Max the truck is looking pretty good I am about an hour from New York City right now! I figured I would stay the weekend here before I head to CA next week

 

Why don't you go out to the tip of Long Island and make a it a true "coast to coast" trip.

 

Dang it was hot over there!

RJ and I left a little after noon. Robert called and left a msg that he and RJ might have won there dyno classes. Guess we'll find out later.

13FOX and HotFox showed up after I left. I invited them to meet us in McKinney at the g-daughters BD gtg at 6:00. Hope they can make it!

 

Congrats RJ and Robert.....money in their pockest from the dyno.

Got to have dinner with Daniel, Jenny and their friend Mark from Florida. Daniel looks good and the HotFox is as hot as ever. Jenny id going to post some videos on her website that everyone needs to see.

 

Yep after you left everyone else showed up.
It got plenty warm, I saw one of the banks around that area have 109* on their display, so I am burnt, now my tan line is back to my elbows, I thought I finally had it evened out to my shoulders, now it looks like I stuck my forearm in a paint booth when they were shooting a light red.
I made a mistake when I left, I thought I would run down 377, good grief my right foot was more tired than my left one.

I finally broke 400hp and have the knowledge that I still have more power than what I show. I forgot to turn the defuel parameters either up or off, so I hit 2700 rpm and it went down hill from there on that run, and the program that should be really hot didn't even get a chance, the defueling started really early on those runs.

 

Well im back from our 8 day (counting travel days) trip to Canon City, Coloradoa area////Royal Gorge. Wow what a place! The high temp all week was around 75 degrees with a nice chilly low 40s every night. The views were incredible.

Day 1.....Royal Gorge. Awesome! Rode the incline railway down to the bottom. Then walked across the bridge to see it from the top. They had a frontier town and old west gunfight on the other side....as well as a video about the building of the bridge in 1929. I had no idea it was that old.

Day 2.....ATVing at a place called (of all things) ....Texas Creek. We met some other ATVers along the Arkansas River and rode with them.....about 40 miles in all. Some of the trails took us up to over 9000 ft elevation. The views of the 14ers (14,000+ elevation mountains) were incredible. Saw some deer and 1 black bear!

Day 3.....All day Whitewater rafting on the Arkansas River at Bighorn Canyon. This was a blast! Prob more so than the ATVing. Unfortunately we never did see any Bighorns...just regular mule deer again. Afterward Jared and I raced some gocarts and I relaxed while he went down a giant slide about 50 times.

Day 4.....Colorado Springs....Garden of the Gods....Pikes Peak. We could only go up to 11,000ft of Pike's Peak.........because of a SNOW STORM!!! Can you believe that with the 100+ temps here......the upper part of Pike's Peak was shut down due to a snow storm in June! Then we drove to Cripple Creek and rode the Narrow Gauge Railroad between CC and Victor, CO. Lots of gold mining in that territory.......and still ongoing. We got hungry afterward and went to a local casino. Jared obviously had to stay out of the gambling area but he was able to watch me briefly. I played the slots for a few minutes and doubled my $20 to $40. Then we had a steak/shrimp dinner at the casino. We then drove the "Shelf Road" back toward Canon City. This is a narrow dirt/rock road that is literally on the "shelf" of a mountain. Above us to the right was a rock ledge hanging over the truck.........and to our left was hundreds of feet steep gorge. Beautiful terrain!

Day 5.....Rode horses in the area. Then that evening we drove to Salida for dinner and then on to the Marshall Pass. This is another dirt road that winds around several mountains (prob 20 miles) and goes over the Continental Divide. It had been raining so the road was pretty soupy. Glad I have 4x4! We didn't get stuck but I could see how it would have been easy to do so. Saw prob 5 different families of mule deer. Lucky for them it isn't deer season and Im not really a hunter! I could have filled the bed of the truck up with deer meat. We were just a few miles east of Gunnison....but didn't get to drive the drive to Montrose which I hear is incredible. We did drive back over Monarch Pass....11300Ft coming back toward Canon City on Highway 50.

I wanted to go ATVing on several other trails but just didn't have time. We didn't even finish riding all the trails at Texas Creek, CO. That place is an ATVing/ORV mecca. Next time I go, im going to "boondock" along the Arkansas River and stay away from paying to stay at a campground. You can stay up to two weeks free at any public lands area. Live and learn.

Both ways......to and from.........we stopped overnight in Childress, TX and camped out at the Walmart. I had never tried that before but it worked out great.

Truck and Trailer did great.......I just wasn't used to the uncontrollable smoke at elevation. I finally gave up and lowered the Smarty down to level 3 which helped a little.

Then we came into the metroplex at Denton today just in time for the Dyno event........and decided to stop as an afterthought.

good times!

..

 

Good to see Daniel and Jenny again today at the dyno! Sorry I missed you, Charlie and RJ, but I guess I showed up about the time ya'll left. I really can't say I blame you...it was very uncomfortably hot.

Congrats to RJ for winning the Super Street class. RJ dyno'd first one of the day and his numbers stood all day. Everybody that beat his numbers (547ish) went over 600+. Quite a few trucks actually.......making over 600 with 2 that made 800+. Buck didn't disappoint........this time blowing a tire (causing fender carnage) on the dyno.

I got lucky and redeemed myself from last years "bracket dyno" by winning Street class this year at 445hp. (Last year I got edged out by another truck at 450hp exactly to beat my 448.) This year I also got lucky and won a drawing for a Bully Dog t-shirt and BB cap separate from the dyno winnings. Glad I stopped by and dropped the travel trailer! I had not even been home yet after the Colorado trip.

..

 

Good report Robert. I'm glad you two went on to Cripple Creek and up toward Gunnison to see some of the real Rocky Mountains. I hope you took a lot of pics.

 

I got about 400 pics....

I may post a couple of them here in a while.

I do wish I could have made it to Gunnison and points west. oh well ...maybe next time. There is so much to do you can't do it all in a week.

..

 

Photobucket.com is a free pic posting site. Join up there and put a lot of your pics online for us to see.

 

Results for the Bully Dog/ODRA/NADM Dyno Day 6/13/09

For those of you who braved the Heat to come out, 100+ at one point, to the 2nd Annual Bully Dog / ODRA Dyno Day, We Appreciate It!!!

We had a great turnout with 32 trucks running on the dyno and around 100 that came out to watch and hang out.

Not only did Bully Dog and Hickory Creek Animal Shelter have raffles/drawings throughout the day that included hats, shirts, modules and downloaders...Bully Dog/ODRA and NADM paid out $850 in CASH!!!

1st and 2nd Place Unlimited Class:
Aaron Acker 847.3/1737 '06 Dodge won $300
Justin Trimple 825.8/1375 '02 Dodge won $150


1st and 2nd Place Super Street Class:
Rowland Johnson 547.2/1082 '02 Dodge won $100 (not in picture)
Gary Wolf 535.3/1098 '03 Dodge won $50


1st and 2nd Place Street Class:
Robert McKlemurry 445/953.6 '04.5 Dodge won $100
John Ellestad 440.5/931.6 '07 Dodge won $50 (not in picture)


Gas Class Winner:
Cody Malin 152hp '07 Prius Hybrid won $100


Complete Results:


Special thanks goes out to the Diesel Truck Resource TXDR#8 for coming out and participating in all of our ODRA Events!!

 

Photobucket.com is a free pic posting site. Join up there and put a lot of your pics online for us to see.

 

Thanks to Bully Dog/ODRA/NADM for putting on these events. It's much appreciated. A special thanks to Mica and ODRA for giving the rest of us some good diesel times.

 

Im already on it under TexasCTD. I usually just post a pic on it when I want to post it here...

..

 

Thanks Micah for putting on another great event. Why is it that all the ODRA events seem like they are on 100 degree days?

..