Installing a Ford 9″ rear end into the Sidekick. Editor: Eric Bewley Photo/Story: Mike Hagen Cottage Grove, MN -Why do you need a nine-inch? There’s a good chance you don’t. I wanted to do this because of a few problems I was having. First were the twisted axles. After smoking several rear axles and experiencing a rash of twisted splines, …

Pure Sport in Mike Hagen’s Tricked Out Sidekick. Editor: Eric Bewley Photo: Mike Hagen Mike Hagen is no stranger to hard core wheeling with Suzuki Vehicles. He has owned and operated, or shall we say thrashed on, several Samurai and Sidekicks over the years. His last creation, however, is a mobile work of art. It is the best culmination of …

PUSHING THE LIMITS Hagen Does It Again, New IFS Design For Sidekick. Editor: Eric Bewley Story/Photo: Mike Hagen COTTAGE GROVE, MN – The Orange rig is due for a makeover. Doing the project:RockStar project has kept me out of my orange rig all summer. From experience, I know the project:RockStar will spank the orange car all day long on the …

  OPERATION: ROCKSTAR Building A Stadium Rock Sidekick On A Club Band Budget – Part 3 Editor: Eric Bewley Story/Photo: Mike Hagen COTTAGE GROVE, MN -In our first installment of this series we posed the question How far can you go with a Trackick? In the second part we picked right back up with our builders in the shop for …

OPERATION: ROCKSTAR Building A Stadium Rock Sidekick On A Club Band Budget – Part 2 Editor: Eric Bewley Story/Photo: Mike Hagen COTTAGE GROVE, MN -In our first installment of this series we posed the question How far can you go with a Trackick? In this second part we pick right back up with our builders in the shop for build …

  Front end modifications for the Suzuki Sidekick. Editor: Eric Bewley Photo: Mike Hagen Cottage Grove, MN. -A couple of years back I started having this chronic problem with blowing the guts out of my front differential. 32-inch tires, a strong motor, and a driver who didn’t want to let up just proved to be too much for the aluminum …

OPERATION: ROCKSTAR Building A Stadium Rock Sidekick On A Club Band Budget – Part 1. Editor: Eric Bewley Story/Photo: Mike Hagen COTTAGE GROVE, MN -How far can you go with a Trackick? We thought this would be a good place to start exploring this question. Here is a project that will hopefully open the minds of many and spawn, at …