Re: The Road to Mexican 1000- Building a Manxter DualSports
Posted: Mon May 11, 2015 1:39 am
We had a LOT of people tells us we would never make it, had no idea, where stupid for trying etc. Funnily enough many of them have never raced shit and have no IDEA WTF they are talking about. It was only through the support of our Sponsors and awesome input from our Team Members that we succeeded where many thought we would fail.
I can not emphasis enough the need to use quality parts and skilled labor when you try such things. The only parts we had on the cars that let us down where from EMPI and another Chinese supplier. The majority of our Drivers where novice and did a great job of keeping it together. The suspension setup from Sonny at DownSouth Motorsports was thanked more than once as we his some pretty gnarly stuff at speed.
Anyway thanks again to everyone who gave us support and if you want any feedback on the products we used please ask. I will be doing up full reviews and posting as we go and I am VERY HAPPY to say that with the exception of those items mentioned above I will be using the same suppliers in all future builds without change.
A quick List of what we ended up with
Body - Meyers Manx DualSport Kit (MeyersManx.com)
Chassis - Meyers Manx Baja Edition Chassis
Front Suspension 4" over 1 3/4" Arms, King Kong Spindles Foddrill Motorsports (http://foddrillmotorsports.com/)
Rear Suspension 3 x 3 UpYerBug Micro's (UpYerBug.com)
Brakes - Jamar Performance Pro X and 14" Hanging Pedals, Turning Brake, 4 Pot Calipers, 2 Pot e-Brake, Micro Stubs rear (http://www.jamarperformance.com/)
Shocks - DownSouth Motorsports Custom 2.5" Fox Piggy Backs ( 10 up front 12" out back) (http://downsouthmotorsports.com/)
Engine - Subaru EJ 25 SOHC with stock ECU built by Chris at SubiWorks (http://www.subieworks.com)
Transmission - SubiWorks Built SubaruGears R&P Offroad Spec 4.86: 1 (subarugears.com)
Wheels - Method Race Wheels - 15 x 4.5 front, 15 x 7" BeadLock rear (http://www.methodracewheels.com/)
Seats - PRP Seats Baja Edition Suspension Seats with Lumbar Supports (prpseats.com)
Electrics - Pro Wires Material - Custom Loom and Install (prowireusa.com)
Comms - Rugged Radios in Car Comms with Rugged Radios VHF Car to Car (ruggedradios.com)
Headlights - JW Speaker 7" Projector from HeadLight Revolution (headlightrevolution.com)
Design - 202 Solution BendTech / Arclight CNC Production (http://www.bend-tech.com/) & (ArcLightCNC.com)
Fabrication - SteelArt Creations Brendale QLD - Paul did an awesome job, no cracks, no stress, no issues (steelart.com.au)
I can not emphasis enough the need to use quality parts and skilled labor when you try such things. The only parts we had on the cars that let us down where from EMPI and another Chinese supplier. The majority of our Drivers where novice and did a great job of keeping it together. The suspension setup from Sonny at DownSouth Motorsports was thanked more than once as we his some pretty gnarly stuff at speed.
Anyway thanks again to everyone who gave us support and if you want any feedback on the products we used please ask. I will be doing up full reviews and posting as we go and I am VERY HAPPY to say that with the exception of those items mentioned above I will be using the same suppliers in all future builds without change.
A quick List of what we ended up with
Body - Meyers Manx DualSport Kit (MeyersManx.com)
Chassis - Meyers Manx Baja Edition Chassis
Front Suspension 4" over 1 3/4" Arms, King Kong Spindles Foddrill Motorsports (http://foddrillmotorsports.com/)
Rear Suspension 3 x 3 UpYerBug Micro's (UpYerBug.com)
Brakes - Jamar Performance Pro X and 14" Hanging Pedals, Turning Brake, 4 Pot Calipers, 2 Pot e-Brake, Micro Stubs rear (http://www.jamarperformance.com/)
Shocks - DownSouth Motorsports Custom 2.5" Fox Piggy Backs ( 10 up front 12" out back) (http://downsouthmotorsports.com/)
Engine - Subaru EJ 25 SOHC with stock ECU built by Chris at SubiWorks (http://www.subieworks.com)
Transmission - SubiWorks Built SubaruGears R&P Offroad Spec 4.86: 1 (subarugears.com)
Wheels - Method Race Wheels - 15 x 4.5 front, 15 x 7" BeadLock rear (http://www.methodracewheels.com/)
Seats - PRP Seats Baja Edition Suspension Seats with Lumbar Supports (prpseats.com)
Electrics - Pro Wires Material - Custom Loom and Install (prowireusa.com)
Comms - Rugged Radios in Car Comms with Rugged Radios VHF Car to Car (ruggedradios.com)
Headlights - JW Speaker 7" Projector from HeadLight Revolution (headlightrevolution.com)
Design - 202 Solution BendTech / Arclight CNC Production (http://www.bend-tech.com/) & (ArcLightCNC.com)
Fabrication - SteelArt Creations Brendale QLD - Paul did an awesome job, no cracks, no stress, no issues (steelart.com.au)