Someone gave me a 1990 brazilan made kombi bus for free, in full running order. I have not been able to get excited about restoring a hippy van; but building a sand rail out of it totally sounds like fun. This video is really helpful. However, I think I will keep it super simple and mostly orginal.
I felt your pain with my buggy luckily the TDI bolted up to the passat transmission and the passat transmission twins with the 986 porsche boxster. So i was able to get a 986 shifter and shift linkages. BAM
Have you considered lengthening the arm piviot for the front to back motion on the rear shifter section to allow more travel to get reverse to engage? You can make a plate over the shifter body and cut slots in it to limit 1st thru 4th shifts? Gated shifter like a Ferrari. This will also help with shifting into the wrong gear.
A standalone would be nice but this engine is too complicated for anything cost effective at the moment. These DI injectors fire at 65 volts and hold at 12v, Dual VVT, dbw, electronically regulated oil pump, etc. Things like that are going to be hard to come across in a standalone but with the popularity of the GM LT engines it will come with time
I have a VW bus motor and trans on mine and the shifting is jacklegged. It has the trans linkage in the rear like yours is. I just bought it and am looking into what to do to make it better. Thanks for the video.
I ran into the same issue with the ECU's. It's not the year range though its the calibration. Still going through 6 ecu's to find out exactly why they do that. I'm building a street buggy that the engine is 90 degrees off from yours and I noticed one thing you may want to check before you start driving it hard. The oil pan and pickup are designed for a FWD in a car tilted forward at a pretty good angle. If you corner hard one way you might run into oil starvation. Might need to tig up a deep sump pan and pickup for the way you have the engine mounted.
I got the ECU starting and working well! I used a manual file from a 2017 6-speed cruze, also E80A ecm. I can get the software number for you if you need it. Also great point on the oil pan. Once I have a gauge setup Ill be monitoring oil pressure closely especially on steep hill climbs and stuff.
Around and about the twelve minute mark of this video talking about the slack in the shifter shaft for making it tighter.... my solution was to drive the pin out if it would come out easy... other ways to do what I am going to say later.... the CV shafts on those subarus were held in with a round pin that would get tighter when drove in... I do forget the name of those pins but they are hollow with a slot down the side of them... you had to knock them out to remove a axle on those old subarus.... well that pin you knock out was the solution as you could drill out that shift pin to a hair larger and not too big for the CV pin I referred to. Drive the CV shaft pin in the shift rod hole and it just is tight as you can ask for.... many of those old subarus came into the shop and they couldn't get their rig into gear so we just drilled out that old pin or even made a new hole in a easier spot to get the pin in holding that cheap metal to the shaft.
Great shirter solution! I have a mid engine Pinto buggy with swing axle and been loving what you have been doing. My issue is trans is stuck in gear and shifter is very sketchy which I'm sure led to the shift arm getting out of position. All the solutions I have found for mid engine besides lots of money don't come anywhere near the rigidity of what you have done and definitely going to go this way. Where did you get the cables?
Thanks for watching! For the cables, I ordered them from Midwest Control. I ordered one a while back for a throttle cable for my dozer and was impressed how strong they were so I had them make 2 more for the buggy shifter. So far so good with them. You can get them here: midwestcontrol.com/shop/products/cables
Thanks for the update. This thing is awesome! Can't wait to see you get it dialed in! Would you mind sharing a rough breakdown of your overall cost into the project?
Hoping for some type of code change regarding the start signal from the body control module. Nobody can really prove anything at this point so I just have to try on my dime (250 bucks, ugh)
This is a second comment as to having too much fun.... who puts limits on fun.... na da ... not me either. I think that high angle just might be a issue for CV shafts to live a long time.. but then who knows what your able to adapt into it. I ran a subaru shop in anchorage for about five years and it was a blast doing things with them.... A real nice fit would be finding a four wheel drive transmission that had the high and low range for the transmission... biggest problem is the length is a way too long for this application... will be watching ya.... I am seventy four now so nothing else to do.
Exactly my thought for the time being. It idles so quiet I dont think ill need to be shutting it off and starting it up but more than a few times each ride
Curious how you're gonna solve the axle issue. This thing is so sick it's gonna be unreal once you get it dialed. Seems like a perfect motor for bombing up the trails if you can get it sorted out. Does hp tuners allow you to actually tune the motor if you wanted to? I assume more boost wouldn't help with that baby turbo anyways it's probably already maxed out.
I think some geometry changes and moving to aftermarket modified CVs will fix the axle problem. Yes HPtuners will let me turn the power up. You will see in my next video that this ECU has been a big problem. I have some work to do to get this thing to even make stock power Stay tuned!
I dont know how far you are from Schuylkill county pa but if you make it out here i can show you some trails that will put this to the test. You can see the type of trails in my videos.
Dude I was just checking our your channel. You did a ton of similar stuff. I wish we would of collaborated 2 years ago! And yes I ride the skook all the time dirtbikes buggy jeeps. We will have to go for a ride this fall. I dont have any buggy friends and never expected to see another modified subaru trans in my neck of the woods.
Is there any way to rotate the engine adaptor counterclockwise on the transmission to give it enough of an angle to fit in an actual subaru engine bay? Are you going to release the specs and measurements on the adaptor plate?
Yeah I still don't understand why you didn't put the center of the wheel hub straight across from the center of the axle shaft. You have so much angle on the shaft from the ride height position which only gets worse as the wheel travels up and down in it's arc. Having the wheel back further would create an arc that is much wider with less forward motion from ride height. Yes the wheel could travel up and down more but that is easily dealt with through bump stops and limiting straps. Finding the correct length axle shaft might be tricky but you have all the tools you need to cut a shaft in half and change it's length.
Everything you are saying is correct. Moving the wheels 6" rearward to match the trans axle centerline would shift the weight balance of the buggy too much. Basically I want rear engine buggy traction, with this mid engine setup. Its clear that this isnt going to work (Even more so when I post the next 2 videos). Ill need to compromise and move the rear wheels back some. I am thinking 3 inches will help plus I will build custom 930CV based axles with chromoly cages. I also have some wheel spacers I can remove to gain more axle length which will help to reduce CV angle as well. Then hopefully moving some components behind the axle will help keep the rear weight up, fuel tank, maybe the battery, etc.
www.ebay.com/itm/184371442049?fits=Make%3AHonda&_skw=honda+shifter&itmmeta=01JD33441Q5G59GZ1JP5FWGFYF&hash=item2aed64f181:g:dgoAAOSwNQFlI8MO&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA0HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKlhLtwIVJJl6gG%2FxEbcwHVOdpxNy0zZELJ5TmTnhRSVRzI3vSzlJto1pc82IU3fcww9UzkfJV%2B%2BQKyviIstMnKY1KSYYIHAz6M8g6KTokcCVD00V35IgbyKJtt845Q%2BX5dQIz7gRfR7jPaXu9LzIbL9jzT2konOepMc0U%2FRUzFlYfhzZYqY7UBR8sUaV00Levgo2%2Fuca7ljcRKr9ARMQXIVAjb0h9AxduZMMaXYX6TDbIT%2Bwx2YOqqPhhBc9ge6oOY%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4LBkOPoZA I modified it and turned it around backwards
Electricity is cheap in China. Because coal, and 'limited' emissions controls. So refining Al is cheap. Then the rest is machine time with a CNC machine monitored for someone getting paid extremely little. Shipping internationally is subject to an agreement which means packages from China are cheap. Or it comes over 4,000 at time in a container.
@@spankranchgarage the other part I forgot about is the design. This absolutely will be a knock off of someone else's design, so there's nothing to amortize there.
Someone gave me a 1990 brazilan made kombi bus for free, in full running order. I have not been able to get excited about restoring a hippy van; but building a sand rail out of it totally sounds like fun. This video is really helpful. However, I think I will keep it super simple and mostly orginal.
Keeping rear engine and a VW trans is sure the tested and proven method!
Hey! Neat buggy build! Oh, and the L shaped plate is called a bellhorn!!!! Can't wait to see the buddy DONE!!!
Thats the word!!
I felt your pain with my buggy luckily the TDI bolted up to the passat transmission and the passat transmission twins with the 986 porsche boxster.
So i was able to get a 986 shifter and shift linkages. BAM
That sounds like an awesome setup!!
This channel is awesome! Thanks for the upload
Glad you enjoy it!
Good work 👍
Have you considered lengthening the arm piviot for the front to back motion on the rear shifter section to allow more travel to get reverse to engage? You can make a plate over the shifter body and cut slots in it to limit 1st thru 4th shifts? Gated shifter like a Ferrari. This will also help with shifting into the wrong gear.
I like the idea! Right now I am working on fixing this axle crisis. But ill circle back to the finer things like shifting eventually.
You are the man! This is awesome
Fuel tech FT550 ! Many possibilities
A standalone would be nice but this engine is too complicated for anything cost effective at the moment. These DI injectors fire at 65 volts and hold at 12v, Dual VVT, dbw, electronically regulated oil pump, etc. Things like that are going to be hard to come across in a standalone but with the popularity of the GM LT engines it will come with time
Thanx. I haven't heard of that one yet.
I have a VW bus motor and trans on mine and the shifting is jacklegged. It has the trans linkage in the rear like yours is. I just bought it and am looking into what to do to make it better. Thanks for the video.
Dang, Impressed is all i can say.
I ran into the same issue with the ECU's. It's not the year range though its the calibration. Still going through 6 ecu's to find out exactly why they do that. I'm building a street buggy that the engine is 90 degrees off from yours and I noticed one thing you may want to check before you start driving it hard. The oil pan and pickup are designed for a FWD in a car tilted forward at a pretty good angle. If you corner hard one way you might run into oil starvation. Might need to tig up a deep sump pan and pickup for the way you have the engine mounted.
I got the ECU starting and working well! I used a manual file from a 2017 6-speed cruze, also E80A ecm. I can get the software number for you if you need it. Also great point on the oil pan. Once I have a gauge setup Ill be monitoring oil pressure closely especially on steep hill climbs and stuff.
Bro I love this thing The only videos I actively wait for
Thank you!
Awesome job! Good job documenting everything.
Around and about the twelve minute mark of this video talking about the slack in the shifter shaft for making it tighter.... my solution was to drive the pin out if it would come out easy... other ways to do what I am going to say later.... the CV shafts on those subarus were held in with a round pin that would get tighter when drove in... I do forget the name of those pins but they are hollow with a slot down the side of them... you had to knock them out to remove a axle on those old subarus.... well that pin you knock out was the solution as you could drill out that shift pin to a hair larger and not too big for the CV pin I referred to. Drive the CV shaft pin in the shift rod hole and it just is tight as you can ask for.... many of those old subarus came into the shop and they couldn't get their rig into gear so we just drilled out that old pin or even made a new hole in a easier spot to get the pin in holding that cheap metal to the shaft.
Alsp, what's the background music? [nm - Heaven and Hell, MeanMachineDean]
I love this build. Another great vid!
Glad you enjoy it!
Badass man 👍
Great shirter solution! I have a mid engine Pinto buggy with swing axle and been loving what you have been doing. My issue is trans is stuck in gear and shifter is very sketchy which I'm sure led to the shift arm getting out of position. All the solutions I have found for mid engine besides lots of money don't come anywhere near the rigidity of what you have done and definitely going to go this way. Where did you get the cables?
Thanks for watching! For the cables, I ordered them from Midwest Control. I ordered one a while back for a throttle cable for my dozer and was impressed how strong they were so I had them make 2 more for the buggy shifter. So far so good with them. You can get them here: midwestcontrol.com/shop/products/cables
Thanks for the update. This thing is awesome! Can't wait to see you get it dialed in! Would you mind sharing a rough breakdown of your overall cost into the project?
Thanks! And that's a good future video idea. It is expensive... but mostly because I go through many variations before I settle on a solution
Nice work. So what is the difference between the ECMs? A code logic difference in starting between the two years? You’ll get it done.
Hoping for some type of code change regarding the start signal from the body control module. Nobody can really prove anything at this point so I just have to try on my dime (250 bucks, ugh)
This is a second comment as to having too much fun.... who puts limits on fun.... na da ... not me either. I think that high angle just might be a issue for CV shafts to live a long time.. but then who knows what your able to adapt into it. I ran a subaru shop in anchorage for about five years and it was a blast doing things with them.... A real nice fit would be finding a four wheel drive transmission that had the high and low range for the transmission... biggest problem is the length is a way too long for this application... will be watching ya.... I am seventy four now so nothing else to do.
hellll yeah. worst case on the starting issue just do a setup like the old diesels where they have a starting fluid injector into the intake XD
Exactly my thought for the time being. It idles so quiet I dont think ill need to be shutting it off and starting it up but more than a few times each ride
Curious how you're gonna solve the axle issue. This thing is so sick it's gonna be unreal once you get it dialed. Seems like a perfect motor for bombing up the trails if you can get it sorted out. Does hp tuners allow you to actually tune the motor if you wanted to? I assume more boost wouldn't help with that baby turbo anyways it's probably already maxed out.
I think some geometry changes and moving to aftermarket modified CVs will fix the axle problem. Yes HPtuners will let me turn the power up. You will see in my next video that this ECU has been a big problem. I have some work to do to get this thing to even make stock power
Stay tuned!
Sweet! It’s coming along. Nice to see it running/moving. Right on man.
Thanks 👍
That thing looks like a blast. What a unit.
I dont know how far you are from Schuylkill county pa but if you make it out here i can show you some trails that will put this to the test. You can see the type of trails in my videos.
Dude I was just checking our your channel. You did a ton of similar stuff. I wish we would of collaborated 2 years ago! And yes I ride the skook all the time dirtbikes buggy jeeps. We will have to go for a ride this fall. I dont have any buggy friends and never expected to see another modified subaru trans in my neck of the woods.
Not much time to build confidence. I got the same issue😂 But you know, I can find more bugs on the 14hr drive to LS fest...
Pack a welder and a grinder!
Limit straps and stops are in order.
These trailing arms and axles are getting a full re-design. Lots of problems I am facing with this setup
Is there any way to rotate the engine adaptor counterclockwise on the transmission to give it enough of an angle to fit in an actual subaru engine bay?
Are you going to release the specs and measurements on the adaptor plate?
Yeah I still don't understand why you didn't put the center of the wheel hub straight across from the center of the axle shaft. You have so much angle on the shaft from the ride height position which only gets worse as the wheel travels up and down in it's arc. Having the wheel back further would create an arc that is much wider with less forward motion from ride height. Yes the wheel could travel up and down more but that is easily dealt with through bump stops and limiting straps. Finding the correct length axle shaft might be tricky but you have all the tools you need to cut a shaft in half and change it's length.
Everything you are saying is correct. Moving the wheels 6" rearward to match the trans axle centerline would shift the weight balance of the buggy too much. Basically I want rear engine buggy traction, with this mid engine setup. Its clear that this isnt going to work (Even more so when I post the next 2 videos). Ill need to compromise and move the rear wheels back some. I am thinking 3 inches will help plus I will build custom 930CV based axles with chromoly cages. I also have some wheel spacers I can remove to gain more axle length which will help to reduce CV angle as well. Then hopefully moving some components behind the axle will help keep the rear weight up, fuel tank, maybe the battery, etc.
Do you have a link for your shifter?
Thank you
www.ebay.com/itm/184371442049?fits=Make%3AHonda&_skw=honda+shifter&itmmeta=01JD33441Q5G59GZ1JP5FWGFYF&hash=item2aed64f181:g:dgoAAOSwNQFlI8MO&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA0HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKlhLtwIVJJl6gG%2FxEbcwHVOdpxNy0zZELJ5TmTnhRSVRzI3vSzlJto1pc82IU3fcww9UzkfJV%2B%2BQKyviIstMnKY1KSYYIHAz6M8g6KTokcCVD00V35IgbyKJtt845Q%2BX5dQIz7gRfR7jPaXu9LzIbL9jzT2konOepMc0U%2FRUzFlYfhzZYqY7UBR8sUaV00Levgo2%2Fuca7ljcRKr9ARMQXIVAjb0h9AxduZMMaXYX6TDbIT%2Bwx2YOqqPhhBc9ge6oOY%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4LBkOPoZA
I modified it and turned it around backwards
Electricity is cheap in China. Because coal, and 'limited' emissions controls. So refining Al is cheap. Then the rest is machine time with a CNC machine monitored for someone getting paid extremely little. Shipping internationally is subject to an agreement which means packages from China are cheap. Or it comes over 4,000 at time in a container.
I guess your right. Blows my mind!
@@spankranchgarage the other part I forgot about is the design.
This absolutely will be a knock off of someone else's design, so there's nothing to amortize there.
Damn is she gonna RIP 🔥 what an absolute beaut. You got this!!
All part of the journey! Deadlines are just there to be over shot, but motivate us to get shit done! You'll get it I am sure!
Bud light the gay of beer
Can't win em all unfortunately
You know what its like to break an axle early in the day
@@spankranchgarage there's not much that I'm not willing to break early in the day. That is just sometimes how it be on those bigger jobs
$89 = slave labor and destroyed environment