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MoonlightRacing77 said:
chassis silver skins bright green.Never seen that color combo
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I still have no clue what direction to go, ha.

I've got all the axle and frame side shock tabs mounted. With the front ones, I've never liked the idea of them sideways on .120 wall because of the leverage. Although I could not tell you how often people actually have issues with them ripping off. :dunno: Either way it is what was going to work best for the shock position. I did how ever add a piece underneath that wraps around the bottom giving me a much bigger welding surface. Shadow cuts it off in the pic.




An odd contraption that doubles as a trans mount.





Below: The 2 pieces within the red circle are .250 wall dom. Mostly for the sake of having lots of meat at that junction. You think that other gusset is enough or should I add another?

 
Hey OP, I have a buddy in my crew right down the road from you in Baldwin IL. We're the Make it or Break it club. He's got a black buggy I bent out for him on Rockwells. Can't wait to see your rig rolling.
 
Eddyj said:
I would add some more to the shock mount.

Any updates?
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Not disagreeing with that, but it is welded on 3 sides at least, and if I add anything else to it, I am pretty sure it is going to look Frankensteined. If it was .188 I wouldn't think twice about it.

No updates. I was in Florida for a week, then had other family obligations. I have not had a chance to do anything to it yet. I fired up my DD when I got home and oil poured out by the damn quart. It is coming out of the oil cooler....so there is that to fix now. >:(
Definitely want to keep moving forward with the build though.

Skidkid said:
Hey OP, I have a buddy in my crew right down the road from you in Baldwin IL. We're the Make it or Break it club. He's got a black buggy I bent out for him on Rockwells. Can't wait to see your rig rolling.
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Yea, that is very close to me, about 30 minutes. Just passed through there last weekend. I wheeled with a couple of those guys back in the summer at the Waterloo property.
 
Mine are mounted with a single tab with not bracing. Been a year and a half of abuse and about 30 roll overs and haven't moved. Just my 2 cents. And yes its .120 hrew
 
nhl_bullitt said:
Yea, that is very close to me, about 30 minutes. Just passed through there last weekend. I wheeled with a couple of those guys back in the summer at the Waterloo property.
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I talked to them at our once a month meeting and they said your blue rig went everywhere with no issues. It's been years since I've been over there, maybe 6 or so. Alex wadded up his front suspension from what he said over there on one of the hill climbs.
 
too bad it's a little over 4 hours between us. would be cool to stop by and see it. :smoke:
 
Skidkid said:
I talked to them at our once a month meeting and they said your blue rig went everywhere with no issues. It's been years since I've been over there, maybe 6 or so. Alex wadded up his front suspension from what he said over there on one of the hill climbs.
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That was nice of them to say. Yea I felt bad for Alex. He had some pretty catastrophic failure early on.

1tfrot said:
too bad it's a little over 4 hours between us. would be cool to stop by and see it. :smoke:
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Not too many people live north of me on here, but you are way up there. But otherwise you definitely would be more than welcome.

Tapped the side of the tcase, built this side mount set up. Don't mind the bolt/nut set up. Didn't have the right length at the time.


Both seats are mounted. This **** is a tight fit.

 
Added some material to the lower link mounts.


Rear shock mounts



Radiator is mounted. Not all mounts are shown in this pic. It will be floating.
 
might have to get down there and do some wheelin and check it out :smoke:

are you running those seats or just doing mock-ups with them? that would worry me not being a suspension type seat with a hard roll over or rough landing :dunno:

I've been in a brutal rollover and was thankful to have my corbeau's. walked away with only a broken collarbone
 
Looking flashemifyougotem man. I feel ya on the tight fit too. Finding somewhere to put the seats is on my top 3 list of pains in the ass so far. I see you went with the $179 griffin special too. laughing1. I was pretty happy when I found out about them. Screw paying 3-500 for a rad if I don't have to.
 
MoonlightRacing77 said:
Looking good Zach
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Thanks man!

1tfrot said:
might have to get down there and do some wheelin and check it out :smoke:

are you running those seats or just doing mock-ups with them? that would worry me not being a suspension type seat with a hard roll over or rough landing :dunno:

I've been in a brutal rollover and was thankful to have my corbeau's. walked away with only a broken collarbone
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Can't freaking wait to wheel again. As for the seats, it is what I am going to have to run. I plan to get the pads for them, and I will have lots of up travel. ...but yea, it is not ideal. Where they had to go, I had no choice but to run kirkey's, and even had to massage 1 to get it to fit over the Tcase.

Beerj said:
Looking flashemifyougotem man. I feel ya on the tight fit too. Finding somewhere to put the seats is on my top 3 list of pains in the ass so far. I see you went with the $179 griffin special too. laughing1. I was pretty happy when I found out about them. Screw paying 3-500 for a rad if I don't have to.
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Thanks fellow current builder brethren. 8) You called it right on the radiator!
 
I hear ya. It was a year between when i had the accident and having the new buggy built. It was the longest year of my life :****:

That being said, take your time and do it right. You will thank yourself in the long run when you're wheelin! 8)
 
Being 6' is near the limits of the chassis. BUT... the 700r4 is 3" longer than a th350 which forced the seat to be all the way back, and directly under where the top of the chassis slopes back down. The transfer case did not allow the seat to be underneath the highest part of the roof.
 
nhl_bullitt said:
Being 6' is near the limits of the chassis. BUT... the 700r4 is 3" longer than a th350 which forced the seat to be all the way back, and directly under where the top of the chassis slopes back down. The transfer case did not allow the seat to be underneath the highest part of the roof.
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I have a couple th350's if you're interested in them.
 
Skidkid said:
I have a couple th350's if you're interested in them.
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Thanks man. I was wanting the lower gears of the 700r4 though too.

Mr. leafspring said:
u better tie in that truss somewhere :****: :****:
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Which truss? The axle trusses are welded to the pumpkins.
 
"Pumpkin" are called chunks in Alabama. Took me about a year to figure that out.
 

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