Alabama thread!

Good morning everyone. It’s currently 15 and the wind chill makes it 6.

 

One will be for rock crawling hoping it stays right side up. The other one will be a roch crawler that I won't care if it flips over if it has too

 

I have visited jobs the all of them have done and talked to the people they worked for. They have all had good reviews and the work I seen looked very well but I will be in site everyday.

 

So a crawler and a bouncer

Will they have the same drivetrain/parts/wheelbase/etc?

 

Did you have to replace the visor or just buy a dust shield? I've not really studied my HJC. I only used it for a few days until my Suomy showed up

 

Mornin fellas

 

Good morning Phil

 

Sup Jeff
Just trying to thaw out......lovin it

 

Good morning Phil.

Good morning Jeff.

 

Sup Barrie

 

Not much Phil, staying warm at home, not really feeling the best.

 

Thinking about getting up, but TW and my warm bed are fighting me.

 

Good morning Barrie

 

No,
I took everything out of my black Samurai and put it under the Brown one. Fj60 axles re-geared, lockers, YJ springs, dual transfer cases re-geared, new high steer, all new shocks and shock towers, new Micro Squirt ECU with custom tune, complete rewire, 1.6 Tracker motor with customer multiport fuel injection so it will run upside down, wheel base will be moved 12 inches on the front and back so the tires will always be the fist thing to hit. Came with 80 inch wheel base moving it to 104.
As soon as I get my shop setup I am getting a hydraulic tubing bender and cutter to building a tub chassis / cage for it.
Soumethin like this,

 

I say take it easy and put off today what you can do tomorrow

Yeah, it was tough getting up this morning. I could have slept all day

 

Will either of them still be street legal just in case you need to drive it up the road?

 

Prices on the Samurai have gone up a lot ever since Hagerty said they were one of the ten collector cars to buy.

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/suzuki-samurai-10-collector-cars-hagerty

The aftermarket support is pretty good for the Samurai and forums every where on anything you want to do with them. There is support for building them OEM to rock bouncers.

All that is left on mine is the body, everything else is Toyota, lol
I did build it all OEM to start with.

The day I bought it



After building it with stock everything



Way it sits now,


Next is an exoskeleton

 

Still tagged and insured, I drive it into Cullman some times.

 

I love this version. It's got that timeless look to it.

 

I tried to keep it close to original but then I don't know what happened.