anyone have ideas, plans, or just some write up that they would share on how to make a roof rack for an 87 suzuki samurai?

FYI
I  "Drop Da Top" a lot, so I haven't seen any real user friendly roof racks,
also, some Off Roader's here that have them find that they "Load-up" with
Trail brush from all the tree branches hanging into Logging Roads we run.
PetroWorks had one that you may look at on-line to get Ideas from.

CAPT

Are you looking for a permanent rack or just one for wheeling?  A club member has one from a Jeep Cherokee, he just fabbed up some mounts to bolt it to the roll cage and uses it for wheeling trips only.

I would like a permanent one but cant mount to the iterior roll cage because its my daily driver and I need a softtop option. that is a good picture and does give me a good idea if it comes down to a temp one. I just need to get a front cage and windshield put on now.

Drone637,
 NICE PIX.......
Are you running away from home with all that stuff?!!!!

Or did the wife throw you out?!!!!

CAPT

That's actually my sammy on the Dusy/Ershim trail in Cali.We were on the trail for 5 days,luckily my friend had an open seat for my kid to ride in other wise it would have been really crowded.

Yep.  I didn't bother posting the picture of the other roof rack, as it didn't make it. 

Calmini has a roof rack available as well:

http://www.lowrangeoffroad.com/index.php/softop-and-hardtop-tubular-safari-roof-racks.html?___store=default

I welded it in 3 different places and ended up just strapping the thing down to the torga bar.

Here's my 87 samurai... I custom made it with the 12tone pipe bender.. I used it alot on  my fishing pole and surf boards

I like that. the studs just go through the cage? I like the idea of doing that when I dont have the top on.

here's another picture with the soft to on...with the 235/75/r15 tire... I have my bigger tires on when I going fishing on the lava trials

I ran my mounts down to the body.  6 mounts total.  Fronts unclip and come out to allow windshield to fold down.  Originally it was made to un-pin and come off.  I ended up liking the rack enough to leave it on all the time so I welded the un-pinning joints solid for strength & rigidity.
Here are a few pics.  I don't have any upclose pics of the mounts. this is the best I could come up with:

Calmini is the way to go. I don't think you could buy all the stuff and build it for much less than the 400 and some asking price. and it is a nice setup.