Project Green Machine
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Project Green Machine
Hey guys
This is what iv'e been chipping away at and draining my wallet for the past 10ish months. Its a 1990 Suzuki Samurai widetrack leaf sprung..beast.
I bought it pretty much standard with dorky big shackles and 31's a cage and a smokey 1300 big block.
And as it has progressed....
-I have put some 32x10.5 simexs on Howat mechanical beadlocks
-Fitted new old man emu shocks and springs
-Shoe horned a Redtop small port 4-AGE which has been tickled a little (balanced up, rebuilt with all TRD rings, bearings and a bit of headwork has been done also)
I moved the transfer-case back 50mm and had a custom jack shaft made to adapt the T series gearbox to the Suzuki transfer-case and also had the rear driveshaft shortened and the front lengthened so I was able to run a decent size radiator up front.
Bought some Racetech seats and RJS 4 point harnesses (yet to be fitted)
Fitted front and rear ARB airlockers at the same time as replacing the front cv's for new ones and rebuilding the front axle with new bearings etc.
The rear guards got the chop in order to fit the 32's and the front was started until I found rust and spent to much time on pirate and got some inspiration to do something a little different...
So heres a few pics of the build up and at the point i'm at now.
JACK FLEXING....HARDCORE!!
Thats about it...Just finishing bits and peices left like mounting seats, finishing front clip a bit more bar work, painting various things and then hopefully i'll see you all on the tracks again soon!!
Updates to follow...
This is what iv'e been chipping away at and draining my wallet for the past 10ish months. Its a 1990 Suzuki Samurai widetrack leaf sprung..beast.
I bought it pretty much standard with dorky big shackles and 31's a cage and a smokey 1300 big block.
And as it has progressed....
-I have put some 32x10.5 simexs on Howat mechanical beadlocks
-Fitted new old man emu shocks and springs
-Shoe horned a Redtop small port 4-AGE which has been tickled a little (balanced up, rebuilt with all TRD rings, bearings and a bit of headwork has been done also)
I moved the transfer-case back 50mm and had a custom jack shaft made to adapt the T series gearbox to the Suzuki transfer-case and also had the rear driveshaft shortened and the front lengthened so I was able to run a decent size radiator up front.
Bought some Racetech seats and RJS 4 point harnesses (yet to be fitted)
Fitted front and rear ARB airlockers at the same time as replacing the front cv's for new ones and rebuilding the front axle with new bearings etc.
The rear guards got the chop in order to fit the 32's and the front was started until I found rust and spent to much time on pirate and got some inspiration to do something a little different...
So heres a few pics of the build up and at the point i'm at now.
JACK FLEXING....HARDCORE!!
Thats about it...Just finishing bits and peices left like mounting seats, finishing front clip a bit more bar work, painting various things and then hopefully i'll see you all on the tracks again soon!!
Updates to follow...
80 series tow bus towing a redneck ass vitara
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Awesome work James. Looks way cool
Ugly is a state of mind..... and the state of my truck!
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Nice work man! Tube work looks really clean.
Action shots required!
Action shots required!
There's gotta be some rocks round here SOMEWHERE!
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Cheers guys!
Amen to that!!
DMcCready wrote:Action shots required!
Amen to that!!
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Lookin good. No stinger
Nice to see you've still got this one.
Nice to see you've still got this one.
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very clean build mate,as said tidy bar work,very clean lines
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i shoulda bought it when u offered it to me in your moment of weakness lol! looking good
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badnuz wrote:i shoulda bought it when u offered it to me in your moment of weakness lol! looking good
Dont worry it will properly be for sale some time next week....
Looking good James
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Looks good man, Love the front end. mean clean look
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Cheers guys, Nope not forsale....to much time spent....and WAAY to much money
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lincooln wrote:Looks good man, Love the front end. mean clean look
Ditto, looking sharp. How do you keep mud and crap out of the engine bay though? Saw one like this a while ago with the bonnet cut to a wedge shape (okay, not a triangle wedge), looked good but a pain to do apparently.
And easier then doing the front guards
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Looking great mate , keep up the great work ..and keep the pics coming
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Heath wrote:lincooln wrote:Looks good man, Love the front end. mean clean look
Ditto, looking sharp. How do you keep mud and crap out of the engine bay though? Saw one like this a while ago with the bonnet cut to a wedge shape (okay, not a triangle wedge), looked good but a pain to do apparently.
And easier then doing the front guards
Yea not finished yet, getting to that bit soon. I'm thinking a bit of alloy just to keep the most of it out. yea dovetailed...looks cool but your right absolute mission to do and lets face it suzukis are made of tin foil and a pain in the butt to weld!!!
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Well a bit of progess!
I couldn't help myself
Mitch must be finding something amusing in this photo? maybe because i was actually 4 wheel driving?
Went round the south coast and abused the shit out of it manged to jump it 1 or 6 times and surprisingly it went really well without a fault :really so took it home and continued with a bit of progress and a smile on my dial
I couldn't help myself
Mitch must be finding something amusing in this photo? maybe because i was actually 4 wheel driving?
Went round the south coast and abused the shit out of it manged to jump it 1 or 6 times and surprisingly it went really well without a fault :really so took it home and continued with a bit of progress and a smile on my dial
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Been a bit slack lately and sidetracked by the arrival of a new 80 series and various other things but did some work on it this arvo because i wouldnt mind taking it to rallywoods next weekend....cut some metal out to allow for a bit of clearance threw the clip and lights etc back on....not much to go now
please excuse the dark photos
goddam the green overspray shows up where i put the hammer
and checking clearances with a trolley jack and block of wood....how sad, gotta love cart springs
please excuse the dark photos
goddam the green overspray shows up where i put the hammer
and checking clearances with a trolley jack and block of wood....how sad, gotta love cart springs
80 series tow bus towing a redneck ass vitara
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