The buggy is nearly finished :D

Synetearis · Post by **Synetearis** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 5:05 pm

Wow! Absolutely great fabrication. Very nice welding aswell,.. and the exhaust manifold plumbing.. gorgeous.

you have some great skills. And shortenimg gearboxes to get the weight distribution right,.. heh thats some pro sh8t...

Heh, i was pretty proud after i did my first engine swap (1.2 to 2.0) but this is the real deal!

Rippthrough · Post by **Rippthrough** » Tue Dec 29, 2015 7:41 pm

Fired it up early hours of this morning :D

Rippthrough · Post by **Rippthrough** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 8:26 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku7sU_e-8mA

lemonrev · Post by **lemonrev** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 5:05 am

Your dog is certainly getting mouths of that exhaust, sounds good that engine, no putters and a really nice sound on it too.

Rippthrough · Post by **Rippthrough** » Sat Jan 02, 2016 12:15 am

I thought it sounded terrible on the video, reason I only did a short snap of it :D

Phone camera picks up a small vacuum leak and little else, it's very deep and growly exhaust note to it, will get a video once it's back running again, I kinda slipped with the spanners this morning:

Rippthrough · Post by **Rippthrough** » Tue Jan 19, 2016 12:40 am

Anyway, getting away from oily bits, engine internals, CV's and all the mechanical bits, and off to some of my famously terrible Paint skills:

I'm not sure I like it, but it looks a lot better than all just flat red - I am open to suggestions, especially if anyone wants the original larger image to do a better PS/Paint attempt. Ignore the red mudguard top mounts, just the selection tool gone rogue. (Rouge? :P )

The louvers were supposed to be red on top and silver underneath but it went terribly wrong :D

CzechDeath · Post by **CzechDeath** » Tue Jan 19, 2016 12:54 pm

Wow what a bug! =D

Rippthrough · Post by **Rippthrough** » Tue Jan 19, 2016 2:53 pm

Oily bits back together:

Rippthrough · Post by **Rippthrough** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 1:23 am

Well, that's one (still needs it fibreglass skin, has a thin* balsa layer at the minute to form the cloth over and it's allowed me to foam fill the leading and trailing edges for dent resistance)....

On to the always growing list of 'additional shit we shouldn't touch until it's finished but we're probably going to do anyway' - the front mudguard mountings tubes are going, they were originally left separate to the damper mounts so no damage occurred to the suspension if a mudguard got ripped off, but we've worked out a smaller, neater way to do it which gets that curved tube out of the equation. Should be lighter, look a lot neater and gets the tube out of the way of the wing endplates.

Oh yes, you can also see she's sporting some shiny new nerf rails down the sides, to go with the new front bumper that's in progress.

Good for bouncing off trees, rocks and mowing down small children.

*So thin you can see the ribs through it, saves at least 10 vital grams of weight! ;)

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