This time we have a homemade buggy with Volvo turbo engine, we’ll show you what this machine
can do and how it is built, and I think you will be impressed, lets go!
Hi guys as usually its me just a voice over and you are watching review machines!
It is early morning and we start this video when it is still dark, cause we have huge
plans for today but a daytime is so short in winter.
Well it is a homemade buggy that was built literally from scratch.
It is a perfect example what a handy man can do even without huge money.
Lets look in detail how this vehicle is built.
The base here is a metal frame welded from ordinary metal tubes, and it seems to be durable.
The engine is mounted from behind.
It is 5 cylinders engine Volvo, 2,3 liters capacity with 340 hp power!
The gearbox is mechanical also from Volvo.
There is a custom independent suspension system of all the wheels.
Levers and rods are made specially for the machine, the shocks and disk brakes were taken
from other car.
The buggy is equipped with mud tires, the ground clearance is decent.
There is a fuel tank under the hood and the battery is in the very fron of the body to
provide better balance.
Lets look inside.
Here we see sport seats and belts.
The dashboard is simple, but looks cool, some gauges here were taken from a sportbike.
Then we see here a standard steering wheel, pedals and levers.
Besides there is a special handle – it is a manual control of the turbo charger, you
can adjust the power according the road conditions.
But when I tried to get in, it turned out quite difficult task, the same thing happened
when I was trying to get out.
The matter is the author of the buggy is not so tall as me, and he made the interior only
for himself.
Meantime it is enough light to do the first tests of the buggy.
I strain at the leash to see what this machine can do!
And meet Aleksey the author of this buggy and its only rider!
The first thing I should say the buggy is a definitely an evil itself.
The matter is its so powerful 340 hp but its weight is only 500 kilos.
Unfortunately today we don’t have a proper road to check its maximum speed and dynamic.
But even here on a ground it is absolutely clear all the specs are so impressive!
For example 0 to 60 takes less than 5 sec, as to the maximum speed, it is limited mostly
by your brains and approximately its 230 km/h.
Also we were greatly impressed how the suspension works on a rough ground.
The buggy literally flies here despite numerous hummocks.
Even now after just half an hour of active riding I can say this buggy is an amazing
vehicle, showing us an insane performance.
But the most exciting that the total budget of the project is really small.
But we will speak about the money a bit later, cause at the moment we get quite a sudden
occurrence.
Well the suspension worked perfectly but not for a long time.
One of the shock is definitely out of order now.
Well it would survive probably if it were fox shocks or something like that.
But cheap noname stuff as a rule has a short life.
Well, we have many more interesting tests for this machine today, so lets make a quick
repair to get it back on the track.
After few hours our buggy is back to business and we are ready to proceed our trip.
By the way if we had broken some brand shocks it would cost us an arm and a leg and we wouldn’t
be able to continue the shootings today but our repair took us little time and money,
so there some pros and cons in noname cheap details.
Lets do some offroading tests!
And you may ask if it really makes sense to go offroading on the rear wheel drive vehicle.
On one hand it doesn’t make much sense.
But on the other hand I remind you that our baggy has a quite a little weight but and
it is so powerful.
Just push a throttle and it jumps out from any puddle.
Besides there is a locked differential and that also does a lot of good for offroading
capabilities.
And summing up all the features like little weight, mud tires, high power, big ground
clearance and locked differential we have a really capable offroader, at some points
even better than 4x4 vehicles.
Well as a matter of fact we have an awesome turbo baggy for small money, but it took much
time to build it.
There are numerous custom details in the construction, that took a lot of work and patience to make
them appropriate for the project.
The most difficult task was to make drive shafts that could sustain the power of the
huge engine.
It took much time but finally special composite drive shafts were made and it is possible
now to use the whole power of the Volvo engine without the fear to brake the shafts.
As we can see the buggy is rather capable on offroading and hill climbing.
But when we tried to take a really steep ascent with the angle about 40 degrees the buggy
backed off, due to the frosty ground and only rear drive.
But I am not sure that this ascent could be taken even by a 4x4 offroader.
Meantime it is getting dark outside and while we are enjoying this beautiful sunset lets
talk about the whole budget of the project.
The most expensive things here are the engine and gearbox.
Other parts are cheap most of all.
And the approximate sum of building this vehicle is 4500 dollars.
I think its quite cheap, taking into account the specs of this machine.
But certainly we should remember that the work isn’t included into the price, cause
the author everything made by himself.
Meantime we crashed our copter.
And I think it is a perfect moment to call it a day.
Thanks for watching guys!
Please post your comments what you think of the buggy, and if it worth its money or not.
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