doing a 840cc kit with large valve heads and large throttle bodies. I actually got to meet Rob Muzzy over at Infineon Raceway a few weeks back when I dropped the engine off. Rob is a super cool guy and sure knows his stuff when it comes to Kawasaki. Can't wait to see what he comes up with!

Next I am going with a set of longer shocks from Fox Racing Shox. These will have their new bottom-out cups built in.

Here are a few pictures of the chassis:

Rob Muzzy is a great guy , His staff is just as cool as he is. Before we brought or motor program in house we had Muzzy doing our engines. Last years results are a testament to the quality . We both knew there was more power to be had then we were running last year . And other guys had more and were claiming to have more power.Bottomline is we never had a motor issue and the other guys did !!

 

[Crowdog]

Looks good. I like the boat side.

I'll need to get one of your high tec breather setups going too.

 

[Rusty5150]

I'll need to get one of your high tec breather setups going too.

I will get you hooked up.

 

[thmterry]

Cant wait to see the finished product

 

[JoeyD23]

cant wait to watch this progress!!

 

[Hapa]

 

[Crowdog]

Things have been real slow but they are about to kick into high gear. I just received shocks last night. Fox's new bottom out cup technology in both the front and rear. Front are 8.5" travel and the rears are 10". Muzzy's will be done with my 2009 840cc engine and will deliver it at the Dune Tour.

 

[Crowdog]

In case you missed the King of the Hammers UTV race announcement, check it out here:
Pit Bull Tires UTV King of the Hammers $5,000 Purse Largest in History of UTV Racing : UTVWeekly.com

 

[JoeyD23]

Jon are those the new RC3's from Fox??? They are super sweet!!!

 

[KJSmith84]

bottom out cup technology ? what is this?

 

[JoeyD23]

bottom out cup technology ? what is this?

Its essentially a 3" internal bump stop....SUPER SICK!!!!!

 

[Mike L]

we have been running these same shocks in our Race Teryx for a good six months now. They are an incredible shock. With the internal bottom out cup technology it gives a whole new feeling to the ride. Joey is right when he says it's like having a bump stop built into the shock. They have a tapered sleeve on the end of the piston that reduces the force of impact in the last inch or so of shock travel. They are designed to keep you from getting those hard bottom out compression hits(the ones you can feel through your spine for the rest of the day).