Thread: Suzuki Samurai

This thing was frikken useless today (paired with a useless muppet behind the wheel). Went out with the Manukau 4x4 club and when I put it through some actual strenous 4x4ing it turned out that the wheels are too big (and the thing has no power) and road tyres are useless as hell in the mud. Combined with it conking out all the time, having no power steering (so it'd smash your hand if you held onto the wheel when you shouldn't), having leaf springs all around that bounced the hell out of me, I ended up not managing to complete many of the events.

So next on the list, some slightly smaller mud tyres. After that, maybe I'll figure out if I can drop a corolla engine in it or something with a bit more poke... because that 1980's 1.3L is absolutely gutless (even in low range). So much so that you basically can't get out of 1st.