Overkill Racing and Chassis

Overkill Racing and Chassis The crossroads between safety, innovation, and creativity are the reasons why we proudly say "If your gonna build it... might as well OVERKILL it"

It all started out with a stock 68 Chevy Suburban and a dream. That dream was to turn a classic into a monster, monster truck that is. One project, one man, and few friends decided to make that dream a reality. In the mist of the months of hard work, long hours, and late nights, it was decided that this could be bigger. Once what was thought as a dream project had now turned into something much mo

re and that was a reality and career. It was decided that we must do what we love and love what we do and that is to build monsters. A once simple stock suburban grew into a monster but it meant something much more. It showed the feelings, dedication, and passion that we all had. We did not strive to build a mediocre truck we built a stout beast that was beyond the norm. Every little project went from simple to over the line. In the end, we went from stock to monster to overkill!!!!!!! Overkill Racing and Chassis was born. In this business we strive to bring customer satisfaction to each individual and create one of kind projects that are truly outside the normal realm of reality. From full blown monster trucks to chassis OVERKILL is exactly what you are going to get. We put our twist on projects you want built and fully immerse you in the one of a kind products you will get with our company. We are passionate and dedicated to our product and want to bring our services to you. Our journey has begun. Stay tuned on both our website and page for past, current, and future builds. We make builds unique from finish to end and best of all everyone can be a part of it, thru photos and videos, you can be a part of the crew. Any questions feel free to contact us on our email at [email protected] or on our page. Thanks again for visiting our page and remember...... "If you’re gonna build it, might as well overkill it"



Joel Buschmann

President and Founder

05/20/2026

I just know can squeeze 11 more lights on trailer somewhere to make it an even 100 😂🤠. Its so surreal getting ready to break this silly trailer down for powdercoat this week finally! Its been such an uphill battle but its so rad seeing how close its getting to the finish line 🫶

Happy birthday to one of my closest friends and biggest mentors Jose Gomez Pep !!!It goes without saying, the more you...
05/08/2026

Happy birthday to one of my closest friends and biggest mentors Jose Gomez Pep !!!
It goes without saying, the more you do something, typically the better you get, the more you immerse yourself it in and the people you associate yourself with are into the same thing. Welding and fabrication is a great example of this, the Instagram platform has allowed me to connect with so many like minded people literally all over the world. Whats wild for me to think about is after knowing for a decade I still in my mind have yet to meet someone that encompasses the wealth of knowledge and skillset Pep has. From blade/blacksmithing, to aerospace and automotive welding and fabrication, to teaching metallurgically science, he does and excels at it all. is truly a jack and master of all trades.

This little pair of dashis pairing knives are very special to me, made them a few years ago, one of them is mine, the other he made for himself. He whipped them up out 1095 and 15N20 and gave mine a 320 fold raindrop pattern one cause he knows how fascinated by damascus I am.
I miss living in southern new mexico, don't get me wrong, Utah is rad and my roots are planted here, but man I miss the nights spent at trying to be a sponge and retain as much information as I could. As bizarre as it sounds, if I could go back I wish I would have just set a video camera in the corner of the shop just to sit back and re live some of the cool memories we made, and write down all the stuff that flew way over my head all those years 😂 Happy birthday old friend emphasis on the old part!

Here is a pretty neat little teachable moment from a few years ago for those of you working in a big busy shop where bay...
05/02/2026

Here is a pretty neat little teachable moment from a few years ago for those of you working in a big busy shop where bay doors are constantly being opened and closed or people are walking by to check out your work carrying along a nice little draft with them 😂. To most, this is a great looking weld, manageable heat affected zone with good coloration and consistency. But to those who know, know the defect. If you look where my filler rod is pointed at you can see a slight little pinhole. If your not looking closely you probably wouldn't even notice it but if you swipe 👉👉👉 you can see after a light surface grind how bad the underlying porosity is. 😬🙃

Now, there's a couple ways to skin this cat, you can of course leave it and turn a blind eye (worst idea) you can try and dry wash over the weld and hope you can pull out the porosity (another really bad idea especially on 4130) or, you can grind out the weld make sure allll the doors are closed and everyone is on there damn lunch break and weld it again option 3. It takes a little bit of time but its definitely the best and absolute safest option especially being what this builds use will be.

A lot of people would wonder why the heck I would post a weld defect instead of just fixing it when no one was paying attention and making it my little secret and the reason is simple,to show that everyone has mistakes. Sometimes, its out of your control, someone steps on your torch line as its strung on the ground, or opens a bay door on the outside not knowing your in the middle of a weld. What it shows is that accidents happen and you can either complain about it or do your best to make it seem like it never happened, and most the time the latter choice is the best one. Now don't get me wrong though I totally still complain under my breath and throw a temper tantrum in my head while prepping the tube for round 2 😂🤷

04/28/2026

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 😂😎

04/18/2026

Making some headway on these new f250/350 and 450/550 17-22 and 23+ bumpers were proofing out for production 🤓🤠. If you are interested in one, we need some guinea pigs as we continue to proof out the manufacturing process in a few configurations (2 of 6 shown (these are 23+ 450/550)). In doing so, you will get at cost pricing with provided installation feedback. Bumper pricing starting at 1500 with a DIY version right at about half that. Be sure to reach out here or via email [email protected]

04/16/2026

Closest guess to what the combined weight of F450, Tube Chassis Trailer, and will get a free tshirt!
Be sure to comment your guess below 👇👇👇

Current lead times on Toyota DIY bumpers is 2-4 weeks!100 percent designed in SOLIDWORKS CNC Laser cut with USA steel in...
04/14/2026

Current lead times on Toyota DIY bumpers is 2-4 weeks!

100 percent designed in SOLIDWORKS

CNC Laser cut with USA steel in house!

Get the protection and clearance you need for your next adventure with the gratification of building something yourself!

https://overkillracingandchassis.com/collections/toyota-products

04/14/2026

I call 83% cause 83% of her welds look like her helmet wasn't on backwards and the other 17% are definitely metal finished😂🙈. But man all that hazing by and I is slowly starting to pay off cause this is pretty not too bad for ol 83% 🤓🤠😎.
All kidding aside has come a long way in a short amount of time and im so dang proud 🫶. Butttt to keep her humble ill say I cant wait to see the day here soon where when she asks if she needs to blend grind somthing I can say no without even looking at it. 😘

01/16/2026

We recently got the chance to team up with friend on his rad snowcat project building out a rear enclosure to help transport his friends and family to remote sking spots. The utah weather had been pretty moderate this winter thus far so its rad seeing him getting it out there and put to work 🤠.

Speaking of moderate Utah weather, is a renowned Orthopedic Surgeon, so definitely needs more snow that way he can perform more Ski related ACL repairs and we can build more junk together! 😂

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