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With: Rae Champoux The list of obstacles were long, three holidays, colds, mandatory overtime for Mitch at work, a surgery for my mother in-law thank goodness we have all made it into the New Year Thats right folks it was a long hard road to get here but the coils were finished this weekend. Put […]
Continue Readingwith Jim Bova Project #2 Rides Again Project #2 has taken many a twist and turn to get to where it is today. I was never too sure if I wanted to finish it ( if our Zukes are EVER finished) sell it, part it….whatever. I finally decided that seeing I had come this […]
Continue ReadingWith: Rae Champoux iZook Guru’s Ultimate Project Build Off – Truck Two Well it has happened. We started the work on the tin top. We pulled the red tin top out of the garage, after we un-piled two years of stuff off it. You see, the tin top has its own story. We (Mitch […]
Continue Readingwith Terrina Harris Spidertrax PRP Seat Kit Install Spidertrax has come up with a solution for the long known seat problem with the Samurai. No one has made a kit to install aftermarket suspension seats, until now. We all know the stock seats are hard on the bum. We also know if you want […]
Continue Readingwith Bob Norman and assistance by my father-in-law,” Mr. Anonymous” Part 7: Project Near Completion More painting and finishing touches! Once the wheels got turning, everything just started to fall into place. The painting went much easier than anticipated, and also turned out pretty good (if I do say so myself) even though I was assisted […]
Continue Readingwith Bob Norman Part 6: Finally…. Visible Progress!!! Let the painting begin! After a brief trip to Prague early this month, I stepped right back in (no 9 month hiatus this time) and finished welding the cage in and began the long painting process. A lot of progress was made in a short amount of […]
Continue Readingwith Bob Norman Part 5… Everything old is …. still old. So, here we go again! Last May I all but abandoned the work on the Killer Bee, using the poor excuses of buying an old house and doing repairs, changing jobs, etc. (Read more in this month’s “Welcome Back to Me” editorial) and because of […]
Continue Readingwith Bob Norman, assisted by Alex Maslo Part 4… Tin Banger’s Nightmare So, here we are again. Last month I opened up the fenders to allow for tire clearance on the body I got from Rod’s Used Samurai Parts in Iowa. Little did I know what I had gotten myself into. The bottom of the […]
Continue ReadingA case study in tinkering run amok… by TD (Troy) Graham Part 4: Even *MORE* fun with mock-ups. Springage: Believe it or not, this proved to be one of the more perplexing parts of this perpetual pet project. It would be MUCH easier to properly select a spring rate on a […]
Continue ReadingA case study in tinkering run amok… by TD (Troy) Graham Part 1: Genesis. After beating the stuffing out of Mazuki for two years, a few things became apparent: The rotary motor and tranny were keepers, handily kicking the teeth out of both the original Zook motor AND the breathed-on 1.6 I’d previously […]
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