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Panos

12Volt Specialist
Location
Salt lake City
ok here is my new buggy build.

chassis: tube bought from rob "thanks"
axles: fj80 front and rear
motor: 1uzfe lexus V8
transmission: A340H automatic
Tcase: gear driven toyota case top shift with 4.7 marlin gears. or if funds permit atlas 5.0
suspension: F.O.A coilovers and air bumps
steering: full hydrofrom Psc

the plan is to make a super nibble, fun to drive crawler. Some what like a KOH buggy. I want to keep the buggy all toyota if i can! first we will start out with some pics.

first picked it up..its so tiny !!
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sitting in my shop on the axles, reminds me of the old RC car ricochet !! haha
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now on some stands, about what i want ride hight to be.
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my transmission, new from toyota. thanks jubba!
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and this little jem i found in arizona. i am having shipped to me on the 25th :D:D:D:D:D
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all aluminum block, aluminum heads. 260 HP 275 ft/lb's 28" long 22" tall and 26" wide and fully dressed only weighs 75 more pounds than a fully dressed 22re!! now that is bad ass!
also came with some goodies

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Panos

12Volt Specialist
Location
Salt lake City
Yes it is super small, but i think everything should fit. i have been measuring for almost a month and contemplating drivtrains for as long too.

the motoris being supplied with a A341e bell housing as well as oil pump and input shaft, these parts are off of the stock ls400 transmission, the idea here is going to be to swap bellhousings and input shafts, this making it able to bolt up to the 1uz. now this would normally not work because the A340H has 3 selinoinds and the stock tranny has four. so if you were going to run this on the street or want the transmission to be controled by the ECU you would have to trick it in to thinking it had four. not to worry here, the motor will be controlled via a standalone harness made by me :) and the tranny willbe converted into a MV i will use the "baja shifter" by RADesign.
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this alows manual shifting of each gear up or down, i might use it in conjunction with the rock shifter he has, it is used to replace the stock shifter. sine i dont have a stock shifted yet this might be the ticket. so that takes care of the tranny....oh wait not even close!! haha i am going to have to buy this kit from inchwormgear
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this kit will alow me to remove the stupid hydrolic controled "tcase" actually more like a second transmission. and replace it with a gear driven one.
 
I Lean

I Lean

Mbryson's hairdresser
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Utah
I meant that buggy as it was in it's previous incarnation. :)

Was your last buggy a rear engine? :confused:
 
Greg

Greg

I run a tight ship... wreck
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Location
Grand Junction, CO
That's going to be awesome Nick, I love the direction you're headed with the build. That 1UZFE is a killer engine, it's going to be a rocket in such a small buggy! I'll be watching the build thread closely, can't wait to see it come along.

How wide is that chassis? Looks like it's only around 40" or so?! :freak: I love the idea of a mini-buggy. ;)
 
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Panos

12Volt Specialist
Location
Salt lake City
wow, thats a blast from the past! but i am going to try and keep it a front motor. interesting though. i was told it was a front mount in its previous life.....rob!

Ilean....do you have any pics of what it looked like before, might be kind of cool to see
 
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Panos

12Volt Specialist
Location
Salt lake City
Greg said:
That's going to be awesome Nick, I love the direction you're headed with the build. That 1UZFE is a killer engine, it's going to be a rocket in such a small buggy! I'll be watching the build thread closely, can't wait to see it come along.

How wide is that chassis? Looks like it's only around 40" or so?! :freak: I love the idea of a mini-buggy. ;)
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inside to inside at the shoulder is 38 1/2" small but it works.
 
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