Getting a few things hung on my single-seater. Its taking forever because I'm powdercoating or polishing everything as I go. 'Bout ready to say the heck with it and just throw everything else on it so I can GITRDUN. Tell me what y'all think.

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Larry

Looks good, with the extended front arms is that all the taller your shock towers have to be. It looks like the shock mount is really far up on the arm. I love the look of a single seater.

Nice job. The buggy is looking great! Gotta love that color

Thanks guys!!

[quote='fortydegnorth']Looks good, with the extended front arms is that all the taller your shock towers have to be. It looks like the shock mount is really far up on the arm. I love the look of a single seater.[/quote]

Thats all I need for shock tower heigth because the lower shock mount is still in the stock location on the extended arms. I just buy cheapo stock shocks from Autozone, $19 each, and do not twist the front torsion any at all.I get my ride height

Great idea on the shock mounts! That is one thing I always hated about the front end, they are usually too stiff. I am going Fox air shocks and will run really low pressure to make it as soft as I can. Good thinking.

Larry,

Looking good. I like the frame design. If I ever decide to go single seat, I would seriously consider that frame design. Very nice. I assume that is Tim's personal trademark and frame design?

Roy

Thanks for the compliment , Roy. Actually it is Steve Goforth who builds and designed that frame, as well as a few other designs. Steve and Tim kinda work thru each other, so you can call either one and get a frame built for same price. He has a shop just down the road from Tim's store. One of my favorite features is what he calls "Slick bottom" design. He builds his own rear forks and they are an integral part of the frame, not welded to the back of the rear torsion, and the torsion tube actually sits on top of the framerails, not butted into it . The front beam is butt welded to the rails, but the rails are held down towards the lower edge of the beam, so that when you put your floor and rear skid on, it is all completely flat. (It could be one piece if you wanted. But that would make it a bitch when you wanted to drop your engine.)
Do you remember seeing a flourescent orange inline two-seater at D&K?
If it was being driven be a kinda small dude with long hair, that was Steve. If you saw a short- haired feller w/ a northern accent driving it, thats who Steve sold it to. He doesnt seem to keep a buggy long. Every time he manages to build himself one, someone gives him an offer that cant be refused!
Steve's prices on frames are very reasonable, considering what you get and what buggy pipe costs these days.

Larry

The last time I was out at D&K was for the fish fry in October of 2005. The orange buggy was still Steve's at that time. I followed him around for a while one day. That was one bad ass buggy. I haven't been back out that way since. The orange frame looked very similar to yours in design.

Roy

Yeah there are alot of similiarities. I hope mine goes as good as that one! Same motor, gearing, wheels, mine should be a little lighter.
I think I'm gonna end up with more buggy than I am driver
Probably be on my lid first time out! My old chassis was a tank. It'll be like going from a cadillac to a corvette.

Larry

Larry you will love the ride from the long arms. I have the same ones, they also help keep the front down when climbing.

Thats what I'm hoping for!

Spent ALL day today finishing building my trailing arms, assembling the bearings, bolting up cv's and axles to notch my spring plates for 24* of angle on the 930joints, made lower shock mounts, put rotors and calipers on to weld on caliper tabs, then took it ALL back apart to powdercoat the arms, and put in torsion bars and set the torsion. GEEZ what a long day. Went out into the shop at 9:00 am, came in at 1:00 am! Wife even brought my supper out to me, and she won a bid on Ebay for an aluminum rim I'd been watching. Sometimes she's alright! And here I am at 1:30 am on computer still thinking about buggies! Some say I'm demented. Startin to think they might be right!!

Larry

Buggys look so simple. Its amazing how long it takes to build one. Dean