Like all of the motorsports world, evolution is something that rock bouncing has been going through a rapid phase of in recent years. It wasn’t but a few years ago that decently built buggies were zipping though the woods with their LS engines and tackling tough obstacles. Cut to this video of a 1,000hp rock bouncer that looks like something the Terminator robot built during his spare time and you can see where this whole genre of the four wheel drive world has gone. Like all things involving tires and engines it has gotten bigger, better, faster, stronger, and more capable. The coil overs are nuts, the tube work is nuts, the 1,000hp is nuts. When you see the headers alone on this machine you’ll freak. These buggies are fabrication at its finest and this one sings the song of the horsepower gods while displaying all that fabrication work right out in the open.
We’d go on but the reality is that this video tells the tale all by itself. Within the first 15 seconds the hair on your next will stand up and after that? Let’s just hope you have self control because when this big rat motor winds up, the bellow is fantastic. Even if rock buggies aren’t your thing, if big horsepower and interesting machines are you should watch this video. If you are saddened that a bunny may have run scared through the woods after hearing this truck, please understand that if bunnies could weld and drive stuff, they’d have one of these as well.
Tim getting it done in what was likely his biggest buggy. Showtime was likely the most-popular. Underrated is the current ride and its more compact, but super-nimble and he runs the rear steer like its part of his body. A good bit of that footage was shot here in Kentucky at DTOR on bounty hills. The axles are hybrids. He feels a full-Rockwell is too heavy and a D60 and 14-bolts are not strong enough on the outers. He’s also gone to a monster-truck-like gearbox because he kept breaking ones that weren’t supposed to.
For years I’ve felt like the Scandinavian and Icelandic folks had us beat on stuff like this with their Formula Offroad. I see things like this and realize that we are catching up. I think this rig would hold its own in Norwegian gravel pit.
Why is this guy not wearing a helmet??? Just asking.
I’m assuming that the extra mass of a helmet would just about pull your head from your spine given the constant bouncing around these guys are doing. It seems safer to allow you to have control over your own head.
Thanks Brian for posting this. (I’m that guy)…. 😉
I didn’t wear seat belts or helmets as a kid and made!
His head is not an important enough for protection!!
I’m hopelessly addicted to watching rock racing!
I think these guys exhibit the best car control skills in any form of motor sport and to watch then put a fully inverted car back on its wheels with one stab of the throttle pedal is mind blowing!
It won’t be long before we see rock racing in the UK – where its ancestor sporting trials are still being staged. Check out the Lands End trail and imagine entering one of these babies in it!
Oh and thats BADASS!!! I mean really BADASS!!!!!!