V6 Powered Buggy Movie File - WMV - 6MB

Here is the V6 Buggy on one of its test runs.

Troys V6 Buggy Testing

That Looks AWESOME!

Love it, top work!

Thats the kick ass buggy i saw at klubfest. It was the must beastiest offroad buggy there. It was mad.

How much did that whole buggy cost get get transformed into that beefy, high stance buggy?
very nice.

Heres a pic from klubfest where i saw it:



[Edited on 19/6/2005 by mynameischris88]

I thought the engine looked a bit different than usual 😀

Cost - Can't really say. You would need to talk to Troy about that.

It is the toughet buggy I have ever worked on ..

good job on the buggy, interesting that he opted for an auto,... was it so that it could handle the extra grunt?

cheers
dub

its not an auto. it has a kombi box. 2L version I think. i am hanging to get mine goind to see if it goes as well as this one. I think it should be a good day seeing which one can get the furtherest in different situations and in the end I do not care as long as somone will be getting some video of all the mayhem 😉

Well Hill number two on teh test track has stopped all that have attempted it so far.

Hilux - Turbo Diesel, twin lockers, lift kit, mud tyres blah blah blah .... couldn't get up

Troys Buggy - Mazda V6, custom stuff all over the place .. couldn't get up, although he didn't actually try to get up we were just trying to shoot some roost.

So ANdy maybe yours is the one, I think so ....... Turbo + locker + nutter = success or at least good footage.

Best part is the greenies can't close the test track .....

So is there a run to this place soon or what?
Hay wait a minute my car aint biuld yet hold that thought

[Edited on 20/6/2005 by MUD BASHING ANYONE ??]

After seeing the film what is so hard about that hill that is week as piss :sandrine i know things look soft on film but not that soft i don't mean to be a prick but come on wheres the spirt of adventure here gees i need to get my baja going and have a run down here.
Im going work on my bug later

MUD BASHING ANYONE ?? wrote:....i don't mean to be a prick...

You sure???

That piece of piss hill has been tried and failed by many kick-ass 4WD's as Mr Brad mentioned, and not to mention numerous big bad VW's of all forms.
If you want to show us all how easily you can do it, join the Manx club and go along to the next fun filled testing day.
Good luck :thumb

MUD BASHING ANYONE ?? wrote:After seeing the film what is so hard about that hill that is week as piss :sandrine i know things look soft on film but not that soft i don't mean to be a prick but come on wheres the spirt of adventure here gees i need to get my baja going and have a run down here.
Im going work on my bug later

So when is the next test session? I'd be keen to check this out.
Graham

The hill is in my yard.. I have with me a nice cold carton of VB and I will happily bet it that you will not get up the Hill in say 3 goes. If you do you take the VB, if you don't you double it ... Yep is you are so cocky then you will have no problems getting up my piss week hill if you fail you loos 2 x cartons of VB and post on here how pissy your VW powered baja is ......

So you up to it ??

STill waiting for our Kombi drag race too .....

Your wife will have a lot of beer Brad....:thumb

MUD BASHING ANYONE ?? wrote:i know things look soft on film but not that soft

You mustn't have seen much film of your own car then.

I have been in the twin locker mud tyred turbo diesel hilux going up those hills. The first hill is steep and very soft and nothing to be laughed at.

The second hill has a couple of ledges which have been unpassable thus far, and I'm sure you could easily roll a buggy trying. We hit it at high speed in the hilux, took out a couple of small trees and dug some big ruts, but it didn't make it.

You better build something very tough if you don't want to be eating your words.

he will be eating ..... no $500 baja going up that hill ......

very nice buggy

Hey brad can I come to the BBQ when you get your free beer, as you will not get a chance to drink it as you will be to bussy trying to skull drag the broke Baja out of your property. No wonder people call them BA HA with attitudes like that. Just as well some people like Wes actually know how to build a real one.

I think the first post said it all...

MUD BASHING ANYONE ?? wrote:So is there a run to this place soon or what?
Hay wait a minute my car aint biuld yet hold that thought

Anyone can open their mouth, but he hasn't even got a car to back it up with.

Great buggy guys, awesome to see someone who actually owns one driving theirs hard.

If I can just get some more KLZE V6 powered Baja's and Buggies out there I might have to start making upgrade parts for them.

It's also good having a second car testing my adaptor / flywheel design.

Is that the one that was going in Brad's Mega Manx? Is that car still around?

bah ! works net nanny wont let me see the site.... bugger.

that's a pretty decent hill there! nice vid too. Don't want to be picky but with that manx, I wouldn't wanna take a good hit on that front bumper like a stump or something. It looks to me like it would kill the radiator. Was that the best place for it? Just wondering that's all. Very though manx though.

Radiator is well protected. Of you hit something hard enough to hurt it you wouldn't be real happy.

Protection is made from 5mm checker, 40 NB Tube with 3mm wall ....

By the Way .. you need to know Mud Bashing to understand him .. be nice I am ure he will take up my bet and drive strigt up the hill ...

cool, just wondering. Now that i had a good look at some photos. it IS well supported, tied into everything.

Mate I have seen this thing and the bar work is excelent and well designed. It is more like a tube frame buggy with a fiberglass body on it. Next time ya see it at a show or somewhere take the time to check out how everything is tied in together and you will see what I meen. i gotta say it is one buggy which is a credit to all the people who helped build it.

"By the Way .. you need to know Mud Bashing to understand him .. be nice I am ure he will take up my bet and drive strigt up the hill ... "

I've been with Tim in his Baja at Ormeau....he's a nutter behind the wheel, and I'm sure he'd give anything a go just for the hell of it, or because you guys said he couldn't....LOL
Just let me know when its on so I can watch.

I must have pissed some people off sorry for that but just to clear a few things up i am in the manx club and the only run they have had since i have been in the club i went on i almost fell asleep at the wheel and i have tryed till i almost died to get anyone to come out with me the only people that took there skirts off were kurt from volksmod andrew with the tow'd and terry from custom offroad 3 people in over a year, all anyone had to do was ring me and i would be there and ready to go in half an hour any weekend or any afternoon. So unless that hill got like 10 times worst that carton of bbq cleaner is as goos as mine and why is it that soon as i sell my car people start coming up with challenges like these anyone that knows me will tell you that i thrive on a challenge so wait till i get my car up and running and start making challenges im getting thirsty omce agian sorry for pissing anyone off did not mean to.
Anyway the 2 cartoon baja has been sold but im thinking of getting another just for things like this cause that thing has out performed many so called big bad 4wd's and big bad vw's remember expensive don't mean go's further.

Also graham there is the passanger seat spare if you want to come up the hill with me

Just help me out here i have watched the film many times over and if you get over the crest of where troy stopped is that it? or does it get exciting after that cause all that i can see on that vid anit that hard at all maybe im just mad maybe you guys should come out with me (when i get my car going) and ill prove to you all that spending 20 grand don't mean shit its all in the way you build them and drive em

MUD BASHING ANYONE ?? wrote:Just help me out here i have watched the film many times over and if you get over the crest of where troy stopped is that it? or does it get exciting after that cause all that i can see on that vid anit that hard at all maybe im just mad maybe you guys should come out with me (when i get my car going) and ill prove to you all that spending 20 grand don't mean shit its all in the way you build them and drive em

Looking forward to seeing the outcome of this...:duh

Have you told your beetle what you've signed it up for yet?😀

lol, someone has got to get the camera.

This sounds like a real test, can't wait to see any footage. Good to be able to see some real hardcore offroading. Luv that action sorta stuff!!!

Hurry up "Mud Bashing Anyone?", build up ur offroad baja already! My popcorn is getting cold. lol

Wateva way it turns out, sounds like good fun. Just make sure someone posts up some footage!!!

Mate do not be fooled on how it looks on the video. I must agree if I saw this video with out seeing the hills at brads place in person i to would think they were easy. But believe me some of the tracks are VERY steep and I doubt that any 2 wheel drive will ever get up some of them. But like Tim when my car is going I to am going to give them a go. It is the old saying i guess put up or shut up.

Just some info for all the keen offroaders...

there haven't been any manx club runs because no-one in the club has organised one, they all just sit around and complain that no-one organises any runs.

Posting that your going somewhere and others can come on the forum doesn't count as organising a run either.

You need to contact the events co-ordinator (listed on the club website), and he will then notify the webmaster and magazine editor so the run can be advertised on the coming events page and in the magazine.

If your really keen you can go to the AGM next month and elect to be the new events co-ordinator.

I can tell the whinges to shut up because I have organised a few runs in the past so I do my part (I organised the first 3 club runs). The last one was blackduck in may 2004 which everyone was welcome to come to and challenge each other on the hills;
http://www.netspot4u.com/~manxclub/gallery/BlackDuck2004
there are videos and pics on that site, again some hills are very steep.

Most of the previous runs have been organised by only a handful of members, and unfortunately nearly all of them (but me) are either between cars or in the process of modifying / rebuilding their cars.

I haven't organised a run this year for 2 reasons, 1 - other people should do something, and 2 - I have been flat out with work and a new house lately so haven't really been that motivated. The last camping weekend kurt and gunter told me about was on the night of my house warming party so it didn't work out real well.

So that's my bitching for today. If you want a run then organise one. 🙂 If everyone organised 1 event every few years we'd have heaps of events. 🙂

I have a question with the mazda convertion on the buggy and wes's baja -
Is there much weight difference between a DP 1600 vw engine and the mazda engine and if so does it make the handling any "twitchier" , its just that in the vid the buggy seems to be riding quite high in the front end compared to the arse end :o

Mate check out Wes`s site it has a heap of answers to questions like that and some other great info as well.

Mad Manx wrote:I have a question with the mazda convertion on the buggy and wes's baja -
Is there much weight difference between a DP 1600 vw engine and the mazda engine and if so does it make the handling any "twitchier" , its just that in the vid the buggy seems to be riding quite high in the front end compared to the arse end :o

It normally sits level, but when you accelerate with that much HP, and when going up very steep hills, the rear will certainly squat.

The Mazda engine is 176kg, measured complete using a load cell. So it's like having an adult sit on the engine cage of your current VW engined vehicle. The main difference I noticed in it gives the car much more grip / traction than it had before.

I noticed a worse effect on body roll and handling when I installed the 2 inch lift kit than when I put the V6 in.

have i told you guys i do mazda parts in brissie?

hey tim, thanks again for the bits mate.... appreciated. :beer:beer

No worries dude

Andy42 wrote:. But like Tim when my car is going I to am going to give them a go. It is the old saying i guess put up or shut up.

this i what i like to hear somone keen to give it a go not your car is shit cause it don't have a motor that i sell from my shop or no $500 dollar baja is getting up that hill or go and join the manx club then, if i were you lot and you all were me i would say yeah sweet man come on up bring a 6 pack and some snags and well have a play and if you don't make it up the hill you clean the bbq or lets go find a hill thats hard and give it a go anyway im going to go work on my car so i can get its ass to fraser for manx club week trip in october And wes that is a fair winge maybe i should get of my date and get some trips going i was going have one down here at ormeou but its a bit wild for most but a night nav run would be cool mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm hanging of mountains in the dark at 2 in the morning

[Edited on 22/6/2005 by MUD BASHING ANYONE ??]

Still saving up to replace my tyre from Black Duck!

Still getting in trouble for doing this with the girlfriend in the car too......

http://www.netspot4u.com/~manxclub/gallery/album173/daz_puncture


Hey Brad, Maybe you could put some decent grog up for the prize, maybe get some more challengers?

[Edited on 22-6-2005 by daz67]

[Edited on 22-6-2005 by daz67]

daz67 wrote:Hey Brad, Maybe you could put some decent grog up for the prize, maybe get some more challengers?

[Edited on 22-6-2005 by daz67]

[Edited on 22-6-2005 by daz67]

HaHa fully

I'm up for it. Nah not really, I'm scared of heights.

just remember the footage 😀