The final step in the creation of this wild beast was setting sports seats with five-point safety b

Home Articles The famous traveler and photographer Vlad Minin passed in the studio on a charged Devolro Toyota Tundra pickup route rally marathon Dakar directly in the footsteps of the pilots.
It is with this motto I was going to conquer the mountains nikon and deserts in South America nikon in the pursuit of the extreme rally - Dakar 2015. Once in Africa, I alone made the journey in the footsteps of Dakar Rally 2006 on a motorcycle. What a crazy journey through the desert still remembers every cell of my body. Now I decided to try a completely nikon new sensation: a continent and a specially prepared for this car from the studio Devolro. Scorching sun, high passes, dust, dirt, sand, rocks, fords, canyons, lack of civilization, complete isolation from the familiar comfort and continuous drive hundreds of desperate nikon drivers - that more needs to be happy ?!
From the start and until the finish craziest riders in the world are putting themselves and their vehicles tested for endurance in difficult climatic conditions. I'm going to go after them to get into the spirit of the legendary marathon and understand why they need all this. Naturally, to pursue racing cars on a standard SUV or pickup truck would be insane, so I set out to build a project specially prepared nikon car. Help with this I had my old friends from the studio Devolro, in Miami, Florida. Tundra from Devolro has repeatedly advocated by my partners in my previous travels through Russia and Central Asia and established itself as a reliable tool for the conquest of off-road.
As always, I started gathering on the eve of Travel: construction machinery began just two months before the start of the marathon. As for me, and for the studio Devolro building a machine that was supposed to go the distance rally raid almost in combat mode, has become a real challenge. So we decided to build, nikon focusing nikon on the well-known motorsport solutions and my experience extreme travel. To employees studio were three main objectives: the machine must be powerful, not to choke on the five thousandth passes of the Andes; Chassis must have maximum strength and maneuverability, and the machine itself - have the greatest possible autonomy.
The basis for the construction of the machine was the time-tested and not me beloved Toyota Tundra 4x4 with petrol engine V8 5.7 and Cab Double Cab. High consumption of the V8 did not disturb me for one reason - I had a private gas station in the back. As the saying goes, just in case. And the sound mnogolitrovoy Eight makes even the most difficult journey more enjoyable. Despite nikon the fact that the standard engine on the Tundra iForce produces a solid 381 hp, power still had to be significantly increased, as in the Andes from the herd of horses under the hood remains the strength of 20%. The first thing that was done - is the installation of a mechanical supercharger, which increased engine power by 50%, which immediately put the car with a capacity of more than 600 hp on a par with a sports car.
But on the roads one powerful motor will not do - it is necessary to shake up the entire chassis. Was complete replacement of levers and rods, springs and shock absorbers, and the place of conventional wheels taken off-road. Was established to protect the engine and transmission, as well as snorkel, will overcome deep water obstacles nikon in the mountains, nikon and also gave the engine to breathe nikon less dusty air in the desert. To my monster Devolro not fall into the abyss on the descent from the next Andean mountain range, brake discs replaced on ventilated and Pads - more durable.
The final step in the creation of this wild beast was setting sports seats with five-point safety belts, additional tank of 200 liters, the original arc security, four spare wheels in its own frame (wheel is never too much), durable bumpers, powerful generator and LED "chandelier", which I called "Jesus" as the appearance of my Devolro night in the mountains or the desert with the lights can be compared only with the advent of the Divine. Once again, I was convinced that light, as well as wheels, in extreme travel is never too much - I have repeatedly said the company Devolro and myself thank you for this light when in the mountains at night lights, illuminating the path within a kilometer, more than once saved me from falling into a black abyss.
The work was completed in just a week before the start, nikon so the car had to be sent to Buenos Aires cargo aircraft. It seems to do everything wrong, like normal people - this is my "gold standard". All other "normal" people who want to take part in a group called crazy rally marathon Dakar, sent their cars to Argentina for a few more months the sea. However, as Napoleon said: the main thing - to get involved in this fight. And in the battle called Dakar had time to get involved. The car was produced in the cargo terminology