this thing is looking grate!!!

just wondering is A-arm lighter than conventional king-pin .........??

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Thanks! I bet the front of this car will be alot lighter in the front end than my car. I'm thinkin around 75 pounds or so.

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I think it looks terrible!!!! actually I think it looks like another car I will have to climb over to get to the finish.

WOW! First post and your allready qualifying for TRASH TALK!

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Water cooled Dry Sumped Subaru Powered Turbo Charged Fuel Injected 2500CC Tank. Oh Rah! He who dies with the most Toys not only wins, He also wears them out!

Yeah I was waiting for the right time for my first. Race bug and I go way back. We race together and he usally lets me lose. Trust me he knows it is in good fun.

I love it.

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Well, well, well. It seems this location can no longer be trusted... We got the steering all figured out this weekend. Ended up with about no bump steer! I'll post some pics later.

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Thats 20 inches travel with a 26" front tire. Thats enough for 1500lbs car

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BTW Welcome aboard, you will fit right in!

Yeah they will let anyone join. Well race bug as always you have set the bar. My number one crew cheif is talking new car A arm for 2010. We are making some changes and mods for this year and will give it heck. By the way that car looks great I hope too see it out in 09.

Just out of curiosity, how long are the A arms?

John

I bet this will be the car to beat next year! Welcome to woodsbuggy wyoming! I guess your buggy is kind of a woods buggy, it spends just as much time in the woods (trees) as it does the track!


I'd have to measure the arms, I don't remember, but the finished car should be 82 inches wide in the front so in can fit in a car trailer without changing the front tires!

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Racebug, you know how to make a guy feel welcome. I do still have a woods buggy in its day it was the bomb it is in my shop in KY. Jd broke the ring gear about ten years ago and there it sits. The motor out of it was the second one we blew up at liberty this year. We just sent the crank out and should be ready for our back up this year.

A little more progress. I got my hand on a Bridgeport for an hour or so...

we finished mounting the a-arms

started screwing around with shock mounts

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Awesome build, I`m following along closely from SoCal....

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shock towers are mounted! By the time the front end has limit straps, and bump stops added, it should have 20" of front wheel travel.



this is how I'm gonna gusset the a-arm pivots. Time Consuming!!

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Looks great! I know they are a little pricey but for the type work with the gussetts and custom fab you are doing invest in a plasma cutter. It took me 10 years to pull the trigger and honestly I can't remember how I got anything done without it. I replaced the chop saw with a band saw and the sawzall with a porta-band and they all helped but the plasma is point and shoot easy. Keep up the progress pics I love this build.

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Looks great Nick!! FortyDegresnorth about 9 pics previously theres a good shot of his plaz looks like a miller spectrum 2050 like the one I have

It is beautiful, RB you are a talented man,,,you make me want to do something like that some day. Are you doing the design from plans or is it out of your head? Either way ,,you are a genious.

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If your clutch ain't slippin,, you probably got it adjusted right!!!!!

Good eye, mudd mutt! Its a 625, but it does everything I need it to do. Thanks firebug, it isn't from any plans, just alot of research, and really the car kind of builds itself... I'll know what I want, and its like stuff falls into place

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racebug how about an update on some pic's It is looking good. We are thinking about two wsorr races in 09 possiblly Crandon and Bark river we will have to build a 1915 though.

I'm still thinking a Best in The Desert or an MDR race. I don't want to build another motor! We did get the rear trailing arms on it this weekend. I'll get some pics tonight or tomarrow

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Looking good man.. You got some kind of tube bender program or you just measuring everything a hundred times.. Keep up the good work and keep the pics coming..
Nick

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Bye Bye Buggy, I'll always miss you and never forget you, your going to a better place now.

Do you have any camber gain, and what is your scrub radius?

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Well, its about done. Just throw some tires on and race! No, but we mounted the rear trailing arms last weekend, and then the rear shocks this weekend. We got another great deal from drews on these shocks, 2.5"x14"Sway-a-way triple bypasses

ride height (Kevin trying to rip the arm off)

all drooped out

from the back

micro stubs

We used the same trailing arms I made for my race car( I made 2 sets last year). they are 25" straight pivot arms. We are getting 20 inches of travel in the back.

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