The Brumbyrunner Project

BaronVonChickenPants · Post by **BaronVonChickenPants** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:39 pm

That brumby looks wicked, although I doubt it will ever be a sleeper

Jordan.

Wilbur · Post by **Wilbur** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:17 pm

vincentvega wrote:the tray is starting to look like something out of mad max!

kickass work

The spare is yet to be mounted in there too

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:16 pm

Looks real good mate, what suspension you using?

Outback bloke · Post by **Outback bloke** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:05 pm

Brumbyrunner is stuck in Mt Isa due to flood water on his way home. He is a bit unsure as to what suspension he is going to put in there. He has got some struts he had on his RX race car with remote canisters that he is thinking about running along with a secondary shock on all corners.

This year is pretty much a drive it and see event with plans for full WRX suspension and cross member mods in stage two of the build.

I was talking to him today and he told me he has had all the guards plasma cut to suit the big tyres and that it now looks "FULSIK". He was saying that they are cut to past "where the blinker used to be".

LOL, he is gonna hate me for saying that. I should have said "proper crook" with him being a bushy and all that.

Suby Wan Kenobi · Post by **Suby Wan Kenobi** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:18 pm

Nah Fulsik is ok seems it was used more than once during the build

Wilbur · Post by **Wilbur** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:18 am

Bbbbbwwwwhahahahhaaha....FULLI SIK MATE !!

brumbyrunner · Post by **brumbyrunner** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:47 pm

Back home now.
Had to leave the ute in Mount Isa where the huge holes that used to be the rear wheel wells will be resheeted with new steel and then we can paint it.
I pulled the 2" strut top out of the front and put a std. strut back in with no spring or bumpstop rubber. Then I cut the guard so that the 30" tyre wont foul on it at full bump. There isn't much mudguard left. Then I cut about 100mm off the end of the bullbar wings. Surprisingly the area at the rear of the front guard that usually needs trimming when installing bigger tyres didn't have to be touched. The cutting started at the side moulding.
For the rear guards, I cut 100mm out of the entire wheel arch opening. But it wasn't enough, so at ride height, I took the radius from the hub to the top of the wheel arch and extended it rearwards. This effectively cut 150mm out of the rear or the guardsand will allow up to 33" tyres if nessessary. Re-sheeting the inner guard is going to be a bitch.
Pics to follow soon.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:52 pm

Probably reduced the weight by 50kg with all that guard cutting.

Brumby Boy · Post by **Brumby Boy** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:17 am

Man this it turning into one awesom ride. id love to see it in action when its finished... i think we all would

brumbyrunner · Post by **brumbyrunner** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:07 am

This is how the 13" tyre was positioned under the left front guard.

brumbyrunner · Post by **brumbyrunner** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:10 am

This is the 30" tyre at full bump. Still plenty of clearance. Note whats left of the side indicator.

From the front.

brumbyrunner · Post by **brumbyrunner** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:18 am

After I cut out the rear guard 4".

And the nearly finished result. I don't have a pic (?) of the rear after I cut along that black line at the rear of the guard.

brumbyrunner · Post by **brumbyrunner** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:20 am

One from the front.

vincentvega · Post by **vincentvega** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:35 am

holy ****!

this is easily going to be the best lifted brumby ever built. It actually looks balanced not like every other brumby with big tyres thats 6" lifted and looks like its going to fall over.

It should handle unreal with the wheel base extended like that. wide, long stance, low center of gravity - kickass!!

Fang · Post by **Fang** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:59 am

vincentvega wrote:holy ****!

this is easily going to be the best lifted brumby ever built. It actually looks balanced not like every other brumby with big tyres thats 6" lifted and looks like its going to fall over.

It should handle unreal with the wheel base extended like that. wide, long stance, low center of gravity - kickass!!

I agree wholeheartedly - very well done indeed. That is one mean looking Brumby

Brumby Boy · Post by **Brumby Boy** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:04 am

This is lookin hella krazy how long till shes ready to roll?
also how do you go with rubbing when turning?

bluesteel · Post by **bluesteel** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:12 am

could you please put up some detailed pics of welding the rear guards up when you do it

need to do it to mine soon... cheers!

brumbyrunner · Post by **brumbyrunner** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:13 am

Some more pics that BYBrett took last week. They are a lot clearer than my crappy mobile phone pics. I actually bought a new camera but decided to give it to my wife for her birthday. So I should be able to start using it next week.

Mock up of spare wheel mount.

The bed with all the junk and parts cleaned away.

Close up of the electric water pump.

The new unifilter mounted behind RHS headlight.

brumbyrunner · Post by **brumbyrunner** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:42 am

vincentvega wrote:holy ****!

this is easily going to be the best lifted brumby ever built. It actually looks balanced not like every other brumby with big tyres thats 6" lifted and looks like its going to fall over.

It should handle unreal with the wheel base extended like that. wide, long stance, low center of gravity - kickass!!

Fang wrote:I agree wholeheartedly - very well done indeed. That is one mean looking Brumby

Thanks guys.
It was a long time in the planning stage getting all the decisions made beforehand so that there werent any surprises and the build would go to plan. It's too late to find out that something wont fit or wont work when you've invested 20 grand and have to scrap it and start again. I initially didn't want any body lift at all and to move the rear axleline back about 4 to 6" and obviously that would be better, but you have to draw a line somewhere if you want to get finished and not blowout your budget.

Brumby Boy wrote:This is lookin hella krazy how long till shes ready to roll?
also how do you go with rubbing when turning?

Ready to roll...? It's driveable now.
Ready to race...? Hopefully by the end of the wet so I can get it home and start dialing it in. There is so much left to do before June.
Rubbing...? Nothing rubs.

bluesteel wrote:could you please put up some detailed pics of welding the rear guards up when you do it

need to do it to mine soon... cheers!

This is probably the only part of the build where I don't know what to do. I need a sheetmetal man to build the inner rear guards for me. I had a go but I'm out of my depth. Cutting them out with the plasma cutter was a lot of fun. I removed all the metal between the outer skin and the tray skin. I also cut into the tray floor for an inch or so to give enough room behind the tyre. At least I don't have a rear door to contend with.

vincentvega · Post by **vincentvega** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:27 pm

i just realised how perfect you got your measurements on shifting the front wheels forward - factory mudflaps untouched with 30" tyres and they are in exactly the right spot!

well done