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san diego baja
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| Any pictures of how you ran your coolant lines ? I'm putting a water cooled in mine with the radiator up front but I can't decide how I want to plumb it |
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sovereignsamba
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| Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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just spent 45 min reading this whole thread. awsome  |
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KrAzY-BaJa
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Location: Sacramento CA.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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| shane red wrote: |
| just spent 45 min reading this whole thread. awsome |
haha its alot to take in for sure!
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| Any pictures of how you ran your coolant lines ? I'm putting a water cooled in mine with the radiator up front but I can't decide how I want to plumb it |
its been a while not sure it it helps but heres a few.
as of like 2 months ago this is where this cars at and on that day on the drive home i have come upon a few little things that are worn and tired that now have it sitting in the corner of are wearhouse under a tarp waiting for an intire rebulid of chassis and suspension 
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KrAzY-BaJa
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well I have had this idea floating around for a few weeks now and have decided what the hell lets do it! so i cut off a little bitty thing on a 2011 ford ranger... bajas home, cleaned up the garage and its reconstruction time!
a short list im doing while leaving out my main plan 
-bearings/hubs rear
-bigger breaks front and rear
-another set of Foa 2.0 4" bumpstops
-091 trans
-powersteering
-and finally some coilovers in rear 
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KrAzY-BaJa
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got a lot done these few days! 
Front 2 piston vented rotors
Power steering pump mounted
Steering linkage
Cage..
waiting on
Bumpstops
4piston rear brakes/hubs
bearings.
Brake lines
pulling the engine soon.
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KrAzY-BaJa
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| Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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got the 091 installed with ,new bearings, brakes ,reinforcements.
finish up the brakes tomorrow along with the bumper hopefully.
awaiting coilovers and arms
friday night eye Candy time 
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KrAzY-BaJa
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| Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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lots and lots done radiators mounted, shock mounts,axles cv,s,and steering. coilovers arrived ordering springs this week and should be doing some testing soon
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KrAzY-BaJa
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well heres the rebuild/transformation !
about done  final gussets ect. and some paint
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oukno
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Jeff show us more of your ranger front end that you have adapted to the 550.
And when are you gonna test it, and if it is at Prairie City let me know I live about 10 minutes from there now.
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KrAzY-BaJa
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| oukno wrote: |
Jeff show us more of your ranger front end that you have adapted to the 550.
And when are you gonna test it, and if it is at Prairie City let me know I live about 10 minutes from there now. |
Nooo its a secret!  pretty muchreally easy when its fully caged.
im never building a car with a beam everagain
this sunday if I get it all done I plan on heading out to prairie city for some testing!
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KrAzY-BaJa
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HERC
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I dig this fuckin Baja.
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BUGGUTZ
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| Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Just when I was thinking this was an ambitious project, now this! I'm in aww. KRAZY indeed. |
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vwracin2win
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| Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Just curious. That front end looks heavy as hell. How much heavier is it compared to the beam? Also did you gain any travel over the beam? Very cool and different. Never seen anything close to it nice job. |
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KrAzY-BaJa
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| vwracin2win wrote: |
| Just curious. That front end looks heavy as hell. How much heavier is it compared to the beam? Also did you gain any travel over the beam? Very cool and different. Never seen anything close to it nice job. |
some parts weigh less and some are heavier, it will be more for sure. the arms and spindles are the heaviest. also with huge brakes ect.
I have drove it already in the dirt and just with powersteering alone I can go like 3x faster. and with the geometry that you practically cant even compare to a longtravel linkpin it drives perfectly straight and way easier to drive!
travel I had before was about 16". its about 13-15" ? not sure on exact yet, ill know by thisweekend. If I made my own tierods with heims I could go more. also with the hydraulic bumpstops now on the front the less travel wont be too much of a problem
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KrAzY-BaJa
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oukno
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Why didn't I check in sooner i would of met you there. Hopefully one of the future trips. Front looks so stout, got my wondering about my winter project.
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Hondub
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KrAzY-BaJa
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| Just curious but why would you drop the travel when switching to A-arms compared to a beam? |
just the geometry and power steering that aarms offer is already way better also easier to work on/ get parts.. longer arms with linkpin running the amount of travel i Had has way to much upkeep to maintain and rebuilding getting too expensive. just a pain all around, also it seemed even after a rebuild a good week trip I would start getting play in linkpins/kinpin bearings ect. that had notice able movement if you wiggled the tire in the air.
also, to put disc brakes, power steering and rebuild the combo spindles on the front would cost close to this whole a arm setup
If i made my own hiem joint tire rods i could match or pass 16"
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1fastbigguy
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| Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Krazy,
Your car is pretty dang cool! I like the way you are thinking outside the box! Keep up the good work and I look forward to watching this thing evolve!
My Sons build
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good testing today
