TheSamba.com :: View topic - New Mid-travel Manx Body & Chassis

Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:23 am

Quote: Does 4900.00 include the body?If that is just the rollcage tat is ridiculous expensive.
The body is not in that price. The body only cost is $2200.00
We are not selling a roll cage. we are selling a complet chassis which has the inside cage, outer rear cage for the motor, the cage supports that need to welded to the torsion tube and frame horns that will tie the inner cage and the rear cage together and the price includes the front tube chassis that has a 6" wider beam built into it. You will have to cut off the front frame horn and weld in a plate that is supplied with the kit. The 4 sections will all come together to make a tube chassis car. The only reason we used the stock pan is to make it street legal. We also tried to make this chassis kit a 100% bolt-on to your pan but we could not get the strength we wanted, so there are some pieces that you will need to weld on.

Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:21 am

Any picks of the j arm set up, and what type breaks are you using and what sterring set up to plan to use with the j amr set up.
Baja
ben

Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:34 pm

Baja Ben; we are still working on that set up and should have it done in the next couple of weeks, I'll post some pic's of it as well as prices. as for the brakes I'm uesing the new Pro X Series with 3000M Micro stubs in the rears and Pro X Series for Combo spindle in the front. Both brakes use Wilwood calpers.

Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:54 pm

Here's some progress pictures of the rear suspension.

This one is at ride height.

This is at full compression.

and this is at full droop. I'm getting 17" of travel with the 5x5 arms and 14" 2.0 Fox shocks. I should have the front done in the next couple of weeks so I can get the car on the ground as a roller. [-o<

Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:00 pm

So, just what exactly would your customers get for the $4900.00?

Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:23 pm

Fort Irwin; A couple post back Ilisted what is in the chassis kit. I've post pic's of only the inner cage and rear cage but I should have the front pic's posted in a week or two. then you should see ALL the components of the kit.

Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:31 am

Thats a really high price for what you are offering. You can buy a cro moly sandrail chassis(more tubing than you are offering), with front a arms and spindles, and rear trailing arms for almost 1000.00 less.

Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:50 am

Quote: You can buy a cro moly sandrail chassis(more tubing than you are offering), with front a arms and spindles, and rear trailing arms for almost 1000.00 less
Tubrolark; I'm not building a sandrail chassis. I'm building a dual sport that will be street legal and when I'm done with the chassis it will have more D.O.M. tubing then a sandrail. I sell other chassis that are less money and have less quality then the chassis were building for this Manx. I will have some pic's in the next couple of weeks of the whole chassis put together with the body off and every can see what the chassis is.

Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:42 pm

you've got good prices in you ad on page 25 of the new hot vw magazine. your buggy looks damn good too.

do you take payments? :lol:

Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:16 pm

those buggys are looking really nice man

i have a quasi-offtopic question-in the green buggy whats the deal on the rear seat? do you sell those?

thanks

Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:43 pm

Yes we do, they are PRP seats.

Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:24 pm

hey dan nice build!i'm looking for a set of rims. are those cms? $?

rex

Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:27 am

no, there BTR racing wheels.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=270914

Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:26 pm

Here's a couple of new pictures of some of the progress over the last week.

Rear cage off with 5x5 arms

Start of front suspension

Tack up Tweed beam

Front seat mounts for PRP seats

Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:33 pm

Here's some more progress pic's :D

Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:50 pm

dansparts wrote: no, there BTR racing wheels.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=270914

They are very nice looking wheels.
Do they come with the centre caps for that price?
What size wheel & tyre combo are you running on the green buggy and the blue buggy.

Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:07 am

UK Billy; The rims do not come with center caps. The pic's of the rims on the green manx show the cover of the micro stub axle brakes, so it looks like the rims have center caps.

Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:11 am

Here's more progress pic's

Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:11 am

is your tranny offset to the right?

Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:57 am

BowlRider wrote: is your tranny offset to the right?
091 trans is built offset at the bellhousing. skidmark's car: