bumpjumper wrote:
you might wanna take a look at his site, Yellow Dog Racing, because Kfab did in fact build the Mosquito (after the Briggs cars) BEFORE he bought 3 cars himself. I have done plenty of research on this matter and I know what I am talking about. I could even give you his real name and address in Milford, Ohio so just because I haven't owned one before or the fact that I haven't been doing this sort of hobby all my life don't think you can talk down to me! I'm not normally a mean person but when people like you come along and try to make themselves seem like something more than what they are that's not right! I thought this sight was to help people with questions not make them feel inadequate, but thanks anyway.
Not sure I would want to follow anything moskito suggest, if you reread the whole moskito car project it was a complete failure everything he did was nothing but problems.
Let me summarize it for you, his goal was to build something better than a long travel Honda Pilot because it too was / is far from perfect, he followed the briggsbuilt design, after building the car during testing he had all kinds of problems so he started taking parts off the long travel Pilot and putting them on the moskito car, he had so much problems whit it and so much frustration in the end the car was cut up and parted out, I think he said the parts was used for a long travel golf cart one of his friends was building.
Bottom line was he took a 12k long travel race Pilot and cannibalized it to build a stadium car that never worked.
You have to remember moskito has a unlimited budget, money is no problem, their is no shortage of cash to dump into his projects so if he spends 40k on a project like his first 2 seat car then just parks it and moves onto another project its not a big deal.
If you read his site close just about EVERYTHING he does is a complete failure, his ideas read good but they always end up in failure you have to give him credit the average guy would have hung himself by now after that much frustration.
That being said all his failures and dumb ideas does not mean he is not a helpful and nice guy willing to assist just about anybody if he can you just might want to rethink his advice before applying given his past failure rate.
I know of no plans for a briggsbuilt, I have said it dozens of times if I was going to build a offroad car I would buy a briggs car or make a exact copy, MANY have tried to build better and to date I have not seen anything better why reinvent the wheel, only changes I might make is in the strength protection department those cars were built for groomed tracks so need more for desert riding/racing.
I doubt you will be able to build a briggs type care cheaper than you can buy one.
If your looking for something to race and want to win I would go buy a briggs car.
If your looking for something to ride and 4 stroke its probably going to be cheaper to buy a Redline and make some minor mods than it is to build a briggs type car.
Lots of hidden cost in building a car.