Phaeton":155f94xg said:
With your skills I would have thought it would be easier to start from scratch especially if you want to go off-road only, son has an idea he wants a buggy that he can jump,
so speaking hypothetically if we were to design a buggy for offroad use only that was rugged how would you configure it ?
would it be rear engine if so which engine ?
which front suspension ? beetle is pretty tough ? or use mx5 front and rear ? or maybe use the entire mx5 drive train ?
1 seater or 2 ?
I keep returning to mx5 in my head I want a small nimble buggy for whizzing round my track the Vitara based one is larger and road based obviously you don't need 4.3 lt and 330 bhp in the woods :
i have this little project i sometimes play with mx5 front and rear subframes connected by a 2" box section frame I was going to use the mx5 engine and box too, which I still might , but a rover V8 jumped in there when I wasn't looking for some strange reason the rover picks up with the original engine mounts, how convenient :