Header: RC Suzuki Samurai SJ80 Build blog..  
  Published: Wednesday, November 27, 2019  
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Finally managed to get the chassis and other parts accumulated over the past few months, assembled. The chassis has a wheelbase of 210mm, which I have stretched to between 220 and 230mm. The drive shafts used are the stock Axial shafts from a Wraith kit. Needless to say, they were cut to size. With this very short wheelbase, the transfer case mount was lowered to avoid binding on the drive shafts. The suspension is 4 links in the rear and 3 links and a Panhard rod up in the front.

This is the look I am going for, a rugged, non-street legal, beast of a Suzuki Samurai. Not to everyone's taste but hey..

Rearview

Next attempt will be to make a custom CMS and motor mount