Fun Buggy
 

Well I've had some down time from working on my FJ tube project and went looking for ideas. I went to Petersons 4Wheel and first thing I saw was Fred Williams and his Project Fun Buggy. After reading through his build I decided this was gonna be my scale build.


Plus its gonna give me something great to use this in. "thumbsup"
Eritex Atlas Transfer case.
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Heres some links to Fred Williams build of the real thing.
http://www.4wheeloffroad.com/project...ild/index.html
http://www.4wheeloffroad.com/project...ild/index.html
http://www.4wheeloffroad.com/project...ggy/index.html
http://www.4wheeloffroad.com/project...ild/index.html

my first hump was getting these made with out a cnc machine or welder

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so I measured up, drew it out on cardboard, traced it onto my steel, fired up the band saw, gouged out 4 pieces then put a drill bit through each one to come up with these.
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also tagged each frame hole with a slight counter sink to give the effect like the originals.
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for the top pieces just cut 2 thin slices and whacked some holes through them. ( even center punching my marks it seems i couldnt keep them straight :-( )
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bolted in a couple of pillow balls
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and threw a couple pieces of stainless through them
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fired up the Mapp gas
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once the steel changed back to its normal color the filing and sanding began and whalla my first obstacle was done.
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Lol just like the real thing!

Thats going to be one hot rc if you get it done!! nice job so far "thumbsup"

Nice work! I have no doubt you will nail it!!

and so it began ..........

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a little sneak peak at the power train im going to use ...... normal custom wound 45T bolted onto the new HPI Wheely King GR unit tucked under Parma's Hemi block

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time for the nose job
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hump 2 was gonna be the front shock mounts and keeping as close to original as i could.

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/b...ildsheet_m.jpg

so i cut up some inner and outer pieces and brased them up the same width as a normal pillow ball.
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cut and trim a blank piece for the top ...... can even say i put my blood into this one lol
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blew some holes in them and sanded every thing down.
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little stunt shot for mock up and thinking
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holy chit keep going we want more pix "thumbsup"

your jonts sr. are very clean.

just some more forming frame work .........

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and as if overcoming the first 2 humps wasnt fun enough .......... now its time for another, the rear shock mounts.

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/b...ildreservi.jpg

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got my hood bars in
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hope to have more up by weekends end, got to get some Mapp and give this thing a good bath in hot water.

unfreak'n real. Great work. that is so cool.

:shock::shock::shock: ...........................

:worship::worship::worship:"thumbsup""thumbsup""th umbsup"

Shit people told me I had a lot of detail in my build and I only spent a little time on it. Your wayyyyyyyyyyyy past me. That thing is going to be BAD ASS"thumbsup""thumbsup""thumbsup""thumbsup"

WOW! That is just awesome!

very nice!

cool to see such a close replica of the 1:1

top notch skills for sure

"thumbsup"

:shock:

and here i thought the fun buggy was just too much to replicate... apparently not. you are the shit. "thumbsup"

i hate you :flipoff: i contacted a few chassis builders about replicating that buggy for me and no one wanted to take on the job. looks like you beat me to it

Wow, this thing is epic.:shock: Great work.

Wow :shock:

very nice! "thumbsup"

thats freakin sweat"thumbsup""thumbsup"