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Instead of the "Who are you?" thread or the Put a face to it Thread this one is for your Ride. Post a pic of your Off-Road ride, give some specs on it, the more the merrier..

Specifications

Builder: Jason Carlin Fabrication/Myself
Vehicle: 1971 Volkswagen Beetle - Prerunner

Wheelbase: 108 inch
Trackwidth: 80 inch
Weight: Unknown

Engine:

Make and Model: Volkswagen
Displacement: 1914cc
Power: <100 hp
EFI: N/A

Transmission Make/Model: Volkswagen 002

Driveline: 930 CV's
Rearend: 300M Axles

Brakes: CNC
Steering: Saco/Sweet Mfg Quick Disconnect
Fuel Cell: 17 gallon Spun Aluminum (Foamed)

Front Suspension:

Style: Unequal A-Arm
Travel: 16 inches
Shocks: Fox 2.0 Dual Rate Coilover

Rear Suspension:

Style: 5"x3" Chromoly Trailing Arm
Travel: 16 inch
Shocks: Fox 2.5 Dual Rate Coilover
King 2.5 Bumpstop

Wheels: Robby Gordon
Tires: 33x10.50x15 BFG Mud Terrain

Electrical wiring: Painless
Lights: Hella 500, Hella 4000 (Non-HID)
Gauges: Autometer SportComp
GPS: Lowrance 480C (Soon)
Radio: ICOM

Seats: Beard Super Seat / Beard Super Kid
Restraints: Crow 5 Point

Body: 1971 VW Baja
Paint: Hodge Podge Primer
Extras: Sirius Radio, PCI Intercom

Estimated Budget Costs: ...Who Really Knows

Build Thread: http://www.shoptalkforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=104494

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Using Desert Guys format I will try to fill in as many blanks as I can. Since I bought mine mostly done there are alot of unknowns.


Specifications

Builder: Unknown/Myself
Vehicle: 1961 Class 5/1600 old school. (rumored to be an ex-Baja 500 race car)

Wheelbase: stock
Trackwidth: stock + 6" in front, stock rear
Weight: Unknown

Engine:

Make and Model: Volkswagen
Displacement: 1600cc
Power: way <100 hp
EFI: N/A

Transmission Make/Model: VW swing

Driveline: stock
Rearend: stock

Brakes: Drum
Steering: Quick Disconnect
Fuel Cell: 20 gallon Jazz fuel cell mid mount

Front Suspension:

Style: fully gusseted kingpin
Travel: unknown
Shocks: Bilstein

Rear Suspension:

Style: stock
Travel: unknown
Shocks: KYB gas-adjust

Wheels: Steel
Tires: 31x10.50x15 BFG M/T rear
215/75X15 BFG A/T fronts

Electrical wiring: new, but unknown
Lights: KC daylighters. two 100 watts in front, one 150 watt rear
Gauges: full set VDO
GPS: atlas...
Radio: N/A

Seats: Suspension
Restraints: Simpson four point

Body: 1961 VW Baja
Paint: John Deere bull dozer paint.
Extras: N/A

Estimated Budget Costs: Budget? Very little.

Build Thread: http://www.shoptalkforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=102819

I'll go




Just traded for this (body off going on right now)



Need some help deciding body colors etc.



This is a pix of me learning why everyone says "Stud your Drums".. my pal is converting this back to stock.



Some folks may see this one in wedding clip art (don't tell my straight friends)




Body Off Going on this Winter


Just dumpster dove for the parts to make one of these


We're going Joe Cali 914 in the airbagged ragtop.. the speed guys will laugh that at the Dell34s mated at the custom A1 (not steak sauce)
http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/320853.jpg

THROWN Hammer was with me when we picked this one up...

MNAirHead wrote:I can't believe this one had to sit on the classifieds so freakin long... as always had to step up and adopt a lost stray





Goodbye old friend



Yes our old pal is already on it's horizon.

Last freakin thing we needed is another body off project...

I'll quit boring you now could go on.. it would be like uncle's vacation pix

ok, i'll bite


Specifications

Builder: ME
Vehicle: 1971 Volkswagen SUPERBEETLE BAJA

Wheelbase: 104 inch
Trackwidth: stock front, 6 wider in rear
Weight: 2400lbs

Engine:

Make and Model: Ford thunderbird
Displacement: 3800cc
Power: >220 hp
EFI: multipoint EFI, DIS

Transmission Make/Model: Volkswagen 091

Driveline: type 4 cvs
Rearend: SAW Axles

Brakes: cheapo rear disc, stock drum front
Steering: Stock box, Grant wheel
Fuel Cell: 16 gallon JAZ pro sport (Foamed)

Front Suspension:

Style: vw linkpin beam
Travel: 9 9/16 inches
Shocks: Bilstein 10" 6100

Rear Suspension:

Style: 3"x3" boxed style trailing arm
Travel: 13 7/16 inch
Shocks: SAW Race Runner 2.5 Dual Rate Coilover


Wheels: Steelies
Rear Tires: 31x10.50x15 BFG All Terrain
Front tires: 235/75R15 Remington Wide Brutes (free)
Electrical wiring: stock VW+FORD+some spaghetti
Lights: cheap offroad headlights (free) they suck
Gauges: VDO
GPS: Magellan Meridian Color
Radio: Uniden cb waiting to be thrown in

Seats: Corbeau Baja
Restraints: Crow 4 Point

Body: 1971 VW Superbeetle
Paint: "tako orange" sprayed by me
Extras: "injection is nice, but blown is better"
.............personally, i'd rather have both

Estimated Budget Costs: ...7k+

Build Thread: http://shoptalkforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=103219

2004 Tech3 2 seat rear engine chassis
18" wheel travel front & rear.
Fox Coil over Shox
114" wheelbase

3.5 honda VTEC 32 valve turbocharged (soon to be intercooled) V6.
Est 400 HP (If I only knew someone with a dyno )

Megasand 4E Trans

930 cv's

STU 13+ comp cut rear tires w/beadlocks

gearone 4 piston disk brakes

Beard seats

Lots'a Bling

Cost....don't ask. The wife may be watching.

Well....not much to talk about with the rail and it's suspension....it's pretty plane Jane. It's just a beam front that I made 12 inches over with + 4 arms, through rods and coil overs. Steering is an end-load (yes end-load) R&P. Your basic mail order hydraulic clutch/brake set...I think it CNC but do not remember. Beard seats, 5 point belts, satellite radio (Sirius). Rear is 4X6 Chromo arms with disc brakes. Rear suspension is SAW remote res, still running torsion bars. Going to coil over in the rear was high on my list...but to tell you the truth...it rides and lands so good it went down the list on things to do. Like I said...it's nothing out of the ordinary....it's pretty much ALL engine based. I could go on forever about what had been done to this engine...It's air-cooled...but to call it VW powered would be just flat out lying. There is not one single VW part in the engine. It's 143 cubic inch...or 2346cc that's an 84.5mm stroke with 94mm bore. The heads were a high buck after-market casting...which I pretty much welded up and totally redid with the idea of running a turbo. The path the air/fuel takes is quite a shot different than before...and the valve sizes...well...lets just say that many would call it "odd". It's a T4 hybrid turbo that is blow through. fuel system is a set of "special" 44IDF's with electronic enrichment circuit and a progressive Nitrous system. MSD boost retard, large inter-cooler, water injector...alright...that's enough...you get the picture...it runs pretty good.

Here is my baja. Not as cool as all your guys stuff.



The engine is a 1776
forged counter wighted crank
i beam rods
Fully ballanced
heads are ported 042 wth 40x35.5
Camshaft is by crane with similar specs a engle 110
single 36mm dellorto
Probably 70hp or so.

Trans is a 5 rib
Raise slightly and angled 8 deg
works fine except pops out of first gear sometimes.

Front suspension is stock balljoint
cut/turned 1/4"
slightly clearenced ball joints.
Stock shock mounts are cut off and shock is tied into cage
I have a Full 7" of travel up front! 2 down 5 up. Wahoo!!

The rear suspension is a little different,
It has an early bus torsion housing, Which makes the reartrack 6 " wider than stock.
Fully boxed stock trailing arms
Shock run to the cage
Type 4 CVs and bus axles
Have exactly 10" of travel in the rear 4 down 6 up.

I painted it to look military.
All tan is done with krylon ultra flat desert tan camo paint.
All the black is done with spray on bed liner.

Interior isnt done yet,
I have no idea what the seats are out of but they are cofortable
and have tons of adjustment, I just need to have them recovered.
Its getting cheap door panels and carpet in the back to keep some of the sound down, The frnt is getting rubber floor mats. I still need to get the rest of the glass in.

Future plans include 2x3 rear trailing arms and swapping to a 10" wider link pin with 2.5" longer arms.

moturbopar wrote:Here is my baja. Not as cool as all your guys stuff.

You are crazy. That car is cool!

thrown_hammer wrote:

moturbopar wrote:Here is my baja. Not as cool as all your guys stuff.

You are crazy. That car is cool!

It probably even runs!

Are you making fun of me? Mine runs half the time.

your icy bug is a fair weather friend...

man my ultra clean dad would think that's funny.. tough to be witty and clean at the same time.

MNAirHead wrote:

thrown_hammer wrote:

moturbopar wrote:Here is my baja. Not as cool as all your guys stuff.

You are crazy. That car is cool!

It probably even runs!

What is this word "run" you keep referring to?

Builder: Sandsastion & Myself

Vehicle: 197? unkown frame kit

Wheelbase: 87.5 inch
Trackwidth: 78 inch
Weight: Unknown

Engine:

Make and Model: Volkswagen
Displacement: 2110cc
Power: aprox 150 hp


Transmission Make/Model: Volkswagen 002 w/ 4:56 R&P
& late model main shaft

Driveline: Bus CV's
Rearend: Sway Away Axles

Brakes: Neil w/ drums
Steering: VW steer box w/ quick steer
Fuel Cell: 7.5 gal plastic tank & 3.5 gal Spun Aluminum (reserve)

Front Suspension:

Style: link pin w/ aluminum beam
Travel: stock
Shocks: $10 autozones w/ 10% off

Rear Suspension:

Style: stock "boxed"
Travel: 6 inch
Shocks: Fox 8.5 w/ reservoirs

Wheels: Douglas 15 X 12's
Tires: 13.50 Exterme Hole Shots

Electrical wiring: Rick Jame's hair Do
Lights: Harbor Freight special's
Gauges: LED "dummy lights"
Radio: Sanddude Karaoke

Seats: plastic Summit race seats
Restraints: M&R 5 Point

Paint: red, orange & yellow mixed together
Extras: Lots of various "skulls"

Estimated Budget Costs: still growing.....

"The Real Pic"

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Builder: Me with a lil help from my friends

Vehicle: Invader

Wheelbase: 87.5 inch
Trackwidth:
Weight: 550

Engine:

Make and Model: Volkswagen
Displacement: 2332cc by SandDude
Power: aprox 150-200 hp


Transmission Make/Model: Volkswagen 002 w/ super diff

Driveline: Bus CV's
Rearend: Bus Axles

Brakes: Jamar w/ disc
Steering: VW steer box w/ old school quick steer
Fuel Cell: 7.5 gal plastic tank

Front Suspension:

Style: link pin w/ aluminum beam
Travel: stock
Shocks: are they really necessary?

Rear Suspension:

Style: boxed 2" x 3"
Travel: 6 inch
Shocks: Fox 12" w/ reservoirs

Wheels: Douglas 15 X 12's
Tires: 13.50 Exterme Hole Shots

Electrical wiring: SandDude special
Lights: Harbor Freight special's
Gauges: same brand as front shocks
Radio: the Waynoka rock station back at camp

Seats: plastic Summit race seats
Restraints: crow 5 Point

Paint: purple
Extras: skulls, brass knuckles and spider webs

Estimated Budget Costs: I plead the fifth.