REALLY small 4x4s?

SHINTON

SHINTON

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After riding with these guys back at Windrock I have been thinking how cool is this...they are taking 'moon'buggy to the smallest level I have seen to date.

My question is this...what is the 'smallest' buggy you have seen to date, links?

...my real question or evil thoughts is this...can "we" build one less than 80" long and 800lbs? (Which is the 'definition' of an atv...)

Maybe one of the zuk gurus can tell me the length of: Zuk 1.3(or 1.6L) engine, tranny and tcase combined? Weight?

Now imagine a tube frame where you sit straddle the tranny area/tcase, stock zuk axles (narrowed?) running 31ish tires?

I drew it on on paper, and yeah it looks funny and we know it would be tippy as heck on steep uphills (probably?)...but 'what if' all of a sudden you could ride all these atv trails hehheheheh

Yeah I know..heck of a lot easier to buy a "grizzly 660" (side by side version of atv) from Yamaha... but they are 'outlawed' by some of the trails due to length/weight...etc...

Oh well, just a crazy thought for ya...would be interested to see what we find out on here...atv guys "mod" their rigs but haven't started building em from scratch yet like us that I know of...

Sam
 
last time I was riding Tellico ( 3 years ago) I saw a buggy built around a GEO Metro 3cyl engine and transaxle. it was a one seater, was only (rear) two wheel drive ( very sensible and unique method of locking the axles together) and was smaller than a Sami in lenght. Full cooling system, and fuel injection too boot. Very well built machine.

I would imagine mounting same sort of power plant/trans length ways, you would end up with something similar to the Rhino Buggy.

Kevin
 
Sam, I saw these things at Dixie Run last year. Honda engines, 1.6 IIRC( engine was behind the front seats) nstead of CVaxles it had driveshafts comming from the transmission that was locked with 3 to 1 gears. Driveshafts bolted to Currie HP 9in and they were running 35's. They had different fronts on them, and were available in 1, 2, 3, or 4 seaters. Pretty Kewl little rides
 
i think the one who pinoneered the whole transaxle deal was the guy on pirate from israel, his name on the PBB is The Frog, i dont know what his real name is. he was a TTC competitor a few years back, and he built a transaxle buggy with a honda motor on a sammi frame with sammi axles. pretty cool little deal, im doing somthing similar this winter but with the motor out of the corolla and a full tibe frame
 
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