Material for buggy skins????

nealcj8 · Jan 21, 2013

What is the best material for buggy skins aluminum or carbon steel. What are y'all using?

crawlin85cj · Jan 21, 2013

Aluminum. I've been using the powder coated sheets from a local circle track shop. It's cheap and easy to work with.

84turbotoy · Jan 21, 2013

Thats what I got to go on mine.

nealcj8 · Jan 21, 2013

How thick is it??

nealcj8 · Jan 21, 2013

Does it come prepainted

84turbotoy · Jan 21, 2013

You can get it in pretty much any color you want, mostly comes in 4X10 sheets white on one side color of your choice on the other. It is .040 thick and runs 80 to 90 a sheet.

nealcj8 · Jan 21, 2013

Does it hold up pretty good??

smurfy90 · Jan 21, 2013

Doug has is for around $70 a sheet. His is same color on both sides 4x10 sheets also

84turbotoy · Jan 21, 2013

86tanks have quite well.

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84turbotoy · Jan 21, 2013

Good price on that and double painted is sweet as well! :dblthumb:

crawlin85cj · Jan 21, 2013

I pay $80 for a 4x10 and its same color both sides.

InDaShop · Jan 21, 2013

nealcj8 said:
Does it hold up pretty good??

Its cheap, easy to cut to pattern. If you dont ride hard then it will last.
I destroyed my right side everytime out

I eventually made a set of alum skins out of .125 and never replaced them again.

But if you are stuck on running the thin alum like .065 (circle track thickness) check around if you all have any Amish, especially the barn building amish, they'll have it in the rolls and will cut to your height. I had a roll of 19" white that I got from some menonites, I never did use all of it, sent what was left of it with the guy that bought my old car. You could check your local barn builders, Mueller/Butler and the sort, they'll even roll the top edge over itself so that door bar edge isnt sharp or catching things when you get in and out.

nealcj8 · Jan 21, 2013

Thanks I was sure what to use but I think I will go with the stuff y'all are talking about seem cheap enough that when you kill it on a rock it can be replaced cheap enough. Is it easy to roll around the edges of something like th back corner of a buggy? I don't have any sheet metal tools so I will be working this stuff by hand

TBItoy · Jan 22, 2013

dirt track car sheet metal is cheap.

I got some 'odd colors' form Full Throttle in Nashville for $50/sheet. (purple, yellow, blue, green)

Most dirt track guys are running black or white now-a-days because they are running vinyl wraps.

If you have a rub rail on the side of the buggy, the skins will last a lot longer.

mdo817 · Jan 22, 2013

One of the guys I ride with skinned his buggy with rolled plastic from Speedway Motors, I bought a roll to cover some flooring in, seems to hold up good and is not hard to work with.

http://www.speedwaymotors.com/Colored-Plastic-Rolls-25-Ft,31414.html

crawlin85cj · Jan 22, 2013

Before 1 year of my non driving ass

After 10 or so trips

If I hadn't rolled it at Harlan the skins would still be in pretty good shape. I have a rub rail that takes most if the abuse.

nealcj8 · Jan 22, 2013

crawlin85cj said:
Before 1 year of my non driving ass

After 10 or so trips

If I hadn't rolled it at Harlan the skins would still be in pretty good shape. I have a rub rail that takes most if the abuse.

I will have a rail down the side kinda like yours. That buggy is sweet!