Mike Marlar in a #6??

[Hoosier_Dirt]

I see he posted another pic trolling his homemade engineering "device". Like no one's ever designed and built anything "in house" before. lol

They havent with the affect "the device" had and for that cheap.

[Scott Boesel]

It's funny because Marlar has ran first and second the past two times he's been to Tyler County in bigger races but rarely comes up to race here...wish he would more often.

I Remember when Marlar and Doar back in 2011 at the black diamond 125 put on one of the best races I have ever seen. Marlar didn’t win it but he can wheel it at Tyler county for sure

[Krooser]

Actually, he does carry the device with him. I've held it in my hands at I-80 in '16.

My ex carried a device with her at all times but it sure didn't look like that!

[jcotton02]

Everybody wants to say how cheap that device was and maybe the design itself was. now factor in the cost of the shocks that it took to use it!

[RaceEngineer]

Everybody wants to say how cheap that device was and maybe the design itself was. now factor in the cost of the shocks that it took to use it!

Once again, that was cheap too. It actually made putting the correct shocks on the lr easier. And a Penske costs the same regardless of how you valve it.

[Krooser]

Everybody wants to say how cheap that device was and maybe the design itself was. now factor in the cost of the shocks that it took to use it!

I doubt that the $10k guys are spending today for a set of shocks is any cheaper... for many i would think they spend as much, or more, on shocks during a season as they do on engines.

I shake my head when I see the "economy" shocks are only $3995.00 a set...

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

I doubt that the $10k guys are spending today for a set of shocks is any cheaper... for many i would think they spend as much, or more, on shocks during a season as they do on engines.

I shake my head when I see the "economy" shocks are only $3995.00 a set...

The LR is a sandwich of crutches. So, the shocks are extreme to try and cope. Rumley recognized this and came up with a clever way to fix it.

[hucktyson]

16k to freshen a Spread bore after 900 laps .. if it doesn’t need a crank or rods .... add fuel and oil to that and tell me with a straight face shocks cost as much as motors .... if you check deck height after the race you can’t pin the right front to the ground or hold the left rear up as you will fail tech .... But by all means let’s pretend it’s stupid to check Decks the way they did for 20 years ....

[Barbecueboy]

So we want the officials to revert back to the way they used to do it???

Like they did with tires before the imposed testing farce began???

Like it.

[RaceEngineer]

So we want the officials to revert back to the way they used to do it??? Like they did with tires before the imposed testing farce began???Like it.

Yup. A lot of fixes are simple. Go back to what worked. The history of DLM is littered with rules and rule enforcement changes to let rule breakers be legal again. We change the ruler instead of the offending car. It's insane. Then we create new rules to make what was always legal, illegal. Again, insane.

[Barbecueboy]

In the membrane......

[ImCryn2]

Yup. A lot of fixes are simple. Go back to what worked. The history of DLM is littered with rules and rule enforcement changes to let rule breakers be legal again. We change the ruler instead of the offending car. It's insane. Then we create new rules to make what was always legal, illegal. Again, insane.

Exactly!! We have had several rear suspension designs over the years and there was no issue until a guy named Rumley found something that was better than the norm. Meanwhile engine costs have almost tripled over the last 10 years and nothing is done about it, simply because of the money the builders give to the sanctioning bodies in the form of advertising, etc.