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larryvance66
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Don't do this!
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Or you'll have this!
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But we still drove away!
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dirtkeeper
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i like that
"one more jump..you'll be good"  |
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shred625
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That is why I run solid mount with a midmount instead of the nosecone.
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larryvance66
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:45 pm Post subject: . |
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Dirtkeep= We jumped it a nother 1/2 dozen times like that! 
Shred= My car has solid mounts also. The only way to go. This is just a parts car I am trying to have some fun with before I take it apart and scrap the rusted out tub. It's a Superbeetele. 
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Just the good ol boys
Never meaning no harm
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joescoolcustoms
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Don't ever use a Super Beetle for a Baja, they will not stand the off roading, they are week.
NOT!
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larryvance66
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Joe, That's why wer're trashing it! Also an experiment to see just how weak the strut towers on this thing really are. We did not brace anything. We literally cut the body and bolted up my 31's and 1835 and off we went! Here are some still shots for the guys with slow download speeds. Did I mention we ran it up a bank and rolled it the night before. If you look close you can see the dents in the roof!
Stay tuned for more!
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tanner_122
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best use of a super yet 
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XLR8
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you managed that with a stock trans and suspension? cool 
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larryvance66
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Cool yes, but the landings are VERY hard. Nothing I would do to a car I cared about.
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| Cool yes, but the landings are VERY hard. Nothing I would do to a car I cared about. |
true, but goes to show the toughness of even a superbug 
i'm guessing you pulled the rubber mounts in half causing the tranny to fall out of the cradle?
it's interesting really, everyone has told me that supers are weak, i never argued the point, however, ive never seen broken front struts and beams.
i used to trailbash my autostick super before i got a std.
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larryvance66
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Oh we ripped the mounts sure enough. We are going to weld em solid and keep :2gunfire: till we break something significant. I am dying to see what the weak link is going to turn out to be.
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JDub113
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just make sure yur ol super seat brackets are holding up!
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XLR8
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with most of the weight over the rear end i'd say you'd have to get a pretty hefty frontal impact to bend/break them front arms. i race RC cars and you only damage front A arms if you put an impact on them in a direction that they DON'T pivot. (so if you were to expose the front arms in the bug, you'd have to hit a wall on one corner to break that arm)
but we can talk about theory till the cows come home
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carlos_magnum
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| The landings are hard though I think you guys had fun. |
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dirtkeeper
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:23 am Post subject: |
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with most of the weight over the rear end i'd say you'd have to get a pretty hefty frontal impact to bend/break them front arms. i race RC cars and you only damage front A arms if you put an impact on them in a direction that they DON'T pivot. (so if you were to expose the front arms in the bug, you'd have to hit a wall on one corner to break that arm)
but we can talk about theory till the cows come home |
i think XLR8 is suggesting that you need to attempt to break the front end next |
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XLR8
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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| dirtkeeper wrote: |
| i think XLR8 is suggesting that you need to attempt to break the front end next |
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