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Rico Racing
Приєднався 11 лют 2022
Baja Bug Build
This video is a little bit bittersweet for me. My dream baja bug is finally finished, but it also marks the end of the original Rico Racing build. This car has been with me for almost 6 years now, and has been my passion project since I first bought it back in 2019. Thanks for all of the support, and thank you for the subscribers! It is amazing that the channel now has over 870 subscribers! Thanks!
Rico Racing.
Rico Racing.
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Відео
Driving up a Mountain in the Class 11 Baja Bug | Rock Crawling and Offroading
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Offroading on woods trails in Montana! Rock Crawling in the Class 11 Baja Bug! Rico Racing.
How To Convert a Swing Axle Baja Bug to IRS Rear Suspension
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Finishing off the IRS Conversion series with a full length Tutorial Video! Rico Racing.
Driving My Baja Bug to my High School Graduation
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Driving My Baja Bug to my High School Graduation
RICO ABSOLUTELY RIPS! FIRST DRIVE in the BAJA BUG
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This video is part 2 of custom lengthening our CV axles, then taking it out for its first drive! Rico Racing.
LENGTHENING BAJA BUG AXLES | Pt1
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This is definitely not the correct way to do this… but here goes nothing! Rico Racing. DISCLAIMER: this is not the correct way to lengthen axles
Painting my Mk3 Vw Cabrio
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Follow along as I paint my mk3 cabrio for less than $100. Rico Racing.
Starting the ‘62 Bug for the first time in many years
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Starting the ‘62 Bug for the first time in many years
How to build CUSTOM SHIFT LINKAGE for a BAJA BUG | IRS CONVERSION ep6
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How to build CUSTOM SHIFT LINKAGE for a BAJA BUG | IRS CONVERSION ep6
Rotors and Calipers Replacement mk3 Vw Golf/Cabrio
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Rotors and Calipers Replacement mk3 Vw Golf/Cabrio
How to Replace Rear Shocks mk3 Vw Golf/Cabrio
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How to Replace Rear Shocks mk3 Vw Golf/Cabrio
How to Polish Single Stage Paint | Vw Restoration ep8
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How to Polish Single Stage Paint | Vw Restoration ep8
The Baja Bug gets Fired Up! Fresh Engine for Rico!
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The Baja Bug gets Fired Up! Fresh Engine for Rico!
How to put a Vw Bus Transmission in a Bug! | IRS Conversion ep 5
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How to put a Vw Bus Transmission in a Bug! | IRS Conversion ep 5
How to Change the Oil on a Classic Aircooled VW Beetle
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How to Change the Oil on a Classic Aircooled VW Beetle
the BAJA BUG gets COILOVERS | IRS conversion ep 4
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the BAJA BUG gets COILOVERS | IRS conversion ep 4
the BAJA BUG gets MASSIVE TRAILING ARMS | IRS Conversion ep 3
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the BAJA BUG gets MASSIVE TRAILING ARMS | IRS Conversion ep 3
The BAJA BUG gets WIDENED | 6 inch wider beam
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The BAJA BUG gets WIDENED | 6 inch wider beam
Great build !! I run a 68 with a turbo 2.3l ford old school . Just started coil overs set up on mine . Keep it up 👍
Thanks for watching! sounds like a cool bug!
Looks like it really rips now. Very cool man! Enjoyed the progression
thanks for watching!
Forever? That's a gutsy claim!
well the issue with this car is that the chassis is really not the best design and is very heavy, and if i wanted to make it better i would have to start over anyways, so i might as well build a new one!
@ricoracing1646 That makes sense. Loved seeing the build like this
I know it's an old video but what main jet did it have in it? I took apart 2 and one had a 120 the other had a 130.
to be honest i am not quite sure… i didnt know end up using the carb after I made the video… the video itself was mostly just made for a highschool video presentation project, lol
Awesome video!
Thanks!
Congrats kid
thank you!
Dude you got a clean class 11 🤙🏼. You will always have someone talking sh!t. FT
🤙
Good job
thanks!
That rough trail looks like a lot of driveways in the country in Alabama. I've gone down roads rougher than that in an 06 Altima. Seriously.
nissan altima for the win bro
I have a 68 Baja and drive it in the mountains all over Colorado. I have a lever I made for pivoting the front end by myself and it works wonderfully. I made it from a piece of one Inch square tubing and a little piece of 3/4" square tubing and a little square of 1/4" sheet steel for the foot. I cut a 6' , 1" square tubing in half. So two 3' sections. And I welded the 3/4" piece inside one end of the 1" with a couple shims, and I welded the foot on the other end. And I welded a little step about half way up the piece with the foot from a 6" piece of 1" square tubing with a reinforced gusset. Then when I need to pivot, I put the two 3' pieces together and set at an angle below the front bumper and push forward like 90 degrees and as I'm pushing, it raises the front and moves the car over a couple feet. Then I separated the pivot tool and stash it in the frunk
wow thats quite genius! we might have to make one for the bug… thanks for the idea!
Here in Brazil this car is called Fusca and is much loved.
the brazil vw scene is very awesome
why not drive the bug to the mountain? don't blame the equipment for you lack of skill
we trailered the car to the mountains because if we would have broken it while offroading we wouldn’t want to be stranded.
@@ricoracing1646Probably not a wise idea to go out like this with just one vehicle.
Nice bug n you got plenty of exercise running n filming
thanks! yes i had a great time filming but definitely burned some calories lol
what size are the new tires?
195/60/r15
Install a winch, and you won't have to muscle it around .I'm putting one on my 59 ... Capable of quickly going on front or back at will
good idea!
What class were you racing that in ?
it would have been a class 5 1600 legal car but wouldn’t have been very competitive. we were racing with Y.O.R.R. so we were just in the 1600 class.
Awsome 💯 nice build !
Thank you! Cheers!
What is the inner fender made of? It looks like you were using a heat gun to melt them.
its sheetmetal, the heat gun was just to heat the material so that I could bend it easier. you could also use a torch
@@ricoracing1646 Did the heat gun actually get the steel hot enough to make a difference?
yes it did, but its also a very powerful heat gun. I often use it to pound dents out and bend sheetmetal. Its much easier to use than a torch but more expensive.
I’m happy to see young men like yourself experimenting and learning fabrication. You will learn quickly what works and what doesn’t. I like how you bent the cut edges over.
thanks! the baja community is awesome and i have gotten so much information on how to do things from all my racing and building mentors!
If you need any advice my family use to run all kinds of buggy races. Now they just rip down trails in them
thank you very much!
No hay ,mejor alegría que escuchar ese sonido...
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A banger of a Baja. Congratulations!
thanks!
Heck yeah 😎 🙌🏽 congratulations
thanks!
Now it begins! Just don't F@#k it up!
haha i will try not to!
Congrats man !...you're the same age as my little brother
awesome! get him into baja bugs!!
@@ricoracing1646 I got a sand rail that I'm trying to get running. Maybe then he will be into them 😂
Good job!!! Congratulations 🎊🎈🎉
thank you!!
Good job!!! Congratulations 🎊🎈🎉
Thank you!!
Good job!!! Congratulations 🎈🎊🎉
Thank you!!
Holy crap, I thought you were older. Good work son🎉
thank you!
Same 😂
Great job! I'm really impressed with! What paint did you use?
its ACE hardware brand blue and white enamel, the whole paint job cost less than $100
Woah !
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This may be the dumbest modification i have ever seen. Those axles are solid core for a reason. This are going to twist or even shear off. Im all for jank repairs, but this just seems not well thought out.
thanks for the advice!
Good luck man. Looks like you guys enjoy experiments. Looks like yall are having fun
It's worth a try, but I don't predict success....but that's likely to be a learning experience.
probably lol
I hope this works cuz if it does I’ll be doing mine.
I’m all for experimenting and exploring new ideas. Sometimes simple works, sometimes it doesn’t. Me personally am not so sure about this one. Low torque engine helps. The wire wheel spinning way above the rated speed scares me. Be careful fellas. I’ll be following along and please share lessons learned as well.
my buddy actually was the one who pointed the wire wheel speed limit out to me… my fault, bought the wrong one, always make sure to read labels before buying stuff! thanks for the support!
That Bug Sounds Awesome, Badass.👍💪👏👏👏
thank you very much!!
Yes! Thank you
thanks for watching!
Make sure to relocate that plastic filter out of the engine bay. Otherwise you are taking a chance on an engine fire.
good to know thanks
Oops
yeahhh… im not the sharpest tool in the shed
@@ricoracing1646 we all have done it. 😀
Duratec? Was the challenge to use one of the worst engines ever created? lol. We gonna swap it with a 2.4 Chrysler Tigershark next?
how about the iron duke lol
Fuel lines break high volume pump = lots of fire
🔥 ⛽️
Oh it's glorious I just watched a guy named Craig. From 909speedshop just build a a pretty sick baja
i actually got to meet Craig at the mint 400 this year and see that baja bug in person, very cool car!
@@ricoracing1646 dude that's so cool Craig is an awesome guy!!! 👌
Much rather be on a dirt 🏍
🚗 >🏍️
Design is correct..myself I would have chosen tube instead of pipe...and would use tubing bender...I'm currently doing exactly that 1.50 × .110 wall ERW Tube
yeah im not sure how long the old shift linkage material will last but next time i will definitely use something thicker… so far it seems pretty solid though!
Follow me we are building the same car
I like your baja!
@@ricoracing1646 yours is sick too.
Super cool. I want to build one. Thank you for showing how you did this. Anything else to reinforce areas ? What shocks do you use?
If you arent planning to race or do any kind of crazy abusive offroading then you dont need to reinforce the suspension… for this car we added a 4 point roll bar for safety and overall chassis rigidity. For shocks, we used stock length KYB shocks. if you arent going to lift the car more than 2 or 3 inches the stock shocks should be long enough. everything we did to the suspension on this car was completely free and just required about a weeks worth of work.
Notice the rear springs look a little low. Might try running them up a little. IMHO
lol nah scrapin the ground builds character
😬😳🫣
i drove it like that too!! 😬
I would have just polished it and not wet sanded it. looks worse than before in my opinion.
i would have liked to leave it as it was but unfortunately the orange peel was so bad that something had to be done!
@@ricoracing1646 maybe a finer grit sandpaper with lots of water and hand sanded.
thank you for the tips!
@@ricoracing1646 sweet bug!!
P r o m o s m 💔
someone needs to explain what “promsm” means 😂
Lookin like a pretty sweet little bubblebee.
thanks!
What's up man! Love the channel, did your bug start off with a swing axle rear end and you did the entire swap over to the IRS from scratch? Seems like that's what you've done but figure I'd ask because Im wanting to do the same
My bug did start off as a swing axle! we raced it like that for a couple years but there really isn’t that much you can do to improve suspension travel on a swing axle car, so we decided to swap for IRS. I bought some weld on mounts from Pacific Customs. heres a video explaining everything we did to mount our arms: ua-cam.com/video/rbRbvICS7S4/v-deo.htmlsi=j6TtrozC0sCvy7qJ
Thanks for all the feedback it's already helped me a ton on my build and your videos help tons too as you explain and show how u do it! Thanks again
Well you certainly had plenty of room for the job...looks good
thanks!