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Yes, those are awesome! I ordered his original with the easy entry doors.

I have an Ironman chassis on order. It should be here by June.

That ended up fitting pretty well. Nice work.

Yes, I do not want to cut the front frame to fit the portals. I figured I could sell the chassis now. I was afraid that I would cut it up and then not be happy with it, and the chassis would be junk at that point. I put a deposit on a chassis built for portals, so I will start a new thread...

Looks like a great build! Im in for the 3.9 700R4 tech. Did you do anything to refresh the engine?

A few portal buggies are using this chassis. Paul raised the frame rail around 3" or so for most of them. I planned on using my old axles, so I didn't bother having him change anything.

@woody, I agree! The way this is set up is also pretty close to the skid place. I can add some angle to the engine to raise it some, but I believe it's around 4 degree's already.

Mine does look a little lower! If you have a measurement, that would be great. How many inches is your transmission pan off the skid plate?

This picture is a bad example of what I am talking about. When I set both axles in place, there is around a 3.5" difference between front and back. Since the front can't go as high, the shock placement goes from the middle of the lower C to around the middle to get the shock where it needs to...

I have been working on the packaging for the portals. The rear will fit, no problem, but the front doesn't go high enough at full stuff. I will probably cut out the front frame and raise it around 3"-4" unless someone else has a great idea.

Thanks! It's a pain to package some of these parts in the chassis. It looks like you did a great job of getting yours to work. I plan to run AN lines for the coolant. I don't want to fight leaks. I have the same setup as yours in my current buggy. It would be a lot easier to package. The...

Awesome! Paul is great to work with. You will have to post a thread once you get started.

That could be an option as well. How wide are your front frame rails? Do you know what the separation of the upper links is?

Then, I started looking at axle placement and measuring for shocks and link placement. It looks like the front frame section is not high enough to get the portals to sit high enough at full stuff to get the shocks to sit where I want them without makeing it a monster truck. I was hoping there...

I have been working on getting the Drivetrain mounted. Paul at Bent Fab has a nice new cross-member with a new Atlas adapter. It's a super nice piece. After that, I mounted the engine, and we were on to the next thing.

I finished up welding the chassis. That took way longer than expected. It's pretty typical for builds. The table we have is too big to mount the drivetrain and suspension on. I bought a table from Busted Knuckle on Black Friday. It's a decent table for the price, but I had to modify the...

Awesome! We are thinking of stoping on the way to Trail Hero next year.

I want to check out RMR. Is it worth an 11-hour drive?

The chassis is about 50% welded. I couldn't resist putting an axle under it.

I finished up the chassis this weekend. I am purposely leaving out the door bars so I can get in and out easily while building the interior. I have lots of welding in my future, and we can start mounting the drivetrain. I am excited to move on to the next step!

Yes, I can add more separation at the axle end. I was running the numbers off the buggy I measured. It makes sense about the 25% rule. When I talked to Jesse when I bought the portals, he said they try for 8" of vertical separation. He said anything higher than that raises the roll center...

I am planning out the suspension on my buggy. I got a bunch of numbers of a SHO buggy in a Kalif chassis, and I put them in the 4-link calculator. I am unsure if the portals through off the calculator, but I don't think this should work well based on everything I have read. Are there any hard...

I am not sure. I will have to defer to Woody!

The chassis is finally coming together. I like the idea of these DIY chassis kits, but I don't think I would do another without at least minimal fixturing. Its to hard to make sure that everything is correct, and often you don't know its wrong until several steps down the road, and you have to...

I am getting back on this after my trip to Trail Hero. While I was there, I was able to meet up with Jesse and pick up my portals. I went with his new boxes because I have zero interest in dealing with RCV. When I got back, my Krawlers also showed up!

The colors came out awesome! This is my favorite part of the build. I love watching everything come together.

I guess I didn't think about that. They are just tacked in place now to keep the chassis square. It might come out as I continue on the build.

I cut out the door bars on my last buggy because the window was so small, and it got old after a long day of wheeling. However, I agree with Woody that it gets a little sketchy on bigger obstacles. I am going to try the doors as they are for now.

I got back to work on the chassis. I had some problems getting it to fit the correct way. I tried a few different ways, and things were not coming together correctly. I made a quick call to Paul at Bent Fabrication, and he gave me some measurements to get it started. It seems to be going...

Buggy is coming out awesome! I have gone through PTC for my transmissions and have had great luck. Not sure how fast they are on a rebuild, though.