2000 Cherokee build
 

So i bought her about a year ago. 2000 cherokee auto 179500 on it now, slapped a RC 3" lift w/ full leaf packs, lower control arms, 31" Goodyear Wrangler authority's, 15x8 black pacer soft 8s, Tom woods SYE and drive shaft, 62mm throttle body with RR spacer, DYI intake. I also put a thrush muffler (the welded flowmaster looking one not a glasspack). which in my opinion sounds alot better then flowmaster and i have had them both on this jeep. I got rid of the manual clutch fan and swapped in an electric fan. She has always had a coolant leak i could never find:dunno: and its been getting worse.... cracked head:brickwall: . So what do i do TIME FOR REBUILD!! WOOT

so i pulled the motor from my 99(my toy the black jeep below). Sent it to the machine shop, crank is being polished, head milled,bored .030 over. standard valve job, rods being reconditioned, new bearings blah blah blah.

i ordered a comp cam, speed pro pistons and that pretty much catches you up to this point. I plan on doing Harland sharp roller rockers and a JBA header. thanks for looking ill post some pics of my both my jeeps soon.

heres a few more pics, some before and afters

now i want to engine to take a dump so that i can rebuild it and make it look like new again

Well I got the rest of my parts that i need for the machine shop, main, rod, and cam bearings, but they are not open till Monday now.:brickwall:

i got a few more things painted, i think i am going to go with Grabber green for the block and the head. I got a couple spots on the intake i need to finish other than that i am really please with the way they turned out

looking good so far

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Finally I got the last part i needed for the machine work to be finished, ill be dropping it all off tomorrow.

i got a call from the machine shop yesterday and the valve springs, locks, retainers and seals are all wrong from comp, so i have to send the whole kit back and now I'm getting a custom ground cam, and all the above from a local shop. sigh........

Well i finally got my head and block back from the machine shops. i Started to get some more painting done . Just the block and head will be green. Just an FYI for anyone else Comp Cam kit DOESN'T fit as a kit. about the only that will work is the cam, timing chain, lifters. My head was basically at a nightmare.

Great looking build. Can you give more details about the Comp Cam and how it doesn't work with everything? I am in the process of building a stroker and wanted to use this cam possibly, but it seems like I may need to rethink this

There are a few threads about it but basically the springs, retainers, locks and seals where all wrong. comp doesnt make a kit for anything above a 89, although summit sells one it wont work. The cam, lifters, timing set are all good.

Well i got my rockers today.. lets hope they are right..

I painted the head and just mocked up the roller rockers

Just a little update. I finally got the camshaft issues resolved and was able to start assembly and now have it ready to drop in i am just waiting on my motor mounts to come in.