Phew alot has gone on and finished since i last updated my built. Can someone explain to me how to post pictures again? I used to use pb but since it was making the pictures really and you stopped being able to change the size i heard we are using the gallery now. Well she was damn near ready to race on may 4th. That was the first race. I fell asleep at the wheel on my way back from my brother in laws at like 5 am may 4th which was raceday. Had 5 hours of sleep in 3 days we were pushing that hard to get the buggy done. Everyone had alot of time in this with me, my co pilot dalton, his brother chris, my buddy zach, and even my mom making us food while we were in the garage. Well i totaled my truck and i will post up some pictures then, i have been meaning to for awhile. Well we got everything semi decent for the June race and thought everything was going to go smoothly. Well got a little into the race bumped this guy in fronta me with my front left and snapped steering. We had to orginally rig it using a 5/8 heim with a 5/8 thread to a 3/4" tie rod so we had to weld the nut to the tie rod so we could still adjust the steering. Well when we welded it, it was only tacked so it broke. (Completely forgot about it and missed it in the checks) Well we just raced in the July race and broke again on the first lap. Got pushed full speed 2nd gear super beetle tran's into a tree by a 4x4. Snapped my rack clean in half, bent my beam, front arms and front frame. We hit so hard the distributor cap flew off. Well now its time to dump some money into my front end and we are probably going to skip the september race so i can get some good quality parts.
Thinking about running coilovers in the front while, its an upgrade for the torsion leafs and i hear they are amazingly smooth. And i figure while cutting the frame we might as well make the towers all at once and do it so i don't have to do it a little bit later.
Also going to upgrade my arms and spindles to foddrill and go with a 7/8th LP.
New Saco rack with new tie rods and greasable international tie rod ends all the way around.
Going to need a new beam.
Also blew my tranny again. (49 teeth this time so its time to bump up to a 3 rib)
I need to ditch these shitty stock petals. I have to stretch and they are just a little bit too far away for me to be comfortable with them. They are welded to frame so i i may as well say screw it and upgrade them to cnc's or jamar and mount them correctly unlike the last dumbass to own this frame.
Then just some small stuff like going over my wiring and replacing it will all new wire. I'm not happy with the current slice and splice method used on the old harness that came with the buggy.
Would also like to have my 2 idiot lights for myself. Then i would like to have an oil temp and oil pressure guage in the middle for my co pilot to monitior. I came across a cheap 10" fan so i was thinking about mounting that to my temp sender to kick on at a certain temp for extra cooling. And mounting it to a larger upgraded oil cooler. Mine is already an upgraded one but its too narrow to fit the fan so i just want to be extra safe for the next races when its hotter than hell out and everyone else is over heating i can just chugg on by!
But i think thats about the list of to do's. The next race won't be until May of next year so i have a good bit of time to save up some big money and get my parts bought and actually get to test my buggy out. I need to check with an offical though as far as the coils but i don't think it will be a problem.
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And i didn't even get my fox shocks yet. 
There was more than 50 and grind em flush. 
