Spec’

Base Vehicle

• Suzuki Jimny X reg, 2000 model
• “X 8GGY” personal registration

Suspension – Front

• JimnyBits +2” Front Lift Springs
• Monroe Adventure Grand Vitara Rear Shock Absorbers
• JimnyBits +1” Bumpstop Spacers
• JimnyBits Shock Absorber Guards
• JimnyBits Front HD Adjustable Panhard Rod / Poly Bushes
• Standard radius arms with SuperPro Polyurethane Bushes
• JimnyBits Radius Arm Guards
• Sleeved (with seamless tube) HD Steering Bars (homemade)
• Procomp Steering Damper on mounting kit from ZookBOB

Suspension – Rear

• JimnyBits +2″ Rear Lift Springs
• Rockwatt Rear Spring Retaining Clamps
• Monroe Adventure Rear Jimny Shock Absorbers, with…
• JimnyBits Shock 1.5″ Relocator Brackets, and…
• ZookBOB drill-thru rear bottom shock bolts
• ZookBOB +2″ Rear Bump Stop Spacers
• JimnyBits Rear Shock Absorber Guards
• JimnyBits Rear HD Adjustable Panhard Rod / Poly Bushes
• Standard radius arms with SuperPro Polyurethane Bushes
• JimnyBits Radius Arm Guards

Drivetrain – Front

• Fully rebuilt front axle fitted with later 4.3:1 Diff
• Standard Open Front Diff
• JimnyBits Front Diff Guard
• JimnyBits Free Wheel Hubs

Drivetrain – Rear

• Fully rebuilt rear axle fitted with later 4.3:1 Diff, with…
• “Lunchbox” (like a Lockright) Locking Diff from JimnyBits
• TrailGear HD Shafts from JimnyBits
• JimnyBits Rear Diff Guard

Drivetrain – Centre

• Standard Transfer Box in a
• Homemade bucket / skid plate
• ZookBOB HD Rubber Bush and Bolt Mounts
• ZookBOB Breather Kit

Wheels & Tyres

• Grand Vitara 16″ Alloys
•  235/70R16 (29″) Malatesta Kamel (Remould) Tyres
• Raptor4x4 30mm Wheel Spacers

Buggy Body Mods

• Soft-top cabbed body with “wading wall” inserted behind seats
• Half-doors
• Bad Boy Big Bucket Seats
• Front Monsoon soft-top retained for those sunny days!
• Bed-liner’d floor
• Rear “trayback” with elliptical diagonal bracing to body
• Spare Wheel Tray with Damar yellow retaining ratchet strap
• Reshaped (narrowed to front) bonnet, featuring…
• LED Light Bar ‘scoop’, Keithy Vents & Pie Warmer! 😉
• Lorry wheel arches
• “X” bracing in rear of cab, is joined to…
• External “halo hoop” around roofline and A-pillar tubes
• Homemade Tree Wires from RAF rescue helicopter cable (!)
• Armoured fuel filler with extended hoses
• JimnyBits Sill Bars
• JimnyBits Petrol Tank Guard
• Homemade Mirror Guards (for the Tight & Scratchy ‘lanes!)
• Custom snorkel tube by “Pipe–Bender” (to my Spec’), with…
• K&N air filter and Southdown Land Rover snorkel head
• ZookBOB Breather Kit

Recovery Equipment

• Custom homemade tray to hold –
• Rear mounted JimnyBits / “Black Raptor” 9,000lb Winch. with…
• Synthetic rope
• Runs through donut fairleads / seamless tube to front
• Large rear “Warn 8274” style hawse fairlead for rear winching
• Snatch Block mount just above it
• Option to winch through the loop on the back of the ‘cage
• Custom handle to influence the rope back onto the drum
• Waffle Boards in custom mount
• Ground Anchor on custom mounts for spade and arm
• Damar Tree Strop in faux Jerry Can
• JimnyBits Front Recovery Points through front bumperette
• Homemade Rear Recovery Points
• Hi–Lift Jack on “X” bracing mounts

Electrical

• JCB front headlights operated by two negative switched relays
• LED Light Bar in bonnet ‘scoop’
• Side repeaters moved to bonnet edges with JimnyBits Guards
• Rear SJ / Samurai Lights in custom “box section” mounts
• LED rear foglight and high-level brake light on “halo hoop”
• Rear mounted (next to winch) Odyssey PC1200 Winch Battery
• In Offroad Armoury Cradle
• Engine Battery in custom mount
• Manual switched split charge system, so that…
• Engine battery is kept charged during winching operations
• Yet batteries are connected when driving