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Why do you own a zook?
I went in my mates dads ages ago, and to my surprise that were very capable.
I always loved 4wding but was mostly into fast cars.
My mate(85zook) saw a lovely looking zook not far from here and i have loved her ever since
I always loved 4wding but was mostly into fast cars.
My mate(85zook) saw a lovely looking zook not far from here and i have loved her ever since
85 LWB w. FRP Canopy
Ca18det conversion in progress, Vit PS, RUF,
6.5:1's, 33x12.5 Bfg's, custom front and rear bars.
Ca18det conversion in progress, Vit PS, RUF,
6.5:1's, 33x12.5 Bfg's, custom front and rear bars.
Why did I buy a Suzuki......over the years I have owned (or been owned by) a Series 1 long wheel base LandRover ute, a 60 series G-Pack Landcruiser, and a Pajero. The rover was great, went anywhere, but parts were hard to get (even from wreckers) and anything special had to come from the UK, and all the bolts were in the 'other' imperial thread. Cruiser was great, but a little soft in standard form and damn expensive to run. Pajero was stolen and that was the end of 4wding for a few years (had a few more kids).
Wanted to get back in to 4WDing with the kids (have 4 now) and wanted something economic and something i could drive to work every day. Then Suzuki started the adds on tv, carefully manouvered the wife into suggetsing we look at them......made her drive one, let her pick the options and the colour....and now I have a suzuki.
Things the wife liked about the suzuki:
1. it drives real nice on the road
2. it's economical
3. the rear sets are confortable for adults, unlike toyota and nissan
4. it's less expensive to run
5. it's less expensive to purchase
Things I like about the suzuki
1. It's a real 4WD
2. it can be improved on easliy
3. it's a suzuki (always wanted a sierra)
4. it's not a nissan or toyota
5. it's got metric bolts
6. the wife likes it
Regards
Greg
Editor - TrackChat
Suzuki 4WD Club of NSW
Wanted to get back in to 4WDing with the kids (have 4 now) and wanted something economic and something i could drive to work every day. Then Suzuki started the adds on tv, carefully manouvered the wife into suggetsing we look at them......made her drive one, let her pick the options and the colour....and now I have a suzuki.
Things the wife liked about the suzuki:
1. it drives real nice on the road
2. it's economical
3. the rear sets are confortable for adults, unlike toyota and nissan
4. it's less expensive to run
5. it's less expensive to purchase
Things I like about the suzuki
1. It's a real 4WD
2. it can be improved on easliy
3. it's a suzuki (always wanted a sierra)
4. it's not a nissan or toyota
5. it's got metric bolts
6. the wife likes it
Regards
Greg
Editor - TrackChat
Suzuki 4WD Club of NSW
started 4x4ing in '88 xtra cab hilux, got married moved to dual cab hilux.....economic reality sold 4x4, hello commodore (drudgery!). years later hello '93 Vit LWB (actually 6 weeks ago!) 
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purchased as cannot justify purchase/running cost of 'real' 4x4.
wife is happy with cute 4x4,
wise man say - "happy wife, happy life"
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purchased as cannot justify purchase/running cost of 'real' 4x4.
wife is happy with cute 4x4,
wise man say - "happy wife, happy life"
just about to get my zook on the road... hopefully 
... my bro took over suziworx... (free parts, cant get cheaper than that ).. seen wot he did to his and had to have one.
its a lwb nt ute with spring lift and body lift, 31' baja claws, 1.3 5 speed... soon to de a 1.8 turbo diesel. 1.3 body (cut down sierra), half doors and snorkel... looks preety sweet. will try to get some pics for all those who want em...
cheers
... my bro took over suziworx... (free parts, cant get cheaper than that ).. seen wot he did to his and had to have one.
its a lwb nt ute with spring lift and body lift, 31' baja claws, 1.3 5 speed... soon to de a 1.8 turbo diesel. 1.3 body (cut down sierra), half doors and snorkel... looks preety sweet. will try to get some pics for all those who want em...
cheers
one day i will have the dosh to do it all... one day
My first 4WD was a Toyota 4Runner, blew the motor in that, so we upgraded to a Nissan Patrol TD42. Also had a commodre which I wanted to rebuild.
But then I saw a few articles in 4WD Monthly on zuks and decided that would be more fun than the commodre, so I found a 85 Hi roof.
The Patrol is now the wifes daily driver (she doesn't like the sierra ride) and the family touring vehicle and the zuk is my daily driver and play toy.
The daughter who is 3 absoluty loves the zuk and always asks me to faster through the mud, who am I to say no? and wants to know when can she drive it?
But then I saw a few articles in 4WD Monthly on zuks and decided that would be more fun than the commodre, so I found a 85 Hi roof.
The Patrol is now the wifes daily driver (she doesn't like the sierra ride) and the family touring vehicle and the zuk is my daily driver and play toy.
The daughter who is 3 absoluty loves the zuk and always asks me to faster through the mud, who am I to say no? and wants to know when can she drive it?
96 GQ Patrol, TD42, snokel, 2" OME suspension
Over the past couple of years its become a family thing that at least once a year all the guys from my extended family who are at least high school age go camping 4wding in the high country out of mansfield. I think there is about 14 of us at the moment but its always increasing.
Anyway when it came time for me to be looking at cars a 4wd was what I wanted but I couln't imagine being able to afford one that, a) wasn't a piece of crap and, b) didn't guzzle fuel.
I had seen a few modded suzukis around a decided if they mod them then they must be the real thing.
I bought the coilly early this year and love it. I took it camping with the family. We were camping in buttercup and I was itching to drive so we all went looking for something fun to drive. To cut a short story shorter I drove up this track that my uncle in his brand new hilux couldn't. I got to the top and realised the handbrake was on.
Anyway when it came time for me to be looking at cars a 4wd was what I wanted but I couln't imagine being able to afford one that, a) wasn't a piece of crap and, b) didn't guzzle fuel.
I had seen a few modded suzukis around a decided if they mod them then they must be the real thing.
I bought the coilly early this year and love it. I took it camping with the family. We were camping in buttercup and I was itching to drive so we all went looking for something fun to drive. To cut a short story shorter I drove up this track that my uncle in his brand new hilux couldn't. I got to the top and realised the handbrake was on.
I got hooked by the 4wd bug last year when my mate started taking me out in his surf. Another mate had a GQ and another with a F20 Diahatsu. Were up at kinglake one morning and saw a white hardtop on 33s and thought it was pretty cool. On the way home that arvo, saw him beached on some BMX jumps and thought what a nut. Then i got the urge to start driving myself, nav seat isnt as much fun, and was on a budget. So i looked for a sierra with fiberglass canopy, found one within my budget, and havent looked back since. Then once i found this forum, i was corrupted by other like minded suzuki nuts. Thats why im selling my first car, VP Commodore, to fund some serious work on the suzi.
well my dad walked into the computer room and said i just bought you a car but you have to pay for it.....WHAT?? i said then he said it was a suzi for $250 and then i bursted with another WHAT?? but this one was a happy yay cheap car WHAT??? and now i am doing it up for my first car. And i decided to keep it so that i have something good in summer to bash around in the bush.
i was actually looking for a jeep.
i had a ford bronco full size and the availability of parts for this truck is just not as broad. i mean, you can turn one into a mean pavement pounder, but you just can't turn one into a mean trail rig without spending some major cash on custom work. founf a jeep, but couldnt afford it. starting looking at a cherokee, but i had to have a convertible. thought about the samurai... got to looking around for aftermarket parts and WHAM!! it started!! found one, drove 6 hours to get it, and now i am hooked. they are inexpensive, great offroaders! cool looking, and nimble. i can work around the speed and size issues. i love mine, and i think i will always have one handy, even if one day it is not my daily driver...
i had a ford bronco full size and the availability of parts for this truck is just not as broad. i mean, you can turn one into a mean pavement pounder, but you just can't turn one into a mean trail rig without spending some major cash on custom work. founf a jeep, but couldnt afford it. starting looking at a cherokee, but i had to have a convertible. thought about the samurai... got to looking around for aftermarket parts and WHAM!! it started!! found one, drove 6 hours to get it, and now i am hooked. they are inexpensive, great offroaders! cool looking, and nimble. i can work around the speed and size issues. i love mine, and i think i will always have one handy, even if one day it is not my daily driver...
It's not a Jeep...
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Joined: Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:29 pm
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Location: {Sydney, Australia or Rio, Brazil Ride: Sierra JXi}
Well when i first got back from living in Rio de janeiro and started livingin Leichhardt, Sydney i walked every day to primary school and we passed a couple of times a small 4wd sof top... in all honesty i'd like to say it was a zook but it may have been a rocky.
I came up with this theory there and then at the age of 9 that when i was old enough to drive these expensive vehicles would be a dirt cheap
(on account that all the cheap cars where very old)
Since then i moved to the Northern Beaches nd promptly forgot about it
Years pass i go back and forth to Brazi n holidaysl, lose my virginity 8 or 9 times, get a motobike license, complete the HSC, do a bit of Europe and spend a year in brazil, come pack work a lot, sell my bike, go back to brazil for three months yada yada yada
Come back and start looking for a new third Suzuki motorcycle (two GN250's)
Flip though the trading post and open it on the 4wd session and my eyes lock on to Suzuki Sierra, Black Softop 88 $2500
hmmm... A whole car for the price of a bike
i don't like cars, i like bike, but a little memory floated up to the surface
two half months of looking at several black zuk softop's and wanting a 88.5-90 with a budget of $3000 tops i buy a 92/93 Suzuki Sierra Black Soft top with 12mnths rego and single owner with excellent service record by suzuki for $4000
Now i just commited myself to spending $2000 on 15x7 with tires and new OME ARB Springs and Nitro shocks
*sigh*
I need more money so i can get a suzuki RGV250 in black and a second zook with SJ410 grill, i like orange.
I came up with this theory there and then at the age of 9 that when i was old enough to drive these expensive vehicles would be a dirt cheap
(on account that all the cheap cars where very old)
Since then i moved to the Northern Beaches nd promptly forgot about it
Years pass i go back and forth to Brazi n holidaysl, lose my virginity 8 or 9 times, get a motobike license, complete the HSC, do a bit of Europe and spend a year in brazil, come pack work a lot, sell my bike, go back to brazil for three months yada yada yada
Come back and start looking for a new third Suzuki motorcycle (two GN250's)
Flip though the trading post and open it on the 4wd session and my eyes lock on to Suzuki Sierra, Black Softop 88 $2500
hmmm... A whole car for the price of a bike
i don't like cars, i like bike, but a little memory floated up to the surface
two half months of looking at several black zuk softop's and wanting a 88.5-90 with a budget of $3000 tops i buy a 92/93 Suzuki Sierra Black Soft top with 12mnths rego and single owner with excellent service record by suzuki for $4000
Now i just commited myself to spending $2000 on 15x7 with tires and new OME ARB Springs and Nitro shocks
*sigh*
I need more money so i can get a suzuki RGV250 in black and a second zook with SJ410 grill, i like orange.
-[b]Santos[/b][img]http://www.teamswift.net/images/smilies/icon_furious.gif[/img]
Suzuki, Jeep & Toyota Soft tops with welded seams for SALE (PM me)
Suzuki, Jeep & Toyota Soft tops with welded seams for SALE (PM me)
my first 4by was a landrover s3 lwb i bought it wen i was in yr 10 it was good i loved it and i got my Ps in it... i sold it and i planned to buy another landy a short wheelbase one but id been interested in sierras and they are cheeper n use less feul and im still in school n dont have much money... i saw a zook in the trading post advertised for 2200 so i went n had a look at it wasnt realy planen to buy it but wen the guy said i could have it for 1500 i bought it... now im planen a few simple mods now iv finished my hsc
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Location: {Sydney, Australia or Rio, Brazil Ride: Sierra JXi}
spamwell wrote:YES SJ410 GRILL and ORANGE i know exactly what you want , and thats what i want, and thats what i have (painting soon)
YAY
Yeah but i want to get a 85-88 narrow track and put a grill and bonnet on it..
That way i'll have
-1.3l engine
-interior trim
-A tacho
-5 speed gear box
But then again for $275 dollars i'd rather the Sj410
-[b]Santos[/b][img]http://www.teamswift.net/images/smilies/icon_furious.gif[/img]
Suzuki, Jeep & Toyota Soft tops with welded seams for SALE (PM me)
Suzuki, Jeep & Toyota Soft tops with welded seams for SALE (PM me)
Because I could thrash it, break it, dent it and not really care too much!
Cheap parts, mods, so much info out there, whatever you want to do, it's pretty much guaranteed someone else has done it a squillion times.
Only had it a little bit (link to my member page in my sig) but very happy with it so far! Just kinda undecided what I should mod, if anything at all atm...
Cheap parts, mods, so much info out there, whatever you want to do, it's pretty much guaranteed someone else has done it a squillion times.
Only had it a little bit (link to my member page in my sig) but very happy with it so far! Just kinda undecided what I should mod, if anything at all atm...
spamwell wrote:YES SJ410 GRILL and ORANGE i know exactly what you want , and thats what i want.....
get in line........
First became 'aroused' with zook's when I went to the first T/Truck and laid eyes on Sams chariot.......(I confess.....)
Sadly, that P.O.S. influenced me enough to want one to butcher...
With a bit of car trading, swaped my girlfriend's (now wife) crappy 'Colt' for a LJ80, which I sadly/foolishly swapped for a 410......
Having changed direction with my project zook more times than I care to admit, I' ve finally 'focused' on having a relatively mild (but competitive) zook, with the intent of building a 'competition worthy buggy' soon after.......
Biggest (zook) lesson I've learn't (thanks GREG...)
"Build it small, drive it BIG"
- Drewfus Designs -
"Build it small, DRIVE it big..."
"Build it small, DRIVE it big..."
Always wanted a 40ser tojo, bought one as first car, rolled it two weeks later 
. Fixed it, modded it painted it lime green and thought it dont get any better than this.
bought a 410 as a DD while i fixed up last lot of wheeling damage on tojo.
Bloody thing goes all the places my tojo did and then some.
The dents and scratches just ad to the suki's character and the poor old tojo's been stuck in the shed for a year now, the sukis just too fun.
. Fixed it, modded it painted it lime green and thought it dont get any better than this.
bought a 410 as a DD while i fixed up last lot of wheeling damage on tojo.
Bloody thing goes all the places my tojo did and then some.
The dents and scratches just ad to the suki's character and the poor old tojo's been stuck in the shed for a year now, the sukis just too fun.
...........shedbound.............
Santos wrote:spamwell wrote:YES SJ410 GRILL and ORANGE i know exactly what you want , and thats what i want, and thats what i have (painting soon)
YAY
Yeah but i want to get a 85-88 narrow track and put a grill and bonnet on it..
That way i'll have
-1.3l engine
-interior trim
-A tacho
-5 speed gear box
But then again for $275 dollars i'd rather the Sj410
i bought mine for $250 and it had the 1.3 and 5 speed gearbox swapped into it when i bought it, i prefer the sj410 dash and i need a tacho
I was looking for somthing fast i had spent over a year looking at everything from bombed up escorts,rx3's,r100's,rx7's a eunos cosmo (im a mazda man), started looking at lc, lj torana's then i looked at some nissans silvia's old skool skylines etc and never found somthing that i realy liked though i still wanna do a 1960's corola with a 4agze one day street sleeper stylez. Then i seen how much fun bazooked was having with his sierra and thought maby u dont have to do 300 through 60 zones to get a rush so i looked at some zooks and ive never looked back.
the 410 hardtop was a minty sitting in a farmer's shed. the shift sheet had disintegrated, it was stuck in neutral and wasn't driveable. bought it for $1000. was destined for my volvo project. but i learnt you can't make it into something it is not. RIP.
the 413 widetrack was a stop gap between my previously failed project and the future project. i was missing the bush but i wasn't ready to start another volvo project with a bigger car. it was also a minty, owned by a gay guy. i had to rescue it from a life half lived. i cut my teeth with diy mods and competitive navigation in this car. then undid most of the work and sold it to a dentist.
now that the rangie is well and truly gone, i'm itching to get another zook. this time, i'll keep it really simple.
the 413 widetrack was a stop gap between my previously failed project and the future project. i was missing the bush but i wasn't ready to start another volvo project with a bigger car. it was also a minty, owned by a gay guy. i had to rescue it from a life half lived. i cut my teeth with diy mods and competitive navigation in this car. then undid most of the work and sold it to a dentist.
now that the rangie is well and truly gone, i'm itching to get another zook. this time, i'll keep it really simple.
N*A*M wrote:this time, i'll keep it really simple.
what do u mean, U WONT KEEP IT AT ALL
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