how you doing guys my name is Chad Mormaa we're here at t1G again and we're going
to be talking about how to Ram a car or a blockade out of the way first thing
when you look at this there are some considerations you need to take into
account one is I need to know some known points on my vehicle as well as known
points on the vehicle that's going to be rammed known points that I want to know
in my vehicle or where about where the frame rail is run even in a unibody
where about a frame where overrun is still where it's the strongest part of
the car so a lot of people will take tape and put it on their hood tell you
it's at the headlights whatever one of the things we do here at t1g is if I am
the driver I have a traveling reference point that is with me which is my
outside leg if I have a passenger it would be the passengers outside leg
depending on which side of the vehicle of mine that I'm trying to use it gets
it close enough to get it lined up for their frame rail because what we're
needing is we're needing hard part which is our frame rail to a hard part on the
vehicle that we're ramming that way to to connect energies it bounces it out
away we don't want too hard to a soft because a soft part on the vehicle is a
crumple zone if we start to hit crumple zones that starts to mess up our vehicle
more the only reason that we're doing the RAM is because I couldn't reverse
out I couldn't do any other sort of action to get out an area this is sort
of my last resort because we are all about preserving vehicles when we're
downrange so we can keep carrying on missions on our team in the hard points
that you want to look for on the vehicle that you're going to be ramming are
exactly where the axles would run across so I want hard point to hard point so
when I get to start to line up I need to line up my frame rail or my outside leg
if I'm the driver with the center of the wheel of the vehicle I'm going to be
ramming from there there's coming other considerations I need to take into
account how fast I really need to hit this vehicle we don't want to hit it so
hard that I'm causing a lot of damage to my vehicle
hence the vehicle preservation that we're always after that way I can do a
ram and then continue on to do what I need to do whatever it is throughout the
day but it has to be enough kinetic energy to get the vehicle to move up and
out of the way you'd be surprised at how little room it actually takes there is
no set speed on this but if you have a vehicle that's in good
working order good running order you're going to start about a car to car and a
half back I've got my line up I don't want to be looking directly at this
right about the time I hit it I want to look through for my drivable terrain now
a couple of things when we start to do this I want to have it into the lowest
gear as possible that way I'm getting the most torque out of it especially if
I'm stopped at a checkpoint I'm leaving that car and a half distance away
whatever I need enough torque to hit it and get my speed up to get it up and out
of the way a couple of things that we need to look at in here so I've got my
low gear next thing people ask about is well when I hit something our airbag is
going to go off while airbags work on two systems one is rapid deceleration
and two is the crushed ends okay we know that the crushed ends are going to get
crushed but we're going to do it to where we're still accelerating trying to
fool the airbag system plus we're not doing it at 40 miles an hour whereas if
I started it from back here if they do go off then deal with it is what it is
try to get your hands back up onto the straight wheel and keep driving some
vehicles had to have a shutoff - when the airbags deploy it cuts off gas flow
and everything else that's something you need to have your guys look at when
you're downrange mechanic wise and everything and come up with your
alternative how you want to do it but I've got my position I've got myself
lined up I'd be about a car to two cars away I noticed something target
indicators whatever the case is that hey I need to ram
I can't reverse out or whatever the case is from there I'm going to low gear
small skinny pedal on the right once I make contact
do not come off of the gas stay on the gas in a rotate your vehicle out of the
way you therefore looking for your drivable train and continuing to drive
through some of the stuff that we have seen that is right before you make
contact people want to put on the brakes try to dip the front end so that way
when we make contact it helps to lift the vehicle up and out of the way I'll
tell you right now that is a lot of timing for down range real world to
happen quickly you can do it all day long in a closed
circuit on a track where the nobody shooting that you're not getting blown
up but doing it real world stay small skinny pedal on the right hit drive-thru
look for drivable train alright guys now that we talked about it on the board and
some of the factors that need to be getting B and play with it let's go
outside and do it for real.