BEHOLD! Project: Troll.

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Oct 30, 2011 | 11:11 PM
  #76  
Quote: so being that you named it project troll, I intially thought you were trolling the forum for a response so I had a small go at you lol, then due to a quote fail you seemingly responded to my comment with the anwser to someone elses comment causing confusion. that being said.

Alot of work and fab went into this and I can appreciate that. I'm looking forward to updates on it, expecially with how you do the floor.

any idea as to how many man hours and dollars you have invested into this?

Also when you cut out the unibody and entire floor, did you have to brace everything to keep it from twisting or was the body itself rigid enough to not crack the windsheild / deform?

Hahaha hey man its all good, I am always trolling but that quote did get BLOWN out of proportion

Man hours I wouldn't have any clue, I was in and out with other projects too. And money...maybe $3000 for new parts/materials.

I braced EVERYTHING when I cut it. My nightmare was none of the body lines lining up and the doors never opening again. I went from corner to corner roof to floor at all the pillars and across the middle...I will try to find pics of the brace job (hahaha brace job...its like highschool all over again ) the floors are mostly done in the front. I will get the whole thing "floored" this week.
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Oct 30, 2011 | 11:20 PM
  #77  
thumbs up. you sound alot like me, constantly having too many projects going at once lol. Everytime I try to work on the jeep something else comes up.

I'm sure you know about it being in the bagged world, but alot of people are putting in titanium steel skids , because when they drag, it throws white sparks vs orange. (im pretty sure it was titanium) which i think is bad ***.
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Oct 31, 2011 | 01:37 AM
  #78  
Ahhhhh yeah. Draggin' titanium is pretty sick. But, I have a strict policy on how I see draggin' and that is that blocks are for fairies. If you're gonna drag, drag frame like a boss!
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Oct 31, 2011 | 05:20 AM
  #79  
Quote: Ahhhhh yeah. Draggin' titanium is pretty sick. But, I have a strict policy on how I see draggin' and that is that blocks are for fairies. If you're gonna drag, drag frame like a boss!
Lol!!
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Oct 31, 2011 | 08:33 AM
  #80  
its awesome that this project is so close to me, lol. But i seriously love this i was HUGE into mini-trucks a few years back, never even thought of a cherokee, amazing work.
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Oct 31, 2011 | 06:33 PM
  #81  
Happy Halloween errbody! I was hiding from trick or treaters in my garage lol.

I did come cleaning, and rolled the Troll out into the driveway for some aired up pics.







I know alot of you probably think this looks goofy lol...but thats the only drawback to a doored truck, is the way it looks from the side at lift.



This is 150 psi.



12" from ground to lifted. Door bottoms lay on the ground when laid out.



These are the complete front floor boards and tranny tunnel I fabbed up.





And they mocked in place. Welding them in after I am sure everything underneath is run.

I ran my front air line, brake line, fuel lines tonight.

I have very little room for my dump valves...so I will have to get creative. I wanted them pointing out the front wheel wells to have the loudest "pssssssshhhhhhh" dump possible, but that doesn't look probable.

And most importantly...a clean shop is a happy shop.





I PICK UP A SET OF NEW RUST FREE DOORS ON SATURDAY!! FINALLY!
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Oct 31, 2011 | 07:28 PM
  #82  
I have an XJ specific question for you guys.

Whats the deal with your "cut and fold" fender cutting? Is that to clear bigger tires or to eliminate the flares? I am thinking of fender options for me, but I don't want to take much material off because I love to tuck those lugs!

How much do you fold away?
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Oct 31, 2011 | 07:54 PM
  #83  
I must say I love ur jeep. Real big into mini trucks ...and I always said I never seen a xj bagged and bodied and now I have...so props I love it...btw I added u on facebook pretty cool I seen you on this forum..corey million
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Oct 31, 2011 | 08:34 PM
  #84  
Quote: I have an XJ specific question for you guys.

Whats the deal with your "cut and fold" fender cutting? Is that to clear bigger tires or to eliminate the flares? I am thinking of fender options for me, but I don't want to take much material off because I love to tuck those lugs!

How much do you fold away?
Its to clear bigger tires/ make it look like more lift, usually about and in or so. I would keep the flares if it were me. And as for your dumps why not just put them at the tank and run a dump line to where you want it?
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Oct 31, 2011 | 08:42 PM
  #85  
Quote: Its to clear bigger tires/ make it look like more lift, usually about and in or so. I would keep the flares if it were me. And as for your dumps why not just put them at the tank and run a dump line to where you want it?
Cool, thanks for the fender info. I don't want to lose an inch.

I will be mounting the dumps remotely near the rear wheels.
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Oct 31, 2011 | 11:09 PM
  #86  
Quote: And most importantly...a clean shop is a happy shop.





I PICK UP A SET OF NEW RUST FREE DOORS ON SATURDAY!! FINALLY!
You wouldnt want to see my garage then.
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Nov 3, 2011 | 07:42 PM
  #87  
i'm thinking you should still run it on some cragars. =D or something a little offroady.. keep it's roots.
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Nov 3, 2011 | 08:20 PM
  #88  
What size vavles u running and what type
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Nov 3, 2011 | 09:04 PM
  #89  
Your rig automatically made me think of this cherokee I've seen bouncing around the web.

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Nov 3, 2011 | 10:10 PM
  #90  
Quote: Your rig automatically made me think of this cherokee I've seen bouncing around the web.

Yeah thats a guy from Relaxed Atmosphere. He started that 5 years ago and never finished it.
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