Off Roading Custom 4x4 Buggy Builders

[50BMG]

Hello everyone,
can somebody please direct me to some custom 4x4 Buggy Builders ? Thanks it's greatly appreciated.

Regards,
50bmg

 

[Thump]

Where are you located and what type of driving do you plan to do?

 

[50BMG]

I'm in the northeast corner of Missouri, I trying to build a 100% bulletproof daily driver that wouldn't be to out classed if I brought it to the following : mud truck events, truck pulling events, drag strip runs, or general off-roading (through the mud, sand, snow, and ice). I'm wanting to use : a 12 valve 6BT Cummins engine, Rockwell Axles front and rear, an automatic transmission, gear vendors transfercase, CTIS, and an Atlas II transfercase. I know that I'm asking a lot out of any one vehicle I just want it to be competitive or better with almost any factory made vehicle in the listed 'events' .

Regards,
50BMG

 

[Thump]

That's a pretty tall order, man. CTIS on an axle (and outers) which never had it, two very different transfer cases, and you want it to do well in both mud and truck pulls (which are all but the opposite types of use cases).
Weren't you and I talking about a Samurai or similar chassis previously?
Mud: requires wheel speed to keep the tires cleaned out. Add in a bit of either tall, skinny wheel/tire to reach the bottom or light weight with wide flotation for staying on top.
Truck pulls: torque to get the heavy load moving with weight to keep it planted (well, I assume this based on watching and understanding the physics of getting loads moving... have never built a truck pull rig outside of Top Truck Challenge, which I don't consider that to count)
The Rockwells are behemoth axles to contend with in every facet of their existence. To make CTIS work, the knuckles and wheel mounting setup will have to be fully custom fabricated (I honestly don't know of an application of Rockwell which ever had the bearing and passage setup for central air).
Fitting those two transfer cases requires a long vehicle to package and manage reasonable driveline angles. You'd likely do just as well with a single, 4 speed Atlas or 203/205 doubler setup.
If you want to be competitive or do better than any factory made vehicle, you're going way overkill and stupid high, one-off custom costs. You could as easily accomplish this with a short gear in some Dana 60 front and 80 rear axles behind that Cummins. I say short gears due to needing wheel speed. The low Rev limit of te 6BT will need some help, possibly even an underdrive unit.
Having built all sorts of different rigs, I'm not going to say it can't be done. I'll just say the use cases aren't complementary, especially to keep this thing as a daily driver, too.
I looked in my contacts for someone in your area, but don't have anyone. Doesn't mean there aren't any, I just don't have a name/number for ya.

 

[50BMG]

Thanks,
the most important thing out of everything that I've said is to make a 100% bulletproof daily driver. An automatic transmission is necessary, I would prefer to use a Cummins engine if at all possible the reason I wanted to use a gearvendors system is to improve the mpg of the vehicle. And yes I'd like to use a Suzuki Samurai size vehicle for easier parking. I just thought that grafting on Suzuki Samurai panels, and doors on a tube buggy would make the vehicle easier to be street legal certified.

Regards,
50BMG

 

[phantomusa]

Sounds like a job for diesel brothers in Utah do a Google search

 

[50BMG]

Yeah phantomusa, you're probably right they could definitely do it. Except they like to make BIG vehicles, that's not really the direction I'm wanting to go in. I'm wanting to put the most power in the smallest possible vehicle/platform 20lbs of sugar in a 5lb sack. Kinda like Carrol Shelby liked to do (Shelby Cobra).

Regards,
50BMG