mid-engine buggy build

taylorj123

taylorj123

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I'm having Distortion Fab build me a mid-engine buggy...Here is the progress so far.
It started as a previous buggy, but all we kept was the top half of the cage. I bought the thing as a roller about a year ago, and it did fine, but everything was set up horribly wrong, so unfortunately the easiest thing to do was to scrap 75% of it and basically start over.
I thought I might throw this up here to see if anyone has any thoughts or ideas, or just wanted to follow along.
Whats being done and used....
Honda F-22 motor & trans axle, (which we are making the tranny a dry sump system, when these get on extreme angles they tend to run out of fluid)
We are sticking a turbo on it and hoping to run between 5-8 lbs of boost, with the dual overhead cam we could run closer to 15 lbs, but at that point we may have some serious turbo lag going on.
Axles: 14 bolt & 44, 5:13 gears in axles
Tires: 37" irocks (if anyone knows of a set of 39" wheel & tire combo let me know)
The pic with the tires rolled under will be the ride heighth, I am hoping to still have 20" of ground clearance at the belly.

Things I need to round up...
dual overhead cam for motor (I think I need H22-A1)....any honda guys out there?
alloy shafts & CTM's for front dana 44
 

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Is this the hot machine your talking about?
 

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Have you gave any thought to making her independent front and rear.I scraped up some old pics of a dual honda powered (DOULBE DRAGON) sweet dream ship. I know where you can get your hands on this hot machine as well. She is the a real hunny.
 

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Wow that is a real hunny, that looks like it should work well...i'm good though...ha ha, thanks beach~!

They're located down on main and about 4100 so. They just started up a few months ago so I dont know if they have a site up or anything yet, but the guys name who runs the place is Spencer & his # is (801)633-8822. He's a good guy and'l hook ya up with a fair deal on about anything.
 
Thanks for the info buddy, appricated!

Panos...
ha ha seriously huh, ya it worked ok but whoever set up the suspension did it horribly wrong, it was easier to just chop the bottom half of the chassis off and basically start over, since i wanted to boat side it anyway ya know. she is a fun machine though! how are things with you?
 
Looks good. One question tho? Why not just start from scratch instead of using the top half? Maybe just build it all out of 1 3/4 instead of 1 1/2? Just a thought:D
 
uh, i figured it wasn't a huge deal, it actually would have probably been a lot easier for those guys, but were kind of past that point, plus i liked how the top half looked. everything else is being built with DOM,
 
yeah, nice to hear it worked out for ya, for the most part. yeah the guy i bought it from set up the suspension, i myself was going to change it. but wow that is cool. if you have any other pics or videos send them to me if you would.. ncpanos@yahoo.com

hope things are going well for you, and business is good!
 
ya dude, i added you on facebook, check them out there. business is going great, you know anyone who needs a house? how is business going for you?
 
Here's the progress so far, there is 20" of ground clearance under the belly, and we were able to get the chassis much lower than it previously was or would have been.
 

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