mattphillips90

So I finally sold my heep of a sploder

And got this thing for $1900


So first thing I did was try to fix the exhaust manifold because it ticked...



Anyway in the meantime I had ordered this!

Yea buddy, took me 2 days to put it on myself working a few hours each day. Kinda scary to do it yourself when your rear axle falls off both jacks and its hanging by your brake lines but they didn't break!

mattphillips90

Well this is how my lift came out, that jack is holding up my Tranny for the tcase drop that I got off ebay haha.

and this is how my jeep looked before and after compared to my friends lifted nissan hardbody


Oh yea, another mod I had already done by this time is a flowmaster exhaust. Always number one in my book.

mattphillips90

This pic is before my lift. It's actually the first time I took it offroad, a couple hours after the title was in my name, and well I ruined my carpet so I already took it out and I'm about to bedline the interior along with my bumpers, side trim and fenders.

mattphillips90

So now I'm sittin there one day wishing I could buy my pro comp wheels and 32" tires I'm going to get but because I'm broke I figured I might as well go cut my fenders. With nothing other than my trusty sheet metal sheers... Yea no joke!

So I went to work, the front came out decent

The rear however.... Well I didn't really pay attention to any of the write-ups, only read the front fender parts and hoped the rear was the same, and decided to force myself to cut the whole fender and tear it apart...

Well luckily I had plenty of this stuff laying around since I live at the beach
And this is what I slapped up there, before cleaning it up. I did clean it up pretty well after this but I didn't take a pic.

BY THE WAY I did the rear correctly on the other side just to clear it up. Only made this mistake once.
Any way once I finished all my fenders I threw some plasti dip I had laying around on all my cut fenders after I repainted them just to have something protecting them until I bedline them which is coming soon!

mattphillips90

Anyway this is how my jeep is looking at the moment.

The fenders have sloppy plasti-dip on them, but a lot is to come in the next few weeks to really make everything come together!

mattphillips90

Just a little update. I bedlined the sides and reattached the trim after I bedlined them too. I also trimmed the fender flares and reattached them. Theyll be bedlined soon too. Coming up this week is adjustable track bar, brand new exhaust manifold, motor mounts, new tie rod, and hopefully bullethole rims and 32's. Also gotta fix my rear diff.

200sportxj

not bad in the end, but you really effed up that rear cut haha. looks better now, you should get a close of pic of that finished i wanna see what it looks like close up

Erkmed XJ

Suscribed haah this could be great, like yours mine is also funded by my financial aid refund checks and is on the path of what mine has recently been through

Before:




After:



Financial aid goes a short ways so watch out on shortages

mattphillips90

HAHA yea man I really messed it up. I'm actually not really done with it, because I plan on redoing it. My uncle works at a body shop so I think I may cut the other side like I did that one and just bondo it up right so I dont have folds, but if I do it, it will be with the help on my uncle but Ill upload a pic of the finished soon.


DUDEE your cherokee is sick but yea I should be gettin another check this week for summer aid haha but yea it goes quickk

Erkmed XJ

Yeahh haah what are you going for? And if i get the se pelgrant as last semester ill be getting 6700$ back and i sure to hell hope i do bc then there will be alot to add on but i hope to see this get up an going

mattphillips90

Im a parks and rec major, used to be computer science but programming is hardddd haha. Saw that your a welding student on your build, thats sweet. I've done a little welding but want to learn a lot more so I can make bumpers and such. but dang I get about half that this summer

Erkmed XJ

Yeah welding is helpful with the whole jeep modifications haha i plan on hetting DIY kits but i dont qant to start bumpers from scratch yet but ill make my own rockers from scratch this summer

mattphillips90

Thats awesome, you should work on a rear tire holder too. Thats what ive always wanted to make.

XJ98sport

nice love them white xjs!

mattphillips90

Thanks! There's just something about em