Hello all

[Baloo]

hello boys I haven't been around much whos still around then ? lockdown is giving me cabin fever, been thinking about a new buggy
anyone want to discuss how what sort etc ?
Andy

 

[ChaosMS]

Andy - good to see you back, always happy to talk about buggies!! - what are you thinking??
Rich

 

[Baloo]

Morning Rich good to see your still around
I was thinking something quick ish and simple to build so I can play with it this summer, don't really want to be building A arms and starting from scratch so the 3 things that pop in to my head are buy and old mgf and reuse the subframes and drive train as I did before or maybe use mazda mx5 suspensions front and rear as they are all self contained and really easy to incorporate into a space frame ( and I have some )
or take something like a Suzuki Vitara rolling chassis and make a bolt on tube frame not over keen on keeping the Vitara engine as its so tall and sits up high above the front diff maybe a V8 mounted further back and much lower down so I can have a nice low bonnet line, or maybe a Subaru engine as its nice and low ??? will find some pictures later thanks Andy

 

[Phaeton]

Hi Andy, quite bizarre I was looking for you number before the lock down, wanted to know if you had still got the pipe bender, I was thinking of copying your MGF buggy but trying to go the whole hog & IVA it, but I've gone off in a different direction now.

Alan..

 

[Baloo]

Hi Alan how you doing
yes I still have the tube bender although I have lost one of the plates so need to get another one cut if anyone knows a lazer cutter ?
your welcome to borrow when Ive replaced the missing plate

so what are you up to then ? I might do something similar to before just for use in the field

Andy

 

[Baloo]

the mgf based one

 

[Danny]

Hi Andy

I am still here

 

[Phaeton]

Always liked what you did with that MGF Andy, was going to go down that route, but then add extra caging over the top like the Freestyle, put a fuel tank in the front subframe & then build aluminium bonnet for it.Only thing I wouldn't have bothered to do was curve the back rail, would be bigger than the Freestyle but you'd have more room & sit more square, which was one of the issues I was starting to face.

 

[wagon_1.0]

nice to hear from you baloo

i still have good intentions but no progress

could do with sparking up a few build threads

 

[Baloo]

Hi Andy

I am still here

Hey Danny good to hear from you
What you working on then ?

 

[Baloo]

nice to hear from you baloo

i still have good intentions but no progress

could do with sparking up a few build threads

Hi wagon come on get biulding now is the time lol

 

[Baloo]

Always liked what you did with that MGF Andy, was going to go down that route, but then add extra caging over the top like the Freestyle, put a fuel tank in the front subframe & then build aluminium bonnet for it.Only thing I wouldn't have bothered to do was curve the back rail, would be bigger than the Freestyle but you'd have more room & sit more square, which was one of the issues I was starting to face.

Hi Alan
Yes i enjoyed biulding that one should never have sold it ...
And yes it has to be bigger than a freestyle comfort has to come into it dosent it
And if you going road legal then you got to have carrying capacity
I will sort out in the next few days what im going to build
Cheers Andy

 

[Phaeton]

Here you go Andy https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124158563736

 

[Baloo]

Here you go Andy https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124158563736

Hi Alan thanks or that interesting but to far away to pickup at the moment and besides its still a freestyle size which is to small for me im 6'4" and find them cramped if you make it a one seater lol If I could live size small I have a road registered blitz 2 in the barn need a rebuild :-\

so ive narrowed it down to mx5 based or Vitara based will pick one over the weekend

 

[Baloo]

mx5 based would just use the front and rear suspension frames which every thin bolts to and then just make up a chassis to join them up

 

[Baloo]

you get the jist

 

[Baloo]

or I go down the route of using an unmodified Vitara chassis which would keep its id and be road legal if I wanted it to be

 

[Phaeton]

I like the Vitara idea, especially with the V8 ;D

 

[Danny]

that mgf freestyle is on here I think if I remember right

I am rebuilding a mojo at the moment :\

I am not so quick at it these days.

I do a bit most days though

 

[Phaeton]

Was it Shaggy's I thought he was doing something different with the downtubes.