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It's about as close to being a Briggs Built without having Bob build it himself. Almost identical frame with thicker tubing and a few added tubes for strength, redesigned front arms and spindles. Took the best Superlite built and made a newer stronger version. Turbotexas is right not a Briggs but definitely you can tell where my inspiration came from.
I bought a 440 Arctic Cat sled motor some years ago in hopes of building one of these cars so it still fits in to the old Mickey rules and should be a healthy little motor unlike the time bombs built off the old FL350 bottom ends. Wheels are 14" Hiper Composite dual beadlocks, cool wheels with a billet center section. Tires are 26" Maxxis lite truck tires. They should work well for open desert driving but I will most likely replace them with Maxxis UTV tires for short course racing. For more info and more pics click below. This should help with those who want to see more and keep us from hijacking this thread. http://www.bkfabworks.com/stadium.htmhttp://www.minibuggy.net/forum/proje...-improved.html
It's about as close to being a Briggs Built without having Bob build it himself. Almost identical frame with thicker tubing and a few added tubes for strength, redesigned front arms and spindles. Took the best Superlite built and made a newer stronger version. Turbotexas is right not a Briggs but definitely you can tell where my inspiration came from.
I just noticed this thread, months later, but perhaps I can offer some insight on the stadium superlite/Odyssey based off road buggy.
Back in the late seventies, early eighties, Honda Odysseys racing began to take off. In it's infancy, there was no such thing as a fully suspended, tube framed racer, only modified stock chassis with limited motor and clutch work. The first company to introduce a tube frame with full suspension was Challenger, but it was woefully inadequate and would break suspension components left and right.
I was a part owner of an ATC/Odyssey parts store in the SFV and an Odyssey racer at the time. A friend and I built one of the first fully suspended Odyssey's where we repositioned the reduction case to the center and increased the wheel travel to 12 inches. One of my competitors at the time owned a shop in N. Hollywood and he too built a fully suspended Odyssey. After about a year or so of breaking, modifying, redesigning the Pro ATV Phantom was introduced. I went to work for them as a fabricator and driver.
I raced the ARA desert races in both my own designed unlimited Odyssey and then finally a personally built Phantom. I ran modified FL250 crankcases with an 82 CR 250 long stroke motor, fully ported by FMF and was finishing in the top five ATC's who started like ten minutes before us.
Pro ATV did run Phantom 3's, which had bigger dimensions, wheel size, and motors in at least one Baja race that I know of. I left them around this time because the owner and I did not see eye to eye on many aspects of the business.
I went on to race the first season at the Micky Thomson events and participated in a few of the Bajacross events held at Saddleback park. I was saddened to see this form of off road racing die off as it was extremely fun and affordable at first, but like everything else, keeping up with the Joneses just started pushing the price range too close to that of a full sized off road car.
I would like to invite you to join a forum of several hundred odyssey and pilot owners and enthusiast at www.pilotodyssey.com
Please feel free to share your history and experience on the forum! If you have a hard time registering, pm me here on RDC and I will make it happen! We have a lot of spam, so the registration might be tricky? I'm not an administrator, just an active member!
Thank you!
David Mills
Originally Posted by Vicconius
I just noticed this thread, months later, but perhaps I can offer some insight on the stadium superlite/Odyssey based off road buggy.
Back in the late seventies, early eighties, Honda Odysseys racing began to take off. In it's infancy, there was no such thing as a fully suspended, tube framed racer, only modified stock chassis with limited motor and clutch work. The first company to introduce a tube frame with full suspension was Challenger, but it was woefully inadequate and would break suspension components left and right.
I was a part owner of an ATC/Odyssey parts store in the SFV and an Odyssey racer at the time. A friend and I built one of the first fully suspended Odyssey's where we repositioned the reduction case to the center and increased the wheel travel to 12 inches. One of my competitors at the time owned a shop in N. Hollywood and he too built a fully suspended Odyssey. After about a year or so of breaking, modifying, redesigning the Pro ATV Phantom was introduced. I went to work for them as a fabricator and driver.
I raced the ARA desert races in both my own designed unlimited Odyssey and then finally a personally built Phantom. I ran modified FL250 crankcases with an 82 CR 250 long stroke motor, fully ported by FMF and was finishing in the top five ATC's who started like ten minutes before us.
Pro ATV did run Phantom 3's, which had bigger dimensions, wheel size, and motors in at least one Baja race that I know of. I left them around this time because the owner and I did not see eye to eye on many aspects of the business.
I went on to race the first season at the Micky Thomson events and participated in a few of the Bajacross events held at Saddleback park. I was saddened to see this form of off road racing die off as it was extremely fun and affordable at first, but like everything else, keeping up with the Joneses just started pushing the price range too close to that of a full sized off road car.
Originally Posted by partybarge_pilot
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