Not long ago, Eesti Elu explored the videos of popular Estonian YouTuber Donn DIY.
We knew we had to share this particular video with all of the gear heads out there, though. Donald has taken parts from a BMW E39, an engine from an old Peugeot van, and a myriad of other components to make a Utility Task Vehicle. It's one that you'll see cropping up in his videos as he hauls around materials for his engineering and metalworking projects.
See this one-year odyssey over 24 minutes in the video below.
Donald describes the project as a “…homemade 4×4 off road utility vehicle build made from used front wheel drive car parts, homemade tube frame and other homemade parts needed to make a car work…
This is the last part of a series of a four wheel drive utility vehicle build to lessen the work load on my trusty 2002 Honda Foreman Rubicon TRX500FA. This partially answers the question ‘Why?' but for those who want to ask ‘why don't you just buy a UTV instead of building one?' I just want to say – I'm not made of money. UTV-s are ridiculously expensive, even the car I drive around daily is worth less (not worthless though!), hell, it is even worth less than my 2002 Honda ATV.”
Regarding horsepower, he notes “…the 1.4 litre FWD Peugeot petrol engine I'm using has 55 kw and this will not change, but the torque is tripled via the BMW E39 differentials I'm using to transfer power to front and rear axles… All of this fabrication is done in my tiny homemade workshop.”
