RockChucker
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- Location
- Highland
Maybe it is “I just assume anyone that has portals is poor” because building axles with them makes one spend all the monies.
The "trophy husband" pro mod buggy build
- Thread starter N-Smooth
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It depends what your other options are. Junkyard axles with welded diffs will obviously always be cheaper but if you’re building fabricated housings with Mega hi-9’s it’s going to be a lot closer in price. Also if you consider that running portals means you can run a D300 instead of an Atlas there’s obviously some savings there.
Does not compute 🎩
You passed the not poor test 😘
RockChucker
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- Highland
Right totally makes sense to buy a donor D300, take 2 parts out of it, throw the rest in the garbage, buy a midnight metalworks case for $1400, JB 4:1 for $750, 32 spline outputs for ~$725 and a rebuild kit for $200ish. Or just go buy an Atlas for about the same price. All I was implying is that building a portal rock crawler is expensive no matter which way you look at it. If the stock d300 case was good enough, midnight metalworks wouldn't be offering a case....Really any way you look at it, cars are expensive in any form of a hobby. But by george a hotwheels was the best most expensive $0.99 mistake I ever made as a kid
I’m sure there are plenty of cars out there rocking D300’s with stock cases and upgraded outputs. Ryan just upgraded his to the Stak case cause it’s shiny.Right totally makes sense to buy a donor D300, take 2 parts out of it, throw the rest in the garbage, buy a midnight metalworks case for $1400, JB 4:1 for $750, 32 spline outputs for ~$725 and a rebuild kit for $200ish. Or just go buy an Atlas for about the same price. All I was implying is that building a portal rock crawler is expensive no matter which way you look at it. If the stock d300 case was good enough, midnight metalworks wouldn't be offering a case....Really any way you look at it, cars are expensive in any form of a hobby. But by george a hotwheels was the best most expensive $0.99 mistake I ever made as a kid
Its true I just like shiny things
Vonski
nothing to see here...
- Location
- Payson, Utah
Shiny things? Pssssh. Nobody has a better excuse to coat everything Cat yellow.
You don't need an excuse when CAT cuts those big money checks. Lol
When Carlos handed me this box of tabs he said something along the lines of “good luck” and boy did I underestimate the seriousness of that statement lolThe tabs are a disaster since they’re all custom and weird. On top of that we designed them months ago so I have no idea what I had planned at the time. Yay for me!
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
they look fancy though!!!
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
Get to work!
I still have that one boxy-piece you're missing....
And the plot thickens 🤣
Do you have these saved with names like “frame-side lower” or anything neat or just “tab 01984625252”?
The file is "Buggy Control Arm Brackets". So...yes?
I got to work on the buggy today. Yay!!!!!I got some link mounts on the front axle. I really look forward to getting back to welding more often because while my welds are fine I know they will just get better. Welding the misalignments spacers really sucked with the mig but Ryan said he’ll do the rest with his tig. So that’s awesome!
The photo insert tool would not let me put the pics in where I wanted. Sorry
- Location
- Grand Junction, CO
I'm just happy to see progress on this thing!
