Check this out!

[mudduck]

http://americanwheeler.com/Images/Rigs/127.jpg

 

This rig is running in the stock class at an event in Uwharrie national forest this weekend. I'm hoping I can make it down there this weekend.

[njdrsubaru]

 

:slobber: :slobber:

 

More pics Please!!!!

[mudduck]

thats the only one i found of it. I'm hoping to see this thing in action this weekend. I was really supprised to see that there was a subie that was even entered. I'm wondering how it will do.

[njdrsubaru]

take lots of pics for us please :banana:

[Phizinza]

Guys email is listed on this page http://americanwheeler.com/RacersRigsStock.aspx

 

He'll probably be happy to send you some pics.

[A DOG]

I found links to pics from the event. Heres a few I found of the subaru.

 

 

 

[thecarman]

I was at that event on Saturday, and unfortunately didn't get to see the stock class, because it ran on Friday. I heard about that Subaru, but never got to see it.

 

I was told that it should have done well, but got stuck on the big rock ledge in this pic http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c105/bugaiskij/DSCN2648.jpg and had to get winched off. There was no point in running a winch like you see on the front of that Subaru. The times were so fast, that if you had to spend time winching, there is no way you could win. A winch is just added weight you don't need in that event. The event had dedicated vehicles with winches positioned at hard spots (like that ledge) to winch out stuck or broken rigs.

 

I sat at the ledge in that pic all day Saturday watching the action. If you see a big group of orange shirts in any of the pics, that's the 4x4 club I'm in.

 

Several of us thought about entering, but you would have to tear your vehicle up to win, so we didn't. The trail has jumps and several places with BIG rocks. The stock class got to take bypasses on 2 of the toughest obstacles.

 

We had a member get 2nd place in C class in a Jeep 4.0L powered tube-buggy with LandCruiser FJ80 axles. He bent his rear axle housing in the process.

 

(Stock class was A, Modified Stock was B, C was up to like 38-inch tires, and D was unlimited class)

 

The manager of 4WHeelParts in Raleigh won B class in a Jeep Wrangler YJ, but he broke his front ring and pinion and both alloy front axle-shafts.

 

He told me he saw that Subaru, and that all the tubing on the back was PVC, not metal??? I find it hard to believe, and it doesn't *look* like PVC in the pics.

 

Some people tore up some serious stuff in that event. It would be cool to buy a beater and build it specifically for this event. If they run this event again, we should get some Subaru folks together and build one.

 

Stock class allowed any lift, any gears, any tires up to 33-inches. No front axle swaps (so could not use a T-cased Sub), no engine swaps. Locked/welded/limited-slip in rear only. Locked center diff fine, of course! Body trimming/weight reduction was legal in stock class (as you could see from the pics of that Subaru)

 

This was more like a rally-race than a rock-crawl, but the course was much rougher (rockier) than a rally would be. To win you had to run some fast times over a very rocky course with jumps.

 

I've run those trails in my Samurai, my Blazer, and in a Jeep Wrangler TJ I used to own (in fact I'm going out there with the Samurai this Saturday). I have driven fast and caught small air in my Samurai, but no where close to as fast as these guys were going. Search on YouTube for Uwharrie 4x4Cross and you can find some videos, but I couldn't find one of that Subaru when I looked last week.