Project Scudo

doddzee · Post by **doddzee** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:48 am

Time for another project, didnt think i would be doing this but this zook was too good of a deal.

Picked this up lastnight its a 1994 swb with the 1600 efi 16 valve motor which had a little experence on its roof. Its got a few other things as well:

- OME lift kit
- Safari Snorkel
- Bar work, tank and diff guards
- 31" Wranglers on 15x8 steel rims
- Arb Rear Locker
- In cab PRS
- Extractors (i think can anyone confirm this from pics?)
- Winch
- A/C pump turned into air compressor

The plan at the moment is to strip it down and thrash the tits off it. To start im goign to chop off the roof into a style side ute and fit a 4 point cage as i have a couple of club trips i want to go on at the end of this month and early next month. Following those trips ill cut the rest of the roof off make the cage into the 6 point to NZFWDA specs. May look into trialing it next season in either A or E class depending if i do any more mods to it.

If anyone wants interior parts, rear seats, doors, or any other parts that you think i may not want pm me.

lilpigzuk · Post by **lilpigzuk** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:59 am

excellent!!

Yes it does have extractors...

turoa · Post by **turoa** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:59 pm

You have more friggen money than sence.

Oops, dented the black safari. Ill just go out and buy another offroader rather than hounding the electrician to get my safari done :shock:

doddzee · Post by **doddzee** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:03 pm

Yeah maybe but im pretty broke now.

You have two offroaders why cant i? :wink:

You shouldnt be out driving the rangie you should be finishing the landy

Cant let mitch beat me at club champs, got to defend my placing at least with this i have a fighting chance :wink:

MWB safari doesnt like to turn in the tight stuff.

Hes been getting hounded, just been hold up after hold up! :evil:

turoa · Post by **turoa** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:04 pm

Are you going to fit fiddles in there?

And since you're broke, does that mean it cost alot?

doddzee · Post by **doddzee** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:06 pm

Yip prob chuck fiddles in there. Nope for the mods its has it was a bargin. Could sell the locker and recover my costs easily.

Im broke coz i keep putting money away to pay for my electrical bill.

mroffroader · Post by **mroffroader** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:23 pm

YES YOU ARE THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol:

we can do 2 SAS swaps on zoooks now!!!! what u pay for it?

WACKO · Post by **WACKO** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:06 pm

warlord225 · Post by **warlord225** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:10 pm

can I come and have a look just after you have chopped the roof off?

mroffroader · Post by **mroffroader** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:11 pm

u wana sell the front bar with side bars and winch?............or give em to me :lol:

doddzee · Post by **doddzee** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:33 pm

Not at the moment MrO will keep that bar for now. Winch has an electrical problem so will have to try and sort that out.

warlord225 will be chopping the roof off tomorrow night so you can come have a look then or on sat morn if it suits.

Got it stripped out tonight removing the windscreen was a pri*k of a job. More pics:

Jooce · Post by **Jooce** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:37 pm

hey is there any chance you could tell me what kind of tyres/rims you have on your suzuki? i want some just like that! will they fit on without a body lift ? oh god wot have i gotten myself into...

this could be more expensive than doing up a turbo street car!!

lol

mroffroader · Post by **mroffroader** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:41 pm

Jooce wrote:hey is there any chance you could tell me what kind of tyres/rims you have on your suzuki? i want some just like that! will they fit on without a body lift ? oh god wot have i gotten myself into...

this could be more expensive than doing up a turbo street car!!

lol

no there far to big for your zook, you'l need like a 2" suspension lift and maybe a small body lift to clear those tyres.......oh well jared it was worth a shot for the bar :lol:

WACKO · Post by **WACKO** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:54 pm

mroffroader wrote:
Jooce wrote:hey is there any chance you could tell me what kind of tyres/rims you have on your suzuki? i want some just like that! will they fit on without a body lift ? oh god wot have i gotten myself into...

this could be more expensive than doing up a turbo street car!!

lol

no there far to big for your zook, you'l need like a 2" suspension lift and maybe a small body lift to clear those tyres.......oh well jared it was worth a shot for the bar

a mate had 31s on his and we did a small body lift that cost him bout 30 $$ i think, and a set of raised king springs. still did burnouts too :lol:

doddzee · Post by **doddzee** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:57 pm

Jooce wrote:hey is there any chance you could tell me what kind of tyres/rims you have on your suzuki? i want some just like that! will they fit on without a body lift ? oh god wot have i gotten myself into...

this could be more expensive than doing up a turbo street car!!

lol

31x10.5x15 goodyear wranglers on 15x8 roh rims. Its got an OME lift which i think is about 40mm and the guards have been cut.

Will see if you are still interested in the bar when i make a new one MrO.

WACKO · Post by **WACKO** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:58 pm

Jooce wrote:hey is there any chance you could tell me what kind of tyres/rims you have on your suzuki? i want some just like that! will they fit on without a body lift ? oh god wot have i gotten myself into...

this could be more expensive than doing up a turbo street car!!

lol

they are 31/ 10.5/ r15 goodyear wrangler mtr's. on possibly trak 2 rims. the offset will mean you wont get them on without a bit of work but on standard rims they will go on.

4wding can get quite expensive but you save lots of $$$$ by not getting fines. im a convert aswell. :lol:

RJT · Post by **RJT** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:02 am

So am i... Bit of a culture shock going from WRX STI to SWB bighorn but now i see it was well worth it!!!... Sorry for hijacking your thread.

doddzee · Post by **doddzee** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:04 am

All good, lots of us have done it, i went from Gt libero on 18's to pajero on 33's, soon to be a safari on 37's

RJT · Post by **RJT** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:06 am

... That's a wee bit of a leap

doddzee · Post by **doddzee** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:14 pm

Bit more progess tonight, its a bit rough but who cares.

Got to love those 1.6mm cut off discs for cutting through panel steel

mroffroader · Post by **mroffroader** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:51 am

NICE :thumleft:

doddzee · Post by **doddzee** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:59 am

Got it running in the weekend after having to expell a sumps worth of oil from ontop of the pistons, what a mess that made

Had a little play around my place and i the gearing is a bit higher that i would like with the 31's.

What are my options for lowering the gearing with the escudos? Not really interested in spending a grand on transfer gears.

Im not sure what the diff ratios are, whats ratios are avilable?

gomulletgo · Post by **gomulletgo** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:53 am

nice work on that chop

just out of curiousity what type of welder did you use? I have seen alot of dodgy work done on car bodys with migs

doddzee · Post by **doddzee** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:59 am

Used a mig (cant remember what brand) on this and my safari, its always worked fine on a low setting after ive cleaned all the paint off.

mroffroader · Post by **mroffroader** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:22 pm

doddzee wrote:Got it running in the weekend after having to expell a sumps worth of oil from ontop of the pistons, what a mess that made

Had a little play around my place and i the gearing is a bit higher that i would like with the 31's.

What are my options for lowering the gearing with the escudos? Not really interested in spending a grand on transfer gears.

Im not sure what the diff ratios are, whats ratios are avilable?

basicaly you cant get any benifit from changing the diff ratios as there all pretty similar, theres no way to lower the gearing in a vitara apart from buying the transfer case gears which are $1800......either that or stick with high gearing unless you want to put another transfer in with a bit of modding like maybe out of a sj413 or sj410?

warlord225 · Post by **warlord225** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:33 pm

but the vit trans is combined where the 410/413 is seperate, so that throws that idea too.

turoa · Post by **turoa** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:43 pm

I saw somewhere on the net, a vitara auto and trans with the front out put taken off, and a sj410 transfer on the back of that

warlord225 · Post by **warlord225** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:58 pm

the other problem, is that the vit rear drive is in the center and high, or the same leval as the gear box.

where the sj one is off set and front and rear outputs at the same height.

You may be able to put the sj410 internals into the vit case, but I doubt it.

gomulletgo · Post by **gomulletgo** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:07 pm

but the vit trans is combined where the 410/413 is seperate, so that throws that idea too.

I'm pretty sure from memory the 410 has a divorced transfer (seperate) and the 413 has a married (combined) transfer. hope that helps

doddzee · Post by **doddzee** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:23 pm

Sounds too much like hard work

Will go on a couple of trips and see how i find it before i look any further into it.