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Have you even been somewhere where you can find sand dunes, and dune buggies? Somewhere where the buggies are allowed to drive on the dunes? And have you ever sat there thinking to yourself wow, that looks hot?
Well it is. Owning a dune buggy is one of the cheapest and best ways to get into motorsport. And a sandrail dune buggy is the buggy you need if you're serious about getting into sand dune driving.
A sandrail buggy is a specific type of dune buggy. There are, in fact, a number of different types of buggy, and a number of different places where you can drive a buggy.
For example there are street legal buggies, you may well have seen them, and even some offroad buggies are built to be street legal just so that the owners can drive them to where they want to go, rather than trailer them. And show off their buggy a bit on the way as well of course, because they do draw some attention.
And then there are offroad buggies that are specifically designed for dirt driving, For steep tracks, for mud, for offroad fun. And these buggies are different to the street legal buggies, and are also different to the sand dune buggies that are specifically designed for sand dune driving.
These are the sandrails. What is a sandrail? Or, as it can be called sometimes, a sandcar, or sand rail. These are dune buggies that are specifically designed for driving on sandy terrain, particularly steep sandy terrain. There are quite a number of places where it is legal to drive on the dunes, and this is where you find the sandrails.
They are extremely lightweight, with a very high power to weight ratio and They use large high flotation tires with very large treads. Both of these factors allow them to skim lightly over the surface of the sand rather than bogging down into it as a heavier vehicle, or a vehicle with narrow tires would do. But a sandrail usually has narrow front tires to allow it to bit into the sand when turning.
A sandrail has a very low center of gravity, which allows it to drive both up and across steep slopes without rolling.
All this is achieved by the use of an extremely light frame, normally made from tubular steel and a built in roll cage. There is no body to the vehicle, it is really just a frame built around a motor, and normally the motor is rear mounted, or sometimes mid mounted. Motors are usually lightweight with a good power to weight ratio, and often air cooled, sometimes original VW beetle engines, although modern sandrail dune buggies are now using more modern lightweight water cooled motors, for instance Subaru motors.
A good sandrail dune buggy isn't cheap, but is well worth the cost. It can have around 400 horsepower for an all up weight of 1500 to 2000 pounds, depending on the construction. They perform so well on sand dunes that it isn't rare to see one up to 10 feet in the air at the top of a dune. A sandrail is excitement epitomized.
So if you're into motorsport, and want to get into a (relatively) cheap form of motorsport, consider a sandrail dune buggy. If you buy in the right place you can get a good one for less than you'd expect, and be on the dunes in no time.
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Dune Buggy Basics 101. Find a Hot Dune Buggy for Sale
So you want to buy a dune buggy. You're new to the sport, don't know much about it, but it looks hot. So you've decided to find a dune buggy for sale and buy it and get into the sport. Before you consider buying a dune buggy there's a few things you ought to think about.
Number 1 is to decide whether you should build your dune buggy or buy it. Now of course for many that's not an issue. Building a dune buggy is a drawn out process requiring many skills and a lot of time, and it's something that you don't tackle lightly. Dune buggies are just like any other vehicle, if you want to build one you need to know what you're doing, or it won't work. Don't try to build your own dune buggy unless you're confident in your skills, and you have the time. Expect it to take a while. It's not a project you start today and you're sand driving next week.
Otherwise you need to find a good dune buggy for sale and buy it. There's lots of dune buggies for sale, but not all of them will suit your needs. So here's a few more things for the dune buggy buyer to think about.
Firstly decide what your needs are. Where are you going to drive your buggy and what do you want it to do? For example there are many who just want a hot buggy to cruise the streets. That's fine, but if you you've got different needs to someone who wants to do some serious sand driving.
For example it needs to be street legal. No point in buying a buggy and finding out that you can't take it on the road. And there's really no point in buying a buggy with great four wheel drive for instance, if it doesn't need 4wd to cruise the streets. You're just spending money on something that you don't need.
How many people are you hoping to carry in your new buggy? Now of course you're unlikely to be taking the whole family shopping in it, but there are still plenty of people who want to take their girlfriend, say, on a great sand driving weekend. To do this you need to be able to seat the 2 of you. Or is it just you, in which case a single seater will be fine. And it is possible to buy buggies that take up to 4 people, though this is rare.
What size buggy do you want? This of course relates to what you want it to do, but there are also other factors to take into consideration. For example you are limited by your storage space, if your garage will only fit a buggy of a certain size then that's the maximum size you can buy unless you want it to sit out in the weather.
What size trailer do you have, or can you borrow? Because of course if you buy a buggy that's too big for your trailer you're in all sorts of trouble. Some buggies are street legal of course, so don't need a trailer if you can drive them to where you plan to play, but many need to be trailered.
Learn a bit about the different build and motor options you have, and learn some of the terminology. For example do you know what a sandrail buggy is if you see a sandrail dune buggy for sale? Do you know what different types of frames there are? What's a Baja bug? Like all sports dune buggies have their own lingo, and you need to learn it.
And finally, learn as much as you can about motors and how they work. Whether you want to or not you'll be doing plenty of dirty hands on work. Even if you've decided that buying a buggy is the way to go for you because you couldn't build one, be prepared for plenty of time spent with hot oily hands. Driving a buggy is a heap of fun, but it comes with it's own work, and if you're new you need to understand the basics of mechanics, and be prepared to get your hands dirty and learn fast. That's fun too, but it's all part of being a buggy driver.
This may all sound a bit basic to the seasoned buggy drivers out there, but for the person just looking to get into the sport there are some basic questions to answer. Do your homework. And if you're not prepared to build one you'll need to find a great dune buggy for sale, and buy it, but only after you've sorted out exactly what it is you need.
And of course set aside some money. There are some great places where you can find cheap dune buggies for sale, but even so expect it to cost a bit. It's motorsport, and owning a dune buggy is no exception.
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Spring-loaded shifter stop on 68 VW Beetle?
I apologize for my ignorance; I bought a sandrail buggy that I’m fixing up and this drive-train dates back to “way before my time”. Apparently it’s a 1968 air-cooled VW bug that got chopped.
So my question is: on the shifter for the 4-speed transmission, is it supposed to be spring loaded? Right now it isn’t and it seems too easy to drop it into reverse when down shifting from 3rd to 2nd.
Before I “reinvent the wheel,” is there a stock part that will prevent accidental reversing?
There should be a reverse lock out plate that fits between the gear shift hold down plate and the body. It installs more than one way and will only work if installed the right way.A VW book is the way to go.
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