Project Barnyard Budget AXS10

[BigMikeIndy]

Spending countless hours track side at events and being constantly surrounded by the sport I have fell victim to the bug. It was late last summer that I finally registered my daily driven pickup in a performance driving school at NCM Motorsports Park in Bowling Green. I spent a Saturday with a group of SCCA National Champions who thought a pickup couldn't handle. By 4pm that afternoon each of the trainers had driven the truck in awe of just how spirited the 5400lb pickup was. I learned a lot that day and went on to compete the following day in a regional SCCA event at the same location. My first time out and I placed 7th out of 13 in the CAM class. I know nothing to brag about.... tell that to the guy in a Viper that was outran by a 02 Dodge Ram. Needless to say I was hooked. I quickly registered for the next even which was the 1st Track-X event held at NCM. Ole Blue as I called it was just a 02 Reg cab short bed Hemi Ram with full ridetech Air Suspension HQ Shocks. Your normal bolt on engine upgrades and a set of ebay drilled and slotted rotors were about all the goodies it had. Ole Blue and I took to the Road Course like nun to a strip club, to say we were out of place would be an understatement. I knew what had to be done at that point, I needed something fast and purpose built and stat! As soon as I made it back to the ridetech Headquarters that following Monday I had helmet in hand and went car to car trying to find something that would accept my 6'4" stature with a helmet on. The dream was crushed and the hopes of simply driving a company car disappeared like an arm less man in quicksand.Or was it? I've learned a lot in 34 short years, pretty ones get everything handed to them, don't piss in the wind, never trust a fart, nothings ever free, and the most important If you want something work for it! By the end of that week the plan was permanently written on a napkin and I acquired a first gen S10 straight from the barnyard. I'm tired of ranting for the evening so here are a few pics of Ole'Blue and what will become the AXS10.



And here is the heap of $hi@ that will become the AXS10... Let the turd polishing begin!





Ill leave you with this great movie quote "You don't need to think. You need to drive. You need speed. You need to go out there, and you need to rev your engine. You need to fire it up. You need to grab a hold of that line between speed and chaos, and you need to wrestle it to the ground like a demon cobra! And then, when the fear rises up in your belly, you use it. And you know that fear is powerful, because it has been there for billions of years. And it is good. And you use it. And you ride it; you ride it like a skeleton horse through the gates of hell, and then you win."