I am in the process of looking for a dana 44 out of a scout, there is a few around here locally so if I can get a good deal I'll go that route, the gears will be useless so thats why I need a steal of a deal on one. I don't have the funds to do sas right now, and may never do it, have to see how things go. At least with a dana 44 I could have a locker in the rear and that would get me much further than how its set up now.

doesnt matter how far you go with an off road project, you could always do more or go bigger. and when you get the sportage maxed out there will still be places it wont go.

make it how you want it and what you need and don't worry about what anyone else is doing. The problem with getting too involved with what others are doing, is you will lose interest in the project, do things one way then find out someone else did something different, so now you change it, and the cycle goes on and on.

my dad was building an off road only toy based on a old bronco frame, tube body, tons of time and money thrown at it, and he hasn't touched it in 3 years, a friend of his who was helping kept getting him to change his set up based on others , and I guess the constant changing made him dis-like it.

my dad lives in MN and we havnt spoken for 2 years, but if we were he'd probably give me a deal on his ford 9" rear that locked and has disc brakes <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/mrt.gif" alt="" /> Oh he also has a set of 42" tall implement tires (tractor style) with 5x5.5 custom steel rims.. (I'd love to mount those on the sporty just for a picture !! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" /> )

has 2 302 motors, a brand new efi kit for 1 of them. a built up c4 trans, the list goes on and on. that would be fun to put lots of his parts into the kia. but not gonna happen..