Rear side panels and vents

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Hood and side panels

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Welded up the floor pan

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After three weeks of work I got the skin done

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That is looking real good!!!! nice job on everything!

I broke a spindle out west on a recent trip with a different buggy and decided the new car was getting an upgrade.

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Rear deck lid

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That is too nice and professional. You must live and work up in the car country.

Thank you, and yes I live right in the middle of car country and work on fire alarms. Completing the wire harness is about the only thing I could use work experience on, the rest I made up as I went along.

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The lower dash

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Upper dash and the lower dash with led's off


Upper dash and the lower dash with led's on

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Lighting, windshield and wiper motor done!


Lights on and it lights up the pole barn nicely

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Last night I hit a milestone...Started the engine. Next stop...the dyno to get it tuned

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Great build! Iwould be scared to carry something that nice into the woods!

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I am thinking I should take it through the thickest trails right away and give it the "broke in" look so I don't piss and moan about every scratch. I just need to remind myself that it is a buggy.

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When I refresh it doesn't show that I actually posted the video...Did the video post?

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Yea it worked sounds good. I had a Lightning nothing like a screaming S/C


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The front shocks were a little soft. I had 8" 250lb on the bottom and 8" 200lb on the top. After talking to Fox I changed the lower to 10" 300lb and left the top at 8" 200lb.

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Mostly done, taking it out for a test weekend before I get it powder coated.

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Its nice to finally have it drivable after all this time. I should have some go pro after next weekend.

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I had the buggy on the dyno today. We ran the test from 50 to 90 mph in 3rd gear on our fifth pull. I hit 93 mph in third and still had 1000 more rpm's before I hit the rev limiter. I finished off with 191 ft-lbs of torque and 193 hp at the wheel. We figured a realistic estimate for the engine was somewhere around 250 to 260 hp at the engine. To be honest it was scary as hell sitting in the driver seat having the rear wheels going 93 mph. I kind of wanted to see how fast it would go but I do want to take it North next weekend, not fix stuff I broke on the dyno.

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Thats impressive, and I've heard the the Mustang dyno's are on the conservative side too. Not sure what's all in it but looks like a S/C Ecotec is great bang for the buck! I want one now lol


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It is a supercharged 2.4 Ecotec. To be honest I should have gone with a turbo and ran lower boost. It would have been less water plumbing, less intake plumbing, no water pump, the exhaust would have been easier to build and I would have had more room in the end. Don't get me wrong, I am thrilled to death with the outcome and I definitely love the torque.

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