Bloody Mary Buggy Build

Dillehay · Sep 28, 2011

Here's the story:

Once upon a time two county boys wanted to build a tube buggy, build not buy. So that's were we started.....Took a lot of pic's of others buggys, talked to Jimmy Smith, Brian Cole, Timmy Cameron, Essential Off Road, Hell we talked to anybody that would talk to us. We wheeled any chance we got and watched how the other buggys worked. Wrote the ideas down and finally started bending tube. We got Timmy involved in between his (three) buggy builds (holy **** he built three while we were still working on one). It took us so long because Kelly (Dougs wife and banker) would hide money from us, we sold scrap, Kelly's Toyota Truggy, Dougs racing 4-wheeler, a few cows and pretty much anything not bolted down or needed for this build. I'm going to start in reverse engineering mode, i.e. pics of finished buggy and then the build. If you like please say so, if you don't be very very quite. You may hurt our feellings ;D
First I'd like to thank a few,Timmy Cameron, Scotty Hoffman, Junior Phillips, Shane Watkins, Joe Matlock, Mo Crutcher, Troy Crutcher, Amos, Jay Johnson and Kellye Hayes (Dougs wife and the financier of project) Lisa Dillehay (my wife for putting up with late nites and grease) if I misspell name sorry, if I leave somebody out that thinks they did something positive remind me. PD

Here are the pics. I've got a bunch. Thanks for looking.

First time out of the shop on its own power

I'll post more later so I don't over load the thread.

Dillehay · Sep 28, 2011

Build specs

SB350 flat top pistons, Lunati VooDoo cam, alum heads, 300-350hp (non educated guess on hp)
TH400 TCI full manual valve body
NP205 with big shaft ford rear output
14 bolt rear with 456 gears
D60 front 456 detroit locker 35 spline outers (this will more than likely break soon)
44" uncut TSL front and rear 32 bolt bead locks.
16spline long travel drive shafts from Drive shaft superstore
2" 7075 solid aluminum links with 1.25 heims
tubing is 1.75 .120 dom on cage and 1.75 .188 dom on bottom frame and shock hoops
16" fox coilovers 250/350 blue coil springs (this will probably change)

rockwhore · Sep 28, 2011

well done. looks great!!! :****:

Dillehay · Sep 28, 2011

More finished pics (tried to do the fancy pics like Ricky B.....**** it I'm not that creative)

Dash

Propane injected

Rear frame rails mated to one upright

Now for the before pics we did a bunch of scratching our heads, drinking and cussing
two trips to the E.R. later, one caused by a mad bull (you would buck too if somebody was cutting your nuts out) and the other by welding wire puncturing Dougs arm

Day one

Day two

Rear frame and start on the top of cage

First bend of cage

Second bend of cage

Timmy visited and in about an hour had this eyebrow set up

cage coming together

too many bars or not?????

Front mock up done, hell it's not a mock up since it's welded

Frame side view

Do not weld.......Welded Dammit! Oh well it'll have to work.

Front side bars added

Dash started

Steering mount.....Damn there is a lot of **** to weld-grind-weld-grind

Radiator mounted

Rear link mounts

Propane tank cage

Water goes here

and here

dash is finished or so we thought another 3-4 hours of welding-grinding-welding-grinding to do

I'll add more later

jkh533 · Sep 28, 2011

Looks Good :dblthumb:

More Pics!

volman940 · Sep 28, 2011

looks awesome!! :woot:

twiztedzuki · Sep 28, 2011

very nice job guys!!! :dblthumb:

the only thing i would change on my buggy is dual propane tanks, long rides i hav a buddy carry xtra tank 4 me

monster · Sep 28, 2011

sweet ride

Cole · Sep 28, 2011

You guys did a great Job and it works awesome.

Dougs New Buggy on Axle Hill at Trucks Gone Wild

matlock · Sep 28, 2011

I see two problems......

I think ya'll ate those cows ;D....

and you & Doug did way too good a job, it looks bought NOT built

Lotsa of hard work, great job...BADASS BUGGY :dblthumb:

BustedKnucklefilms · Sep 28, 2011

Nice! This is exactly what I am looking at doing. Seems like that 350 has plenty of power.

JRPhillips · Sep 29, 2011

great job
good pictures to dillehay
ricky b look out for dillepictures

xjpaddler · Sep 29, 2011

nice build, I got a ??? though. when you guys are running the cooling through the tubes, are you plugging the tube front and rear of the fittings??? I plan to do this on my next build and was just wondering.

FroggF350 · Sep 30, 2011

xjpaddler said:
nice build, I got a ??? though. when you guys are running the cooling through the tubes, are you plugging the tube front and rear of the fittings??? I plan to do this on my next build and was just wondering.

Yeah

Nice rig by the way...

Dillehay · Sep 30, 2011

xjpaddler said:
nice build, I got a ??? though. when you guys are running the cooling through the tubes, are you plugging the tube front and rear of the fittings??? I plan to do this on my next build and was just wondering.

Yes, we ran the cooling in the top tube of the bottom frame. There are a couple of splice joints one in the rear and one in the front. we used a solid piece of round tube that we had machined down to fit the id of the 1.75 x .120 tubing. It was machined with a close tolerance, almost had to drive it in with a hammer. Plug welded it top and bottom and around the solid piece. We had a couple of leaks but added some stop leak and they went away. We got that advice from Timmy, he always puts a couple of stop leak "pills" in his buggys that have the coolant in the frame tubes.