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It was cool, though I was surprised that a guy who is supposed to know about cars was surprised by a Land Cruiser's capability. :meh:
 
Very cool. I'd love to go wheeling at dunes like that.
 
Giving physics the middle finger? No, no, no.

:D
 
I lived in that desert for two years, at Asab, Abu Dhabi. My company truck was a full-zoot big block K5 loaded plus two or four extra shocks on the axles. But that was for around site.
When we wanted to go back gate and go to town off-book (we were supposed to go on the airplane) we borrowed a beat-up hi-lux and took off north across those same sands. About 150 km straight north to the first pavement. I had the camp record for flying that old mini-truck, about 80 ft I think.
The two years before that I was in Saudi near Hofuf in the empty quarter, there I had a motorcycle and did the same sands on her, a big Suzuki thumper enduro, 400 TS I believe. What the guy in the video was talking about driving like you're skiing and driving ahead of yourself and on top of the sand goes triple on bikes and the occasionally you still go for a catapult ride lol. I be picking sand out of orifices for days.
Guys would strap their skis on their backs and we ride down to the big dunes and they'd ski them. Moron. Southern California maniac engineers lol.

So this explains why I'm having so much fun with Bonnie at Carova. She's never gotten to romp in the sand and we are LOVING it.
I love ONSC.
 
RedHeadedStepChild said:
It was cool, though I was surprised that a guy who is supposed to know about cars was surprised by a Land Cruiser's capability. :meh:
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Yes! This very much this. I don't care how pedestrian the Land Cruiser has become (or looks), it's still an ass kicker in my book.
 
More dune climbing...but with a bigger crowd pleaser.

 
Here's hill climbing Lada Niva style.
I wanted to take Bonnie to Croatia but they told me she was too big for there and I should get a Niva so I did.
Here's a silly Niva trick
 
Ya know...................... watching the OP video makes me think of perhaps one of these
https://chevroletperformanceparts.c...2l556hp-system-wauto-transmission-calibration

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That is 556 reliable HP Stock!!!

Stock height with AWD. I dont think it would work well in the 80, I think that the IFS is probably better in the sand or on pavement, AL you ever play in sand?. Maybe a 62 body on a 100 frame. Be the only kid in town with a 556 HP FJ162 drift rig.

Ahhh, what I'd give for an unlimited budget :)
 
NCFJ said:
Ya know...................... watching the OP video makes me think of perhaps one of these
https://chevroletperformanceparts.c...2l556hp-system-wauto-transmission-calibration

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That is 556 reliable HP Stock!!!

Stock height with AWD. I dont think it would work well in the 80, I think that the IFS is probably better in the sand or on pavement, AL you ever play in sand?. Maybe a 62 body on a 100 frame. Be the only kid in town with a 556 HP FJ162 drift rig.

Ahhh, what I'd give for an unlimited budget :)
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Yeah, Pismo and Glamis mainly. I'll say this shooting a large bowl in the 80 as high as it was, was more white knuckle that fun...... would be a little better with more power for sure but my friends IFS tacoma was quite a bit more fun as well as my friends long travel blazer.

I did play in the Nellis Dunes on the way to vegas one time with a banshee quad. I had planned on driving all the way from my desert home to death valley to Vegas going through those dunes and taking only dirt roads and trails but I moved here before I was able to do it.

Here are those dunes in this top gear clip


None of that is as fun as messing in the dunes with a sand rail though.

A thread I made almost 6 years ago

https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/california-fun.284984/

Glamis is way more fun than pismo but also more remote and doesn't have the added fun of being attached to the pacific ocean.


The dunes in Oregon and Idaho have been on my bucket list for a while.
 
I am with you Al, a sand rail with gobs of power seems the way to go to the extreme.

Check this thing out

 
That 80 is insane, but I wouldn't be comfortable with those cables hanging right above the rear driveshaft.

EDIT: I meant the cables hanging above the rear driveshaft.
 
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NCFJ said:
I am with you Al, a sand rail with gobs of power seems the way to go to the extreme.

Check this thing out

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I need more of this in my life. Don't think I've seen an 80 pushed that hard before.
 
Green Hell Mustang said:
Yes! This very much this. I don't care how pedestrian the Land Cruiser has become (or looks), it's still an ass kicker in my book.
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I can vouch for that. We got caught by a mountain thunderstorm near Yellowstone last year. The foot bridge that we crossed an hour earlier was 18" closer to the bridge when we came out. We had a river crossing 5 miles down valley that was bumper deep when we had driven in. I raced the water down that valley, running about 40 MPH down a poor forest service road that had bounced us around a bit coming up at an average of about 10 mph. I am still running the stock suspension on the 200, but I was amazed at how the truck was working. I could have upped the pace considerably, the truck was taking it so well. I was actually pretty amazed myself. I could tell I was absolutely flying by how fast trees were going by, but I really did not feel like I was pushing the truck. The U.S. 200s may be plush, but they are still have an LC heart beating under the skin
 
Sorry guys. Cool truck and all but the Nickleback kills it for me. Ewwww....
 
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