Cobra-Chris

Sorry is this in wrong section but I had people asking me to put together a build thread on a Street Rail/Buggy I built. Unfortunately my phone decided to brick itself and I lost most of my pictures but I have a few.


Had no real plan when I started project just started working on it. Bought a pretty shitty Sand Buggy frame and was planning on just cleaning it up and having fun with it, while fixing a bunch of hacks decided to make it a street rail.

Its half a Berrien two seater chassis and seats back was cut off and reshaped to fit Honda motor and rear wheels were moved back about 15"
Front beam is a VW Ball joint, cut and lowered and has drop spindles and disc brakes
Rear is Lincoln Mark VIII hubs with custom control arms
Motor is a D Series with a Holset HX35 (@10psi)
Rear wheels are 15x10.5 Billet Specialties
Titled as Assembled Roadster

Was hoping it to weigh around 1300lbs and feared 1500 but it weighed in at 1180lbs with a full tank of fuel

Have about 1000miles on it, gets about 40mpg and at 10psi is a blast. Hoping to take it to track next week and see what it will do but not built for a drag car just a street toy.

I will update better later

Here is how its sits today..















Here is how the chassis was bought...








During build..

Caoboy

This is perfect. I've doodled up a buggy chassis with a honda motor like this a few times...someday I'll build one lol.

How did you mock up the shift linkage?

How does the front suspension work?

Cobra-Chris

Definitely worth it, just a blast to drive and compliments at every red light.

With this one weighing less then I thought, Im planning on building another one made out of Chromoly and using a K series.

Here is a quick video of a 3/4 throttle run up to 70mph, some reason video looks like its 25mph.

thermal

badass mannnn!!! I'd like to build 1 but I just dont understand how the transmission is set-up on these things man.

Cobra-Chris

It's using the stock Honda transmission

essex

so sick man.

so sad this forum section died because people didnt post other things beside honda and turbo manifold stuff.

v8killaz

whats the weight bro. nice job

KevinEF7

How the heck is it legal to drive on the street?

CODE4

He has the weight listed in the first post.

m4xwellmurd3r

its legal to register on the street as a custom built car. I see rails all the time in AZ lol

btw that's so bad ***. did you just cut the linkage and make a U bit on it to go from standard to reversed mounting?

GrantMC2

Madness! I bet thats amazing fun

Cobra-Chris

It legal registered as a "Assembled roadster "

ls joker

nice job chris. we were looking at it last car stereo one meet

welcome to the site, its malcolm. a friend of your friends

gmcuajo1

Same question: shift linkage?

rd2smoker

Im so doing this

bks84

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my neighbors gave me a sand rail buggy frame kit, and doing this was my first thought. im real curious on the shift linkage setup... I assume its still a manual?

rd2smoker

Custom motor/buggy shift linkage is as unique as the build. If you are familiar motorcycle foot peg relocation then its not that big a deal, though.

bspeed

WANT!!!!