When you make your frame - make sure you have some sort of support bar to the rear suspension frame, otherwise your floor pan tries to become a banana over time and will crack!
Dad did this in his Mkll fast back for rallying back when i was a kid. He was running a 13B rotary and modified the torsion bars to fit the motor in. He also used some ford calipers etc to fit rear discs, I think there's a much easier conversion available today (he did this in the early 80's).seagull wrote: I am going to flip the crown wheel and fit the motor behind the seat. I need to get the harness over to Dave to get the harness cut down shortly.
Also if you're going to go real hard, although you're in a very light buggy it might not be necessary, Dad had reinforced the rear swing arms to avoid bending one mid-race.
These things are heaps of fun, and you'll notice many similarities of the early subaru drivetrain when you get to know them. I first drove a Mini K when I was ten, then fixed up a VW dune buggy/paddock basher ("the buggy") with dad and learned to drive un-supervised by the time I was eleven. The years after that were put to use learning how to thrash a rear wheel drive
The buggy is now waiting for some brakes replaced on it and for one of us to get the motor going again, its also the earlier model with the rear swing arms. We've never really had it going since we reinforced the entire framework - its solid as a rock now!
I'll try and get some pics up for you in the next week.
Cheers
Bennie
