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Description:
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I built this buggy using a Dana 44 front and 12 bolt GM rear full size Chevy axles which I narrowed 21 inches, welded the spider & side gears to lock them up then shaved the housings for maximum clearance.
Next I bought a 1980 Honda Civic with a 1.3 litre engine and automatic transmission. I pulled the transmission apart and welded the spider & side gears in the differential of the transmission to lock the axles together and reassembled the transmission.
I set the engine/transmission, axles, rad, etc. in position on stands with the engine turned 90 degrees so the engine sits just forward of the rear axle with the transmission ahead of it.
When I narrowed the axles I took more out of the right rear and left front so the pinions would be aligned to the right.
For my next step I built a frame around all this with 2" square tubing and bolted the axles directly to the frame with U-bolts.
Drive shafts were easy to make. I just found some pipe which fit tightly over the Honda axles, made a couple rings. Tapped them over the axles then ground them down till they fit into the Chevy yolks, slid them in and welded them solid.
For the steering I used the Honda steering colunm complete with ignition switch and a VW bug steering box.
The feature which makes this buggy unique is that by using a front wheel drive transaxle the torque is multiplied through the differential in the transmission before it goes to the axles creating extra low gearing. We chained this buggy to a tree and while sitting on dry pavement it will actually spin all four 33" tires at a rate of about 3MPH. Top end is about 30MPH at about 6500rpm (honest that old Civic motor screams)
Peter Bonenfant
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North Bay, Ontario Canada
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Anonymous
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Review Date: Wed February 14, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid (per item)?: None indicated
| Rating: 3
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Ummm....
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errr...
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Why???
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Anonymous
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Review Date: Thu February 22, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
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| Rating: 1
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Nice cargo rack
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you get the crazy award
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If you when to all that trouble, why didn't design a tube buggy or at least put some kind of roll cage around the driver? Looks like a heavy, suspensionless death trap.
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Anonymous
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Review Date: Mon February 26, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid (per item)?: None indicated
| Rating: 0
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mudflaps wouldn't hurt
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Anonymous
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Review Date: Sat April 21, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? No |
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| Rating: 1
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..... not sure.... kinda fun to drive... maybe...
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everything
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....uuuhhh, why not just buy a Quad???
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Anonymous
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Review Date: Mon June 30, 2008
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| Rating: 0
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like ur home made visors
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looks like something you would get ur ass killed on
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Anonymous
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Review Date: Mon June 30, 2008
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Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid (per item)?: None indicated
| Rating: 4
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like ur helmet ad on
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looks like something u could get ur ass killed on in no time
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Tom Bentzen's 1988 Long Wheelbase Samurai
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