[ESPCamaro]

I bought an 88 Suzuki Samurai in October.
Should be a fun off-road truck.

Probably all I will do at first is a bunch of armor stuff-gas tank, t-case, rock sliders, cage. Swap to 5.14 gears with mini spool in the rear.
Re-do the brakes, new cheap shocks (may even skip this) and get the engine working flawlessly (since getting stranded in the woods would be REALLY bad.

I figure if it's something we like I'll get more radical with it.

AFAIK Sgarnett and Judd are the only ones here that are remotely interested in something like this.

[ws6transam]

That's really too bad.
When I joined SAE in late 1993 there were only five of us that were actually student members. Then in 1994 we grew to twelve students witha budget of $5000. Then, after the "old guard"graduated, we decided to make a real go of it and proposed a budget of $65,000. We attended all of the high school orientation classes, and brought our cars into the school to show them off. We made up trifold brochures and handed them to any student we could grab. Then, when September came, we posted our meeting times all over the engineering building. That year we got the largest membership increase in the nation, and went from twelve to fifty students in one leap. It was tough, but then we recruited the college of business for marketing students and brought them in as members. We recruited TV video production students to help us make a two-minute promotional video. In the end, we got MSU to dollar match our fundraising up to $10,000 and within two weeks, Ford responded by sending us $10,000 to spend on the project. Kawasaki sent us a whole motorcycle. Ciba Geigy sent us composites. Autoair Composites let us use their autoclaves. Someone sent us upright castings. Someone else donated all our Chromoly tubing. Ford let us use their proprietary intake analysis software.

It all started out of pure enthusiasm by five or six students, and if you aren't getting anywhere with your advisor, ask him what's wrong. If that doesnt work, go talk to the dean. Keep asking for resources. At one point, we needed machine time at the machine shop and MSU didnt have any available for us to use. So, we approached Lansing Community College about using their shop. Once we had their permission, we approached the dean of MSU's mech. engineering program, and told him that because MSU didnt have any machine shop for student engineering projects, we were forced to make LCC an official sponsor of the MSU car. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Heh, that didnt sit too well and the next school year we found ourselves with a student run machine shop!