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Patrick's Samurai Build

Discussion in 'Trail Toys' started by SMKYTXN, Jan 7, 2019.

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Mar 3, 2019 at 10:42 AM

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Time to fire up the bender and see what this front clip is going to look like.

Plenty of room for the radiator. There will be a bit more of a bumper added so the winch will sit in front of the radiator.

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Mar 3, 2019 at 10:43 AM

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The original cage in the sami leaves a bit to be desired, so I'm going to beef it up a little. I'm starting with tying the A and B pillars directly to the chassis.

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Mar 9, 2019 at 6:34 PM

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The cage needs a lot of love, but for now I'll settle for tying the A and B pillar into the chassis. I cut the back end of the cage off as it's going to be reworked once the bench seat goes in.

I finally broke down and bought a pipemaster to help out with complicated copes. It works pretty nicely.

No more need to worry about redoing the front body mounts. This should do the trick.

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Mar 9, 2019 at 6:35 PM

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I reinforced the upper link mounts up front. More than likely the tube and mount would have been fine, but no need to take a chance.

And I put some paint on her. She's almost ready to head back to Patrick for the finishing touches.

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Sep 19, 2022 at 4:43 AM

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So is there a finished product? This Sami is beautiful

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Sep 19, 2022 at 4:52 AM

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Yep.

Sami build needs an update

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Sep 20, 2022 at 6:27 AM

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KiteGuam said: ↑

So is there a finished product? This Sami is beautiful
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Sami build needs an update

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Patrick has been a bit to busy with his family to finish the sami, so I don't have an update for everyone unfortunately.

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