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WHEN YOU SEE THIS SYMBOL 
 

Every part on our web site or in our catalog that has this symbol, are off the shelf parts we use on our race Bronco. This means these are not extra fancy or supper expensive racing parts they are just our standard high quality off the shelf parts we sell every day but have been tested and proven to hold up in one of the most famous and roughest races in the world.

If you don't see the Baja proven symbol it doesn't mean the part wasn't good enough for testing in the Baja but because the class 3 rules require a specific part or design to pass the TECH inspection.

 
 

Win A chance to ride in the Baja 1000 We would like to Congratulate Jake Steen as the winner of the drawing for the navigator seat in the 2007 Baja 1000

WIN a chance to ride in the BC Bronco racer as a co-driver during the 40th Anniversary of the Baja 1'000. We will be selling raffle tickets for $10 with the proceeds going toward the race effort while helping support the Old Horse Racing all-volunteer pit crew.

There are two ways to enter. 1: You can buy a ticket at the OCBR event or the Off-road Expo. 2: Send $10 for each ticket through Pay Pal, charge it to your credit card, or add it to your next order from BC Broncos.

 If you buy a ticket at one of the events you will get a numbered ticket stub. If you buy one on-line we will email you your unique ticket number(s) and the other half of the ticket will go into the bucket.

 We will announce the winner of the random drawing on Oct. 14th so the winner can make travel arrangements. We will be leaving Texas on Nov 6th if the winner wants to ride with us or we will be at the San Diego airport on the 10th picking up some guys that are flying in later.

 There are a few things you will be required to do as a co-driver.

1: You will need to be 18 and sign a release of liability

2:You will need to get to Mexican border (you can meet us at our shop and ride down with us, we can meet along the way, we can pick you up at the San Diego airport). 

3: you will need to Navigate on a Lowrance 5000 GPS

4: Run the radio

5: Keep your eyes on the Nordskog gauges

6:Watch for traps set by locals

7: Stay awake for 24 hours then 24 more

8: Get dirty and stay that way for a week

9: Have the best time of your life

 

 
 

Our 2007 Baja 1000 Race Sponsors

 

Thanks to all of our sponsors for helping us to make it to the 2007 Baja 1000. We couldn't have made it the 1096 miles without you.

  • Advanced Adapters

  • Amsoil offroadsynthetics.com

  • Bailie Bilt

  • Banning driveline

  • Beard Seats

  • BFG tires

  • Blackmore signs and designs

  • Bronco Driver

  • Brutal Off-road

  • classicbroncos.com

  • CTM U-Joints

  • Deaver Springs

  • DJ Safety

  • DUI Distributors

  • Fastnal.com

  • Fiberglass Specialties

  • Fontana's Radiator

  • Pareto Point Industries

 

  • I DID IT

  • Loanstar Early Bronco Club

  • Mid Western Springs

  • Mile Marker

  • Moser Engineering

  • Nordskog Gauges

  • Painless wiring

  • Powertank

  • Professional Construction Services

  • Pyrotect Race gear

  • Randy's Ring & Pinion

  • Riverside Transmission

  • RJM Technologies

  • R&R sandblasting & powder coating

  • Scott Drake

  • Techna fit

  • Totally Stainless

  • Western Differential

 

 
OUR FIRST YEAR RACING THE 2003 BAJA

 

 

 
 
A FEW QUESTIONS

 

Q Why does BC Broncos race?

A Three reasons, The main reason: to test parts we design and sell. What better way to test out our parts than to abuse them in the most extreme environment, 1000 miles of Hell.  I have heard that 1000 miles in Baja is like 50,000 miles of normal day-to-day driving. If that is true, the Bronco has done very well. The second reason: to get more people excited about Broncos and to continue the legend of the Bronco. The third reason: off-road racing kicks ass. Once we did it we had to do it again. Anyone can join the team, and if you do, you will never forget your experience and will want to do it again.

Q Why did you paint your Race Bronco like the American flag?  Who suggested it?

A Jason suggested it because we are patriotic and love America. He got out of the Army after 4 years of service 4 days before 9/11, and we wanted to show our pride in America and our Bronco.

 

 

 
AT THE STARTING LINE
 

 

 

 
READY FOR PAINT

 

The flag on our Bronco is not a sticker, It is taped off, painted, air brushed and shadowed to give it the  wave affect.

 
 
DOING SOME TESTING

 

 

  LOTS OF TESTING     

 
THE DRIVERS ARE THE HARDEST WORKING

 

Hey, you are supposed to be racing not sleeping! Only 30 miles in we heard over the radio "the truck doesn't turn left". We told them we would meet them at the first road crossing and try to fix the steering. It was a good thing we had them stop. The reason the Bronco would not turn left was, we were trying a new lower track bar mount design. The way it was mounted it was actually pushing the right radius arm off the front-end, shifting the front-end to the right and not letting the driver turn left. This caused a major problem. The center section of the front-end housing smashed into the oil pan leaving a large hole. Jason yells, "kill the engine we are leaking oil".

 
 
THE PIT CREW DOING A GREAT JOB

 

The first thing we needed to do was to stop the oil leak. We drained the oil and welded up the holes in the pan. We then moved on to the original steering problem. We had only two options; call the race because it was too dangerous or to move the track bar mount to a semi-stock location and shorten the track bar. We had some steel so we decided to go that route. Jack welded up a track bar mount with the steel we had and got us out of the pit stop in under 2 hrs.

 
 
AIR CONDITIONING

 

Yes, thanks to Vintage Air, the BC race Bronco has AIR CONDITIONING. Why would you put A/C in a race Bronco that doesn't even have a windshield? This filtered A/C is designed to go directly into the driver and co-drivers helmet, cooling the head and keeping a positive pressure in the helmet  to keep from breathing dirt. When it gets cool at night we can shut off the A/C and just have fresh air blowing in the helmet.

 
 
REAR SUSPENSION

 

The rear suspension has been stretched 10" and the shackles are longer for more flex. We are using Deaver springs.

 

 
OLD HORSE RACING
 

This is the place to go for info about racing early Broncos, if you want to race your early Bronco or want to be part of the pit crew. here is the forum link. http://www.oldhorseracing.org/BRF/ .Started by Chuck and Dan to help promote and support the Broncos legacy in racing and to continue that tradition.

 

 

 

 

 
 
THE 2005 CREW
 

 

 

 

 

 
 
2004 3rd PLACE FINISH

 

 

After 1017 miles, one broken cross-member, a few flat tires, lots of cactus smashing           and a rollover, we took third place.

 

 

BAJA IS HARD ON EQUIPMENT

 

 

 

 
NEW PARTS

DESIGNED AS A DIRECT RESULT OF OUR RACING IN BAJA

 

ADJUSTABLE TRACK BAR
Our Adjustable Track bar is the first part we designed as a direct result of Racing Baja. We found in testing that the standard adjustable track bar would break at were the upper end threaded into the main part of the bar track bar and that the upper bushing would go bad, making the Bronco harder to handle at high speed. Here is the link to check it out. http://bcbroncos.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=327

 

RADIUS ARMS

Two days before we left for Baja, Jason and Wes took the racer out for a quick test run just up the driveway (1/4 mile long).  They got out of the wash, the truck got a little squirrelly and they just hit the edge of a cement pylon about 5' long and 18" in diameter at about 50 mph with the front tire. They were wearing their helmets and 5 point seatbelts so they were not hurt. They said they didn't think they hit it that hard. When they got back to the shop, they said the Bronco was a little hard to turn. We got it in the shop and put it on the lift and found a few things wrong. The radius arm was trashed, the new 4x4x2 power steering box sector shaft was twisted and cracked, and on the new F150 left side tie rod, the tapered shaft was actually bent into a slight "S" shape. We now have the steering sector shaft, steering knuckles and spindles cryo-treated. This is also the reason we decided to build our new radius arms. This is WHY we race, to see what breaks and how to make it better. Click the picture for more info.

HEIM TIE-ROD AND DRAG LINK STEERING WITH TAPERED STUDS
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was the third product we built because of racing the Baja 1000. We ran our cut down Heavy Duty F-150 tie-rods until the 2004 race during the race at  round mile marker 900 Chuck and Wes rolled the racer, when they got it to the pit stop we saw that the tie-rods were really sloppy and we had to take some extra time to change them out .We don't know if it was because of the tie-rods being sloppy that caused them to roll over or the roll over damaged the tie-rods but we know with the new heim steering set up it won't be a problem in future races. Click the picture for more steering parts.

 

 
Here are some parts that we have been working on and have been testing in Baja but have not worked out yet. We are sure this section will grow as we try new things.
 

        

 

In 2005 One proto-type that didn't work out too well. The track bar was actually pulling the radius arm off the axle wedges, moving the axle to the passenger side, keeping the Bronco from turning to the left.

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