Project big money
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Project big money
Went to do a 3 link/motor swap and kept tearing stuff off til I realized its now a buggy build.
Inverted 4 link rear
3 link/panhard front
Built yota axles (5:29s
1.3 GTI (DOHC/forged/10:1 compression, MPFI, its identical to a Sami block)
Tracker 5 speed, tracker t-case (1:1/2:28 I think)
D300 (1:1, 4:1)
37"-39"s, dropped to 18" flat belly.
Front clip, rear radiused fender wells (leave a sami look to it)
Inverted 4 link rear
3 link/panhard front
Built yota axles (5:29s
1.3 GTI (DOHC/forged/10:1 compression, MPFI, its identical to a Sami block)
Tracker 5 speed, tracker t-case (1:1/2:28 I think)
D300 (1:1, 4:1)
37"-39"s, dropped to 18" flat belly.
Front clip, rear radiused fender wells (leave a sami look to it)
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OldGreen wrote:I appreciate your commitment.
Yea know, I aint made of money, but I seek to get stuff done. I've been really motivated lately, only thing slowing me down is money. Toyota axles are all brand new, just need new yukon 5:29s and and weld the trussing on/do link mounts and they are done. New locker/spool, bearings, seals, knuckle service kits, etc.
The sami t-case/bucket I sell will pay for a geared D300, then I make my own brackets, and buy an adapter kit to bolt it to a tracker t-case (dual cases/married)
I second what OG said - I can appreciate the time/effort it takes to build a rig. That said, my question for you would be why? I mean, if you can't afford to build it, why are you doing it? There isn't anywhere around these parts that requires a rig with that sort of hardware, and if you can't afford to build it, how are you going to afford to drag it all over the country to make use of it?
Not trying to bust your balls, just seen way to many rigs spend years and years getting overbuilt, and then never used...
Not trying to bust your balls, just seen way to many rigs spend years and years getting overbuilt, and then never used...
Yep, I've wheeled one of those, too...
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tobyw wrote:I second what OG said - I can appreciate the time/effort it takes to build a rig. That said, my question for you would be why? I mean, if you can't afford to build it, why are you doing it? There isn't anywhere around these parts that requires a rig with that sort of hardware, and if you can't afford to build it, how are you going to afford to drag it all over the country to make use of it?
Not trying to bust your balls, just seen way to many rigs spend years and years getting overbuilt, and then never used...
I got the money, just not all at once, drop about 1-1500$ a month.
Selling one of my other rigs for 1k, and all my parts off it, should net me 2500 to blow on this.
I will want to travel the western U.S once its done. And I got friends/brother who would pay half a trips cost to drive all over the U.S
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White trash wrote:Well at least you'll get the overbuilt boring crap out of the way while your young enough to have plenty of time to build something exactly like you had before you wasted your time tearing it apart.
Personally I'd stick with the plan but put the body back on.
Body is going on, just going to clean up the the frame, make it a complete roller minus shock/hoops, throw the GTI motor, tracker trans/case/D300 in it, make a flat belly/beefed to hell mounts for the drivetrain w/ bushings, then lower the body and cut as needed to fit it on, bolt it up and go from there.
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Re: Project big money
LiftedZuki wrote:Went to do a 3 link/motor swap and kept tearing stuff off til I realized its now a buggy build.
Front clip, rear radiused fender wells (leave a sami look to it)
Make up your mind are you using the.front clip on a buggy build or putting the body back on?
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Re: Project big money
White trash wrote:LiftedZuki wrote:Went to do a 3 link/motor swap and kept tearing stuff off til I realized its now a buggy build.
Front clip, rear radiused fender wells (leave a sami look to it)
Make up your mind are you using the.front clip on a buggy build or putting the body back on?
Not a full out buggy (my bad), the front will be tube, with a hood, rockers cut out, tube sliders, rear fender wells cut out using the stock flare as an outline (about 3" strip off it, then buy some trailer wheel wells, if they work or build my own fender wells (like early bronco front fender wells)
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4 air shocks and 2 sway bars do the exact same thing for half the cost. Ori's are all about packaging on moon buggies period. Stop trying to keep up with rockmike, he has more tools and far more money than you. Are you going to buy the shocks over a 3 month period and have no money for anything else?
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White trash wrote:4 air shocks and 2 sway bars do the exact same thing for half the cost. Ori's are all about packaging on moon buggies period. Stop trying to keep up with rockmike, he has more tools and far more money than you. Are you going to buy the shocks over a 3 month period and have no money for anything else?
If anything ill go coilovers. Im doin an all purpose rig. Dunes rocks snow etc
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Hello!!! Are you paying attention? Plan as you go? Gonna end up with PushyouPullme...
Dave
Have Scout, will wheel...Someday...Maybe
Quote:
Originally Posted by Oregon80
-By driving a Scout, you my friend have recycled, which is more than those pansy Prius owners can say.
-I love driving a piece of history that was nearly lost.
Have Scout, will wheel...Someday...Maybe
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Originally Posted by Oregon80
-By driving a Scout, you my friend have recycled, which is more than those pansy Prius owners can say.
-I love driving a piece of history that was nearly lost.
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Re: Project big money
LiftedZuki wrote:Went to do a 3 link/motor swap and kept tearing stuff off til I realized its now a buggy build.
Inverted 4 link rear
3 link/panhard front
Built yota axles (5:29s
1.3 GTI (DOHC/forged/10:1 compression, MPFI, its identical to a Sami block)
Tracker 5 speed, tracker t-case (1:1/2:28 I think)
D300 (1:1, 4:1)
37"-39"s, dropped to 18" flat belly.
Front clip, rear radiused fender wells (leave a sami look to it)
(realized its now a buggy build ) Looks like a stock frame/cab to me!
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