take my moms town and country and lift it and put mud tires on it or just do it with a truck whenever we decide to get one?
f you make a bogger out of your moms dd what she going to drive? Id say buy ur own toy and build it just for that
Boggers dont make good dd
she is gonna give me the van when we get a new vehicle which most likely is going to be a truck. When we had our pt cruiser she talked about getting a little lift on that and bigger tires for fun, I mentioned playing around with the van for something to do and she said when we get a new vehicle she will give me the van and I can do what I want with it. Be pretty funny, put a 3.0HO twin turbo stealth engine in it and jack it up. Not enough to warrant a major overhaul on the chassis or anything just enough to make it unique.
sell it and buy a bogger
well that is the thing it won't be a daily driver, if we got a truck that would be our daily driver.
There is a reason nobody else has done it...
Quote from: marshall on December 31, 2012, 02:45:32 AM
There is a reason nobody else has done it...
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/6847446016/hF5B8C90D/)
Haha
thought you'd like it :D
looks cool to me! :)
Silhouette's are ugly as sin and that one is just a mini van body mounted on a truck frame, if I go through with it I am gonna keep it on the same chassis.
Might even go ahead and get a body kit made for it to make it look less like a minivan and more like a mid or full size van.
To much money to dump into a van to get no result. Everything would have to be fabricated. Go find a real 4x4 van if you want a mud bogging van. Such as the Quigley vans. Not worth it Imo. All the work that would have to be done you'd be better off to sell the van and buy a mud bogger if that's what you really want
I think there is a fellow got mudder that has a lifted Astro Van, I've seen one around Bay City every so often.
Astro vans are different. I they're based on a truck platform. The t/c van just isn't rugged enough I had a straight axled Astro I loved it. Wouldn't say it was a mudding beast but it held its own lol
Build a truck, don't was your time and fabrication on a van, if the van is halfway deccent sell it to a family that can use it, and buy a 4x4 to build, will save you a lot of headaches!!
well even if I don't lift it I am gonna at least have fun and convert it to a shaggin' wagon low rider with a 3.0 twin turbo V6.
Quote from: Big Mudder on January 02, 2013, 12:53:32 AM
well even if I don't lift it I am gonna at least have fun and convert it to a shaggin' wagon low rider with a 3.0 twin turbo V6.
Now you're talkin
careful with that trans, they were shotty to start with. Buddy blew a pin in one , shattered a gear and sent it out the side of the case. Found out it was a rather common thing, was $700 for a replacement case or $1200 for a working junkyard trans.
probably be better to get a whole new transmission and everything. Likely going to double or maybe even try tripling the hp so I doubt a stock transmission would last under those conditions anyways.
if thats the case just use a different trans, SM465 or TH400, those will take a beating.
Just looked and that muncie can be picked up for under a grand, may go with that when the time comes.