Tintop

[madfishpaul]

Hi All,

So here's the thing. My Sammy is not going to pass her MOT at the end of the month :-( electrics and bodywork

The sensible thing to do would be to sell her on ebay as an "off roader", but when have I ever been sensible !?!

She is my first SJ, and there is something... lets call it carmance about it, I know she's uncomfortable, drinks more oil than petrol, too small, and... uncomfortable, but I'm in love.

Last January in all that snow, I went out for a drive just for fun. Guess what ? the nice police man had shut the A399 because of the 4 feet snow drifts, told the chap in front, in a brand new Range Rover he'd have to turn round and go back, then took one look at my old Sammy and pronounced "ohh you'll be alright in that mate - no problem, through you go". And I did. The smile lasted all day.

So, on to the point of this thread. I'm planning on a re-build from the boots up, nice new shinny 1.6 lump (has anyone tried to supercharge one?) runner gear, etc. And I'd like to convert her from a plastic hard top (which is crap and leaks all the time) to a tin top. I don't really want to sell her and buy a tintop, I want to re-shell her into a tintop.

Can anyone think of a reason why this cannot be done? looks like 10 bolts and a sh!t load of fiddling to me.

Also, does anyone have a tintop shell knocking about?

Ta.

P.

[dan_2k_uk]

Yeah shells pretty much just swap over.

There are a few supercharged 1.6 conversions about if you have a google I'm sure something will come up.

[turbo-tom]

Yeah you can swap the shells over when I first got
Mine was rotten and I was going to swap the shell over but I just welded it all up in the end

[ScottieJ]

Firstly the forum.

What about making a removable tin top I want to do this!

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/suzuki/9 ... intop.html

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/suzuki/9 ... build.html

[dan_2k_uk]

Firstly the forum.

What about making a removable tin top I want to do this!

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/suzuki/9 ... intop.html

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/suzuki/9 ... build.html

Would deffo want a internal roll hoop though!

[madfishpaul]

Thats pretty nuts :-)