Life is good when you go wheeling at your local spot and find this on the trail! He spent the day shaking it down behind a Shannon Campbell tube competition rig. Loaded it up Sunday night with much less paint than he started with!

I can't tell if he was happy or not to discover me behind him all day! Ok, he did climb a couple of play rocks I snuck around!

Was he rubbing in the back as badly as it looked?

Lots of travel in the suspension..

What was the front like?

Yes that rear was stuffed way up there. The front doesn't flex as much because of a track bar and his choice of saginaw rod linkage steering. It flexs way too much to be of any value (at least in my opinion). He was on the edge of his seat, awaiting the point in which it tumbles over.

It is an awesome creation, with air bags and an on board pump he could adjust the ride height on demand. Also has rear steer, an atlas 2, dual power steering pumps, one for the saginaw box and the other just for the assist. LT1 power mated to an auto.

It is huge. Too wide for tight trails. The owner is a great guy and awesome fabricator, I wheeled with him in an LT1 powered jeep with 60's and an Atlas 2 last November in Las Cruces. He'll get it hooked up after some quality seat time.

soni's rig, well soni built anyway, i first saw the scorpion MK1 in 96 i think?? cool rig, it does have lots of travel in the back, with no steer!! all airbag design front and rear, with a subframe locating the axle, sometimes i think to much travel. adjustable ride height and when i saw the first one he was trying out carbon fibre bead lock rims. soni is definitly ahead of his time. he built this rig like 5 yrs before avalanche ever thought of a buggy. and you can order them in four seats, which is what i would get if i got one.

Got any other picts of his creation? looks badass...

-LCL

Yes, 96 or early 1997(I think) ...It's old news, but still a cool rig;)

Those things are over-engineered IMO. Another example of a good idea that turned out bad in application. The front and rear axles are connected together with torsion bars that force it to articulate. When the front driver's tire compresses, it forces the rear driver's tire down... etc. This is all good in theory, but i have watched it run many competitions, and in situations of heavy weight-transfer, it never fails to flop over... Has the worst anti-squat i have EVER seen on a trail rig. I wouldn't own one, but whatever...

saw it compete at the top truck challenge at hollister a few years ago. pretty impressive. definetly ahead of it's time and hat's off to soni for that. he's been back to TTC with it almost every year as a judge. i dig it but.:smokin:

A guy in my area bought one and ended up totally reengineering it to work right.

Took about 20K at Sunray to get the suspension sight, but it is cool as shit now!

Look for it in a 4x4 rag in your area soon...(red with 42's)