GSXR Drift Buggy Build 2
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Part 2, Oh My!
I'm sorry it's taken me so long (insert work excuse here)
I still have so much footage to go thru, however making this video hyped me up. This is where it all comes together. I had a garage FULL of broken vehicles at the beginning of 2020, and now at least half of them are working! That alone is something to be proud of!
This video covers the initial Drift Buggy testing phase, as well as some updates on Marks buggy! This is still the early stages of COVID-19 in the US, so Mark and I only get to see each other outside or in the garage. We're able to do some independent work at his shop now thanks to a new Miller 220 welder; we each had a welder and garage bay to fabricate our custom A-Arms. The Raptor 660 A-Arms did very well, but the new chromoly heims have even more steering angle. I don't worry about breaking a joint in that component!
Mark and I FINALLY had a track day with BOTH of our GSXR 750 buggies. We performed a lot of tests on these buggy prototypes, and managed to have some fun in the meantime. It's interesting to see the difference between the swing arm/solid rear axle buggy vs the IRS buggy, more on that in the next video.
We live across the street from my parents (see barn kart videos). We share a horse barn area where my wife and I keep our 2 horses along with my parents 2 horses. By the time Mothers Day rolled around on May 10, and since we were all isolating at the farm as a family anyways, we decided it was ok to take mom for a Mothers Day buggy ride. She taught me to do snow donuts when I was young in her truck, so it was only right for me to return the favor! Don't let the screaming fool you, she had fun!
Next video I will get more technical as I tear the buggy down for paint and prepare to register it as an Off Highway Vehicle. There is a whole saga of us trying to register it as a Passenger Highway Vehicle; as many in the car community know, registering a shop built frame is a nightmare. Stay tuned for more GSXR Buggy content!
Clean build man
time for a water truck for that dust
Taco yes!! We’re going to mount a rain barrel on our tractors drag for that very purpose, it’s so bad 😆 I really need to do it!
That thing is fast! What size tubing did you use? I am building a single seat crosskart with a 600cc engine. My supplier only has Dom tube 38x2.5 and 38x2mm (1.5 inch od and 0.1, 0.078 wall). I am worried that it might be too weak.
John I share your concern with that thickness. Is it mild steel? Chromoly and the 2.5mm thickness would be ok, but I would not trust mild steel with that OD and wall. We used 1 1/2” OD 1/4” wall for the frame and 1 1/4” OD 1/4” wall for A-Arms. We used the IHRA roll cage specs as a guide, they mandate 1 5/8” tube with 1/8” wall minimum mild steel, and thinner wall for Chromoly. We compensated tube OD for a little extra wall thickness, as we only wanted to buy 2 tube bending dies to get started. Hope this helps! Can’t wait to see your creation!
How swing arm is doing? Is it holding ok?
Swing arm doing very well! I destroyed the splines at the end of my Tusk axle on the drivers side. Replaced spent rear Tusk spacer hub with OEM steel hub, added another wheel spacer to even the rear out and it’s still ripping! Posting dune trip footage soon...
How did u guys do the shifter linkage? I cant get mine to feel right
See the first build video at 13:30 (ua-cam.com/video/gUA21EH8tkk/v-deo.html), I have a couple pictures of the setup. We made our final pivot by the engine as close to the stock foot shifter as possible; matching its pivot point and throw. Then we built the necessary linkage to the driver after the engine side of the shifter was dialed in. We welded tabs to used bushing/bearing setup from previous buggy for the pivots; weld on gate hinges would work the same and are very cheap. Mark has a billet shifter on his buggy, and while it is very nice, you can see I was able make a shifter out of 1 1/4 tube, 3/8” solid rod, bolts, and some old trailer lugs as my pivots 😂 the shifter has never failed and has very little slop/play considering the materials used in fabrication 😆 hope this helps!
Watch it in action in this video @6:20