Well sence i have this posted on off-road's bbs i might as well put i here too......
-> I have decided to go ahead and host a suzuki jamboree something like zooki-melt, it'll be held in Nova Scotia, on the east coast of canada...... anyone intresed can post here or PM me for more details....
for the people intrested, i need from you:
1. first and last name(no one else will get your info so PM me if you like)
2. your location
3. year/make/model/ tire size of your zuki, we are also alowing Nivas and trackers......
again no one else besides me and the other guy doing this zuki-fest will get any info you send me....
-Mike, a bit more info on site..... www.angelfire.com/ns2/bushwhackers

??????????anyone??????????

Sorry, too long of a drive from El Paso Texas...

:( sorry Magneto Boy, even further from Vancouver:(
but i hope you have a :beer: :smokin: good time:)

Originally posted by UZI 9mm
:( sorry Magneto Boy, even further from Vancouver:(
but i hope you have a :beer: :smokin: good time:)

lol......well i already have someone from BC regestered......:D

Originally posted by mud-magnet
??????????anyone??????????

I don't have any winter clothes :D

Originally posted by mud-magnet


lol......well i already have someone from BC regestered......:D

hey, that's cool. ('tho it's one thing to register and another to actually show up........)
plus i'd be willing to bet they wouldn't be driving their Samurai there but towing or something. that leaves me out i'm afraid.:(

actually hes DRIVING his Niva........there close enought to a zuki sence lots of zuki parts fit them......

Originally posted by mud-magnet
actually hes DRIVING his Niva........there close enought to a zuki sence lots of zuki parts fit them......

Really, like what?

:)

some engine parts are the same, just like the small stuff mostly....... i don't know much about them but he said they're pretty much the same and thats why he hangs out on the zuki board......

Originally posted by mud-magnet
some engine parts are the same, just like the small stuff mostly....... i don't know much about them but he said they're pretty much the same and thats why he hangs out on the zuki board......

I find it hard to believe - I'd need specific examples to believe it. Didn't the Niva start life as a Fiat? I might be confusing the lineage of the 4 door car though. The little four door car was Fiat that Lada bought the tooling for. Good little cars, we used to beat the shite out of them bashing through the woods in and around St. John's, NF. It wasn't a good day if you didn't have to walk home.

Ummmmm Lada Niva has parts that will interchange with Suzuki?
what, like some metric fasteners, or what?:confused:
sorry to sound skeptical, but i'd have to see it to believe it.
(Nivas are kinda cool, but ifs? i dunno...)

front view

they look all right yes, and i know ifs and thats why i don't like them but sidekicks have the same front susp.......

Originally posted by mud-magnet
they look all right yes, and i know ifs and thats why i don't like them but sidekicks have the same front susp.......

Actually, Sidekicks and Nivas have different IFS setups. The Niva uses a double A-arm setup similar to late model Toyotas and GMs, the Sidekick uses a modified MacPherson strut setup where the spring is not part of the strut configuration.

Sorry to pick nits... :)

Between the two, the Niva is the superior system. It controls the camber curve better when cornering.

:flipoff2: still ifs.............:flipoff2:

I think the comment on the ORC bbs was that some tech infor was the same between the Lada and Zuk, not parts. That they are close in size and ability.

I'm not sure what tech would cross the gap between IFS and leaf springs though?:flipoff2:

ok john, time for you to go get your new high angel shaft............:flipoff2: ......congrats. man..........:D , i'm just a tad jelous, i read it and my heart stoped cause i saw mud... and canada...........lol.......
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