3/4 scale Class 1 race buggy

alfadriver wrote:

RossD wrote: Okay, so looking at the pictures above, it looks like you could hide a rear engine inside of a production sized truck bed. Why dont the trophy trucks have them rear mounted? Or do they?

Of the SCORE trophy trucks, I don't know of any of them that run an independant rear. And like any driveshaft- you need a decent lenght to make sure that the angles are not too much. BTW, it is legal to run IRS, but it's a lot easier to have HUGE wheel travel on the driven wheels via live axle. Eric

IRS makes it a truggy, not a truck IIRC. (Truggy = truck + buggy)

You could check out http://race-dezert.com/ for some ideas. They have a classified section with some really cool machinery in it

Keith wrote: So I've started thinking about high-speed off-road rigs. Not Baja Bugs, although there are a few of them around here. Not a sand rail, as I'm not sure how they'd deal with our more difficult terrain. But a 3/4 scale version of a Class 1 Baja race buggy.

Kinda like the class 10 listed here?

I thought Class 10s are required to run VW engines - it doesn't say so there, but the engine specs are so specific (1915cc air-cooled pushrod?) that I thought that had to be what was going on. So I hadn't paid enough attention to them and just skimmed past the category.

But that's not actually true, it turns out. A 1750cc 16 valve water cooled with stock fuel injection could be a B16A2, for example. Hmm. They're actually pretty close to what I'd been thinking of. Here's a bunch of detailed shots of a Honda powered one: http://www.desertrides.com/features/vehicles/higman_class10/imagepages/DSC01035.php

class 10 is what you want......

or a class 7 stock mini truck. I always wanted one of those.

Do some research at www.minibuggy.net They may have what your looking for....

those buggys look too big for my tastes, I like the ones jeremy and hammond run around in during this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNalXVKNuM0

Keith wrote: Here's a bunch of detailed shots of a Honda powered one: http://www.desertrides.com/features/vehicles/higman_class10/imagepages/DSC01035.php

Holy miles of amazing welds and fabrication!

and THIS video makes me want one! It looks like some kind of crazy insect pounding down the road!

Sorry, that link should have been http://www.desertrides.com/features/vehicles/higman_class10/index.php.

Capt Slow wrote: those buggys look too big for my tastes, I like the ones jeremy and hammond run around in during this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNalXVKNuM0

Okay, I can see the appeal. Honda CBR 900 engine, under 900 lbs. Only 13.5" of wheel travel, though. http://www.ragemotorsport.com/

The pictures of one fitted with Yokohama A048Rs makes me a little worried, though.

Autolex wrote: Holy miles of amazing welds and fabrication! and THIS video makes me want one! It looks like some kind of crazy insect pounding down the road!

I'm telling you, this level of off road racing is incredibly underrated. Having seen them live, and worked on one of them, they are INCREDIBLE racing vehicles. Seeing what they can do, wow.

"Dust to Glory"- Rent it. Do it!

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You could use a VW torsion bar. Find one around where you live and extend the suspension mounts by cutting it at the angle in the mount, and weld some steel straight up to the height you want, and reattatch the mount. Dust to Glory is a good movie by the way

I don't think you can get the suspension travel out of a torsion bar, can you? I'd love to have at least 18". I want that long-legged feel of just absorbing anything.

Wouldn't be hard to find one. I drive past Kustom Coach Werks on the way to work.