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| posted on August 31st, 2010 at 09:43 PM |
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The Iguana Build - Subaru H6 and 6 Speed Buggy Build
I wasn't going to do a build thread for my Buggy but since I have been getting such great support from several shops that do awesome work on VW's
and others I thought it only fair to give them some credit.
Anyway after being away for a year or two it is finally time to finish off my Iguana Buggy. Not that it matters as so many things have changed
anyway.
My Iguana is number 2 out of the mould and one of only 4 ever made.
The Build Specs:
Body - 4 Seater Custom Iguana
Chassis - Custom VW Tunnel witha heaps of mods
Suspension - A-Army front (A-Arm.com), CVD 3 x 2 rear, Fox 2.0 coil overs all round.
Engine - 2003 Subaru H6 3.0 EZ30D
Transmission - 2010 Outback Subaru 6 Speed with SubaruGears reverse cut Ring and Pinion
Tyres - 16x7 front with 235 x 75 x 16, 16x8 Rear with 285 x 75 x 16
Interior - Custom stuff everywhere, complete with climate control, Car PC, cable shifter, leather seats etc etc.
Build would not be possible without support from the following:
Custom Vee Dub - http://www.customveedub.com.au - Best Buggy
Fabricators in Australia
A-Arm.com - Pete for the front end
SubaruGears.com - Without it I couldn't run the 6 speed.
Blitzkrieg Motorsports http://www.blitzkriegoffroad.com -
Their work speaks for itself.
Baja Wes - Offroadvw.net - without Wes keeping my ideas in place I would go really stupid
My Mates - you can never have enough help.
Anyway enough blabin lets get fabbin.
Oh time line - Complete by the end of 2010 ......
As it sat just before I pushed it into the shed and sold off most of the bits... No real change till a few days ago.
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| posted on August 31st, 2010 at 09:43 PM |
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Then after we got Rack and Pinion working on the beam front end I went away and had a great idea to change A-Arm .. time to start drawing again for
Wes as now I wanted Power Rack and Pinion Steering on my A-Arm front.
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| posted on August 31st, 2010 at 09:44 PM |
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Then I had a nice near new EJ25T with RJES Bell Housing and fully built 091 box to go in..
But went away again and started driving a H6 Subaru .... mm it was nice .,..
So out with the EJ25T and in with the H6 ...
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| posted on August 31st, 2010 at 09:45 PM |
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You can't have a H6 behind am old 091 Kombi Box, it just wouldn't be right .. so out with the 091 and in with the 6 Speed.
Now we are up to date, I just need to get the guys at Custom Vee Dub to stop working on everything else and get my Buggy Finished.
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| posted on August 31st, 2010 at 09:45 PM |
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6 Speed sitting in chassis, it will go forward aroun 100mm from this picture.
The Iguana was built to take a Turbo EJ and WAIC so there is room for most things. Didn't think of a cable shifter though .. luckily it will just
fit.
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| posted on August 31st, 2010 at 09:46 PM |
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One of the issues I had with the A-Arm front end was with the original spindle design which used press fitted and welded VW style stub axles. These
were never going to pass engineering so I had Pete make some changes and ship my uprights with a drilled PCD and no stubs or steering arms.
This allowed me to get some bolt on spindles and set the steering up to suit the power steering rack I wanted to use.
After looking around for a good quality spindle and hub provider I found http://www.blitzkriegoffroad.com/ - All I can say is WAY COOL ... Dennis and the Guys where great to deal with and their
product is without a doubt the best I have ever seen. Fit, finish, Quality and great service.
Fitting pictures soon ....
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| posted on August 31st, 2010 at 10:23 PM |
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Looking good Brad - always loved the look of the Iguana body.....will be good for the changes to be finalised and see this beast finished eventually
(I know whats it like, can't rush these things!)
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| posted on August 31st, 2010 at 10:47 PM |
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Dude, you certainly know how to unleash the cash! The spec list on this build is amazing. Is is going to be registered or do you just really like
driving on sand? And I assume by the comment of air conditioning that you're going to put a roof on it? This is definitely a very interesting build.
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| posted on August 31st, 2010 at 10:58 PM |
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Have to watch this space I guess 
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| posted on August 31st, 2010 at 11:23 PM |
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The Iguana will be fully registered as an ICV and approvals have been gained.
It will be fitted with an aluminium Roof built in the "Expedition Style" with intergrated Spare wheel and roof rack.
As for coin I would expect the entire thing ignoring R&D and $$$ lost on changing ideas to come in at around the $60k mark.
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| posted on September 1st, 2010 at 12:43 AM |
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cool are you doing my box r&d  now i think i need some a-arm's
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| posted on September 1st, 2010 at 11:20 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by reub
DUDE! Where have you been??
Look forward to the finished product.
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Saving $$$ to build this thing ... I look fwd to the finished product as well. 
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| posted on September 1st, 2010 at 11:20 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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cool are you doing my box r&d now i think i need some a-arm's
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I think you need some too. I saw a nice set down at Custom Vee Dub the other day .. getting engineer approved and all.
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| posted on September 1st, 2010 at 11:21 AM |
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So now I had a 6 Speed I need to pull it down and get it to fit. As it was a brand new box there wasn't a lot of info out there so I decided to just
pull it apart and see how it worked in there.
I thought a good place to start was by measuring it ... mmm she is a long one ..
Being the 6 Speed she also has these nice big wings on here which I am hopeing I can include in my barwork design to give extra stability and
strength.
Along with the wings are the nice things such as hydraulic clutch and cable shift, should make for a nice shift setup if I can work out how to reverse
it so I dont need cable which are 4m long.
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| posted on September 1st, 2010 at 11:47 AM |
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Watch out everbody....Brad is bored again...........and this is going to be good !!!!
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| posted on September 1st, 2010 at 11:48 AM |
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Mmm.... i can feel some wheel stands coming on
(ô_!_/ô) (ô_!_/ô)
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| posted on September 1st, 2010 at 12:21 PM |
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Cool, I say bring it on Brad...she's gonna be a beast.....I can feel beach drags are getting closer
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| posted on September 1st, 2010 at 01:18 PM |
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Ooo ooo... Brad's giving the Iguana some lovin, with a H6 and all... excellent stuff !!!
Much more my style than the 'Franken-brumby' idea dude... this is gonna be one very interesting thread I reckon...
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| posted on September 1st, 2010 at 02:11 PM |
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Sooss glad you decided to do a build thread. Looking forward to following the progress.
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| posted on September 1st, 2010 at 04:14 PM |
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In order to get the gearbox to be shorter I need to remove the nose cone and centre diff from the case.
With the nose cone unbolted you can see the rear drive gear that would have driven the rear drive shaft in AWD Config.
No need for that anymore or the rear drive shaft
Looking into the box there is heaps of stuff I dont't need ..
Out it goes ... no need for a centre diff .. thinks of all the weight I am saving...
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| posted on September 1st, 2010 at 04:15 PM |
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mm now I wonder how much of this I need ... all of it I guess since I want to shift gears when I drive.
The 6 speed like most Subaru's I have looked at have a nice tabbed rear mount which I will try and re-use. I like them as they have tabs that stop
the box from falling out should the rubber break.
If you look real close you will even see stick on weights which I am guessing has more to do with vibractions than weight
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| posted on September 2nd, 2010 at 07:45 PM |
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Have not seen one of these bodies before but I love it. Awsome lines and definitley will want to see this when it's finished. I love a good buggy.
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| posted on September 2nd, 2010 at 09:35 PM |
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Ok well I rushed home from work today as I had a need to make some chips and new that this would result in my stubs going onto my uprights for the
first time, I was very excited about that.
When Pete at A-Arm.com made the kit for me he left the stub axles off and drilled PCD for me to bolt something to. When I eventually settled on the
BMS stubs and hubs they arrived with a 5mm shoulder on the back. This meant that I would have to machine a round pocket on the uprights to take this.
It also meant I would have to face it once done to make sure they sat perfectly flat.
So after having a chat to Dave at Custom Vee Dub it was decided I would need to do it in the Mill as it would be too hard to get it to fit in the
lathe due to the off centre nature of the upright.
So into the mill it went for a pocket and a new face.
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| posted on September 2nd, 2010 at 09:36 PM |
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I have also been thinking about the best approach to modify the 6 Speed to fit in the VW. After many hours of thinking and head scratching I have
pretty much decide I will need to modify my torsion housing as unlike the 5 Speed the 6 Speed will have to stay 130 mm longer .
To make sure this was the case I dropped by SubiEvolution ( http://www.subievolution.com.au/ ) and the Russell gave me an AWD 5 Speed to pull down to put alongside the 6 speed to
check out the differences. As you will see it is very much the same but at the same time quite different.
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| posted on September 3rd, 2010 at 02:24 AM |
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Now THAT's a first gear! Nice and wide....I can see some launches happening with that.
Reversed gears for Subaru transmissions.
Fit a Subaru 5 speed to your rear engined car
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| posted on September 4th, 2010 at 09:25 PM |
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Well not much progress to show. Spent most of the day coming up with crazy ideas and trying to sort out the best dash setup. Anyway after more than a
few hours of distraction from Ben I have settled on using the Outback Dash complete with Sat nave and Climate Control. I wasn't going to bother with
the climate control but since Wes had it I didn't really have much option.
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Heh heh - love it dude... you've "settled" on having the full Outback dash in there... makes me wonder what the number 1 choice was !!!
Climate control is mandatory in a soft top IMHO, and Sat nav... well it might help what with some of the places this thing will probably go...
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Heh heh - love it dude... you've "settled" on having the full Outback dash in there... makes me wonder what the number 1 choice was !!!
Climate control is mandatory in a soft top IMHO, and Sat nav... well it might help what with some of the places this thing will probably go...
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Yeah cheers Dave, it is pretty tough when you have to choose between custom outright, custom with Outback or Outback Custom
The end result is working out as thought which is a good thing
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Ok so I have been away for a few days but the build continues. Due to time line intents I have a few things on the go at once.
So anyway I decided to fit the 6 speed and make sure all the linkages were going to work. After looking at it for a while I decided that I wanted to
use the front transmission mount and keep the front bearing carrier. This meant I had to modify the florr pan a little to fit it all in.
First part done, still need to box it out and add some supports, but it fits.
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| posted on September 9th, 2010 at 09:31 PM |
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I also ran out of storage space to put all the bits as I strip them down. Not wanting to loose anything I smacked out a couple or parts trays to keep
tabs on things, you have to love ally and Kemppi Tigs.
On the electrical front my H6 schematics should arrive next week and then I can skin the loom. I have also decided to run a couple of Motec PDM's
instead on Fuses and Relays ... I must say after years of wiring buggies I am in love with the Motec PDM ... it is AWESOME...
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