Stock RUnning samurai tub in good shape 3k tops
Spring over perch's 200 bucks ( yields about 3" of lift and enough for 31" tires )
Transfercase mods lower gears bout 500 bucks.
Frame mods WHAT frame mods???
Bolt in roll cage 800 bucks
Wheels and tires say what 1500 lots of variables.
With gears you need no motor mods
so your at what a whopping 6k in upgrades... far less than a rhino. Hell even if you had to earl schwab paint it your only lookin at a couple hundred for that.
If you source this out to someone to do all the work for you tack on another 1-2k in labor so your still lower than 10k. Samurai's are cheaper by far. Plus the 1.3 thats in them runs really well when tuned right.
Mine had a 1.6ltr fuel injected motor
T-case gears
Custom suspension
33" tires
and a whole sh*t load of other mods.. total put into it was about 15k
Figure by the time you buy the rhino 10,200 and start adding suspension parts exhausts paint seats roll cage blah blah blah you will be well over 15k..
For LESS money you can have a just as cabable street legal machine to get you to and from work or to and from the dunes and in between and look good while doing it.
And yes he did 90% of the work himself. the other 10% were paid off in beer to buddies to help out.