Just a little additional about the Joyner 650...
Night: Lights work great....Did a little adjusting and the buggy looks like a UFO coming thru the woods at night....
We found a hill climb that the Rhino grunts up but the buggy couldn't make it with myself and my brother in law in it....One of those challenges for future motor work...
My brother in law is torn between getting the turbo or the Weber carb kit....
I keep thinking maybe a couple used 28- 30mm bike carbs and modify the exhaust might be the way to go...
Oh, and on the jump pics, the landing area was VERY short so there was a concern of too much speed so that too may have effected the landing attitude...
I must say tho that the Joyner made that jump about 12 times while I worked on getting the pics and video shot....No problems...
We took the Spider and Rhino to the APEX area, just north of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway today....The riding is a mix of desert and some small dunes known as the "Nellis Dunes"....
While in the dune area, my slightly crazed Bro-in-law got to jumping one of the bigger dunes....He kept attacking it faster and faster, landing further and further down the dune....On the last jump, he got a little cockeyed and around the 50 foot mark he landed HARD on the right front wheel, turned into it and gassed it to keep from going over...
That was the closest I'd ever seen a car come without rolling in the dunes....
After the landing we checked everything over and it all looked good...NO damage....I was very impressed with the durability of the Spider after witnessing the landing...Only thing hurting was his neck from the angled shock of the landing.....
We drove for another hour in some pretty roky and steep desert trails before getting too cold and calling it quits for the day....
I can't wait to get one of these buggies...They are a gassss.... _________________ "Three can keep a secret if two are dead"
Kurt
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