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Jason C said:
He will not be able to drop **** down with that thick ass tranny pan. Mid-plate is not needed but like MAll'er said do some work on that foot style adapter possibly a peice up the back side with 2 bolts that mount it horizontally giving 4 bolts total than small plate back to the atlas. grabbing some of the cover bolts. DO NOT put on a rear atlas support or you will break your tranny housing.
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Why do you say this?
 
ok a little Lesson in common sense for everyone here. you support the motor from the front. You support the tranny in the middle. than you go behind it and support it again. your doing this in a tubecar that will have some flex... and that you smash into ****. So if you hit in the middle of your skidplate hard in the middle your tranny tries to go up. Cast aluminum is not a "flexy" as one might think so it is firmly held in the rear and in the front and you "BEND" in the middle guess what happens? Yup you guessed it. New tranny for you because you blow out the top of the tranny housing right by where the adapter goes. If you want to giv the t-case extra support do not attach it to a seperate place on the chassis but back into the tranny mount forward that way it can move and flex. Make sense? We had another vendors chassis come in that had that design and his broke so we had to redesign the tranny mount to keep it from harms way. so yes in the fiel expirence and the fact 50+ cars without the extra support ring not having issues.
 
Got some super pimp Bunk Links tonight:D, 2" lowers and 1.5" uppers, 7075 aluminum. If you need links, tie rods, drag links, mini tie rods, anything. Talk to Bunk, he will hook you up for sure. Aluminum or Chromoly:awesomework:

The only thing holding me back right now is my axles.:masturbanana[1]:
 
What did I miss? I thought you were closin in on being done, and now you've started over. You build beautiful stuff!:awesomework:
 
unclestripey said:
What did I miss? I thought you were closin in on being done, and now you've started over. You build beautiful stuff!:awesomework:
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he sold his old chassis and axles and bought a new bravo chassis from S&N before they closed there doors. . . :awesomework:


Looks kick ass man keep up the good work:cool:
 
Looks good Clark...keep on working and taking pictures....ya might even beat pook to completion of the buggy!!!!!:;:cool:
 
Bunk Links:awesomework:

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those are badass... did you get ahold of the guy we talked about for the axles? lets get those damn things done! i want to go wheelin dammit...my truck is lame now compared to your buggy.. :fawkdancesmiley:
 
sly-yota said:
those are badass... did you get ahold of the guy we talked about for the axles? lets get those damn things done! i want to go wheelin dammit...my truck is lame now compared to your buggy.. :fawkdancesmiley:
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LOL..you and clark seem to think its gonna fall together quick! He has the right atitude but as you have heard, The tedious stuff is many many hours away and it adds alot of time to do.
 
sly-yota said:
those are badass... did you get ahold of the guy we talked about for the axles? lets get those damn things done! i want to go wheelin dammit...my truck is lame now compared to your buggy.. :fawkdancesmiley:
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Calm down, right now i'm going nowhere quick.

Bunk said:
LOL..you and clark seem to think its gonna fall together quick! He has the right atitude but as you have heard, The tedious stuff is many many hours away and it adds alot of time to do.
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It will go quick once i actually start working:flipoff: I think you spent more time machining the trans adapter and my links than i've spent on anything for the new chassis since i started over.:haha:


I've only got one thing on my mind right now, and that's AXLES.
 
pick what you want and go with it...................................... just mite think about switching up to 6 lug though :flipoff:
 
No, i'm officially the biggest BS'er on the board:redneck:

Axles are still holding me back right now, i need some, and have been going back and forth on what i want. I decided to start with prorock centers instead of the chevy's, there superior in every way, except the price.

The prorock centers should give me more clearance than a d44, almost as much as a 609. I can run ARB's that i already have, and not worry about the reliability of the 9" lockers. That leaves what c's and knuckles to run. I'm considering dynatrac's, spidertrax, crane, or deadenbaer(sp?).

Obviously kingpins are the stongest, spiders have the most steering angle, and the dynatracs have the best shock clearance for future coilovers, but are BJ.

I've researched the crap out of it, but there's so many different opinions it's not an easy choice. For the sake of not making the wrong desicion, i haven't made one yet.:rolleyes:
 
ClarkW said:
That leaves what c's and knuckles to run. I'm considering dynatrac's, spidertrax, crane, or deadenbaer(sp?).

Obviously kingpins are the stongest, spiders have the most steering angle, and the dynatracs have the best shock clearance for future coilovers, but are BJ.

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Spiders don't have more steering angle than stock 60 kingpin knuckles with a very slight grinding.

I'm building some kingpin knuckles... but and some days I still think I should ...if I was doing it again I'd just buy the spidertrax knuckles and start welding **** to them.

If you are planning on going fast you might just want to run the dynatrac stuff and not worry about steering angle to much steering angle and all the quirks that come with it will make going fast scary. Another thing is if your going to run 40" tires unless you run really wide diffs you'll be working real hard to get angles in the 40-42deg range on your chassis.
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You know this.......you're over thinking it.

Do want to be an actual wheeler or just a wheeler fabricator?

Ford / Chevy

Crawling / Racing

Black / White

Boy / Girl

Meh......whatever!

You're buggy will never be "right".......just as long as you have fun with it, right?
 

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