Category: Featured Rides

   with Bill Johnston Stretched This 1987 Suzuki Samurai is straight out off of a true zookaholic’s dream sheet. Wayne Fling, out of Shawnee, Kansas, has put together a truly eye-catching, truly wheelable work of art. We caught up with him at the 2006 ZookiMelt in Attica, and he was very happy to share his […]

   with Lance K. Schall Something X-tra Why lift a Suzuki X-90 and turn it into a trail vehicle? Well, the easy answer would be: Why not? Its a Sidekick underneath and Calmini has responded to an enthusiastic following and markets suspension lift kits for Sidekicks. I have had a Calmini lifted Samurai for 16 […]

  Page two.   Since these photographs were taken I have added Calmini’s steering stabilizer/truss and idler arm bracket. I upgraded all the fasteners and performed minor grinding to fit the idler arm bracket to the later Sidekick/Tracker/X-90 platform. Here’s what I did in the back: Cut the springs shorter, closed the last coil by […]

with Jim Bova Project #2 Returns! Front Spring Over With Rear Springs With the rear SPOA done on #2 it was time to move on to the front. There is a little more work involved in the front with the steering. There are a few  ways to address the steering issue, cross over steering , […]

    A case study in tinkering run amok… by TD (Troy) Graham   Part 3: Fun with Mock-ups. Misery loves company: At this point, a little introduction is in order… where “me” becomes “we”; the other half of “we” being my buddy Tom Wilhelm.  He is the President of General Crafts in Goshen, Indiana, […]

with 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 […]

With: Rae Champoux iZook Guru’s Ultimate Project Build Off – Truck Two What a mess the last few months have been! It seems like all we have been doing is spinning our tires on this project. I have been putting in some long hours with my new position, Mitch was on third shift for two […]

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 […]

With: Rae Champoux iZook Guru’s Ultimate Project Build Off – Truck Two Well we are still at it. It has taken a lot longer than we expected. The delays are many. Lets start with the run down of the last months work on truck two. The cool one. J Whos smart idea was it to […]