Well, after my successful run at Diesel Thunder, I thought I would head down to Weekend on the Edge in Ogden Utah and see what my truck could do. My dad offered to haul the Cummins Forum Truck on his trailer. We decided to have a road trip.

The couple days that I was preparing my truck for the race did not go well. The new Snow Performance box that I was sent blew up and I could not find the source of the problem. My truck was also having a hard time building up any kind of boost when I was practicing staging, and my truck was idling funny. Nevertheless, we packed it up and went to Utah.

Before I left, I got a small rash on my face, which turned into an infection on the trip and was pretty gross to say the least. We had just crossed the state line into Utah(from North Idaho) and I could feel this infection traveling up to my ear, so, we quickly sought out the immediate care center in Bountiful, Utah. Turned out I had a Staph Infection! GREAT! I had to take a series of pills and put ointment on my face several times a day. I looked like the dude from the Phantom of the Opera without his mask on. I mean, we are talking NASTY. It was a spot on my face about 3x4" on my right side all read, swollen, broken, and just oozing pus constantly. Hopefully you arent eating dinner when you are reading this.

Needless to say, I was extremely embarrassed with how I looked, but went anyways. People were nice enough to talk to me even though I looked like something from a horror flick. We got all registered, signed in and inspected.

The track that we went to RMR(Rocky Mountain Raceways) was extremely professional compared to SRP(Spokane Raceway Park) where I usually go race.  My first(and last) two trial runs were failures. The first one, we had to last minutely get up to the line so I was flustered, and was trying to get my helmet on. Being flustered and trying to figure everything out at this new Raceway, I forgot to build up boost until it was time to go. My time was 16 something. Not good. The second time around was much better. I got staged and built up boost but my truck made so much black smoke that it washed out the Tree! I couldnt see the lights and when the smoke cleared, the other truck had already taken off and I was 6 seconds behind! My reaction time obviously was not good, but I took off pretty fast. Another 100ft and I would have passed the guy I was racing.

Time came to start the actual racing and, well, remember that medication the doc put me on? Yeah...I got to spend the race time leaning over the toilet. It was not fun. I missed the races. I will say one thing though. I'm glad that raceway was as nice as it was because the toilet I was leaning over was pretty clean compared to most public toilets. My stomach finally settled down and I said goodbye to the toilet bowl.

The next day was a little better. We went to Edge Products headquarters and watched Dyno's, take a tour of Edge and meet really cool people. I really enjoyed meeting and talking to JB Hinrichs, the Marketing Guru that helped the Cummins Forum Truck get sponsored and Matt Clark, the Sales Manager. I used to talk with Matt Clark a lot back in the days when I sold Diesel Performance Parts. I was very impressed with everyone I met, and saw that worked at Edge Products. Everyone was clean, professional, and curteous.


The tour of Edge Products facility was VERY impressive. It was good to see a Diesel Performance Parts company that took so much pride in their product, and had such good quality control. Their quality control station makes sure that everyone takes their time to make sure that everything that ships out of Edge Products is working correctly. I do remember when I used to sell Performance Parts that Edge seemed to have 5% of their products returned, whereas other manufacturers like Bullydog had 15-20% returned. Edge definitely makes a good product.


Well, we wrapped up at Edge Products, and headed home. On our way home we went on a hunt in Preston Idaho for Napoleon Dynamites house. We passed by Pedro's house, the school and even Rex Qwando's Dojo! After an hour or two of searching the countryside, we finally found it! Napoleon Dynamites house! Of course, it did help that we stopped by the Burger Place in town and grabbed a map. You can see the pictures of our trucks in front of Napoleon Dynamites house down below.

It was a great trip overall. Even though I was near death, it was memorable. If you havent ever been to a Weekend on the Edge event, I highly recommend that you do. They put on a good show and provide some really good food! Visit here for the Dyno and Race Results: http://www.edgeproducts.com/weekend_2006_results.html