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markyb:
sj tend to suprise people

ive had a couple of sjs and a vitara and landrovers

standard vit , pretty poor
standard SJ  pretty good
stanard 90 pretty good

The only difference between the sj,90 and the vitara is the ground clearance.

if you can get the diffs of the ground then your green lane most lanes.
sometimes the sj with narrow wheel base gets through where a 90 cant,
i found when i put wheel spacers on an sj it started to get stuck in places it never used to...

only thing over the 90 is you can bug on 33inch tyre on with little mods and they are stronger

the sj will need a big lift to get 33s on,.

My vitara took a lot of work to get 33s on but then started to become a good offroader,  

I would love an sj on 31s a winch just as a green laner fun car. would have a 410 i reckon but i drive a 110 now and love it just the same, doubt i would go for a vitara again i had one for nearly 7 years and did pretty much all you could do to it.

but yeah stick a set of muds on it and drive it and see, lane with a friend and you should be fine..

carracarra13:
i must admit I have a 1992 1.6 16 valve lwb vit the only mod I have done is at tyres and a lot of wd40 , this gorgeous little motor never lets us down I really want to modify it but it handles all we through at it, if i was to do mods this is what id do heavy duty springs and shocks +2" and then a nice set of mudterains and also a snorkel, after Iv done the head gasket my fault not the cars) hit a large piece of tree and put it through rad if  engine over heated and now going to cost me £400 quid to put right so be warned if they start to go above half on temp stop give it 20 Min's to cool :oops: :oops:

baz2236:
Hi What I have found round my way where its flat and we have ruts, is that a fairly standard SJ will some times out do a Landy because its to small to sit in the ruts so you only ever have 2 wheels in the rut where as a disco of defender are wider and has all 4 wheels in the ruts also in the soft mud and due to its weight it sink and thus bridging out on its diff. where and the SJ can go past the same bit because only 2 wheels are in the rut. On the other side when it comes to hills I find Land rover do them better I think this is because they are wider and have the extra power but for most green lanes you do not need power.

On my SJ its only a 413 not a sammy so its the thinner one I have 235 X 85 X 16 on GV rims running wheel spacers but its not as wide as my mates 90 My brother had a Sammy with reversed rims and this made him sit in the ruts and as wide as a land rover not good because his wheels were only 15"

The best thing you can do is go out with a couple of people and see what they are running and where they have problems it varies from each area. I think a lift and bigger tyres would be alright but try not to go to wide as SJ's don't need wide tyres.

electricbluebadger:

--- Quote from: glaggs on December 19, 2007, 14:58:24 ---Totaly agree with em. The club I off road with has a good cross section of vehicles including and Ibex and lots of Disco's etc. I've seen Landys completely stuck where an SJ (or jimny) has just breezed through, but I've also be caught out trying to follow a Landy. Unfortunately I can accept how capable Landrovers are as well as knowing they have limits. Unfortunately some Landrover owners refuse to accept other makes can be as capable as a Landrover.ps I own both, but a Suzuki is my chosen off road toy.

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Glaggs we have em both in the family and have for years, they are both good in their own areas, zukes skip over mud where a landy may well bog in, Landys are safer hill climbers as you dont need the run up for many hills and are more controlled, admittedly the zukes will often climb the hills as well but a run up due to lower torque and they aint stopping at the top till they're over :), hill descents are far more controlled  in my landy than the SJ or vitara cos the gearing and torque are more suited, for general laning I rate the zuke as onl anes you may get very muddy areas and the zuke excells and can easily avoid the ruts.....

On a side note about the refusal to acknowledge etc the only board you ever see this my makes better than this make is on here, numerous times i go onto zuke boards and get sometimes 2 or 3 posts per page usually (in good humour) slating Landys and saying how much better zukes are .. try the Landy boards you just dont get the posts slating zukes...

Although Im more than happy driving the zuke its the zuke boards that have what is generally termed 'small man syndrome' I need to shout about how my vehicles better than a Landy... try here, Difflock, and any other board and then look at the Landy boards (you just dont get the posts) its the zuke boards that perpetuate this rumour :) ... the good humoured banter will always exist, its the inexperienced that feel the need to take it further. Just read the boards and you'll see how many posts there actually are...

I mean Ive only gone down a few posts and the 'why did you buy and already....


--- Quote ---Just to pee off the Landrover drivers when their un-stoppable "best 4x4 by far gets stuck I don't. .
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Relax... enjoy your zukes you dont have to keep shouting about how much better than Landys they are... you all know that already :) and you'll never convince the Landy crowd :) .......(who when you look at the posts dont care anyway)

Cheers Steve

davidlandy:
not really biased in any way , but i do see many suzukis on their sides.  they seem to roll easier and i guess thats because the track is narrower than larger 4x4s and that means the suzuki has two wheels in the ruts and the other two on top which can catch it out. This of course can be overcome.

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