jimnyBuggy
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Hello All!
I’m new here, I’m from North Wales and I am building a buggy based on a Suzuki Jimny based buggy... I’m assuming reading some of the posts that 4x4 buggies are okay on here.?
Here’s some introductory photos... I’ll create a build thread later if this kind of thing is your kind of thing?,,,
I started with a cheap X-reg donor...
I completely stripped and rebuilt the rear axle, fitting a locker and heavy duty rear shafts: and new bearings and seals everywhere, and poly bushes in all the suspension joints.
The front axle then got the same treatment, although standard shafts and CVs were rebuilt into the front... the steering bars were sleeved with seamless tube to stop them bending, and a steering damper was added...
The transfer box was dropped out and tapped for a breather which runs up - with the two axles - to a manifold block in the engine bay where it will eventually go up into the snorkel head. It was then mounted back under the donor in a custom built cradle and heavy duty mounts. the gearing is stock in the transfer box, both diffs in the axles were swapped for later VVT model diffs to alter the gearing to suit the taller 30” chunky tyres (stock tyres are 27” - diffs were swapped from 3.9:1 to 4.3:1)
As it stands at the moment! Much of the body has been cut away, including half doors
From the front...
The rear - transferring weight, the winch is located in the rear, a tube is used to thread hthe winch rope under the passenger sear, down the front chassis rail and out of the front through a “donut” shaped fairlead. This means the winch can be used to pull in either direction,to winch backwards you just take a loop off the drum and thread it through the oversize rear fairlead and use a “snatch block’ (pulley) I the loop. The battery and solenoid controller sit next to it.
My inspiration... this is a Brazilian ATV / UTV that some of you may have seen images of on the ‘net.... combined with...
The Ford EX concept car that was featured in one of the Jurassic Park films.
I’m taking design cues from both of these whilst working in the constraints of it being Jimny based, I can’t alter the chassis, it has to be recognisable as Jimny based, road legal obviously (for greenlaning), and not cost the earth!
I’ve asked Santa for a Polaris RZR for the last five years, but the wide says he can’t stretch to it, so I thought I’d build my own!
My other cars are Jinny’s too!...
The off-road one... this gets Greenland once a month
The daily driver...
Hope this is of interest to Muddy Buggies... it will eventually be exactly that! B)
I’m new here, I’m from North Wales and I am building a buggy based on a Suzuki Jimny based buggy... I’m assuming reading some of the posts that 4x4 buggies are okay on here.?
Here’s some introductory photos... I’ll create a build thread later if this kind of thing is your kind of thing?,,,
I started with a cheap X-reg donor...
I completely stripped and rebuilt the rear axle, fitting a locker and heavy duty rear shafts: and new bearings and seals everywhere, and poly bushes in all the suspension joints.
The front axle then got the same treatment, although standard shafts and CVs were rebuilt into the front... the steering bars were sleeved with seamless tube to stop them bending, and a steering damper was added...
The transfer box was dropped out and tapped for a breather which runs up - with the two axles - to a manifold block in the engine bay where it will eventually go up into the snorkel head. It was then mounted back under the donor in a custom built cradle and heavy duty mounts. the gearing is stock in the transfer box, both diffs in the axles were swapped for later VVT model diffs to alter the gearing to suit the taller 30” chunky tyres (stock tyres are 27” - diffs were swapped from 3.9:1 to 4.3:1)
As it stands at the moment! Much of the body has been cut away, including half doors
From the front...
The rear - transferring weight, the winch is located in the rear, a tube is used to thread hthe winch rope under the passenger sear, down the front chassis rail and out of the front through a “donut” shaped fairlead. This means the winch can be used to pull in either direction,to winch backwards you just take a loop off the drum and thread it through the oversize rear fairlead and use a “snatch block’ (pulley) I the loop. The battery and solenoid controller sit next to it.
My inspiration... this is a Brazilian ATV / UTV that some of you may have seen images of on the ‘net.... combined with...
The Ford EX concept car that was featured in one of the Jurassic Park films.
I’m taking design cues from both of these whilst working in the constraints of it being Jimny based, I can’t alter the chassis, it has to be recognisable as Jimny based, road legal obviously (for greenlaning), and not cost the earth!
I’ve asked Santa for a Polaris RZR for the last five years, but the wide says he can’t stretch to it, so I thought I’d build my own!
My other cars are Jinny’s too!...
The off-road one... this gets Greenland once a month
The daily driver...
Hope this is of interest to Muddy Buggies... it will eventually be exactly that! B)