Anybody seen this thread ??

[rbeazer]

I was reading through a thread a few weeks back about a crazy dude who has made his own rally buggy sorta thing. Im looking at doing something similar and im in need of inspiration. Anybody remember where the thread was. I cant find it for the life of me. If it helps i remember the thing was red and originally had a rotary in it. Last post i remember was of the new dashboard going in. Help please

 

[JamesBryan]

@PhillipM

 

[rbeazer]

@PhillipM

Legend. Thats the one. Thank you very much. Was doing my head in

 

[PhillipM]

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Guilty!

 

[rbeazer]

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Guilty!

I love it mate. It looks mental. Ive been thinking about doing something similar for a while. Was thinking of something a bit more scaled down though, maybe a bit less ... mental

 

[PhillipM]

Less mental?

We don't do less mental.
Only more mental:

 

[rbeazer]

Less mental?

We don't do less mental.
Only more mental:

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Now that makes more mental more tempting. What automobile did that 'fall out of' ??
Whilst im at it i might as well ask, dont suppose you have a sorta cheat sheet of suspension geometry for those kinda buggys do you. Ive seen one before and it had a load of ideal angles. A bit like with go karts and ideal kingpin and akerman angles. i should have saved the blasted thing when i found it ages ago

 

[PhillipM]

No, there's no ideal angles, everything is driven by your driveshaft and CV angle limits really, and then what suspension system you intend to package.

That's the 5.0L V10 out of one the old M5's,

 

[Djw John]

Holy s**t f**k. Get that thread up to date!!!

 

[PhillipM]

Ah, that one's an old car, we used to build them for customers. That one was our demo car years ago and got sold on pretty quick,

There's a Nissan powered one in the background of some of the pictures of the other buggy too if you flick back through the thread.

 

[PhillipM]

There you go, that's that one looking a bit more like:

's one of the V6 ones on the newer shell (never liked this shell tbfh, this car now has a Mini shell sat over it instead)

In fact, this one:

Inside:

A v6 car naked:

Then all the racks, diffs, etc, we machined ourselves:

Photo's are a bit naff, sorry

One of the even older 206 shelled cars: