Wow! OK! Starting all over. 1st of all practice this sentence, " Wife ,I swardaGod I dono wear your car's motor and trans went!" OK , moving forward. In the pic, that verticle pole needs shortened 4-5" to allow more travel. This "pole in a pole"is for up and down limit and keeping the 38" trailing arm alignment straight. The 38" bogger will be replaced by cut TSL 40" Swampers.Have type 3 (22.5mm) torsion bars and all urathane red pivot bolt bushings and grommets adjusted 2 notches. Type1 are good also (22.0).A part # 3800 airbag goes where you see part of a soda can.Wheel base length is 112", Height is no more than 18.5" front to 20.5 rear (smooth front to rear).Square tubing is 1/8".It's NOT heavy.With a 38" trailing arm the torsion bar is really just their to hold it all in place sorta.The air bag is the muscle.

Sorry about the dirt and trash on the floor but I am a busy man. Anyway, a single 18" bus shaft has been UNBREAKABLE with that 175 hp V6.Thread the bolt holes in an old bus outter c/v to 3/8" coarse.Lay it on the Lincoln Continnetal flange (in a vice).Center it up the best you can.Put some propane heat on them for 5 minutes and weld it with a 7018 stick welder or what ever you use.Just one good circle around the outside only. Then re-install to diff.The motor is obviously out of the car. The crankshaft pulley normally goes side x side of the bus c/v shown above.

That's the big ball of grease Continenntal 3.27:1 diff that is going to mulyiplty what ever your wife's motor and trans can throw at it by 3.27.In your bus trans what good are 3rd n 4th?Here, an automatic would rule but,with the 5 speed, all gears are useable.1st for slow pulls 2nd is all round hill climbing and 3rd is good for clearing the top of a steep climb.Remember you already have a diff in the front wheel drive trans,so it is a diff with a high ratio multiplying thru another hi ratio diff.The power is unreal.The gear ratios are close.Need speed? go to 4th or 5th!The diff must be mounted upside down to make the direction go forward.Take an old 930 outter joint and do the same thing as I did previously with the bus.Do the same with the Thunderbird/Cougar stub axle.Use the entire car stub axle , bearring housing,disc brakes, rotor,lug nuts AND aluminum 15x10 mag wheel. My Mercury Sable has 16x10(same bolt pattern).

When I 1st built it I had $5k in the buggy and trailer.That trailer axle is off the rear of a Cavalier.Axle and wheels came from Pull a Part for $150 total. (and turn it upside down).Pd $1200 for the wrecked car and got $250 back at the scale.Thanks for the hard work Austin!

This is how it looked on day 1 in May 09. Today it is shortened from 131"to 112". 4" more hieght. Replacing 38 Boggers w/ 40 Swammpers. A-Arms w/power sterring.750x16" front tires. Upside down leaf springs replaced by 14 x3 trailing arms with air bags.Fresh motor. In the past it was so long it would bottom out everywhere,and too long to turn and suspension to stiff.The narrow 38"s would just break loose and spin. The wheel base width, length and hieght and driver and motor location is just about identical as Busby's chain drive.Sure it won't lift when I accelerate but it won't sag when I turn either.We'll see what it does this Spring.

Looks Good. did you have to lock the diff in the FWD trans?

I can't find it now, but I'm sure he said somewhere he welded it..

Yes but weld it Good by someone experienced.I welded some nuts and bolts in the spyder gears and it expoloded last July.Notice the shifter in that last pic. The factory shifter cables stay attached to the trans and you just bolt the unit to the floor. How simple!

Just watch the 1st 20secs. The rest is bad vid.But see how the tires weren't enough for the buggy, and the hard suspension and bad clearance didn't help either . Gonna have it all right this year!

Here's the a arms. Check out the cut off leave spring for tension.It's adjustable and works great!The pipe with the 4 u-bolts swivel also.I use Isuzu rwd truck FRONT spindles and ball joints. Stock VW shock.12.5 inches of travel.Leaf spring also makes its own stop.Bad photo.

Sorry for the old mud in crud from last year. Here's how easy it is to put the car stuff on and they have given me absolutly NO trouble and STOP GREAT!The whole new trailing arm is mounted high and away from rocks and in CLOSE to the tire. Even better when the FAT 40 " goes on the same rim.

This Carl. Chik out tis tar I built fer ol DD.I cut the welds outa an ole 16"trunk spare donut. sum peple cawlit a trunk spare, I calwlit a donut. mmhm.Din I mazured 6 spokes evenly going from the lug nut whole bofe ways. Then I spreadeded it out onis Isuzu hub witta brake a gone offit in to a star shape n wot not with tha lug nuts a titened.I tac weled it a time r 2.Then I spun it a time r 2 on his Isuzu spindle mounted in a viced. It wobbled a little so I re did it mmm.DD got up n spun and liked it so I weldeded it up fer em.He told me later I shoulda wore his welding shield.I walked off his porch got hirt again.mmhm At ter tracter store I work at sodem some 750x16 tri ribs fer about $250 total wid tacks n tubes. I told em theyd go flat wid tacks in tubes.

here ya go dd i sized them right for ya

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I would. Love to see this thing in person but just don't see being able to afford a trip to bama anytime soon

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That Carl. He built you a nice propane powered jack stand to!

Thanks. That propane tank is there just to show height.

Crazy build man. Lots of time put into this buggy. I nominate this for buggy of the month.

The ecotec 2.4L make 173 hp and 163 Lb-ft. of torque at 4800 rpm with 2 less cylinders then the VR6. lol just saying.

That's awesome but is it a 4 valve per cyl? I've been reading up about them some since w/buggy people have praised them and I'm very impressed.My Passat is a 97' model, 2 valve dohc. VW has made vast improvements in the 2000's also.I may try any Ecotec in the back seat of my 4 seater this fall.I bet they sell spools for an Ecotec trans. I don't know.

ive been searching for ecotec trans goody parts but i fall short everytime.. Have you tested the new set ups yet?

I don't know enough about an Ecotec to even hold a conversation.But I would love to explore it especially the trans.An Automatic would be ideal!. It would have the pull and speed of a chain drive.Most c/drives have 13 tooth to 33 tooth sprockets. Thats exactly a 2.5 :1 reduction and they have a low ring n pinion(4.45:1). The Continnental will take your high ring n pinion and multiply it by 3.27:1 reduction, so they work out pretty close or better. You see the 38" cut Swampers in the video just stay blowed out so I have to save up and go to cut fat 40's.

I'm now looking to source a Audi v6 with its trans etc to try in my mid engine, the V6 trans has a 4.11:1 final drive, 217bhp (@6300rpm) and 221lbft torque down at 3200 rpm.. combined with 31" tall rears should work out good..