My FOFF buggy

[CydStrange]

Hi all, thought I would share my custom buggy chassis FOFF rig with ya see what you think.

It started as this, no planning I got a tube bender and some copper tube and went a little crazy.


Eventually I put in some electronics and got it running.



I ran it like this for a while but it didn't perform like I would have hoped.
Here it is as it was in a you tube vid named "Beer can body" which wasn't very good upon reflection so I won't post a link.



In that video it does break and then I just striped it for parts.

At some point I bought some Wraith axles and built a truck for messing around in the snow.



It was fun, but that also did not last long. So I had a set of 2.2 wheels on Wraith axles and I hate to get rid of anything including that old chassis. I mocked them up to look like this.





The idea looked good, but the chassis needed work.
I started with some support for the front end and started on a bit of the body work, putting alittle more effort the the beer cans.



I reworked the back end and decided on a tray to hold the ESC.







Then I went a bit nuts on the body work, here it looks like a spaceship so I run it with out the front 1/4 pannel they also gets in the way of the battery.




I gave it a squirt of paint and that was a bad idea as I broke a link mount and spent a few days stripping it down for repairs and now it sits naked.



While it was painted though I did get a bit of video of the rig in action, check it out.

2.2 Rock Bouncer - YouTube

[drivelineguy]

nice video, good lookin ride

[stelerzman]

Nice looking buggy and video. Looks very capable as is.

[farrell93]

how did you weld it together did you braze it and what did you use to do it...i am planning on using some brake line and brazing it together just dont know if a butane tourch would get hot enough

[stelerzman]

Originally Posted by farrell93

how did you weld it together did you braze it and what did you use to do it...i am planning on using some brake line and brazing it together just dont know if a butane tourch would get hot enough

Try Mapgas.

[stelerzman]

Originally Posted by farrell93

how did you weld it together did you braze it and what did you use to do it...i am planning on using some brake line and brazing it together just dont know if a butane tourch would get hot enough

Try Mapp gas.