rexmburns

Glad I was able to take time out of my busy day and come watch you wash your motor today!

ThatPurpleXJ

This things too damn big..

ThatPurpleXJ

It's out. Took about 4 hours start to finish. Going to pick up some more 3/16 and plate my inner frame rails then put the new engine in

rexmburns

Don't buy steel I have a half a sheet you can take what you need unless you don't want to wait till I get home.

97xjnova1

Let me know if u need a hand man I'm in the area

ThatPurpleXJ

Got tired of half my door windows never working so I went to the junkyard and got 4 regulators out of a cherokee with manual windows. Much better. Also I dickered that hole I drilled pretty bad but eh..

ThatPurpleXJ

Also trying to decide between D&C prefabbed roll cage or essentially off roads. Essentially has a lot more bracing and hops but not much triangulation. D&C seems very minimalistic so I'd have to add a good bit more which I'm fine with. I like how their legs at the dash hug closer and they include a windshield bar too.

Or do I convince nate and rex to split a JD2 bender and build a hybrid cage?

rexmburns

I'm down for going in on a bender!

Brandonrcm

I'd say split a bender and do a hybrid. More room inside for ya and you can design it how you want vs doing an interior and building off of it.

ThatPurpleXJ

It would be a good bit cheaper but take a whole lot longer but I'm leaning towards building one too. I could do it exactly how I want and keep it tight. Only problem is I love a good halo on top but now that I got a big hole in the roof that I cover with a cut out roof of another cherokee I guess a halo wouldn't quite work l

rexmburns

We could make it work! I also really like the idea of using your
Heep as the test dummy lol!

Brandonrcm

Look up Angelotd21 on instagram. He has an exo and cut his roof out and did a snap top that comes in from the bottom I believe. I hear ya on the roof not working. After you cut the roof out I had ideas for mine but my cage is too tight to the roof to ever get anything under the bars.

ThatPurpleXJ

I follow him, I was originally going to do a snap top like him too but then got the idea of bolting another roof from a cherokee into the roof rack holes and it works perfect. If I left enough roof I could probably slide the roof under the cage but there's no way to make it water tight then with the supports going through the roof so there's no point.. Hmm

Brandonrcm

I think you could make that work sliding it it through but then the cage would be kinda high off the roof, and your B pillar would have to be super far back i'd imagine where its going through the original roof vs the new roof. Honestly I can't think of any way for that to work with a hybrid

ThatPurpleXJ

I suppose I could do something like this for a hybrid. My roof is an inch wider then where his bolts are in the picture. I would do a halo up top and try to keep it as close to the roof as possible but still allow room for the roof to slide in and out. It's an idea