C3 twin turbo W.E. ROCK buggy "Mog Sled"

[distinctive pd]

This will be buggy of a different breed. It will be a cab forward chassis design I drew up a couple years ago and never came to life. KINDA WILD IDEA BUT. .. It will look similar to a Mog cab and a snowmobile rear. I thought it might look cool as a rock buggy.

It will be powered by a twin turbo flat six.
I'm not only a big fan of mogs and sleds but also huge fan of Porsche 911's and the 911 tuned 935
with twins!! The cool thing about the 935 was how light they were for their time and the motors made 7-800 HP and they are air cooled!!
I've seen a few 1:1 rock buggies with turbos and I thought I better snag a super scale 935 motor.

I've never had a project that has gotten me this stoked. I'm hoping to bore you with lots of good pics and techy info. ..




BUILD LIST:

Custom Chromoly tube chassis
Custom front motor mount
Scale TT Porsche 935 motor
Bomber t-case
CURRIE F9'S w/4ws
Scale chubs and knucks f/r
VP lockers
Under/over gears
VP links
Custom driveshafts
Traxxas BB shocks
2.2 VP beadlocks
Custom cut n shut from 1.9's into 2.2 PL Swampers
Holmes BLE
Holmes sensored outrunner
2 big servos
CC MINI ESC for winch



WORKING ON AXLES FIRST FOR CHASSIS MOCK UP

PLAN IS VP'S BEAUTIFUL CURRIE F9'S, WRAITH WIDTH FRONT W/PASSENGER SIDE DROP, CENTERED REAR XR10 WIDTH. ..

VP DEFINITELY HIT IT OUT IF THE PARK WITH THESE. I MUST SAY THESE ARE TRULY A WORK OF ART. ...
I LOVE THE MACHINE WORK AND THAT THEY INCORPORATED THE BIGGER PINION BEARING. .. I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE A TRUE 3RD MEMBER EITHER!! VANQUISH NEVER CEASES PLEASE OR AMAZE!!!






REAR AXLE




FRONT AXLE




5.5" CUT-N-SHUT SWAMPERS







VP OMF'S




BANGIN 935 WITH TWINS

[Rickleo]

OK I'm interested. Subscrided.

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[distinctive pd]

Making the rear axle work as a XR width setup was easy. Only had to drill and tap 2 holes for the truss. Everything else for the rear would just be assembly.

Like I said I love the 3rd member and how perfectly it assembles! What a nice axle!

[distinctive pd]

The front axle was a little more work to make it a passenger side drop but worth it. I ordered up a SCX F9 truss from VP and as always they were very willing to help.

In order to make this work I had to roll the tubes down so the holes were pointed at the ground. You can see the marks I made on the bottom of the housing to make sure everything lines up. You can see that I rolled the tubes slightly though. This will help point the pinion at the trans better rather than having the pinion parallel with the ground. This will be sorta like having a high pinion and alleviates sharp angles in the drive shafts.

2nd is a pic of my old Tundra I built with the same concept as far as driveshaft angle. It creates some challenges with your knuckles but easily remedied.










NEW HOLE FOR TRUSS ON TOP




Next is modified truss cut on one side to make room for panhard.




Next is pass side link mount to be modified. This mount is actually meant for the drivers side to be used with the bigger U4 truss. The one hole fits existing hole in pumpkin on pass side. Other one I have to drill and tap in the center of the mount.






NEW HOLE

[Rickleo]

That's some nice axle work. Thought I was looking at an episode of Extreme 4x4 lol.

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[distinctive pd]

Axles are as far they can go till uni shafts and C's come in!

[distinctive pd]

Chassis is coming along good. sorry for the crappy pics. I'm using 4130 Chromoly tubing with 56 safety silv. Seems pretty strong so far.

Here is the base skid tube work. Also I'll be running a full 1/8" thick delrin skid to wrap the entire bottom of this tube skid.

This stuff brazed almost as nice as DOM

[dondraper25]

Very nice work. This is why I am in to this hobby.

[CM9000]

I would call dibs on this one, but I would never drive it. looks too cool on paper for me to even think to thrash it. this one will be over the top! I thought my mid motor 4 banger turbo was gonna be cool.. this is sweet! ill be silently watching this.

[distinctive pd]

Thanx fellas much appreciated! I hope to have the chassis much further along after this weekend is over! !

[sally1800]

Originally Posted by distinctive pd

Thanx fellas much appreciated! I hope to have the chassis much further along after this weekend is over! !

Can we see the updates

[distinctive pd]

Not much to update, been busy.

Did get nuts brazed to skid base and template cut for skid plate!

Lower link mounts and nose section next!

[Szczerba]

Ahhhhh yah! Make two! This is going to be rad.

I've seen some European forward bias'd cab'd rigs that have caught my attention as well.

[Nova's Ark]

Subscribed. Your solder work is very clean

[War Pig]

Just saw this.....very cool! Great job on modifying the axles to work for your project.

[badhoopty]

everything in this thread is cool af... love the swampers.

[distinctive pd]

Originally Posted by War Pig

Just saw this.....very cool! Great job on modifying the axles to work for your project.

Thanx my man, i am very excited about these axles and the build in general.

[distinctive pd]

Originally Posted by badhoopty

everything in this thread is cool af... love the swampers.

Thanx dood, im lookin forward to getting the Swampers mounted up and out on our super sticky Utah rock!! Swampers do very well in many different terrains. I know they are one of the best tires for our terrain.

[distinctive pd]

Started on CMS mount on Saturday. I'm really not a big fan of CMS on WE Rock type buggy but they are also more challenging to aquire points on. ...

Mount is in. It will require some bracing up front but it is coming along slowly right now.

I also brazed up the grill/nose piece as well as the hood piece.

More to come this week. Hopefully it will look like a chassis soon












UPPER FRAME NOSE PIECES

[hotwheels000]

More please !!!!!!!