dhollowell Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Anyone attended? Reviews? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhockaday Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 I have a few friends from the ford raptor forum that have I will ask then and see what tehy say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbone Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 I would be interested to hear opinions as well since I have the invitation still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhockaday Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 (edited) So a small update from friends at the ford raptor forum. I have met some cool guys here. There are drivers here from Maryland, Florida, Texas and Kentucky that I know of so far. We were told at the dinner that Ford performance school has a total of 18 trucks available and all are supercrew 801 and 802's. The elevation here is 4500 asl and if the weather holds we are going up the mountian trails to about 7600. As for the actual driving there will be track, whoops, rock crawling, an open area for freestyle driving and drifting through turns and even a desert portion for Baja. As they said in the welcome video "Don't drive our trucks like you own them, drive it like you stole it" No joke, a literal quote from the welcome video!Tone You can use a gopro, cell, fly or whatever you want. We nust finished and I will write things up when I get back home. You wont believe how capable this truck is and what it can do. On the rock crawl at one point our side angle was at 30 degrees. It felt like we were going to roll over! The instructor was even rocking the truck and it was rock solid. Hitting the baja section I hit 70mph two seperate times. Baja mode and mud/sand are the shit. Here are some more pics till I 1. No plans to have the diff lock in 2wd. With the increased power and torque Ford deemed locking the rear in 2wd would lead to shredded diffs. 2. Hill descent is badass. The had us go over a 30 degree decline with both feet on the floor with just hill descent on and we crept down at a crawl. It kicked ass. Apparently is also works in reverse and in mud.3. When you clean the front windsheild it also sprays and cleans the front camera. When everything is covered in dust and mud and yoi need to use the camera for crawling yoi have no idea how convenient that is.4. When using baja mode and the whole field is covered in dust, your parched and you need a/c dont forget to turn the recirculator. Dont ask me how I kn I know what happens and you dont. I know, it should be common sense. Sue me lol! 5. Trust you truck. I had no idea how capable this thing is until I took the class or how intuitive the driving modes are. Kinda boring videos but eh what the heck. Edited September 15, 2017 by jhockaday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbone Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Thanks for saving me the trouble finding some info on it. It sounds pretty awesome I'm going to have to try to get there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhockaday Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 Thanks for saving me the trouble finding some info on it. It sounds pretty awesome I'm going to have to try to get there. Glad I could help some There are 2 others that went all they said was it was a great class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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