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Project 4×4: Suzuki Samurai Back in September 2005 I bought myself a 1990 Suzuki Samurai JL with the intention of making it the ultimate 4×4 machine. Here’s what it looked like when I bought it:

See a video of the Zuk digging up unforgiving mud in a crazy track, bone stock, except for new tires.

So far I’ve done the following modifications:

• Spring-Over-Axle lift conversion care of Rocky Road Outfitters
• 1.6L 8-valve Tracker/Sidekick motor swap (the original blew a piston)
• 2″ Lifted shackles
• Complete 2″ exhaust system with hi-flow cat

Here’s my wish-list for future mods:

• Jeep Wrangler YJ spring swap
• 15×8 backspaced wheels
• 31×10.5R15 mud terrain tires
• Front bumper with fog lights and winch mount
• Reinforced rear bumper with gas can (who needs to stop at the gas station?)
• Nerf bars
• New soft top
• 4.625 Ring and pinion gears (from Sidekick)
• 4.16 transfer case gears (12% high range, 88% low range reduction)
• Short headers for torque
• …and anything else I think is cool.

Recent pics coming soon!

Jeff :: Jul.17.2007 :: News 'n' Commentary :: 2 Comments »

The photos below come pretty close. These are never before seen hand-touched color photos of the battle of Passchendaele, a World War I battle in Belgium that began 90 years ago this week. The battle claimed the lives of about a quarter million Allied soldiers and about as many on the German side (being the war of attrition that it was).

Jeff :: Jul.17.2007 :: Interesting Stuff :: 1 Comment »