long trips?

[suzuki newby]

Me and a friend are doing our annual trip to weipa in a few days and he has decided to take his sierra (it has the usual 2''+2'' lift and 30s) i told him he was crazy as it quite a long may from were we are in hervey bay but he reckons other people must have done similar trips.

So has anyone taken there sierra on any long trips, how was it, would you do it again?

[moose]

does melbourne to cape york count ??

6'2" , fully loaded zook !! ( with the x-wife)
would do it again , but 1 up in the car , not 2 !!!

its good fun , long trips in zooks !!
also did melb-adelaide-marree-cooper pedy-uluru-alice-isa-cairns-melb !!!


1 major thing to do , strengthen the rear diff housing !!!
(they tend to snap on the corrigations !!)

[ZOOK92]

I did Sydney-Cape York-Darwin-Alice-Adelaide-Melbourne and home over a one month period. Would I do it again? For sure! In a Sierra? Maybe not, but i must cofess, if you take your time, it is not too bad.

[grimbo]

A friend did an around Australia trip in a Sierra

[suzuki newby]

Wow thats amazing you guys win for sure. We usualy take it pretty slow, it takes us about a week to get up there but we do a pretty straight run back.

[suzuki newby]

just as a matter of interest what is the longest stint people have done behind the wheels of there suzi?

[grimbo]

I think it was around 13 hours, Melbourne to Broken Hill.

Which was in a Sierra Ute on 31s no gearing change carrying 4 spare tyres, all my camping gear plus about 60 litres of water and I'm 6'4". Surprisingly it wasn't a bad drive

[ofr57]

the longest I driven is 3 hours straight
i think i gotta put abit more sound deadener on my car
and also hard suspension doesn't help

[muppet_man67]

good seats would help on long trips.

[mr green]

drove to the cape from tamwoth in 03 when the zook was near standard. just had 2'' shakles,lockright rear, and bald 31's. drove to cairns in one stint and i personally drove townsville to tamworth with only petrol stops. (23 long hours)did the trip in two weeks

[Goatse.AJ]

Flat towed a Mitsushithouse Stigma (owner crashed it into a tree coming out of Sunset Country) from Mildura to Melbourne once. 3 people in the Zook, plus all my gear and one in the Stigma.... about 12 hours at night.

[HotAe92]

Ive done a couple of fairly bigish trips - 1000-1200km's over 3 days with the crap plastic fixed back bucket seats with no padding - great for the back (at least you know it will be impossible to fall asleep)

I dont go away for much longer as i simply don't have the room nor comfort for all supplies etc.

Jayden

[Goatse.AJ]

That's why I bought a Feroza.

[bugden23]

i've taken several long trips including a brisbane - newcastle - canberra - dubbo - brisbane round trip. Though keep in mind it was in a 4 door vitara with all the trimmings which is a limo compared to the seira

[beaver700]

Ive done Wagga to Armidale in one day, (850km's). Didnt go faster than 80km's... Long trip, but it was quite alright!

[Sirzooky]

Hi Guys,

I just finished a near 6000K trip in a "96 Coilly zook with 5x3 trailer from Perth WA to the Gold Coast QLD via Sydney and Canberra. I sat on around 90-100km with a bit of inaccuracy from the 31's. She went well. Didnt miss a beat. I camped the whole way with the missus and took our time over three weeks. I recommend it to anyone. It wasnt the most comfortable at times but a gr8 experience.

I have also driven with it stock from Darwin to Perth a few years ago with my brother. before the mods.

[mud4b]

we had a 95 wt.
there were 3 of us and a 6x4 box trailer fully loaded. we went from the sunshine coast qld to sydney to milbrodale for tt only stopping for fuel.

on the way back from tt we went to overkill and picked up a vitara body/chassis wacked it on the trailer and towed it home. the zook still done 100ks and a strait drive home to the sunny coast. no problems. but i do reccommend upgrading the seats.