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

 

This things too damn big..

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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..

 

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?

 

I'm down for going in on a bender!

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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