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you make it seem like you did all this in one day

sweet build! i thought some of the background looked familar in some of the pix than i looked at your location lol you like 10min away from me. the arms look clean! how did you find out there to mount the rack like that? directions from the kit?

It was pure luck. I knew I wanted one . I just bought it . got the mounts and driller holes added the bolts. done.. I Did not know it would go up so easy. weighs like 30 lbs. holds over 200 lbs of gear. and I dont feel the difference when loaded or not. That is what I like the most.

I have one heavy steel rim for a spare tire. about 500$ is spare parts, nuts, bolts and another 30 lbs of tools up there. Some times chairs and water. Case of MRE's just because I can.

SeaBee, Thats one great looking Baja you have. The work you have done and detail is awesome. When I get the chance I am going to completely rebuild my rail and add a turbo to it.

The Wild Kids

Thank you. It is fun to drive. I love it when people pull up to it in the desert. Most like to see it and then a few will start pointing out what they would do different.. Last guy had a list of like 5 items. I told his friend if he could keep up with me I would do it. He was not willing to race... Not that I am a racer. I am not.
Hay leatherneck. You can add this to the sticky of peoples rides. It makes it easy for me to find when I want to send it to someone. Thanks.

Nice buggy!
I didn't realize thet was your car. I had seen the pics of the a arms on Pete's website. Those are the pictures that made me call Pete and order mine.

Your sig says "sometimes UT"--whereabouts?
I may have some questions for you when I start putting mine together

I have family in Castledale near Price. We may be moving there this year. Sure you can call me, any time. PM me if you need the number or just for a question. You will love the kit. It is so nice.

Well I picked up my buggy today. The new trans is in. I have not really drove it much.. The bus to bug conversion changed a few things. The trans sits higher. The CV's on the trans bind or make a knocking sound. The rear was adjusted to lift it more. but the total degrees is only 22* It is weird the engine sits lower but the trans 930's sit higher off the frame horns. I have to make a new mount for the muffler . Not a big deal. The shop replaced one of the CV's with a race prepped CM cage. It made the noise go on the one side. They did not have one for the other side. I wonder if it will smooth out after driving a little. Could bust too. I have my other almost new German CV. How do you race prep them? is there a shop that does this? I don't want to go buy another 140$ cv. Total cost for me was 1270$ my buddy who broke it paid 1250$. I still made out . Shifting is not as smooth as it was before but good enough.

seabeebuggy wrote:I have family in Castledale near Price. We may be moving there this year. Sure you can call me, any time. PM me if you need the number or just for a question. You will love the kit. It is so nice.

We'll have to get together for a Moab trip. I have to go right though Price to get there.

I took the buggy out today. I was in 4th gear 4000 rpm maybe 55 /60 mph My old trans will go 65 in 3rd gear. The gearing is so low it may hit 5 lbs boost. I knew it was a sand trans but come on I was going faster than that before in the sand with my t1. In short I hate this trans. it will now cost me another 1500 to re gear it.

seabeebuggy wrote:I took the buggy out today. I was in 4th gear 4000 rpm maybe 55 /60 mph My old trans will go 65 in 3rd gear. The gearing is so low it may hit 5 lbs boost. I knew it was a sand trans but come on I was going faster than that before in the sand with my t1. In short I hate this trans. it will now cost me another 1500 to re gear it.

Hmmm, I think someone told you this in another thread.... anyway, sorry dude, transmission issues suck.

What ratio's & R&P did you get?

So that is what a Internet " I told you so" looks like.

Leatherneck wrote:So that is what a Internet " I told you so" looks like.

LOL, sorry, I just couldn't resist! But I do feel bad he spent so much and didn't get what he wanted.

Tranny ratios are one of the most important decisions you make.

I was told by a tranny builder that this would work fine for what I was wanting. He based this off of it was in his car for 2 days (due to he broke his and borrowed this one for the weekend). The R&P will work for street as it is a 4:57 I had no reason to not believe him as I don't have the Gear ratios. It was a unknown. This is not the same trans I posted up before.
Sure it was a risk but I was getting a fully built top of the line 3000$ trans for 1500 $

Well here is what I had before I found the gearing too late. this is on 30'' tires.

T1 trans 4.12 R&P going to 4.57 R&P
1st 3.78 = 31 mph at 5500rpm going to 3.44 = 31 mph
2nd 2.08 = 57 mph at 5500rpm going to 2.08 = 51 mph
3rd 1.48 = 80 mph at 5500rpm going to 1.35 = 79 mph
4th 0.93 = 127mph at 5500rpm going to 1.00 = 107 mph


I liked the first 3 gears i had. they were fast and had long boost runs. 4th gear sucked and was hard to get much out of it.

I was too lazy to re program my spedo. I did not know I was going so fast. I figured it was close to 20 mph slow before and now I see it was about correct. I shifted in to 3rd and the spedo said 40 mph.

That also means when I was going through the whoops in 3rd gear pushing 5000 rpms. I was going in the 70 mph range. not accounting for wheel slip on dirt and whoops.

Well that is a starting point for now. I may adjust it down a little for faster boost response I do get full boost at 3000 rpm start about 2500rpm. but with the taller gears it really pulls hard further.