Chasis or parts?

1tfrot · Feb 1, 2015

http://www.mandmoffroad.com/id68.html

pholmann · Feb 1, 2015

Hell some other asshole would just undo it. :rolf:

Beerj · Feb 1, 2015

1tfrot said:
http://www.mandmoffroad.com/id68.html

That's what I'm talking about. It would cost me 6k and 6 months to build that. :****: But if I had to pick 1 builder who so far has not built anything I didn't like, it would probably be angryfab.

Beerj · Feb 1, 2015

pholmann said:
Hell some other asshole would just undo it.

Ha! Yeah, the rep system seems a little out of whack right now. Reminds me of playing paintball with buddies, you're not supposed to shoot guys on your own team but when the opportunity presents itself, how can you not?

Eddyj · Feb 2, 2015

I had a perfectly good one ton jeep. Then picked up a used chassis figured I would swap everything over. Problem that I ran into was chassis was very generic so a lot of stuff didn't fit exactly. So I'm rebuilding around my parts. It's kind of hard to build a chassis unless you have all of your parts.

smurfy90 · Feb 2, 2015

rednecklights said:
I'm convinced the way to go is buy Someone's ugly jeep/truggy with good parts at a steal. Then buy/build a chassis from it.

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Done this and tripled my $$$$$$$$$ a few time.

Beerj · Feb 2, 2015

Is that profit or cost?

Beerj · Feb 2, 2015

Well now that i know that, i think its safe to assume all those $ signs actually do mean 100's of millions. I'm in the wrong business.

smurfy90 · Feb 2, 2015

rednecklights said:
Profit

Richardson is an old Jewish family name. He can rub 2 nickels together and come out with a quarter

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I growed out of the good luck!

rocfun · Feb 2, 2015

rednecklights said:
I'm convinced the way to go is buy Someone's ugly jeep/truggy with good parts at a steal. Then buy/build a chassis from it.

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Definitely a good way to go, I've polished a few turds and they turned out pretty good. There is money to be made or a cheaper way in some circumstances to get what you want

Beerj · Feb 2, 2015

Most are saying chasis first. Maybe I'll get the chasis and then try to source a turd. There seems to be more turds than bare chasis around.

wannabe · Feb 2, 2015

rednecklights said:
I'm convinced the way to go is buy Someone's ugly jeep/truggy with good parts at a steal. Then buy/build a chassis from it.

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THIS. I've seen some damn impressive parts list sell for cheap because the chassis looked like ****.

kushKrawlin · Feb 3, 2015

Hell yes it's the way to go. And less you have plenty of money and don't mind a long project, and no riding .. I bought my hunk of ****, what's a jeep with a good drivetrain.. With the exception of a few things I've done, i've always had my **** where I could put it together in one day and be riding. Then you can upgrade little at a time and have some parts to sell and recoop a lil money back. Can imagine looking at a project and a bunch of parts for a year or so before completing. **** on that. I'm convinced 100% the only way to do the other way is to have a rig to wheel while you can work on the other one. But Don't think that will happen for m for a wile. I would assume most people do what I have done and get dam near complete then find a chassis and swap over. That would be my choice.

Beerj · Feb 3, 2015

I'm fortunate enough to have a pretty capable yj to wheel in the meantime. That's half the reason I didn't just build that up any more. Gives me something to wheel for now and i also realized that I probably wouldn't reuse much other than maybe a 3' section of the frame and the seats. No sense in chopping it up for that. Figured the wife and 1 kid can follow in the yj with spares and tools while i take the other kid in the buggy.

toreadorranger · Feb 3, 2015

My advice would be to get who ever is building your chassis to setup your motor mounts if possible. Would have made my life really easy to spend the extra $100 when I bought my Chassis to have them put in and saved me a bunch of time.

SHAWNEECRAWLER · Feb 3, 2015

Beerj said:
I'm fortunate enough to have a pretty capable yj to wheel in the meantime. That's half the reason I didn't just build that up any more. Gives me something to wheel for now and i also realized that I probably wouldn't reuse much other than maybe a 3' section of the frame and the seats. No sense in chopping it up for that. Figured the wife and 1 kid can follow in the yj with spares and tools while i take the other kid in the buggy.

This is exactly what I'm gonna do I've got a yj I wheel when I can and have been collecting parts for a year to build a buggy. Hopefully have a buggy sometime this year but won't have no down time.

cmoultrie · Feb 3, 2015

Beerj said:
Most are saying chassis first. Maybe I'll get the chassis and then try to source a turd. There seems to be more turds than bare chassis around.

Me personally..... I would rather have the turd first. Take it apart clean everything up and paint it. Then carry it to the chassis builder and let them build around the parts. That way you have no issues and don't have to reinvent the wheel to make everything work together.

Beerj · Feb 3, 2015

I see what you're saying. My thing is if i go with the chasis i want, it'll just be generically built and I'll have to fit the parts to the chasis. I know it sounds backwards but i know i wont be using anything unusual. Tons, v8, powerglide and an atlas or hero. I would think a premade, nonspecific chasis would be able to handle those parts with the exception of whether or not a big block would fit. I would contract a builder but doing that looks to generally add at least 1k to the price. Which i guess might be worth it to know everything will fit.