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Wild ride - Dirt buggy action (VIDEO)

bat69 - September 16th, 2009 at 06:42 PM

This is some footage of one of my car club members in his off road buggy. Its not powered by a VW engine (Nissan SR20) but the buggy uses a lot of VW stuff. Cyril has dame good car control and he is a top bloke as well. Fark he can drive.

Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7qmdowkIws

bajachris88 - September 16th, 2009 at 07:22 PM

hahaha.

Glad he knows what hes doing. Scary stuff if he pulled a wrong turn! imrpessive stuff though.

Even with the flat he still bloody did alright in those corners!
How was the rim after that? :P

VWFREAK - September 16th, 2009 at 08:42 PM

I like it , :crazy: carzy stuff

Camo - September 17th, 2009 at 06:06 PM

Was that a hand throttle over on the right. Didn't seem to be a handbrake the way he was moving it all the time???

Kev

BiX - September 17th, 2009 at 07:19 PM

Steer Brake- he can apply the brake to each back wheel. So he will apply it to the inside wheel to help get him around, or even may apply it to a spinning wheel.

1303Steve - September 17th, 2009 at 11:47 PM

Hi

Great driving, I don't think he changed gear.

Steve

bat69 - September 18th, 2009 at 09:38 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Camo
Was that a hand throttle over on the right. Didn't seem to be a handbrake the way he was moving it all the time???

Kev

No its a hand brake. Generally they are a double action thing. Push forward is it works the left side. Pull back it works the right side. Or vise versa.

pete wood - September 18th, 2009 at 09:40 AM

I saw him race years ago.

he had a rover V8 that day as the SR20 had blown up and he hadn't had time to find another one.

he won the event outright against WRXs and very powerful escorts. The car is driven and steered at the backend.

this was the pedal setup the day I saw the car.

...and he's a pretty amazing driver too. :cool:

Mick058 - September 18th, 2009 at 09:47 AM

he just uses his left hand to steer the whole time!

pete wood - September 18th, 2009 at 09:49 AM

the steering wheel doesn't do that much.

bat69 - September 18th, 2009 at 12:39 PM

That is the old system Cyril use to use. The left brake pedal (2nd from left) was used to steer the rear left brake. The right brake pedal (2nd from right) was for all 4 and the hand brake was used to steer the right rear. I think he has changed the system now. All buggies are set up with turning brakes. It makes them so much faster on the tight stuff.