Larry's
Off Road Center
Buggy Shop Projects
Take a
look into Larry's Shop to see what he's building this time!
Larry is
currently working on two Sandfox 4 Seat buggies with the pick up option for
customers Jeff and Richard. These buggies will be both off road and street, and
will be running an Eco-Tech 2.2 engine and a 6 rib VW bus transmission. The
pictures below are not in build order, we took pictures through the process of
building the two buggies. We will be adding more pictures as our progress
continues.
| Larry has been building these frames for 2 customers. This project is in progress and more pictures will be added along the way. |  1. |
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| We started out by welding together a Sand Fox 4 Seat Chassis with pick-up option. This 4 seater is a smaller 4 seat frame that many times gets used as a 2 seater, giving you more room inside as well as more storage. |  3. |
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| Centering 6 rib bus transmission so that we can make transmission mounts that will handle the horse power and select the proper length axle. |  5. |
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| We are setting this up for 3 x 3 tubular trailing arms. |  7. |
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| Trailing arm pivot plate. |  9. |
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| Our axles will be set up for 930 c.v. joints with type 1 conversion stub axles. |  11. |
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| Roller chassis with wider, long tower, chromoly front end. 700 x 15 front tires and 31 x 15.50 x 15 rear tires. |  15. |
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| Gas tank mounted. Have to have bungs welded in tank for fuel injection. |  19. |
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| Shifter shaft finished, emergency brake tubes routed. |  21. |
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| Brand New Eco-Tech 2.2 Crate Motor, with motor to transmission adapter installed. |  23. |
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| Installing the engine. |  25. |
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| Powder coated header. |  27. |
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| Mock up for custom skid plate and motor mounts. |  29. |
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| Dual fan radiator mounted. |  31. |
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| Shifter mount and emergency brake bracket installed. |  33. |
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| Adjusting rack and pinion for bump steering. |  35. |
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| Extended
beam with disc brake kit and aggressive street tire.
Fiberglass body work. |
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| Cutting holes for tie rods in the fiberglass body. |  39. |
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| Mounting windshield tabs. |  41. |
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| Mounting windshield tabs. |  43. |
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| Mounting the top light tabs. |  45. |
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| Upper light tabs and windshield tabs. |  47. |
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| Mounting
roof tabs.
Rear Fox Shox. |
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| Cutting shock boss to length and drilling hole in the frame for the shock boss. |  51. |
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| Machined hole in shock bosses. |  53. |
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| Aligning
upper and lower shock boss parallel to each other.
Welding in shock boss braces. |
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| Upper and lower shock mounts |  57. |
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| Rear shock mounted and lower shock mount. |  59. |
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| Rear upper shock mount and front lower shock mount. |  61. |
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