Rockwells in LOW buggies

Bigrocks4x4 · Sep 4, 2012

Re: Rockwells in LOW buggies

this buggy is nice!
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Thanks ;D

tbacon38 · Sep 4, 2012

KyTrash said:
Nobody has said anything about Little Tim Bacon's buggy. It was low on Rockwells.

Mine with rocks was 5'9"to the highest point with 22"of belly clearance to the lowest point and 3" of headroom with a helmet on, 6" of uptravel at 125" wheelbase, worked well with no clearance issues at all.

KyTrash · Sep 4, 2012

tbacon38 said:
Mine with rocks was 5'9"to the highest point with 22"of belly clearance to the lowest point and 3" of headroom with a helmet on, 6" of uptravel at 125" wheelbase, worked well with no clearance issues at all.

FM5332FF · Oct 15, 2012

lets see some more

BIGFKR · Oct 15, 2012

120" wheelbase, 23" belly, 74" top of cage, 44" boggers, 8" uptravel. It would be shorter but I'm 6'9" tall.

Bigshowdawg · Oct 15, 2012

Alot of these are low but most of them have the lowers triangulated which lowers the roll center height alot. I would like to see some 4 link calculators posted on these setups. Its easy to make one low with triangulated lowers but it works a whole lot better to have them nearly straight and the upper angled. Mine is 69 to top of cage with 22.5 belly but its been a nightmare getting 6 inches of uptravel with my uppers 11 inches from the center.

fordcontraption01 · Oct 15, 2012

Bigshowdawg said:
Alot of these are low but most of them have the lowers triangulated which lowers the roll center height alot. I would like to see some 4 link calculators posted on these setups. Its easy to make one low with triangulated lowers but it works a whole lot better to have them nearly straight and the upper angled. Mine is 69 to top of cage with 22.5 belly but its been a nightmare getting 6 inches of uptravel with my uppers 11 inches from the center.

any pics?

TBItoy · Oct 15, 2012

Re: Re: Re: Rockwells in LOW buggies

Bigshowdawg said:
Alot of these are low but most of them have the lowers triangulated which lowers the roll center height alot. I would like to see some 4 link calculators posted on these setups. Its easy to make one low with triangulated lowers but it works a whole lot better to have them nearly straight and the upper angled. Mine is 69 to top of cage with 22.5 belly but its been a nightmare getting 6 inches of uptravel with my uppers 11 inches from the center.

usually the heavy axles and tires offset a lot of the negative side effects of a really low roll center.

Bigshowdawg · Oct 17, 2012

I have a few but its not sitting on its on yet so I really can't claim it til its sittin on its own weight. Its my first buggy so that makes it worse on me. I think my roll center height is around 34 with 0 degrees of roll oversteer for the front the rear should be easier. Shock clearance will be my issuse. I'll try to post pics of what I got when i get a chance they are on the shop computer.

FM5332FF · Jan 30, 2013

Any more?

TURNEROFFROAD · Jan 30, 2013

Re: Rockwells in LOW buggies

Still a work in progress but fairly low for Rocks

WHIZARD · Jan 30, 2013

This rig is gonna be awesome. I really like the lines and it looks like it is gonna sit pretty low for the rockwells. I cannot wait to see the finished product, keep up the good work.

w · Jan 30, 2013

72" inches top of cage, 24" inches of belly clearance , 7" inches up travel

Draco · Jan 30, 2013

My favorite....

fordcontraption01 · Jan 30, 2013

w said:
72" inches top of cage, 24" inches of belly clearance , 7" inches up travel

bad looking machine

Nuts · Jan 30, 2013

A couple of spy shots of my work in progress. For comparison, the samurai has 1.5" lift and is on 30s. The buggy is at ride height with 24" under the belly and 69" to the highest tube. Gonna change the windshield tubes and already redid the propane tank mounts....

twiztedzuki · Jan 30, 2013

Draco said:
My favorite....

yeah blower buggy badass! he always wheelin single seater buggy when i see him though, guessing it bit more user friendly/practical

Draco · Jan 31, 2013

twiztedzuki said:
yeah blower buggy badass! he always wheelin single seater buggy when i see him though, guessing it bit more user friendly/practical

He had it for sale toward the end of last year. Kinda funny.....I gave the same money for a 2000 sq.ft. house, acre of land and 30x40 shop. ;D

Amazing machine....Would love to own it.