Best budget platform for Truggy?????

PixbyNick · Jul 22, 2012

I keep watching all these rock bouncer videos and im getting the fever something besides my RZR. I just bought a house so an expensive build is outta the question for a little while, so i was wanting to know what would be the best platform for a truggy build budget wise? Also what motor,trans, etc... would you go with.

xjkrawler · Jul 22, 2012

Cucv Chevy blazer

5BrothersFabrication · Jul 22, 2012

Ranja.

grcthird · Jul 23, 2012

Toyota, cheap, plentiful, huge aftermarket, light weight, if I had it to do over again, I'd buy one and spend less time building and more time riding. Lots of nice stuff or sale that couldn't be built for what they have in parts.

TBItoy · Jul 23, 2012

xjkrawler said:
Cucv Chevy blazer

Probably one of the worst vehicles to start out with IMO. 6.2 slug diesel, 10 bolts front and rear, np208... Really nothing good there.

TacomaJD · Jul 23, 2012

grcthird said:
Toyota, cheap, plentiful, huge aftermarket, light weight, if I had it to do over again, I'd buy one and spend less time building and more time riding. Lots of nice stuff or sale that couldn't be built for what they have in parts.

x2 :****:

85toyo · Jul 23, 2012

The cheapest route would be buying a rig with a good parts list then change what you dont like.

Neal3000 · Jul 23, 2012

Cucv truck......strip the body down and put a gas burner in it

Josh40601 · Jul 23, 2012

Although I love my RBV's, gotta give credit where credit is due... Yoters get my vote.

I do agree with above though, find one that's already built and change what you don't like. I did this with my Explorer

ridered3 · Jul 23, 2012

Josh40601 said:
Although I love my RBV's, gotta give credit where credit is due... Yoters get my vote.

I do agree with above though, find one that's already built and change what you don't like. I did this with my Explorer

Agreed 100%. Much cheaper and less of a headache too.

5onrocks · Jul 23, 2012

Toyota by far but hell... You can buy something twice as nice as you can build for the same money right now. I bought a buggy that had nice parts but quality and looks were lacking. I wheeled it for a year, tore it apart and rebuilt everything. Now I have a 12k buggy with about 6-7k in it.

yankster · Jul 23, 2012

Anything with a V8 and put Rockwells under it.

xjkrawler · Jul 23, 2012

TBItoy said:
Probably one of the worst vehicles to start out with IMO. 6.2 slug diesel, 10 bolts front and rear, np208... Really nothing good there.

Sorry meant the one ton truck.

5BrothersFabrication · Jul 23, 2012

If I could get every cent back out of mine and had to start over, I'd find an '85 yoyo, do a 22re swap, tons and linked. Put sway-away 2.5's on 'er and go wheel.

5BrothersFabrication · Jul 23, 2012

Ok, ok... Just changed my mind. Taco, fa sho. :flipper:

AllGoNoShow · Jul 23, 2012

One ton Ford if you don't mind body damage. If I were to start over I would get a mid to late 90's F-350 with a fuel injected 460. It already will have the one tons, more than likely a 2.69 to 1 transfercase, and near bulletproof transmission. Gear and lock the axles, trim the fenders, bolt on some 40ish inch tires, cage it up and have some cheap fun.

TacomaJD · Jul 23, 2012

5BrothersFabrication said:
Ok, ok... Just changed my mind. Taco, fa sho. :flipper:

For budget build, old yota...not tacomas lol. Tacomas have gear driven t-cases and you can't do any cheap t case mods like you can with the old gear driven t cases in the pre-Taco yotas. The older ones are also passenger side drop t cases so you can use factory yota front running gear where as you have to use a Wagoneer D44 if you want to keep stock width paired with factory yota rearend in a Taco. More **** out there for the older ones. However, the a/c rarely works in the older trucks.....a/c in my Taco still blows snowballs :flipoff1: