Rudy, why does that engine have the primary carbs mounted normally, but the secondaries are rotated 90 degrees? I see that all 4 have turn cutout tubes. When you get that thing dialed in, it's gonna be FAST!
Good eye, I can’t remember the exact reason for the secondaries to be clocked 90. But I think it has to do with how the throttle linkage is set up for the secondaries. I also know that it’s common enough that they’re specific adapters for it.
Were you pulling a string for the gas ? Thats what i had on my 5hp mini bike 50 years ago. Once it kicked it took off . Fun project. Y'all need to go out with Paul sometime
Absolute death trap, lol. Yanking the front wheels, and it sounds like it might be hitting on 3 cylinders. Get it running 100%, that thing will be stupid fast, lol.
Yes, and what you are talking about is the tank peeling. That tank is plastic and between gas being spilled on it and the pressure from the gas fumes expanding, paint will always have trouble sticking to it.
The old schoolers will remember when Rudy was in the shop everday and in everyone of the vids lol i remember i started watching maybe around 20k subs lol
Living in socal in the 60s my dad and brothers had a buggy with corvair engine, they used to run on baha, always looked like fun.(I wasn't born for another 25 years and 5000 miles north lol) My first car was a 71 beetle, have it and a 67 now, always wanted to build a sand rail, but theres not much reason in Alaska 😂 other than looking cool going waaaayyy too fast to the mall... but between you and Paul at fabrats lately, I might just weld up a frame and try it this summer anyway!
With the front wanting to do a wheelie so easily you might have to add turning brakes to have a little steering control while on the throttle and in the sand. I have what I am going to call a show sand buggy that belongs to a friend and has been sitting under a tarp in my heated garage for the last 24 yrs and I have never heard it run. It is a 1974 VW Thing with a 6 cyl Porsche engine. It is complete and is showing 20 miles on the odometer (new gauge cluster) since it was a trailer queen and maybe a loop around the showgrounds. It has two of about everything from the shocks, fuel cells, batteries, etc. It has a costly plush interior with a padded roll cage and 4 racing seats with harnesses. It is bright red with quite a bit of chrome. I would estimate that it was built in the mid 80's with the best of the best at the time. It lived its whole life in the Garden Grove area of CA and is now in heated storage in SE Ohio. Anyone with more money than sense like the lifelong fireman that built/had this built let me know. No title, bill of sale only. It was inherited and since it would not pass CA emissions the little paper trail it had before leaving CA has been lost. I did see a folder of receipts that contained most of what was purchased and labor paid out but that has been over 20 years ago and never in my possession. I forgot to mention there were 2 more roadworthy ones I know a year ago. Back to yours, it should be the fastest, use a very tall flag and maybe look into turning brakes , the same principle as like on the Bombi but made for sand rails. Make sure your seat harness is not too far out of date.
As someone who was riding in buggies like this in the late 70s, Rudy, with your hair flying in the breeze as you tore down the road in that sand buggy, I swear I had the best flashbacks of some of the greatest times of my youth watching you tear it up and pull up the front wheels. Thank you brother, for bringing that awesome piece of History back to life!
Fun video! Looks like Matt should assign someone to go out once a week or so and start up everything parked in the yard that’s supposed to run but isn’t used regularly. The chance of finding something that runs well on the first try when they need it would be greatly improved.
WOW look at that tank Robby didn't blowtack and static it. Nice to see Big Ed out giving you all insight. Rudy that is a monster you will really need to be careful with it. It will definitely need new shocks.
I'm so glad to see the bruthers working together and having a ball at the same tyme with their projects. Glad to see Collins leg is mending without problems. 👍🏾
This was definitely filmed a while ago, you can see Bombi's engine isn't even installed yet. Looking forward to all the sand rail (dune buggy) content coming up from MORR/RAD and Fab Rats
On the carburetor it’s called a spider bridge. I had one on my dune buggy. I think the guys name is Marty Corvair over in city of industry. California look them up. Good luck. Yes definitely have to go for barrel carburetor over a bridge that’ll give you room to place a new air cleaner on top.
Well it sure is looking like there's going to be a whole bunch of sand rails Paul's bought a dozen your dad's got a pile of them looks like you guys are going to do a video with sandrails😂
I had one of these .. sortof .. in 1977 motorcycle wheeled downhill coaster mod. it was a sandrail, but my dad took my motor. i made due. sold it in the 90's no idea where it went from there.
Seeing a couple weeks ago the younger generation at MORR we're playing with sand rails, Fabrats now doing the same and now Rudy breaking out old metal.
If my son wanted to ride he had to clean the carburetor. So he learned. Thats something he can use on a lot of old vehicles. My dad had Corvairs i didn't think of using the motor for a rail . My friend Steve had a cool Baja bug one piece front end and a one piece rear fenders whale tail . And a 2180cc motor.
Your gona have a he'll of a time tuning that 110 with 4 carbs🤯 I had a corsair corsa with the same set up always had problems with them..but when it ran good ,it was FAST good luck👍
When I first built my 66 Baja Bug I put a 1962 Corvair engine in it. After 3 years and having trouble finding parts, I put a VW engine in it. I drove it for 22 more years on and off road. I gave it away more than 10 years ago and I still miss it. 😢 You got some nice wheelies in yours hitting second gear like that ! 👍
Rudy .. I would say it deserves a full resto , and many mods along the way ! Let's see what you can make of this worthy beast .. 👍👍.. Then let's "TEST ON IT " ...
Every time I see you guys testing cars etc on public streets, I think "Wow, here in Australia they'd lock you up and throw away the key for doing that!!!"
Was going to comment push starting cars is the next level of friendship after helping someone move. I was gonna say you have all those vehicles why are you not pushing with one of those but for the first time ever you started using the jeep as a pusher before I could make the comment. Happy to see another RAD project launched!
I built one much like this in ‘69 with a couple buddies in Auto Shop. Built the frame and learned to weld on 2.5” galvanized pipe. It was really fun, and fast!!
@@billbillinger2491 Eds older 60s model does. Look back at Robbies video where he too all the metal pieces of Matts to get sand blasted, they didnt take the tank or the side pieces. The sides were fiberglass and i believe the tank on this newer model was plastic.
@Rudys Adventure and Design @matts offroad The offroad flag pole on the sand rail.. is a 102" HUSTLER 27MHz walkitalki antenna and a barrol spring and ball joint way better then that glassfiber poles you use... the stainless high tension spring steel don´t bend easely... and often survives roleovers
