Stephan,
Before you run on the dirt/salt, the actual race track, you will have to change the wheel tire combo. Is that something the car accomendates well?
DW
DW
i build my cars very different then the average dune buggies;
i actually use a lot of roadracing/circletrack parts. the front and rear hubs are Speedway Engineering (Nascar style) large bearing Grand Nationals. the rears run on 3" full floater snouts for safety. the bolt pattern is 5.5 on 5 so there is a large selection of rim sizes available.
i like to use front and rear sway bars; they are also a Speedway Engineering product and can be adjusted (by replacing the torque tube with thicker/thinner wall thickness tubing).
the lower A arms are fixed but the upper arms are fully adjustable; i can adjust camber and also give the car more caster if needed.
everything on the suspension is extremely stout (after all it is designed to jump and absorb very rough terrain).
the suspension can be lowered fairly easy (i can replace the Coil carriers with shorter stroke ones and switch to stiffer coilsprings)
the shocks are fully adjustable in compression and rebound.
the frame is torsional very rigid (my center tunnel design adds a lot of stability) ; the car feels very solid and predictable on the street and off.
my biggest problem are the brakes: we use large vented discs on all 4 corners together with big calippers; there is no way we can fit a 15" rim over them (we run 17" on the sand and desert tires) so i guess i can not use any of the narrow Goodyear LSR tires
i found this fairly tall Goodyear F1 GS-D3 255/55 YR 18 (roughly 29" tall x 10" wide). the factory speed rating is "Y" = 186 mph.
would that work??