Manx Style Dune Buggy Build (Litha Mark III)

joescoolcustoms · Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:43 am Post subject:

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RangerBEH · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 4:33 pm Post subject:

Your build is really looking great. I am looking at a project with the same body and i really think the body looks much better than the manx ones. I though of doing something to make the grill look more functional. If I get one I hope it looks half as nice. Your posts gave me some great ideas.... Cant wait to see the next project! Very Happy

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ElijahTurtle · Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 1:00 pm Post subject:

I know this is an old thread, but did the PO by any chance tell you about what year he had bought the body in GA?

joescoolcustoms · Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 1:45 pm Post subject:

I bought the body from a guy in The Plains Ohio, near Athens Ohio where Ohio University is located, (Not OSU, but OU) in about 2006. It was uncut, un drilled.

That guy builds VW trykes with narrowed rear arms that are lengthened, (makes them much more stable than the 70's style) with automatic transaxles in them for handicapped Vetern's.

He had told me he was delivering a tryke to a guy in GA and spotted this body for sale, bought it to bring back home to build a buggy with. He told me he had it about 4 to 5 years. So, about 2000 to 2001 time span when he bought the body in GA.

As a side note, since David completed this buggy early fall last year, he has put over 1200 miles on it and is looking forward for weather to break to run it a lot more.
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Bad News Racing 2018 NORRA 1000 3rd in Class
Best Day Ever Racing 2022 NORRA 1000 2nd in Class and first All Female team to complete the race

Everyone is gifted. Some just do not open the package.

Looks like it was painted with a live chicken,polished with a brick and buffed with a pine cone

ElijahTurtle · Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 2:10 pm Post subject:

Thanks! I was just curious about possible manufacture year. I've got a lithia springs Mark III body too, but the dash is slightly different from this one. I've also seen another one that looks like a progression in dash design somewhere between what mine looks like & what that one looks like. I know the body I have was manufactured pre-1970 as that is when the buggy was originally built & titled in CA. Since there is very little info out there on them, it got me curious as to how much they changed it through out the production years.
I thought it was interesting that my hood was cracked in the exact same spot as his too. It's the only place on the entire body with thin fiberglass.

karu · Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 7:46 pm Post subject:

David and Joe,
Good to see that the buggy is finished, up and running. Mine is, as promised, going really slow Wink

Hope to see your buggy one of these days!!!
Upali

Hacksaw44 · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 2:55 pm Post subject:

Great looking build !!

eschmi · Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 7:38 pm Post subject:

joescoolcustoms · Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 8:00 pm Post subject:

Unless you are going for perfect, period correct, the closer the mirror is to you, the better (read safer) it will work. The further away from your eyes, the smaller the viewing area behind you. Fender mirrors are good for looks and that is about it.

Also, a mirror mounted low on the hood edge may only show you the top of the rear fender. To be useful, they need to be up high enough to see over the rear fender. That is why most modern built buggy's mount the mirror off the windshield frame.
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Bad News Racing 2018 NORRA 1000 3rd in Class
Best Day Ever Racing 2022 NORRA 1000 2nd in Class and first All Female team to complete the race

Everyone is gifted. Some just do not open the package.

Looks like it was painted with a live chicken,polished with a brick and buffed with a pine cone

eschmi · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 6:34 pm Post subject:

ah i gotcha, i was confused, it sounded like they were being mounted on the actual fenders which i thought was weird

RedBaronofRedBud · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 2:11 am Post subject:

Hacksaw44 · Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:00 am Post subject:

Wow, this is a great build log !

old jersey · Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 10:41 pm Post subject:

joescoolcustoms · Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:49 am Post subject:

David used a Tee fitting into the block and used the supplied gauge sender and the stock idiot light sender. The "G" is run to a ground, and the "S" goes to the gauge. That sender works by varying the ground strength, (resistance) for the gauge as pressure changes.
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Bad News Racing 2018 NORRA 1000 3rd in Class
Best Day Ever Racing 2022 NORRA 1000 2nd in Class and first All Female team to complete the race

Everyone is gifted. Some just do not open the package.

Looks like it was painted with a live chicken,polished with a brick and buffed with a pine cone

old jersey · Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:23 am Post subject:

joescoolcustoms · Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:03 am Post subject:

I do not have pictures of the Tee fitting. Buggy is gone, sold, and another being built.

I memory serves, it was metric thread from one of the major VW parts houses.
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Bad News Racing 2018 NORRA 1000 3rd in Class
Best Day Ever Racing 2022 NORRA 1000 2nd in Class and first All Female team to complete the race

Everyone is gifted. Some just do not open the package.

Looks like it was painted with a live chicken,polished with a brick and buffed with a pine cone

old jersey · Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:57 am Post subject:

Just trying to keep engine area neat. Is it possibly to tap the external oil filter adapter ?

joescoolcustoms · Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 10:15 am Post subject:

old jersey · Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 10:36 am Post subject:

That is what I wou like to do. Don't won't a lot of clutter to see. Plan on mounting adp up around shroud. Do you have pictures.

joescoolcustoms · Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:11 pm Post subject:

This first picture is of when I was putting it together. You can see the filter mounting. The left most line is the oil feed coming out of the oil pump and into the filter. As the oil exits the filter, it passed through a close nipple then into the female coupling that I tapped for the oil pressure sender and the fuel pump dead man switch. (the fuel pump switch is a NO, normally open, switch that closes and makes ground at 5 PSI, which completes the circuit and allows the electrical pump to operate).

After the filter, the oil wraps around under filter and into a 96 plate Mesa style oil cooler with a fan on top. As it exits the cooler on the right side by the transaxle, it hits a Tee fitting that has a Oil Temp sender so I know the temp of the oil after the external cooler. After the Tee with the temp sender, the oil 90's and runs through a thermo switch that will turn the fan on/off at 185 degrees F. Then routes back to the engine.

So, I know oil temp before it goes back into the block, (which I still have the dog house cooler in place and running a Type 181 fan shroud). With the engine installed, almost all of this is hidden.

This system has worked flawlessly for me for over 10,000 miles. Across the US and back home, then to the OBX and back home. Crossed Death Valley at 122* F and the Mohave Desert at 130* F, a off road run while in SoCal, and plenty of mud running at home in West Virginia.

Hope this helps a little.
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Bad News Racing 2018 NORRA 1000 3rd in Class
Best Day Ever Racing 2022 NORRA 1000 2nd in Class and first All Female team to complete the race

Everyone is gifted. Some just do not open the package.

Looks like it was painted with a live chicken,polished with a brick and buffed with a pine cone


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