General Tech The Mango Bastard - A Rockwell Buggy story

[_Auzzy_]

Also got my bump stops on the front mounted up. debating if i am gonna do air bumps on the rear as well

 

[Coco]

Looking good! Can't wait to see this beast in action!

 

[_Auzzy_]

So long time no update, been wrapped up in everyone elses crap but this hitch home im telling everyone else to beat it and we are getting crap done!!

First off cory knocked out two big pieces we've been procrastinating for awhile now. got the fuel cell mounted and the roof bars fitted and burned in!



He also gave me a quick lesson on his tig welder and i started playing with the floor pans




and while he was burning the top in i requested a helmet/wheel hook

 

[_Auzzy_]

Then last night cory put in a good 10hrs into my dash! and im telling yal pics dont do it justice lol its fricking slick and tight fitting!



Once he was done with that he started on the driver side foot heat shield.


while he did that i put in my second trans cooler and got my gas pedal built in

 

[_Auzzy_]

Also update from the past, got the brake pedals and throttle pedal figured

 

[Bart]

WOW, great progress.

 

[_Auzzy_]

Little update

First got the rear resies mounted


Then got the throttle cable in and adjusted with a stop bracket





Then tonight I tackled the trans/exhaust tunnel and bracing my floor. Gonna add a 1" ring around the top of it for burritos since the exhaust is about 1.25-1.5" below it

 

[YROC FAB.]

Also update from the past, got the brake pedals and throttle pedal figured

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[_Auzzy_]

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i may have been extremely tired and forgetful

 

[YROC FAB.]

i may have been extremely tired and forgetful

Typical. Get anything done after i left?

 

[_Auzzy_]

Well not a whole lot, but some big stuff none the less.

Cory got the drivelines knocked out, the front and rear are the same length so he knocked out a spare too.

 

[_Auzzy_]

I got the engine cage knocked out and some dzus tabs in

 

[YROC FAB.]

The Drive lines are so high up out of the rocks with these Rockwell chunks and our relatively low buggy chassis that the front drive line gets shorter at full droop and longer at full compression lol. The rear drive line only had 3/8" of plunge.

 

[YROC FAB.]

Well Austin has been gone too damn long and we want to wheel this thing sooner than later so i am finishing up and getting it ready to paint when he comes home in a few weeks.

I found me a 17year old kid named Kevin that wants to learn to fab and weld so he has been over the last few months doing all my slave work. I would probably just wait for Austin to come home but this kid wants something to do so we tore into Austins buggy. The only thing we really have to do fab wise is the skids. The chassis needs finished welded and chromed up for paint, and finished torn down. We spent about 45min the other week and had the axles out and it upside down. Kevin has spent a few days finish welding out the bottom. I told him as long as his welds are better than Austins, which aint hard to do then there wont be any problems. I drew up and cut out most the skid parts today.

Kevin welding away.

 

[YROC FAB.]

Just wrapping up Austins skids meow. I was going to bolt on the boat sides to but Austin reminded me that wasn't our original plan so they got welding on and the holes i cut to be bolted on will be nice drain hole now. We can access everything really well by removing just the bottom skid so the boat sides got burned in today by kevin. The bottom skid and engine skid bolt on reality easy with recessed bolt hole keeping the bolt heads safe and the bottom flat. I precut 3/8 holes for when we get around to buying some UHMW plastic to bolt onto latter. I <3 my plasma table.

Tomorrow i will finish gusseting the bottom side and maybe get it flipped right side up and start removing everything.

Austin will be home for 4 days on the 22nd so we will have it ready for him to paint (because i aint F'in doing that) and then we will assembled and get it weighed for springs before he leaves.


Kevin squeaked up in there to weld on some of inner skid tabs.


Recessed bolt heads

 

[Herzog]

That thing is beef!

 

[YROC FAB.]

That thing is beef!

Rockwells and a big block son!

 

[YROC FAB.]

Just wrapped up the skids and boxing in the all the link mounts. Time to roll it back over and wrap up any welding/gussets.



Yes the engine skid is not center but neither is the motor.

 

[YROC FAB.]

Naked chassis. Austin will be home on sunday meow so it should be driving before he leaves




kevin welding and welding.

 

[YROC FAB.]

Things are happening

Yard tractor<3


We had our ladies scraping BBs off and scotchbriteing it before paint

Mexichrome holms