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NEW Cruiser buggy - Sunray Engineering

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Hmmmm.......I know that shop

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I like the fixture table, makes things much easier and a good way to tack and hold things in place while welding complete to reduce distoration.

Are the bent peice purchased that way or custom bent by the builder himsel???

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all custom....fab shop is in TX....I have a handful of pics of their projects, and have wheeled with the owner...they do VERY nice work, on a variety of rigs.

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wheeled with the owner....
Now THAT is funny.

The shop is the same one that built my axles and installed my LT-1.

Sunrayengineering.com

This is their first full out tube buggy. They have built numerous custom frame rigs, but all have been with a square tube frame and a body.

Tom, the owner is a Mechanical Engineer and everything in this rig has been engineered and fully drawn out.

It is cool to see the drawings from every angle.........

Keep the pictures coming Woody! We have to get Jim out of the "Big Red Heep"!!

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Lance sent me a handful of pics of other projects....damn...nice lookin stuff...makes me wish I wasn't 1400miles away!

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hehehe....new buggy's are always fun...what are the specs/class/sanctioning body it will be run in.

if it's the person i am thinking of did he sell his old buggy complete or is he parting it out?

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new competitor, no current buggy to part or sell...believe the plans will revolve around UROC's rules for the full-awn classes....

I don't know much more...will post up more pics as they come available, and any specs I can whore out too

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i've seen a bunch of sunray's work over the last couple of years and the quality is not just good, it's also very consistant.
keep the pics coming, really looking forward to watching this one evolve!
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...outta make a call to the pitbull gang and see about sponsorship....

and, he'll need a little 'MUD sponsorship too....SpaceGhost has be covered for one class, Jim can cover the other one!

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Just curious, are the tubes going to be butt welded???

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Sleved and welded.

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Will Jim A. be competing next year? What is he going to do with his TJ. Must be nice to have money...

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TJ: my guess is, repair his busted front Detroit...again...hehehe

planning to compete in 05, he rode shotgun with me in Clayton, he's pretty pumped

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TJ: my guess is, repair his busted front Detroit...again...hehehe

planning to compete in 05, he rode shotgun with me in Clayton, he's pretty pumped
The front is fixed, it was a ring gear. The front axle has been bent 2-3 times after it was REALLY bent once and the 3rd member flexed somehow....

Anyway, they gussetted and trussed the housing...I dont think that will EVER happen again. Looks like a Dozer blade !!!

Just heard from he and Lance, they are in Las Cruces hitting the trails. Barry Franklin, one of our buddies, got bitten on the hand by a rattlesnake so they were off to the hospital.

Barry is so tough, he got bitten, he sucked the blood out and finished the trail. It had bbeen 5 hours since the bite and they were just then headed to the hospital

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two more, Friday's progress....
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nice to see they did sumthin today too....

rear axle pics...tig'd moly housing, 9" chunk...LOW LOW weight and lots of bling!
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9" chunk...LOW LOW weight and lots of bling!
The chunk is all aluminum too.......cool deal!

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