1600 HP GOLD RUSH Rock Bouncer Build - Busted Knuckle Off Road

[Music] this is by far the highest horsepower Rock Council has ever been built in people most horsepower and a Vinny Rock bouncer down are there's got a bull [Music] what's up everybody this is Jake Berkey from busted knuckle off-road and sitting right behind me is our newest creation this is a rock bound so that's gonna be building that we're gonna be building for the 2019 series a guy named Shane he hasn't been racing before he's gonna be in this thing and he's gonna be pilot and this thing is gonna be sweet because right here where there's nothing there's going to be a 1,600 horsepower big-block motor that's running on alcohol we had to move that front of the chassis forward about 12 inches to make room for the ProCharger because the ProCharger is gonna sit up here in the front it's a reverse Inlet and it bolts directly to the front of the motor to be able to handle all that power we decided to go with some Dana 80s they're custom built 373 gears for each half wall tubing and we run read Super King pins on the outers this thing is super super low to the ground it's made for hill killin the belly pan height is at 19 inches and what we're doing right now is working on laying out the suspension so we design in CAD all the different points that we're going to be put in our suspension at so that we know when we build this chassis that the geometry is going to be right so right now what we're doing is we're getting the axle set out once the axles are set where they're supposed to be we're gonna start four-link in this thing we always build the four-link first and then put the motor in because suspension in our opinion is the most important so what we've done is we've built these Dana 80s we've got these custom axle truss we've went ahead and put the four link in and we're putting it at full bump now that we have it at full bump we get the shocks mounted exactly where they need to go where they're fully compressed then we'll put the motor in and we'll sit and make sure that everything is going to work around that so we're put in suspension number one you can tell the steering's already on and what we're gonna do now is we're going to take the steering we're gonna turn it all the way to one side we're gonna mount the tire and then we're gonna flex it up and down and make sure that it anywhere throughout the articulation cycle the Tigers don't hit the shocks and none of these suspension components hit the shocks once we get the front figured out and dialed in we'll start moving to the rear to get the trailing arms figured out so we've got this side compressed all the way up we're holding it right here with a ratchet strap and then over on that side we're at full extension we made some temporary mounts just so we could test out the shock location when this vehicle is all the way flexed out and turned both ways we don't have any shock to tire any shock to steering component issues so we're good to go we just got to build our sexy mounts and put it all together this thing is coming together really really well but there's basically a few things that you've got to do when you're building one of these projects to be able to make everything work properly generally what we do is we build the suspension with the four links and we don't do any of the bump stop mounts we put the motor transmission transfer case in and then you roll the pinion up on the front and rear axle and point the differential at the transfer case in this scenario the motor got pushed back a little bit because we're doing a custom setup with this pro charger and we had to guess about what we thought the input and output of the transfer case was gonna be because we've done a bunch of them we know that we're within a couple degrees so we went ahead and welded out the bump stop pads back here in the back these things came out really cool we've got also the sway bar that we made the sway bar is our own custom designed arms if you look right here it says goldrush right down the side this sway bar and everything came out really good we've done all of our flex tests on it and everything came out really perfect I really I mean I can't even describe how nice this is to be able to take 24 inches of travel and land on this tiny little pad that means that the geometry of this thing not only on paper but in real life matches up exactly what we planned on so we're really proud of the fact that we can take 24 inches of travel and run all the way up and hit this tiny little pad because that means that everything is working properly now you might be looking at this fuel cell thinking about thinking to yourself that is one heck of a fuel cell well it is it's almost 26 gallons and you might be thinking yourself that as a tiny radiator and it is it's a very small radiator but there's a reason for that the big block that we're using in this is going to be an alcohol motor and so we have to have a big fuel cell because you use a lot more alcohol than you would gasoline to produce the same amount of power so little radiator is used because we don't need a big radiator the alcohol burns really really cold so we can get by with running a small radiator now the fuel cell I made out of steel and the reason I did that was because the aluminum fuel cells do have a tendency to crack to stop that from happening we do a couple different weld side-by-side we use a thicker aluminum material but with alcohol we didn't want to chance it it's a different type of fire sometimes you can't see it so we add a little bit of safety to this build and went with a steel fuel cell the project's coming together really really nicely we're super excited about this thing next thing you know we'll have a motor transmission and transfer case sitting in here is PCs sitting right over here this thing will be a full roll and ready to go back out the door well we just shoehorned this massive big block inside here with the added pro charger and everything it made it a little bit more difficult than what we had thought but we originally designed this thing and we were told that the ProCharger was at the centerline of the water pump so we were able to in CAD make everything work when it got here the ProCharger was just a little bit lower than what we had imagined so now what we're gonna do is put the transmission on and the transfer case on and we're going to pivot the engine up and put this down so the whole drivetrain is actually going to be kicked like this so that we can get the air filter on the front of the ProCharger this uh this is pretty impressive this is a big engine I thought the Consol some a little baby transmission little cute [Music] we've got a lot more done on this buggy as you can see so this pedal right here is totally trick this thing puts your whole entire foot inside there with this little heel this little heel stop in this little toe holder so if you're hitting the gas and you need to pull back for some reason like the throttle get stuck you can actually pull back it's got a grip right there so when you're laying down the horsepower your foot doesn't come off I don't care what happens the person driving this buggy can't tell me that their foot slipped off the pedal so one of the big problems that we had with the front of the buggy is that no steering brackets exist for this thing so we had to custom make some steering brackets to mount this high-volume CBR pump from PSC and what we did was we went on the plasma table we were able to cut out these brackets I've got a laser alignment system when we were able to laser align all the brackets together this pump actually will have a belt that wraps more than 180 degrees all the way around because we added this idler down here the alternator is on a tensioner so we can tension the brackets and then to get rid of the water pump up here in the front we went to a remote water pump set up and welded up these really nice - 16a on a end bungs here in the front for remote water pump in the back so over here on the passenger side we're not doing any seat whatsoever this is a single seat buggy we are really really happy with the way that the drive shafts came out we are actually running a single piece driveshaft front and rear which is crazy when you think about how much suspension travel this thing has this is an electric rear steer system we decided to go with this because we've had some problems with the engine driven pumps before in the past and we wanted to do something that was going to be reliable and if something happened to the pump up front you still had some type of steering this reservoir here feeds this pump reservoir down here so no matter what you've always got fluid inside this system this system works off a relays with a controller back in the back so you can have automatic steering that self centers here is the switch that we use and then we have a self centering switch here we haven't made this all the way but this will get mounted right here and you can actually use your thumb to go left and right and then when you pull the trigger itself centers so this area right here is going to be completely capped off we're working on the interior we've got kind of a concept right here for how we're gonna do the dashboard but here before too long we're gonna start on all the sheet metal and start capping this thing off and start laying out where the rest of the interior supposed to be [Music] so we've made a lot of progress on the goldrush buggy we've got a lot of panels installed and we're coming into the last portion of the bill I want to talk a little bit about some of these panels these panels are made with these quick connects here so that you can just pop these panels off really quickly and get to this storage compartment over here where all the accessories are gonna be mounted one thing that we ran into on this field is that the master cylinder was too long and where we wanted to drop the headers out the side of the panel's we had a interference between where the headers were gonna mount and that master cylinder so what we did was we took the master cylinder put it on a reverse mount and ran a cable over to our hydraboost unit right here because you have a hydro butis unit there's not much input having to push through that cable to be able to get the brakes to have a firm brake feel and give you some hard breaks so we were able to utilize a cable and remote mount this system another couple things we did is finish up on the dashboard we've got a little bit more to do with this but you can see the overall layout of how this thing is gonna be we're gonna go in and clean it up really good and make all the lines perfect and then up here in the front we knew we had to make this animal breathe we're talking about 1,500 horsepower burning alcohol this thing takes a lot of air especially being supercharged originally we were talking about doing a single air filter up here in the front however if this thing starts to get dirty we were afraid when we're gonna have enough airflow so we decided to go with the two filter system right now it's just sitting here how loose because it's gonna tie in to the top of the engine cage and the air filters are gonna hang from the top not too much longer and we're gonna have this thing ready to ship to the customer [Music] okay good yeah he's a good buddy project update customer is coming tomorrow to pick up this buggy and we've got a ton of stuff done with it let me show you around so we wanted some bad-to-the-bone headers so we decided to run these stainless steel headers they come out and they are super tight they wrap around have all these pi cuts down through here and then they poke out the side the panel goes over the top and we're gonna put a bezel over this thing and make it look like an old World War 2 style of fighter jet we've got the dash done and as you can see over here on the passenger side where normally you would have a passenger seat we've got these quick disconnects you pop pop pop pop pop this thing comes off and you can get to all of your your components down through here everything is protected and out of the weather this buggy has one thing in mind that's racing and winning races back here in the back we got the suspension all dialed in we've used a suspension tune that we've used before in the past on one of our other buggies so he pulled the suspension all the way apart and put the new valving in there so this bug you should be pretty well dialed in as soon as we get it started we've put a little more protection back here on the radiator we were afraid that if we were to roll over something we could smash the radiator so we put a couple extra bars back here and roll them in it looks really really nice so this buggy is built with racing in mind a lot of the stuff that we did was specifically so that if there was a problem during race you could get to the component super quick this little panel right here three screws it pops off you can get right there to the distributor bead roll really nice so it looks good but mainly it's designed for racing over here in the cockpit you can see how all these items are being rolled everything's got extra strength to it and it also looks awesome you've got an awesome seating position right here where your shifter and your rear steer a good view at all your gauges and we've got something special to put right here this buggy is built for winning races for being wide open all the time and we cannot wait to see what Shane thinks when he gets here tomorrow [Music] they loves your new buddy doesn't look so bad oh yeah I believe you can win on that thing we even got you a spot right here for the trophies we're gonna need a lot bigger spot to match it that's exactly what that's all yes sir this thing looks so good they're gonna have to build me a podium that I can park it on just Park it on the bow yeah yeah man they came out really slick the headers punching through the side here the bezels and everything stainless exhaust and all it's got 10 inches of up travel with a 19 inch belly pan which is just unheard of man single piece driveshaft front and rear no carrier bearing on it it's it's bad to the bone absolutely bad design headers are and all these panels over here all quick disconnect you just they're quarter turn pop those things off these two panels come out and you have full access to all the electronics and everything sit inside you can get to the back of the gauges you can get to all of your switches everything is super easy it all it's completely concealed - so like mud and water and stuff isn't gonna get on it we left a little hole back here in the back so if your pressure washing the water can ran out but it's it's completely encased so it's waterproof stuff inside of a box to keep the water wrapped yeah this thing is it's born to party there's no doubt I'll tape it maybe see how it feels awesome awesome sweet I mean you can get rid of the beard [Music] all right so we are here and we're gonna get a suspension tune done on this buggy Shane took it home and did all the plumbing and wiring and in the last two weeks it's been pretty crazy right you guys have been going absolutely nuts trying to get a plumbing and wire in and all the little gremlins and stuff figured out with this buggy last night they got here and the buggy was running fine and then all of a sudden it wouldn't start and we come to find out the you know checking it with a computer system there was a problem with a sensor and tell us about what happened last night you had to drive like hours down here and then turn around and drive hours over to get an IV right yeah so we we loaded up I guess two evenings go loaded up got home about 11 o'clock in the evening and loader we got in the truck four o'clock in the morning and headed down here 365 miles and it all rolled it out the trailer thought everything was gonna be good and fired it up seems like it's this uh you know business as usual and all of a sudden it dies and after a couple hours on the computer and dealing with fast fuel injection we came up with a bad match sensors yeah though then we were kind of scrambling yesterday evening making phone calls and trying to find a map sensor and we find one at Summit Racing what about 210 miles yeah so I made it I made another 420 mile trip yesterday evening to get a 200 dollar map sensor and got back and actually they had pooled two computer so we got to go for a little bit of a spin little little test drive at midnight and this thing sounds like a monster truck so it's midnight and like Shane finally gets a chance to drive this thing I know and he's like in the parking lot hitting the gas and it's like echoing through the mountains and stuff and I'm sure that everybody around here well I know that they heard us oh I'm sure they would thank you to themselves I wish them boys would go to bed yeah so so I know that a ton of people are probably wondering why the chassis and stuff is not powder coated but the actually stuff are basically you know walk us through the last like maybe two weeks or something kind of synopsis like you guys took it to the powder coater they didn't have the time to get it done and right there's not a lot of powder coaters where he's from so you basically forced to put it that back together to get ready for the race right yeah we actually we never even got it completely tore down we were in the process of tearing down you know we came down here we picked it up took it home and jumped on it right away and you know we got to a position where you know Ray seasons coming you know the bridge for Texas was coming up on us and and we knew we were gonna be everything was gonna have to work out perfect to make that race and yeah we were in the process of really pulling the trigger on terror and everything down and the powder coater says yeah it's gonna be like a week before I can get to it and we're like that's not gonna work so we kind of made a decision and I think it's gonna be for the better to just leave the main part of the chassis bare for for at least the first half of this season and we just did you know we did the the pieces that would come off got them all powder-coated up and put it back together and I think you know as we're moving along here you know this is the combination is is so different from anything else I think it's gonna be a blessing in disguise that we didn't get it powder-coated to delegate Moses yeah as we needed Nick stuff so you know just like today we're gonna build a bracket here for the blower you know it's it's a there was powder coated we'd be good guy riding powder coat off yeah but to build the tab so I think it's gonna be a good thing and I don't know this thing this thing looks awesome bare metal yeah whatever so so got like this is by far the highest horsepower rockbound so that's ever been built and not only that but it's on a completely custom platform it hasn't been done before I mean we've got a how big is the block it's a 565 cubic inch yeah it's 565 cubic so she's a big block right and then we've got this massive blower hanging off that front to have to approach I have a two ProCharger hanging off the front and in the estimated horsepower this buggy we're gonna get it tuned this coming up week but the estimated horsepower this buggy just basically on its lowest tune is gonna be about 1,600 horsepower yeah and and it goes up from there so this thing is absolutely ridiculous and rowdy and because of that it brings a whole new set of problems with it you know ii mean like the transmission had to be completely built and had to be something special and because of that you know everything else had to be beefed up around it so we've got these massive axles this crazy horsepower motor and there's just so much that's involved with building something like that so man I'm telling you I've been exactly where you're at we built them we've raced them and and you put a ton of hours and everything into it and it allowed them to end up paying off over time and so we're looking forward to the payoff yeah absolutely let's get out there and do some shock tuning sounds good all right [Music] [Music] the headers turn purple yeah they're looking frantic yeah suck the rainbow yep what's up dude this thing is a monster man what's up where we had a fire going house and I'm Jeff here he heard the cloudy neighbors [Music] well we have a problem with the transmission basically what happened was we put in Reverse and there's a cylinder on this Powerglide that clicks into actually put it in reverse well the cylinder went bad so we were gonna place just the solenoid but then we had a problem with the converter too so we're having to pull the entire transmission out of this thing and get it all fixed it's Monday night and we need to be at the dyno on Thursday so it's all hands on deck all right it's night two here in the shop and we had to pull the transmission out of this thing yesterday because there was a problem with the torque converter stayed up real late last night got it done Shane took it first thing this morning down got the torque converter redone got the valve body changed out we brought it back got it put back in the guys have been super hard at it we just fired it up and it's working perfect so we're about to take it for a couple test runs [Applause] the only better now people just do not understand like this like that's the most amazing sounding Raghavan sir I've ever heard in my life only truth can see how much this thing weighs I'm guessing 48 50 what you got Jake what's your guess so I said between 46 and 47 but it's got a big set of nuts hanging off the front so it might be a little heavier what are you guys saying what's your guess all I know is if it's too heavy we're just going to put a smaller pulley on hey hey guys it's all right it right survey says 49 23 49 23 so the numbers between front and rear 60 pounds off what do we do today Matt dad owned a what I'm your mom or Dino dad because this makes like a thousand horse powers for all those horse pressures yes it makes like all the horse pressures so I got to protect my ears whose name moves that's why not listen Jake either we are at Lane Culver and we were about to have this buggy dyno tuned it is an absolutely 16 injector setup 565 cubic inch with a pro charger on it and I'm telling you right now this thing has balls we bout to take this thing off we're gonna slide it inside that little shop out there and we're gonna get to it and I'm telling you it's going to shake the foundation [Music] this is all wrong if somebody wants to compete by most horsepower ahead of any Rock bouncer that one right there has got it there it is folks the nastiest most powerful Rock bouncer ever built Man Thing is putting down between 1500 and 1600 horsepower if you're confused by the numbers it's losing 55 to 60% of its power between the engine and the rear tire so all those I know numbers are at the rear tire and we made one more pass after the last part of the video and it didn't even register on the dyno something messed up they had a boost leak and they're still estimating with everything that it was around 700 at the tire which is insane I mean 638 had the tires insane but 700 is even more insane and this is a mild tune that is safe and it makes this brick and buggy drivable and that was the main goal they weren't trying to put down the most power they could they're trying to keep this engine working well efficient safe and so it'll hold together and and freakin bomb up these hills so can't wait to see what its gonna do a twin rock tomorrow and yeah you want to stay tuned for that and yeah let us know what you think about these build videos man everybody the shop freakin threw down on this build and did an amazing job and we can't wait to get started on the next one let us know in the comments what you think about these build videos it's the first one we've got to do on a buggy that started as a pile of tubing and turned into what you see today so let us know in the comments and be sure to check out our website if you're looking for a turnkey builder any parts busting uncle off-road calm and as always thanks for watching

Channel: Busted Knuckle Films

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Length: 32min 57sec (1977 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 09 2019