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Re: NEW ARMA Legal Super Sportsman
« Reply #90 on: July 30, 2008, 06:30:55 am »
Tires are mounted on 9-1/16 wide home made (EC) bead locks. They were made 15 years ago. Carrol dug em out for me.

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Re: NEW ARMA Legal Super Sportsman
« Reply #91 on: July 30, 2008, 08:22:02 am »
so much for the 7.25 huh?  Trying something different. Have to let us know how it handles with them that wide. Next thing everyone will be running 9 1/16 wide wheels now!  :woo:

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Re: NEW ARMA Legal Super Sportsman
« Reply #92 on: July 30, 2008, 08:29:14 am »
so much for the 7.25 huh?  Trying something different. Have to let us know how it handles with them that wide. Next thing everyone will be running 9 1/16 wide wheels now!  :woo:

Well I wanna run the kart tires it was built around BUT only time will tell. I kept loosing the right rear on the present ride, so I am trying something different. It was built more specifically for the land speed attempt w/kart tires. Has to be class legal in order to do so it has to pass tech at a national points race thus it has to have mower tires on it. I didn't wanna change anything to fit them so I used wide rims to widen and lower the tire hieght to fit the rear. it will race the one time and then any racing from that point will be where it is allowed to run kart tires. As for the seat I wanted back preotect just incase it is MUCH lower than anything else I have ever had. A grill in the back would hurt.
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Re: NEW ARMA Legal Super Sportsman
« Reply #93 on: July 30, 2008, 12:56:29 pm »
maybe a sponsorship with purple power cleaner, since you might soil your seat the first time you run it. :D
i can imagine Scrappy Doo saying " du du du daaa...PURPLE POWERrrrrrr!"
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Re: NEW ARMA Legal Super Sportsman
« Reply #94 on: July 30, 2008, 01:01:37 pm »
 :lol2:  That was funny no matter what anyone else says....  :twothumbsup:
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Re: NEW ARMA Legal Super Sportsman
« Reply #95 on: July 30, 2008, 10:11:19 pm »
We like to never got a set to bead on 8" wheels, how did you ever spread em out like that?
Are the beadlocks inside and out?
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Re: NEW ARMA Legal Super Sportsman
« Reply #96 on: July 30, 2008, 10:28:41 pm »
Well originally they were designed for right side /outside and left side/inside But the spacing is equal so you can turn the wheel either way and it fit the same thus using the beadlock inside or outside. With the one bead lock it makes it fairly simple. I used a 5 gallon plastic bucket cut it down the side using it like a wrap band around the tire using a rachet strap I tightened it which wrapped the bucket tightly spreading the side out and then  simply pushed the rim in to get the last bit if any of that made sense.
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Re: NEW ARMA Legal Super Sportsman
« Reply #97 on: July 30, 2008, 11:51:34 pm »
WOW!! Using a bucket....who'd a thunk it!! That's gotta be a record all it's own right there putting those tires on that wide of a wheel....forget land speed record! When it's done you'll have to get some pics with those tires on it. 1" of tire touching the ground on each side of the wheel that's already bald!

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Re: NEW ARMA Legal Super Sportsman
« Reply #98 on: July 31, 2008, 06:39:55 am »
Well it wasn't all my idea it was mostly Jacobs Idea and he's only 11. We think alot alike and between the two of us we come up with some good ideas some times
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Re: NEW ARMA Legal Super Sportsman
« Reply #99 on: July 31, 2008, 10:07:25 pm »
roflmao......George, your boy might be a redneck, if he's ever said: "Dad, to mount that there tire, watcha gotta do is get a bucket..."
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Re: NEW ARMA Legal Super Sportsman
« Reply #100 on: July 31, 2008, 10:43:02 pm »
 :lol2:  Now THAT is funny right there!! I could almost picture that.... too funny. George gotta remember one thing, he's been watching you for years so ideas like that came from you teaching to him to think outside the box....or bucket in this case! Same with me and my dad!

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Re: NEW ARMA Legal Super Sportsman
« Reply #101 on: July 31, 2008, 10:51:55 pm »
Thanks guys he is a chip off the ole block, simply amazes me at times. I am proud of him mainly because he does do his own thinking and is making his own name and reputation. I want him to be his own man. And he's well on his way.
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Re: NEW ARMA Legal Super Sportsman
« Reply #102 on: August 01, 2008, 12:18:26 am »
That is pretty amazing, my boy is 13 and I'd have to draw him a map out of the bucket.
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Re: NEW ARMA Legal Super Sportsman
« Reply #103 on: August 01, 2008, 07:17:25 pm »
Are you still bringing this Purple Beast to Ontario, Canada in 2 weeks?
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Re: NEW ARMA Legal Super Sportsman
« Reply #104 on: August 01, 2008, 09:12:02 pm »
Yes and its only a week away.
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