Overkill Racing and Chassis

Way rad seeing junk at to get powdercoated this really pretty illusion ruby red color. I didnt want to risk anything getting dinged or damaged on his trailer going in and out of the oven so I made these rad little rolling carts. I made them tall enough that there is 6" of clearance between the top of the trailer and the door in the oven so the guys have plenty of space to climb underneath it and get it blasted and proper coverage. Its been about a year and a half and around 1500 hours to get to this point and I couldn't be more excited to see this silly trailer all freshly powder coated 🤠🤓

One of my favorite things about silly trailer is the auto locking dove design I whipped up in which consists of 2244 sketches and a heck of a complicated dynamic assembly 🤓🤠. This was the first time we cycled it so the "pop" nose was from the heims on the rams being a full rotation out from eachother but I was just so pumped to see it work after all the hours of conceptually seeing it cycle and work haha!

I wanted to come up with a dove design that didnt require a pin to hold it in place when the dove was in the level or extended position and durr had some style points as well💁‍♀️. I achieved this by using a cam and follower concept design in which as the two vectors (dove cam and dove pivot) axies became closer to colinear to eachother, there was a breakover point where the dove begins to essentially crash back down on itself 😂.

From a safety standpoint, the hydraulic rams at full extension as well as the weight of the tail and distance from the fulcrum holds it in position beyond just hydraulic pressure. In the model I made that camover angle at 25°, which at a 66" dove length made it 14" higher than the parrallel height to the ground. Which i figured is more than enough to keep it from ever caming back over itself if it for whatever lost hydraulic pressure.

I didnt necessarily come up with this design on my own entirely, I youtubed a diamond c trailer and just designed off that same theoretical concept and so far it has worked really well!

The caveat to this design is that in the event you did lose hydraulic pressure at full lock. You would infact have to monster truck the mini monster truck on and off the trailer 😂😎