60 hp of pure Japanese Fury.

[larphead]

Put it here because I havent done any welding to it....yet

I traded my SV650 for it.









After a wash and I cut the top to a bikini top.





Plans right now are:
A YJ spring kit (came with it)
New top (maybe this fall)
Slightly bigger tires
1" wheel spacers
Rhino line the tub
Body work...Lots and lots of body work
Custom fabbed bumpers
Paint
1.6 geo tracker engine swap (also came with it)

[chimmike]

throw some yota axles on it too! I think if you run tires much bigger than that you'll snap those little stock axles.

[gimpyrobb]

Originally Posted by chimmike

throw some yota axles on it too! I think if you run tires much bigger than that you'll snap those little stock axles.

Look for the TRD trucks(or land cruisers), many of those have electric lockers in them.

[Gmmandan]

Reminds me of my days back in college I had a 1987 with the 1.6 geo tracker motor swap. 14 inchs of lift and 36" in tires 513 gears. I remember it like it was yesterday the pure sketchyness of turning a corner and thinking you were going to flip it every time HAHAHAHA. I remember before I did the engine swap on mine it burned more oil then a 2 stroke. I had to put a quart of oil in it every 30 miles lol there at the end I started using axle oil that last about 50 miles per quart but made your eyes water .

[larphead]

Originally Posted by Gmmandan

Reminds me of my days back in college I had a 1987 with the 1.6 geo tracker motor swap. 14 inchs of lift and 36" in tires 513 gears. I remember it like it was yesterday the pure sketchyness of turning a corner and thinking you were going to flip it every time HAHAHAHA. I remember before I did the engine swap on mine it burned more oil then a 2 stroke. I had to put a quart of oil in it every 30 miles lol there at the end I started using axle oil that last about 50 miles per quart but made your eyes water .

LOL

Luckily this one dosent seem to be useing any oil. Even with just the shackles it seems kinda sketchy around town. This is the first one i have ever owned and driven, so it might just be me.

I have to admit that i know absoutly zero about these trucks. Anybody know of a good forum that i can start learning from?

I plan on mainly useing it for fishing strip mine ponds, some light trail riding and playing in the mud and something for the GF to learn to drive a manual on.

[Lanse]

Do you watch Top Gear? They did an episode on the most dangerous vehicles ever made... There was the Corvair (Dangerous at any speed), there was the exploding ford (Pinto, I think? The one that burst into flames if it was rear-ended), and the Samurai. Tanner Foust got that one IIRC, and actually rolled it during the episode lol.

What a great show... I tried to find it on YouTube for you, but I couldn't...

I hope you enjoy it, thats gonna be a cool project

[PapaLion]

Rollbar, sure, lots of Az guys hop these up and are very pleased. Takes a lot I suppose but end result is pretty nifty.

One? was it stored in a horse corral maybe, reason I ask it appears sumthn' has been cribbing on that right front Fender. Rust I suppose, I've heard of it just never seen it so close up and all. Keep it and go at it, I think you'll be proud of the results.

Lanse I think the Corvair got a bad wrap maybe. Unsafe in drift turns at full speed and wide sticky tires... probably... mine was '63 Monza with a 4 spd... made 6 banger Mustangs hide sometimes. Well it was a good car for me. Autumn Gold and vinyl buckets and floor shift, got me thru college in the early 70s. I got it from a very attractive English Teacher, $400. There were no li'l kool Japanese 4x4s, just Nissan pus which were pretty tuff but more spendy.

[OldSkull]

Originally Posted by Lanse

Do you watch Top Gear?

I prefer the Power block TV Extreme 4X4 show! They did a Diesel convertion using Rocky Road VW Diesel kit! You can find a V6 and even a V8 convertion for the little Samourai but since I'm a Diesel addicted guy and the little 4 banger fit like a glove in it why bother ?

Here the link : http://www.rocky-road.com/samurai-diesel.html

Last episode Samourai II aluminium body mod :-) http://www.powerblocktv.com/player/s..._num=XT2012-05

[papaof2]

Originally Posted by Lanse

Do you watch Top Gear? They did an episode on the most dangerous vehicles ever made... There was the Corvair (Dangerous at any speed), there was the exploding ford (Pinto, I think? The one that burst into flames if it was rear-ended), and the Samurai. Tanner Foust got that one IIRC, and actually rolled it during the episode lol.

I wonder how much of the Corvair's "unsafe" reputation was from the rear-heavy weight distribution which certainly caused problems for those who moved from an Impala with a V8 to the Corvair and expected it to be "just like" their other Chevy. Rear-heavy vehicles have a tendency to switch ends at times - and with less warning then front-heavy vehicles.

The weight distribution probably wasn't all that different from a VW beetle of the same year - but those were "foreign" cars and people expected them to handle "differently". (I loved my 68 beetle until a pickup truck tried to occupy the same intersection but at 90 degrees.)

The Pinto flame-up was simply poor design - there was a triangular piece of metal on the rear axle housing that pointed at the gas tank. Something most people would immediately see as a hazard, only it was hidden under the car.

Never got close to a Samurai. Between the name and the tall, narrow profile that looked unstable, it was not something I wanted to be in.

[Bluewelders]

My brother had a used one that he ran around town,was a good reliable little thing.
Used to kid him that he had lost his mower deck.
He never took it out on the highway that I know of,we both thought on ice or with our 70mph winds, it would look like a hockey puck,and that oncoming cars looked like the stick.

[Tec]

My friend had one new, it was an awesome off roader with just tires. Many times he would lead or drive around me when my 75 w200 would stop moving, and that truck was no slouch off road. Don't act stupid with it and you won't end up on the roof.

Tom

[PapaLion]

We could get you one of thsoe stickers >

If you can read this...
please flip me over.

I like ths one too.

Jack it up...
fat girls can't jump.

[larphead]

Originally Posted by PapaLion

We could get you one of thsoe stickers >

If you can read this...
please flip me over.

I like ths one too.

Jack it up...
fat girls can't jump.

I see Jeeps all the time with "Its a JEEP thing"
Thinking about getting one made that says "Its a JAP thing"

[Gmmandan]

I was a member on here when I had mine a couple of years ago. http://bbs.zuwharrie.com/ As far as bumber stickers mine at the time was barbie called she wants her jeep back. Hahaha the jeep guys hated me when we would go mudding my sammy would fit perfectly in one side of the rut and run the other side on the center section. So I could pretty much go through any thing I drove mine back and forth with my 12in lift kit for about 20k miles No real failures except I lost my rear wheel seals and it killed my brakes if it wasnt sketchy with it being lifted the 20 mile ride home with just the transmission and the emergency brake was.

[bigb]

One of the guys drove one in the "Tounament of Destruction" when they came here. He outran all the big trucks. It was funny to see that little thing whipping around everybody and with that annoying high pitched rice grinder sound in amongst all those rumbling monster rigs, kinda like a mosquito.

[Tool Maker]

I bought a 76 model from a friend that had blown the two cycle engine up. I put a Hyunda 2 cylinder engine, four cycle in it. Once I took the grand kids riding in it and they all yelled to go off road so I turned up a little brushy draw and almost irremediatly it lost traction because the brush picked it up off the ground. So I backed down and around and as soon as it got cross wise on the steep hillside it just tipped over like drunk on ice-skates. I actually stuck my hand out the window and slowed it down so it wouldn't skin up my new paint job. Mac

[PapaLion]

This guy is on CL in El Centro Ca might be worth a call, he's got Samuri parts? Maybe a rust free rf fender

enjoy
I have 10 years of collecting call me 760-353-9508

[Seafarer12]

I went to school with a guy who;s sister had a Samurai. I remember when he brought it in to auto shop. The carb was as big as the whole engine. I have heard of people swapping the engine for a VW diesel.

[larphead]

Bald mud tires SUCK!