Thread: Any sand sports in your area?

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We've had some in the past. One of the neighbors set up his 4X4 Chevy pickup for mud pit racing.

As luck would have it my son and I have just finished a sand buggy.

It's a mini I guess, single seat, 954 Honda. Full cage, long travel, independent suspension all around, a-arms, 930 CV.
We did the whole thing on Solidworks and I ran a lot of parts on Cosmos FEA. We made our own intermediate transmission and final driveshaft. We have very larger stub axels after twisting off the standard over the counter ones that analysis said were not going to make it. They didn't and now reside inthe landfill. haha I weighs 825 rolling with 250# drivers.

We have run quite a few miles in shake down and spent a lot of time on our own "Watkins Glen" road course in a vacant field down the road from us. The buggy is absolutely insane. It will go to 100 in just over a 150 yards on dirt, rooster tailing all the way. We have a corrected speedo. We ran it down an off road trail which is one lane gravel path at over 105 mph. It's the standard dirt bike trail. It's a blast but you do have to hang on.

We are just in the middle of painting and final re-assembly so I'll post some pictures later. We just got the a-arms back last week and the chassis will go out in about 2 weeks as I still have some welding to complete and afew changes to make.

We are looking at a toy hauler so we can make some trips out west and to Okla and Mich.