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Noah, easy dude, I can think of three spots it would be tight for a longbed yota..... But my opinion may not mean as much to you.you, you.... damnit, no time to come over for this one.. HAve fun fellas...cheers,me

You can't really mount the drivetrain backwards as there ar eno provisions of reverse cut gears. The usual suspects for rear mount are VW ttransaxles.There are adapter plates sold.But in that case yiou would need a syncro setup to get 4wd. I found that utilizing some different diffs might obviously be an option, but did not look into reverse cuts for other "solitary" diffs. If you mount the engine a little further back in the frame that way a rear diff can be mounted up front it might work out,but in that case you would need a divorced t-case, like nissan , or zooki.The nissan case profile is really tall.But the zook case can be rotated and flattened out. Umm, lets see, thats about it for now.cheers

I actually had to "reshape" them from being bashed quite a bit.I shoved a 5/8 nut down into them to add rigidity, then welded the top and bottom on....cheers

I am in serious need.:-p:clap: I would love to talk about this more seriously.As I could finish this axle set,then sell them,the locker, and H1 centers. PM comin your way........cheers:brow:

Got some more done today. Finally was able to get the bottom gussets to look and fit how I wanted. Only took 5 tries...... Got my free char lynn steering valve to the shop to get checked out.So we'll see whaty goes dowwn there. should be able to cut out the centers to my beadlocks soon.then i can mount the tires. cheers

On top of the fact that I have a tubing bender....Looks good.cheers

************IN RAD........I wanna ride.....:brow:Then drive....:clap:Awesome.I wish i was over there for the fall.I won't be back till Jan 1.... cheers,B

there are some cool options for making that center bar in the engine bay removable.Polyperformance has some cool brackets ...... looks good, What rate of springs?looks good man.cheers

Engine , trans, front hatch clip, possibly more body(just won't know what till I get the chassis finished.cheers

NoNo, I moved up to Toyota axles.And honestly if I find a Dana60 front in the mean time of finishing the Toy axle I will swap to those as I already have a Dana 60 rear. And the majority of those pics and this thread has been the progression all the way through my process of "upgrade".The more I built the more I wanted to build.LOLThen I realized that if I was gonna build a rig I still wanted to have it look like a subie.So the hatchback is now in pieces.Like little pieces and a front clip.which will go back onthe chassis.Then the fat meats.shooting for like 22-25 inch belly.Trying to keep the width around 68ish, but well see. The chassis is even further than in the pics.I have to get stuff moved around to get it back out of storage to take more pics. I have some other goodies too... 10?gallon fuel cell,and char lynn steering valve with single ended ram. Its coming along.I have some good time during school this quarter and can be using tools in the school metal shop.Cool.I'm working on a few things.So, It should work out well.It is slow going since I started school, but I am coming around to time .cheers

H1 rims,got rid of those tires , and got the 38's below layout....... 2.0 fox air shox some new meats etc...... doin some cleaning of axles.gotta finish welding some stuff, and add the gussets. I gotta order them, and some wheel centers this week..... cheers

I would start with a later model if i were you.Like impreza or legacy suspension.Axles are stronger, better over all design allowing for aftermarket support in bushings etc. There is an LSD wrieup in the FAQ. The downside to our rigs are no options for aftermarket gearing. I would read around abit . there are several projects going on here that have all kinds of different vantage points. A couple of folks have done "plan" builds if i am not mistaken.(ordering plans) cheers

Whatup Petie!!!!!! welcome back, sucker.....:-p

It's all good fellas. He and i have been talking via PM.. I have been lookinbg through thousands of photos all weekend.Only found a few.I'll get'em up later.For some reason an entire album is gone from photobucket,so, as i pull stuff out to work on it this fall i'll take more photos. cheers

Oh damn, my gov job isna enough, in a fab shop no less!... I build my ************.Enuff said.I tried being nice in the beginning, telling you you were being taken.It's ok, the funny thing about KIDS is they always think they are right. I have spent years learning and building because i want to.Still have alot to learn, and gonna keep on truckin.You take your money with you on the trail, see if it can hold your crossmember together when it brreaks...LOL oh yeah, and been doin it, my buggy has 38's sweetheart,38's.........

It's funny that you think people are jealous..... And money is not the issue.It's how horribly fabricated your link suspension is.It's unsafe really for anyhting but road driving.... My entire point is you have no idea what you got yourself into, and now I just think it's funny.Especially when you think your parts are what they aren't. All the money in the world can't fix stupid......

ummm, no.... IF THATS NOT PASSENGER DROP. I DUNNO WHAT IS..........

i know a guy that ran dana 60s, with 40 inch tires on a 6.5 geared sammi case for 4 yrs.plenty strong. and, sammi cases are passenger side drop just like the toy cases.thats why it is so easy to do the axle swap on sammi's. If people actually did research instead of listening to other people you wouldna sound like an rump roast when you say thinigs that just aren't true.

WOW.interesting COG.your guy must run mud trucks.....cheers

any progress with the shocks/coilovers?

eggzachary,(what he^ said) i have seen WAY more sketch from all over these here interwebs....cheers

thats not entirely possible without building an entire front subframe.due to mounting issues up top, and the fact he has no spare tire well:grin:It's a lego.... cheers

in relation to the upper arm it only looks to be about 5=6 inches of travel.That saves money on shocks!

Ahh, different shocks.right.I knew that earlier description didna sound right.. At that point your basically treating it like sheet metal and doing spot welds.WITH complete cooldown inbetween.. Would work well if you find the right balance of springs.Fronts a skosch different since your dealing with the engine weight... cheers

because crap suspension is crap suspension..........