I have noticed with my new buggy that it's quite flexy. Other than a full cage, what ways are there of reducing the amount of body twist that goes on? Do side bars reduce this a bit?
Lift kits ties into the front and rear beams do it well.
ay man im also in the process of putting togetha a beach buggy and the engineer advised me that a sub frame is needed in order to stiffen the body from flexing so maybe u mite wanna look at subframe designs on beetle convertibles to get an idea. dun quote me on this coz im not much of a vw expert howeva i think it may hope, best of luck wit it
Custom Offroad type pan with body stiffeners..:thumb
When you guys are talking about the buggies flexing, is that with everyday road use, or when you take it off the road?
Just wondering, I haven't been able to drive mine much yet but hope to have it rego'd in about 2 weeks, so would like to know if I should be looking
for flex. Mine won't be going off road in the forseeable future, not here in ACT anyway.
nice! and that's enough to pass an engineer's and all? I want to keep the smooth floor so that rules out sub frames under the pan.
Phantom, mine is mainly noticable going in and out of driveways diagonally or rock hopping. Never notice on the beach.
dam, you would think that flexing wouldn't be too healthy for the car.
Whats the big hole in the spine of that floorpan? whats it for?
its an acsess hole for changing the clutch cable an sometimes storing tools in there that have been wrapped up
terry
So you take away the strength of the spine. Obviously people don't know the correct way to fit clutch cables. Have seen many holes cut in before and all it causes to do is the tunnel cracks up.
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Mick,
You got another photo with your seat supports in place.
Steven