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I think it's pretty clear that there will be a considerably higher percentage of 2dr Broncos vs 2dr Wranglers. Seems many 2dr Wranglers are to tow behind motorhomes, while most 2dr Broncos are people who appreciate the connection to the Early Broncos and those who do want to really use them. I...

This is what I was referring to when I said Ford was doing something to help other competitors build and race a Bronco. Didn't want to be out front with it. Can't talk about the purchase price.... Should be two more teams.

I don't think I mentioned that Ford had actually slightly detuned the motors. They went for reliability and fattened up the mixture a bit to help save the turbos. The guys still thought they had plenty of power. The Broncos would be a fair amount heavier than a stock Bronco with all of the extra...

I was told the parts for each Bronco were 100k, and then add the labor. Geiser Bros is not going to be cheap. Lots of fabrication and parts to install.

Nah, not me. Not yet. I did go to Off Roadeo in Las Vegas. I have real problems. 😁 ;) Can't decide if I want to build my yellow XJ into a real sleeper, have great ideas, or get and build the Bronco, and to keep or not keep the 911. The major goal of the Bronco was to cut down on the number of...

I was told the parts for each 4600 Bronco were $100,000, and then the cost of labor. Quite a bit of labor to install everything and make it work, and quite a bit of fabrication to change suspension and steering mounts and to fabricate skid plates, roll cage, fuel cell, bumpers, Atlas II transfer...

I just bought this Porsche 911 Cabriolet. A Porsche was going to be my next purchase before I decided to order the Bronco. I have time to decide if I like driving the 911 to keep it, or go ahead and get the Bronco. I could also sell my Jeep, keep the 911 and get the Bronco. Bronco likely to be...

Yes, I didn't take into account that the 4600 cars did not run down Sledgehammer and up Jackhammer. I asked Bailey what he thought if they had competed against the 4500 cars and had run Sledge and Jack with 37's on the Broncos. He thought straight up it would be close racing. BTW, Jackhammer...

Also, BTW, Ford has done a cool thing to promote competition amongst 4600 class teams, which I'm not free to mention. And, I'll only post this on the Bronco forum, Ford isn't supporting these teams for the rest of the season and the teams may or may not run more races. It's up to them. Ford got...

I have a few more pics that I just took. One of the major achilles heals of the Bronco is the crappy ground clearance for rock crawling. The angled braces on the crossmember on 2.7's, the low hanging gas tank, and the low hanging rear lower control arm mounts. All of these issues were resolved...

The number I was told is one of us wanted to have the same front end on our Bronco as these have is more than nearly all of us spent to buy our Broncos. It includes the portals, custom knuckles, custom A arms, RCV axles, trophy truck steering, custom dual rate coilovers, raising the motor to fit...

Here are a few pics of the finish. Again, not so amazing that the Broncos won 4600 class, kind of amazing that all three Broncos finished. Brad Lovell did have a mechanical problem coming in to pit one on the first lap. The factory guy hooked up his lap top to diagnose and quickly found a turbo...

No, actually they didn't. They didn't run all of the trails that the other classes did, and some of those were the very hardest trails, but they ran plenty of hard trails. They ran Turkey Claw, Spooners, Outer Limits, Aftershock, Jack North, Idle Issues, Chocolate Thunder, Wrecking Ball, Full of...

I race 24 Hours of Lemons and Ultra4. Both in Jeeps. Contrary to what some here are wishing for, there is NOTHING inexpensive or cheap about racing Ultra4 4600 class. It's motorsports, and you really have to want to do it. It's not just being competitive, it's having your car survive. BTW, I...

You make a good point. However, Justin Reese has won stock class 4600 twice in his leaf springs Toyota pickup, and recently. He beat a ton of very highly modified Jeeps of all types and all motors, and with good experienced drivers. Very good race vehicles still break down or crash. Yes, Ford...

Also, let me make a comment about professional drivers. There are no KOH winners that were professional race car drivers before KOH. All of the "professional" race car drivers who have come to compete in KOH have been beaten by the original grassroots rock crawling guys that became King of the...

Justin won in his Toyota pickup twice because he ran a clean race and finished. And did an awesome job of driving. And a very good job of race prepping the truck. Others didn't do so good of prepping their cars and didn't do so good a job of driving, and there are very experienced drives and...

The uproar over the Roxor wasn't the portal axles, which happen to be Jesse Haines own product. The issue was the Roxor is not a street legal vehicle, it is sold as a UTV. Sure, it's almost unfair competition to have factory based vehicles in the stock class, but it also is what the class is...

Why is that? Stock frames and bodies. They perfectly met stock class rules. BTW, I can post a bit more info and pictures at the finish later on. Very cool that they finished 1-2-3, was exactly what Ford hopped for, and gives them great promotional material. It's a very good thing that Ford is...

MarlinCrawler has a vender booth here. I'll stop by and say hi to Marlin and Christine tomorrow and ask them. I doubt it since they only do products for Toyotas, but we'll see. Maybe Michael (Marlin's son who is running the company) has decided to expand the brand, like he did with the cool IFS kit.