Burning Money: In the shop with Scott Racing

Wfoyota

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So racing might be a stretch but we tryin :lmao:. I have a thread on other sites but nothing as active as Irate so thought id make one here incase anybody is interested in following along with some redneck junk. Long story short, i've been offroading my whole life (33) with my dad (62). Started in rail buggies as a kid, moved to dirt bikes which moved to racing hare scrambles as a teenager. I wanted to get back into 4x4 stuff and bought my first toyota cab truck at 18. Around 6 years ago, dad bought a buggy and we have been hitting it hard ever sense. Last year we bought a newly used 4800 car and the motor locked up on us due to a stupid mistake on our part which killed our 2024 season. Motor is back and we are trying to get ready for 2025. This thread will include racing, trail riding, and werock as we are putting together a budget (if there is a thing) comp car also (goatbuilt jhf). Some pics incoming.
 
My personal buggy is a M&M Offroad
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Race car is an Ibex chassis.
 

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Last project we finished up was our friends wod front axle swap. He deployed in march and put the order in with wide open for basically the biggest 14b you can get from them. Rcv sucks **** and kept pushing the axle ship date to the point we thought we was going to have to fix his 60 cause it had been around 4 months with no shafts. Finally got shafts and we went and picked it up. We finished it up 2 days before he arrived home from deployment.
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As time allows, I've been working on the axles for the jhf. Front is a kingpin 609 and rear is a super shave 14b with 05up outers. Wms is around 67"
 

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JohnnyJ said:
Why mixing kingpin and SD60?
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Because budget and I have a ton of kp stuff already. I stripped a gm60 so just needed to buy Cs. Kingpin stuff has been really good to me over the years and with turbo 22r it won't be an issue imo. Easy fix if it is though with branik shafts.
 
JohnnyJ said:
That's kind of what I figured. When I was putting my buggy together, it was money ahead to sell kingpin stuff and buy 2-3 SD60s.
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this, ppl think kingpins are gold. While they work, i wouldnt use one from scratch. I want to upgrade my truggy to '05+ but this point its not worth the logistics unless i went new suspension too.
 
pennsylvaniaboy said:
this, ppl think kingpins are gold. While they work, i wouldnt use one from scratch. I want to upgrade my truggy to '05+ but this point its not worth the logistics unless i went new suspension too.
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Exactly. Got a NOS bare KP Chevy 60 housing I bought waaay back when for $500 that I thought I'd be using for a build someday. I wouldn't start with that as my base now for a build if I could help it.
 
Any affiliation with WFO Concepts? Just wondering based on the user name.
 
Before I get too carried away, would y'all worry about only having 1" of spine engagement on a front shaft instead of 1.5"? I can fix it but it's going to require beating the C back off with a hammer and trimming the housing another 3/8".
 
Me and pops got out Saturday in the krx and did 117 miles. We live in the wheeling Mecca of the southeast. Pictures are "Dean wheel house" in literally middle of nowhere outside of Windrock on state property. Probably used for coal car transportation up and down the mountain.
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Been slow but getting a few things done. Motor is back in the race car but now all the wiring is torn out. Previous owner did some weird stuff and we are going to simply everything. If there had been an issue, we would have never found it.

Got the jhf in the shop finally. Lower frame mounts are on, rear uppers, front axle lowers, and rear axle is done. Minus welding of course. Waiting on a few bungs and stuff to finish up rear link bars and the front axle. Should be ready to drop the motor in in a few more weeks.
 

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Little more progress last night. Rear upper links are made. I as able to cut down some old links I had. And got the front upper mounting position fixed in the chassis. Got some cnc stuff coming tomorrow to finish up front axle truss and frame upper mounts.
 

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Dad and a buddy has been making progress on the 4800 car wiring, it is almost done. Ready to hear the girl run. While they've been doing that, I've focused on the jhf aka kemosabi 2.0. I called my old buggy kemosabi and since the heart is being reused, it's only fair to continue the name lol. Upper links are made, all the 4 link is tacked together, and motor, aw4, 300 doubler is dropped in. I'm waiting on lower links to get back. Was lucky enough to be able to cut and retap some old 2.25 7075 for the lowers. Once they are back, I can set on full bump and start building motor mounts and rear support. I am going to completely skip a trans mount on this buggy for simplicity. This beech is tight, way tighter than I expected it to be. You can tell it was specifically designed for the ls/th400 platform.
 

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Talk to me about how much better a 3x9 ram is over a 2.5x8? Other than length, is there really that much difference between the two to support going to the 3x9 when talking 43s with water? Please tell me something other than "it's like going from a single ended to dual ended ram all over again" cause my single ended kicks ass 🤘
 
Most guys I know with rear steer are changing from 2.5 and or 2.75 to 3" and say the difference is very noticeable. Nothing sucks worse than not being able to steer the way you want to. I'd say if you don't have any rams yet go 3" in the rear at least!

Turbo looks very close to your a pillar "dash" bar. Curious to see what you come up with there.
 
Wfoyota said:
Talk to me about how much better a 3x9 ram is over a 2.5x8? Other than length, is there really that much difference between the two to support going to the 3x9 when talking 43s with water? Please tell me something other than "it's like going from a single ended to dual ended ram all over again" cause my single ended kicks ass 🤘
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Math says the force produced by a 3" ram is 69% higher with the same pump pressure.
It also makes the steering 69% slower, but when I'm performing at such numbers, I like to take my time.

Just for the numbers alone I'd upgrade.
 
Bebop said:
Math says the force produced by a 3" ram is 69% higher with the same pump pressure.
It also makes the steering 69% slower, but when I'm performing at such numbers, I like to take my time.

Just for the numbers alone I'd upgrade.
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:lmao::lmao:
 
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