twizted buggy build

[smichaelR22]

waiting for my chassis to be delivered.  Decided on a prefab over buying a bender, notcher, and materials, the difference of the deal wasn\'t worth my time.


Plans:

tons
42\" (new poly H1 bead locks)
SBC355/TH350/NP205
Propane
16\" SAW air shocks
full hydro
4 links front and rear.
corbea ss seats / RJS 5 points
HDPE belly.
ARB rear / rear cutting brakes (later)
under 3200lbs.

[Wingman]

Is the chassis fabbed locally?

Going to return the CJ5 to street?

Is 3200 lbs even doable with tons, etc?

Very cool!

[smichaelR22]

its made by a company in CA, Twizted Fabrication.  it was old stock that was an ebay auction.

its being freighted here.


75% of the CJ will end up in this buggy, so it will be retired/parted out.

the chassis weighs 390lbs so yes i think its doable.

[ollllllo]

what you gonna wheel while you are building? or is this gonna be another week vacation project.

[smichaelR22]

planing to wheel the CJ last time at the rock run trip Dec13.

i have 7 or 8 days of in december, so ya it will be a roller by the end of the year :)

[ollllllo]

its gonna be sad to see the 5 go away!

[smichaelR22]

its coming wednesday  :)

th350 mated to small block, started working on the little thingS

[ollllllo]

you better pick it up quickly, it would be sad if if fell off the loading dock and into a superduty. i mean a truck of any kind. who would do such a thing?
BTW the fastenal guys like pizza

[smichaelR22]

good call on the pizza.  ok   :)

ill have to call billy.  he mentioned something about being in flordia possibly.

[smichaelR22]

im getting very frustrated with freight company.  still waiting on my chassis.  


grrrrr...

[smichaelR22]

chassis is here.  i like it :)


moving it into the shop tomorrow

:hack:

:fire:

:weld:  

:grind:

[Ryan_25]

The chassis looks great. Every bend and weld is perfect. Beautiful Chassis

[smichaelR22]

got the chassis in the shop

motor mounted tonight after some eyeballing and placement of crucial parts.  i think its going to work out nicely with the TH350 / divorced NP205.





 

[smichaelR22]

thanks to some help from eric last week, we dragged in some axles and i have started with the rear links.  looks like im using some of the CJ links and going to go DOM round all the way.

motor, trans, case, rear lower link mounts done so far.

Also, thanks for the hardware bin, from bill at Fastenal

[smichaelR22]

rear axle linked and air shocked.  looks good.