No it wont be super fast, yes there will be cell phone pics but here goes.
After wheeling my first attempt at a Samurai/buggy for almost seven years. I broke it terrible in the middle of the con. At that point I decided I'd had it trying to keep little axles alive under big tires. So I sold my little 4wheel steer sami to a member here in January and began gathering parts to catch up to the current trends. Many of the parts in this build came from the classifieds here.
Plans initially were to build a four seat chassis from the ground up but as time went by it started to make more sense to buy a starter chassis. I've always loved the look of the Trent Fab four seater so a call was made and I picked up my chassis about 3 weeks ago.
Build specs
Chassis: Trent Fab 151 4 seater less belly/sub frame 1.75 .156 DOM
Front axle: Solid ind Hp60 with Solid inners/outers/spindles/hubs/steering arms/flanges 4:88's,spool, 40 spline throughout.
Rear axle: Dana 70u 4:88's detroit,stock 35 shafts for now
05' LQ4 6.0 balanced rotating assembly,ARP fasteners, Pacific fab ultra 4 cam package/tune and oil pan.
Th400/klune V goliath/chevy np 205(hence not having tfab build the belly)
PSC XR series full hydro.
43'sx's on 17" raceline monsters
14" 2.5 sway a way coilovers and triple bypasses front an rear.
Well onto some pictures I'll try to keep them as chronological as possible because Im not smart enough to insert them between paragraphs.
First we built the front end, Then assembled a chassis table out of some scrap. Trying to keep this one nice and square as my sami was not.
After wheeling my first attempt at a Samurai/buggy for almost seven years. I broke it terrible in the middle of the con. At that point I decided I'd had it trying to keep little axles alive under big tires. So I sold my little 4wheel steer sami to a member here in January and began gathering parts to catch up to the current trends. Many of the parts in this build came from the classifieds here.
Plans initially were to build a four seat chassis from the ground up but as time went by it started to make more sense to buy a starter chassis. I've always loved the look of the Trent Fab four seater so a call was made and I picked up my chassis about 3 weeks ago.
Build specs
Chassis: Trent Fab 151 4 seater less belly/sub frame 1.75 .156 DOM
Front axle: Solid ind Hp60 with Solid inners/outers/spindles/hubs/steering arms/flanges 4:88's,spool, 40 spline throughout.
Rear axle: Dana 70u 4:88's detroit,stock 35 shafts for now
05' LQ4 6.0 balanced rotating assembly,ARP fasteners, Pacific fab ultra 4 cam package/tune and oil pan.
Th400/klune V goliath/chevy np 205(hence not having tfab build the belly)
PSC XR series full hydro.
43'sx's on 17" raceline monsters
14" 2.5 sway a way coilovers and triple bypasses front an rear.
Well onto some pictures I'll try to keep them as chronological as possible because Im not smart enough to insert them between paragraphs.
First we built the front end, Then assembled a chassis table out of some scrap. Trying to keep this one nice and square as my sami was not.