Timmie Cameron goes through buggies the way drag racers go through tires. He will build one and drive it for a while. If he doesn’t like the way the rig feels it will be for sale in a blink of an eye in favor of a new build. Timmie built the Hell Raiser buggy to be fitted with Rockwells. He hated the weight of the beefy axles. So he ripped out the drivetrain and sold the buggy after only one ride. He missed the light weight response of his Green Goblin buggy and decided to build another light weight rig with plenty of ponies under the engine cage.
Burnt out after building his own chassis for the Hell Raiser buggy, Tim decided to let Jimmy at Smith Motorsports build the chassis for his new project. Timmie took the chassis and built the suspension with double triangulated 4 links and coilovers at both ends. The drivetrain from Hell Raiser was crammed in between the frame rails of the new ride. A fire breathing LSX454 started off the list. This 7.4 liter crate engine from GM Performance is rated at 620 horsepower with 11:1 compression. The dirt pounding power of this engine is handled by a power-glide transmission with a 2,000 rpm stall. An Atlas t-case transfers the power to the front and rear 14 bolt steering axles. Single ended rams turn the massive TSL SX tires at each axle. Hummer H1 beadlocks keep the tires stuck on the rims while Timmie beats his way up obstacles and RCV axle shafts take the pounding and try their best to keep the tires smoking. Believe it or not this rig does not have kirkey seats in it! Seems like Tim is tired of being sore after a long weekend of rock bouncing. So he decided to fit some nice suspension seats and 4 point harnesses into his new creation. His new creation was powder-coated fire engine red and dubbed SHOWTIME! We were lucky enough to catch the rig in action at 
Choccolocco ORV in Jacksonville, AL during the Bama Buggy Bash event. Tim walked up Violater like it was nothing. He did however burn up the trans on WFO. He said he will get the powerglide built to handle the abuse and be back to kill some hills in no time. Timmie says he loves the new rig, so don’t expect to see a for sale thread any time soon. Keep checking back as we will be adding videos to this page. If you are a big Tim Cameron fan be sure to check out our DVD entitled “RockRods” which features a few of Timmie’s full throttle beatdowns. There will also be plenty of the new Showtime Buggy in RockRods 2 which will be available in November! Until next time, Keep that throttle matted and those tires smoking!
Here is a screen shot from Timmie on WFO Shooting Sparks!
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at the Murfreesboro based Off Road Shop. A Holley Avenger fuel injection system and 16 gallon fuel cell feed this green beast. The nasty engine was then mated to a TCI TH350 transmission and a 3.8 Atlas transfer case gets the power to the axles. The 35 Spline pinion nodular 9″ race gear centers are tubed with Crane knuckles and full floating 60 outers. Spidertrax brakes pull stopping duty on all four corners. These beefy axles are held in place by a custom 4-link suspension comprised of 2″ 7075 aluminum links with 1.25″ hiems on each end. 
Turning the massive 42″ competition compound Goodyears is a custom full hydraulic steering system with a PSC double ended ram. All of the sheet metal was custom built to mimic the lines of a new model Camaro and sprayed with a factory green. The chassis was powdercoated with a bling gold flake that glitters in the sunlight. The editors at 
Next was the paint scheme. The rules state that we have to have a Nascar inspired paint scheme. We went to work with some Ford Blue and some cheap black spray paint. After rattle-canning the car half to death we slapped on a few stickers to make it look racey. We hand painted the Busted Knuckle Films logo on to the hood with some white enamel.
Custom bumpers were fabbed up to keep the car protected during the 4hour smash em up derby endurance race. We hope the car can stay together for the entire race. It will be tough with Steveo behind the wheel. He already broke both front CV shafts test driving the Bomber Taurus in the field next to the shop. We will see what happens when he hits the 50′ table top. Catch all the action in our next DVD entitled “RockRods”. If you want to race check out the links in this post and get started!
Most of the body has been reworked and there is very little left of the original panels. The front and rear is doved and the whole thing is caged extending all the way to the front of the motor. The front panels were cut off and welded to the hood along with the grill so the whole thing lifts up as one unit and is out of the way so it can be worked on without anything in the way. The body was painted from the baby-turd-green it originally came from the factory to a bright “Ford” blue implement paint found at TSC. The cage got orange paint just to be bright and stand out.
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In 2004, After a few different paint jobs and some hardcore wheeling the new weak link was found . Who can blame him when it only costs $60 to spray the whole rig. The new limiting factor for the rig was the Independent front suspension or IFS. This suspension design is not the best for rock-crawling purposes. It was time for a SAS Solid Axle Swap. Wade cut off the front suspension and swapped in an Solid front axle out of a 85′ truck he got for FREE from his neighbor with a mix of All-Pro, Longfield, and Marlin parts. The whole swap including new rear springs took only 4 days and was done in the street in front of his house. Wow what a difference the swap made on the trail.
This setup lasted a few years but as most of us know the more you push a rockcrawler the more you find its weak links. The old carbureted 4.2 Inline 6 cylinder and manual trans were making wheeling difficult. Wayne found a donor 2wd Cherokee and swapped the Fuel Injected 4.0 and AW4 automatic transmission into the CJ7. He even set the cherokee guage cluster into the dash of the CJ. The tilt steering column was also swapped in from the cherokee. The Jeep was starting to look more like a TJ than a CJ.
Lastly it was time for some paint and some protection for the Jeep. Wayne built a 6 point Rollcage out of 1.75 .120 wall DOM tubing. He also added a front stinger and tube fenders to finish out the front of the Jeep. The CJ7 dubbed “TJ7″ due to its components is beat on alot these days without a glitch. You can see this rig and more in action in our latest 
It didn’t stop there. Next was some custom tube work that included bumpers, a full cage, sliders & of course dovetailing the rear. Byron bent up a nice stinger and a few more hoops for the front and went with a clean and simple design for the rear. He then made some square tube rocksliders to keep his rocker panels happy. After that he cut wedges out of the back of the bronco floor and pulled the bedsides in until he had the right amount of dovetail. Now it was cage time. The cage was built a lot like a truck cage out of 1-3/4′ .120 wall tubing. The factory Dash & steering wheel were ripped out and chucked in the trash pile. They were replaced with a clean custom dash with only the necessities for gauges. Finally a set of rock rings and 42″ Pitbull Rockers were mounted under the bronco to give it that one of a kind stance he had been looking for.
