The 2010 Mint400 Torchmate/SOR Jeepspeed Race, from the Passenger’s seat.
After having the fire alarm go off in the hotel from 11:30 until just past midnight, the night before the race, We were all a little tired and irritated about the disruption in what was all planned out to be a good night’s sleep before the [...]
Mint 400
March 29th, 2010Jeepspeed Hits the Mint 400
March 26th, 2010The Shaffer Offroad, Pirate4×4.com Jeepspeed team of Mike Shaffer and Lance Clifford are gearing up for the Mint 400 this weekend.
This will be the longest sanctioned Jeepspeed Race completing 4 laps at 106 miles each. There is no pre-running on this course, but it is rumored to be extremely rocky and silty.
The team will split [...]
BITD Henderson Desert Chassic with Dave from SOR
December 8th, 2009A little back story to the train wreck leading up to the race. With striking an agreement to have BJ Baldwin race the 4471 in the 2010 KOH, i knew my time to do major rework to the car to both make it more comfortable for someone over 5′10, but to also help improve it’s [...]
Shaffer’s Offroad 2009 Baja 1000 story
November 30th, 2009Shooting for 4 Baja 1000’s in a row!
We’ve won three Baja 1000’s in a row and we were going for our fourth. We spent countless hours on logistics and preparing the car for this race. We thought everything was 100% ready as we headed South for Ensenada, Mexico the Saturday before the race (Boy were [...]
Shaffers offroad 78 Blazer build
November 6th, 2009
We are building a little Blazer here in the shop
Here are the specs
3 link front suspension w/ panhard, 14″ fox coilovers, 4″ fox bumps
4 link rear suspension 16″ fox coilovers, 4″ fox bumps
2″ solid 7075T6 lower links with 1.25″ hiems
1.75″ solid 7075T6 upper links with 7/8″ hiems
42″ Pitbull Rockers on 17″ Walker Evans Aluminum beadlocks
Dana [...]
