Our new Manxter

1MINT86 · Post by **1MINT86** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:33 am

Christmas came early this year, last Saturday we picked up our new Dual Sport kit from Bruce and Winnie

dcamomanx · Post by **dcamomanx** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:46 am

Greg Congrats on the new project.
Jen is already bugging me that we should have gotten one of those..
Doran

GotManx · Post by **GotManx** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 6:16 pm

As clean as your Towd is, I'm sure this will be one first class Manxter.

manx1111pla · Post by **manx1111pla** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:41 pm

Very nice Greg, When you get it going i sure would like to come over and check it out.

Dale

jlowery · Post by **jlowery** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 2:00 am

Congratulations!
I was beginning to think the Dual Sports only came in green or orange.

Joe

jsturtlebuggy · Post by **jsturtlebuggy** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 5:40 am

Congrats on your new project Greg.

Tell us more about how you are going to build it.

The yellow looks goods. Did you get a top?

I am in the middle of changing over to Subaru power in mine. Just the little 2.5L DOHC model. The price of the 3Litre 6 cylinder JDM's has come down. It is Medeola favorite.

1MINT86 · Post by **1MINT86** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 6:28 am

Thanks all, the color is Sun fusion yellow from a Toyota FJ. I'm planning on using a Subaru 2.5 also, is Outfront the best place for Subaru's ? I didn't get a top yet because I thought I might want to build a roof rack, but since I also want to use side curtains I think I'll need to order a top at some point. A friend of mine is a transmission builder and he's trying to convince me to use the stronger type 2 waterboxer transmission with the side shifter, has anyone installed a transmission with a side shift ?

jsturtlebuggy · Post by **jsturtlebuggy** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:04 pm

I found OutFront to be the best place for parts and the most important of all they will share their knowledge with you.

Mac is the one to talk to at OutFront. He has incredible amount of insight on what it take for the conversion.

Everyone there is very friendly.

Jon has a 5speed in his Manxter and made his own linkage. Weddle and others have linkage for the side shifters. Plus the WasserBoxer trans has a real reverse gear.

Get the top your wife will appriciate. Plus it keeps most of the water out of the buggy during high speed water crossings.

Did you get the rear wing for mounting the radiator.

The 3Liter 6 cylinder Subaru engine is only about 1 1/5in longer than a 2.5L engine and does not weigh that much more.

Kevin at Medola says they have more low end torque than the 2.5L.

Ron the guy from Mammoth has the 3L 6 cylinder in his green Manxter Dual Sport. He used it to run the Mexican 1000 rally last year.

GotManx · Post by **GotManx** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 6:12 pm

jlowery wrote:Congratulations!
I was beginning to think the Dual Sports only came in green or orange.

Joe

          I heard that a Sea Spray Metalic was made, but no one has ever seen it.

Greg - I have the Vanagon five speed in mine with the side shift.  I made my own linkage that I finally got all work out and it shift nice. I have plenty of pics if you decide to go that route. Like Joe said, Weddle and others now make a nice cable shifter too.

dcamomanx · Post by **dcamomanx** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 7:29 pm

John

If you check out the you tube video for the manxter ds you will see your manxter and also the "rare" Sea Spray Metalic manxter DS

Greg We have the top and side curtains and they are great. They sure make winter buggy runs enjoyable.

Doran

1MINT86 · Post by **1MINT86** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 2:02 am

We'll its been a while so I thought I should post some pictures of our albeit slow progress of the Manxter. Over the summer we took the body and cage up to Dave Barrett at Manxchassis and Dave did what Dave does best. Since the pan I bought was pretty badly rusted we ended up building a complete sub-chassis.

Manx-Australia · Post by **Manx-Australia** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:15 am

Looks like a lot of barwork should be plenty strong.

Any details on the dash cover in the last pictures ? Is that something you made up >

1MINT86 · Post by **1MINT86** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 2:37 am

I think what you are seeing to is the master cylinder cover that comes with the hanging pedal option.

Manx-Australia · Post by **Manx-Australia** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:15 pm

1MINT86 wrote:I think what you are seeing to is the master cylinder cover that comes with the hanging pedal option.

Ah ok that makes sense, we don't have a RHD Hanging option so I never really looked at them in that much detail.

A-Manx-for-Jordan · Post by **A-Manx-for-Jordan** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:40 am

Nice build, any progress since last year? I'd love to see more!