UPDATE: The build was originally intended to be a 4800 Solid Axle car, this has since changed. The build changes direction to IFS on page 3.
I'm too excited right now so figured I would start a (perhaps) premature build thread so I can lay out my thoughts. I've been looking at the Rock Lizard chassis's out of SLC and they are super cheap and light weight and tiny, which got me thinking: I have a wrecked 1st gen tacoma that NO ONE will buy (even for $400), and I have a ton of racecar parts from my 4500 Land Cruiser build last year.... so essentially, with the exception of a good front axle, I have a full drivetrain, shocks, fuel system, cooling system, etc. So that's kind of $1500 for an already welded chassis plus a front axle and that's a cheap and sick little buggy.... Here are some pics from FaBn801 who makes the Rock Lizards:
Now my initial thought was just do a fun little crawler, maybe I could even build it before KOH so I have something fun to take down there... but then I talked to my dad and he formally put it in my mind that if I'm building a tube buggy why not build it to race? And that's where the POSSIBLE idea of racing it in 4800 came along.
So regardless what happens, I'm pretty set on getting one of them since the prices go up at the beginning of the year. I even went ahead and cleared out a section of the shop and stripped the parts off the 80 (will either chop up or scrap that chassis most likely) and started laying everything out in preparation for when I actually buy the chassis.
Good bye 4508? :'(
I'm too excited right now so figured I would start a (perhaps) premature build thread so I can lay out my thoughts. I've been looking at the Rock Lizard chassis's out of SLC and they are super cheap and light weight and tiny, which got me thinking: I have a wrecked 1st gen tacoma that NO ONE will buy (even for $400), and I have a ton of racecar parts from my 4500 Land Cruiser build last year.... so essentially, with the exception of a good front axle, I have a full drivetrain, shocks, fuel system, cooling system, etc. So that's kind of $1500 for an already welded chassis plus a front axle and that's a cheap and sick little buggy.... Here are some pics from FaBn801 who makes the Rock Lizards:
Now my initial thought was just do a fun little crawler, maybe I could even build it before KOH so I have something fun to take down there... but then I talked to my dad and he formally put it in my mind that if I'm building a tube buggy why not build it to race? And that's where the POSSIBLE idea of racing it in 4800 came along.
So regardless what happens, I'm pretty set on getting one of them since the prices go up at the beginning of the year. I even went ahead and cleared out a section of the shop and stripped the parts off the 80 (will either chop up or scrap that chassis most likely) and started laying everything out in preparation for when I actually buy the chassis.
Good bye 4508? :'(
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