I bought this Manx from a guy in Blythe, CA a few hours away It was in pretty bad shape and I paid way too much for it but it had all the basics I was looking for, four seater full length pan, A-arm front end, built bus box, 3x3 rear end, etc
But it had a 1600 Dual port that barely ran. I could tell by how much they trimmed the the back and configured it, it had water pumper in it before, I guess he sold the the motor swap and threw the 1600 in it just to sell it
So I picked the thing up and brought it home
Took it for a drive and it died and made me walk home
Towed it home, tuned it and cleaned it up and putted it around like that for a couple months
Rolled some bedliner on the inside pan and the sides of the tub
Took off the little rusted steering wheel and got something a little more comfortable and put the GPS out of my boat in it. Got a cool map for the Lowrance from some guy on the internet and it shows all the trails in my area Anza Borrego State park all the way to Glamis and Mexico. Changed out the shift rod bushing and put an Empi shifter, that helped shifting a bunch. Then I beefd up the body lift kit with PVC spacers under the bolts
Got a little cheap tach from Autozone, you can see I'm doing everything as cheap as possible
I made a top out of shade cloth from Lowes, thing is getting a little better every time I do something to it
Took it to Gonzaga Bay in Baja and got buried instantly, tourists came out of the resort and said hurry, the tide's coming in... thank you, I'll do that... might go a little faster if you helped
I have a vinyl plotter and cut some racing stripes for it, I'm starting to like the way buggy is turning out
Got some BFG AT 33x10.50's on the back, threw the 31's on the front
LED lightbar and some 5150 color changing LED whips
Up at the cross at Ocotillo Wells on Thanksgiving weekend, believe it or not there's thousands of campers and offroaders down there in that sea of dust
This is about the last you'll see of the 1600, I sold it to fund the Ecotec package
Bought an Ecotec motor package with harness, ecu, etc from AlphaFab... good price I think
There was a mix up with the shipping company and they wouldn't be delivering it to my place in Borrego Springs so I had to go pick it up in Imperial Valley
And oh yeah I changed trucks and football teams... so long Chargers, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!
I cut the cage off to get the motor in there, the radiator is an aftermarket three core for a jeep cherokee
Damn that's a tight fit!
Got it bolted in with some cutting here and there, put a Kennedy stage 1 pressure plate and one of their Kush lock disks
working on the wiring and figuring out the fuel and exhaust system
