Hey Dave and Rob something maybe for you to look into for gearing not sure but ya never know. Suzuki is making a 2.0 adapter kit for the samurai trans and transfer case. Now before yall get excited this is the suzuki 2.0 maybe worth checking into seeing how you can now get 8:1 gears for the samurai tansfer case. Here is the link:
http://www.rocky-road.com/zukworks.html

Or something like this...
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=395083


In midst of building.