Help a Fellow Off-roader out

winchin73blazinbaja · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 4:14 pm Post subject: Help a Fellow Off-roader out

in the duration of my baja being off in someone elses garage getting a bunch of stuff done to it (way outside of my comfort zone as I hate it when people touch my cars). I have become a bit anxious and volkslonely. If everyone could so kindly post pictures of crazy stuff that you are all doing with your off road machines.

no1clyde · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 5:38 pm Post subject:

I just got back from a 4 day 650 mile trail ride camp out in Idaho. It was a blast, we had 2 Baja bugs 2 rail buggies and 1 utv. The complete story is on Shoptalk forum under STF GTG eastern Idaho adventure in the off road section if you want to read it. BTW the ride part starts on page 29, it is a long thread. There are some awesome pics too.

Ed

Vanapplebomb · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 5:59 pm Post subject:

Most of these pictures also appear in my build thread, but here are some home brew modifications to stock parts that I am making for my woods buggy. Things like drilling/tapping 3 bolt trailing arms for dual spring plates, making cardboard templates and gusseting them, cutting and turning the front beam, moving the bump stops, extending shock towers...you get the idea.

Amazing what can be done with nothing more than an angle grinder with some cut off wheels and a 140A, 115v welder.

Maybe this will give you a little inspiration for your next modifications Wink

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Vanapplebomb · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:05 pm Post subject:

Also, you wanted crazy, well here is what some crazy Yoopers built. Figured you would enjoy this bananas 40hp vw powered contraption!

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AZ-BUG · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:44 pm Post subject:

Nice work on both the trailing arms and beam!

winchin73blazinbaja · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 7:05 pm Post subject:

Is that at da toppers tourist trap? If so I must have missed that one

winchin73blazinbaja · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 7:06 pm Post subject:

And yes I follow your build thread meticulously Van Smile

your work is too notch.

Vanapplebomb · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 7:12 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the complements.

Hahaha, yeah, it is at Da Yoopers Tourist Trap. What a classic, hu? I have a few more closer up pictures of that rig.

They also have this buggy sitting outside. I got i picture before and after they painted it. 36hp GRB.

Gota love da UP, ehy?
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winchin73blazinbaja · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 7:18 pm Post subject:

Yes I love it up there I have only a small handful of waterfalls to go climb up there still I believe I have scaled or touched (the crazy big ones) about 20 of them also amazing options for offroading Smile

and beautiful scenery!

Vanapplebomb · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 8:37 pm Post subject:

Been to the Keweenaw peninsula? Douglas Houghton falls is like 98 feet or so. Not much to see in the fall or sumer, but spring run off is spectacular! Hungarian falls is good too. I love cliff jumping near L'anse about a half mile up stream from a road side park. 39 foot drop if you like jumping. Personally I am attracted to the underground and copper. Oooo, shiny! Hahaha.

There are a lot of amazing trails to ride in the UP. Lots of good logging and mining trails as well as some great ORV trails. Some of them you need an ORV sticker for, but that isn't such a big deal to get. Lots of rocky hard pack and dirt if you are into that sort of thing. Good woods buggy material. The drive from Copper Harbor to the tip of the peninsula is a great drive. Starts off as a nice dirt road, but by the end it is pretty gnarly. Great stuff.

Here is something more for you to think about while you are waiting for you car in the shop.

Reasons why I like T4 engines over bug engines Very Happy

5xM12 bolt on flywheel

Bigger main bearings in all dimensions. The 1, 2, and 3 journals are 60mm in diameter! 27mm wide on the thrust too.

Rods are massive, rod bearings are wider, and piston pins are larger in diameter and substantially thicker

Blower is not belt driven. Flows lots of air too.

Lifters are removable and installable with the case halves bolted together. Lifter bores are 24mm vs the bugs little 19mm -> less lifter bore wear.

Piston pins are retained by a real circlip, not those dingus wires that bug engines have.

Big bore from the factory. 1700 = 90mm pistons, 1800 = 93mm, 2.0 = 94mm. These are 1800 pistons. Big.

Big block from the factory. Beastly die-cast aluminum silicon alloy case uses 6 through bolts to clamp the mains instead of those dingus studs the bug engines have. Cylinder spacing is increased so that substantially larger cooling fins can be used relative to similar oversized aftermarket bug cylinders which have almost no fins between the cylinders in comparison!!

Larger heads with bigger valves and larger ports that flow better than factory bug engines. Larger cooling surface area and exhaust ports that exit below the engine help the heads shed heat more efficiently than bug heads.

Individual rocker shafts are simpler than the bugs. It does away with all those dangus shims and washers. Easy to service and rebuild.

Pushrod tubes instal through the head. No need to pull the heads to replace pushrod tube seals. Also makes it easy to pull the lifters to check for wear.

Larger oil coolers with two additional passes. Bug on left, T4 oil coolers on the right.

A high quality factory windage tray complete with seals was included in many of the T4 engines. Nothing like the cheesy aftermarket slip in bug windage trays.

Lots of perimeter nuts, bolts, and studs to keep a tight seal between the case halves. 19 to be exact! They are all over the place. 26 bolts in total hold the case halves together when you count the main bearing trough bolts.

Factory oil seal on the blower/pulley end of the crank

You could get one with an oil temp sensor

Factory oil filter

Uhhu...

I could go on and ON about how T4 engines are better constructed and simpler to work on (yes, you read that right, several construction features make servicing and rebuilding simpler) than bug engines, but I will spare you the lecture Laughing

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winchin73blazinbaja · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 3:16 am Post subject:

Thus my motor swap Smile

haha but not to a type 4 to water cooled as you know.

ORANGECRUSHer · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 4:45 am Post subject:

Are we supposed to feel sorry for you?! lol
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winchin73blazinbaja · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 5:57 am Post subject:

no just like getting updates from everyne.

HERC · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 6:56 am Post subject:

These came out breasts, holmes. Cool

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Vanapplebomb · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 4:22 pm Post subject:

Thanks! You can do the same with nothing more than a scissors, tape, cardboard, an angle grinder, a welder, and some scrap 3x1/8in and 3x1/4in bar stock. Wink

Last Friday I brought a pile of T4 stuff down to my semi-local engine machine shop. I'm pretty pumped to hear back from North Central Engine sometime in the next couple of weeks. I forgot to give them my valve keepers, retainers, and springs for the valve job. Oh, also forgot to give him the intake valves to regrind. D'oh! I'll have to drop those off tomorrow. Looking forward to a fresh valve job with new guides and single piece stainless exhaust valves from SI. I'm pretty stoked!
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winchin73blazinbaja · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 6:57 pm Post subject:

I will have my bug back next weekend if all goes well! Then I have about a week of fab and wiring ahead of me.

Vanapplebomb · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 7:49 pm Post subject:

Excellent! What's in the works for the fab work?
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KrAzY-BaJa · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 8:13 pm Post subject: Re: Help a Fellow Off-roader out

winchin73blazinbaja · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:33 am Post subject:

haha! sweet! i will check out the video once i get home from work as youtube is blocked on the computers.

HERC · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:53 am Post subject:

That's funny shit Jeff, Cool

Watching you land and seeing you with your ball cap on with no fucking doors is priceless.
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