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Overkillz Dune Truggy Build

ive been pondering a front end for these trucks for a long time.

the red, white, and black 71 chevy a few pages ago has one of the best desgins I have seen so far...for the $$$ that is. .I have more pics of a 68 chevy with a costom IFS front but need to find pictures.

dont re-invent the wheel, its been done many times over.

Or just start witha twin beam Ford front end and be done with it
 
Why would I wanna buy a kit? And screw twin i beam in my opinion. Everyone I know rips them out cuz they hate them lol.

I wanna BUILD a suspension dammit :haha:
 
Deuling said:
Why would I wanna buy a kit? And screw twin i beam in my opinion. Everyone I know rips them out cuz they hate them lol.

I wanna BUILD a suspension dammit :haha:
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Yah I've had a twin I beam. Hated it. Not putting one on the truggy haha
 
ion said:
What about swapping in a long travel kit for a 88-98 chevy?
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Because a couple hundred bucks in johnny joints, bushings, and steel plate cost thousands less than those kits lol.
 
Well, Adam

I like your ambition to build a FRont end. But if you really want to build a sand toy, you have the wrong platform. Even though it was dirt cheap. Yeah you can and will have fun with it, and I love the 67-87 2wd platform, and have dealt with these trucks my whole life.

However I have not ran one in the sand dunes. New territory, but common sense says, too heavy front, long wheel base, goofy front end, unbalanced weight, heavy in general. Can't be the best situation.

I think someone stated earlier, but either you rip it up stock and have as much fun possible, when your $$$ to fun ratio is low, rather than dumping time and money into something that won't......in the end, still be a great sand toy.


And BTW, if anyone can't ft a beam truck to perform on a budget they aren't that bright or have way to high expectations
 
I understand what your saying. Its juat aomething i think could be a fun decently cheap project if we build it ourselves. And a fun thing to experiment with before we start playing with more in depth projects. :waytogo:
 
I'm.actually jealous about the opportunity you have to even attempt something like this,.but IMO, don't hurt to head what others think. In the end you are going to learn so Damn much.

Now mount the engine and trans In the bed, trans facing forward to a divorced 205 t case in engine compartment, send power back to a flipped 9 in rear end and jump the piss outa the truck.
Or

I've had this idea for an intrepid 3.5 HO buggy for a little bit now. Good combo worth 250 HP with a longitudinal engine and even transaxle. but I'm just a day dreamer now. No time
 
All opinions are welcome brad :waytogo: lay down whatever you want. I may not listen to ya in the end but i like to learn :D
 
You would need a way bigger welder if you went with those joints, and plan on building a suspension. That 140 is a great welder, but doesn't have the balls to make the welds needed to withstand the abuse.
 
It too deep to explain unless we are sitting around a camp fire swilling brew.

Something about the gravitational forces of the universe and planetary alignment and the ultimate Tri force Delta.

Has nothing to do with IFS but has everything to do with everything...:eek1:
 
63chevyll said:
Now mount the engine and trans In the bed, trans facing forward to a divorced 205 t case in engine compartment, send power back to a flipped 9 in rear end and jump the piss outa the truck.
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There is a company in colorado that sells a truck like that, but they use a casull v-drive out of a boat instead of a tcase because its lighter and slightly angled (amazingly like a V). I've seen one at silver lake....

http://www.coloradosandcars.com/SandTruckV3/tabid/589/Default.aspx

And Adam...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilateral_triangle
 
Deuling said:
Fock off lol:rolleyes:
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ha ha :D :flipoff11:

Ask and you shall receive....


By the way if you find an old trashed out v-drive boat you could get one of those v-drive gearboxes for cheap. They are pretty light and very strong.
 
With a little work it aint to bad the 2 wheel drive truck class in the torq series that run around here they seem to jump and fly just fine without the front end dropping like crazy theres even a guy out there racing a long box chevy and he won the championship 2 years ago thats the street stock class where stock everything except shocks and springs. the super stock class you can run a aftermarket upper aarm and there getting 12 inches of suspension travel out of them.
 
Well I had to make a project of my choosing for my CAD classes last project. I chose to do this.

Im pretty sure the johnny joint setup wont work in real life. Unless someone makes some with like 60* of axial rotation :dunno:

But it will work just fine to get me an A in class :haha:

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