well i just cant leave it together for to long heres the way she sits right now opened up the whole front end for the turbo set up


got my 38mm wastegate and flanges bov, bov tube, and turbo flang




heres my cut marks on my stock manifold building a log style turbo manifold and build my pcv valve oil catch can had an old moroso fliter laying around



the whole turbo was going fine and dandy until this 44/60 set popped up for sale and included rims i couldnt pass it up (the 44 is upside down on the jack stands)




started tearing down the 44 today

 

started grinding down the axel 36 grit flap wheel made quick work of her also cleaned up the rims


also decided on doing a swing side turbo instead of a log style manifold just for ease of application until the stroker motors done

 

 

well heres the recent progress threw it back together for this wheeling season did the body work recently looking pretty good right now

 

well heres the recent progress threw it back together for this wheeling season did the body work recently looking pretty good right now

 

Nice!

 

I normally spend my mornings watching tv or somethimg with coffee...I just spent 40 minutes on the jon reading this and now my legs are asleep thanks to you.
Awesome build man. I couldnt even do half the **** you did here. Very nice work friend.

 

Nice Job!, I like what you did on the frame under the rear floor , really strengthed that thing up

 

Hey yall thanks for the support guys the projects still going on been busy wheeling it and actually am now going back to school so its makin it a pain in the *** to get money around for the xj but ill throw some pics up the way she sits now

 

Got the bumper plates finally $40 3/16th plate cnc cut really nice for the price and saved me 3 hours worth of work


also my cell was leakin a bit so i finally welded bungs and put 3/8 fittings in there eventually ill put actual screw in fittings but that can wait til winter


Got the new Jeep color a buddy of mines mom was just resently diagnosed with breast cancer (Everyone say hi to Project Breast Cancer) Passion Pinks the color



i figured since i have full widths sitting there that maybe i should just try a welded rear... and i frickin love it!






Then due to a time crunch for a charity mud bog i had to build a front tow point so it just so happened grandpa had a old forklift at the farm with this big *** hunk of tow point hanging out (functial but ugly) (excuse the welds had to weld it outside)
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my bumper plates and welded rear didnt pop up I'll try this again



some people say weld to the carrier others say dont i welded to the carrier my thoughts was more weld holding the spiders in place seamed the logical way

 

heres a few more pics before the bogs











Now for the bogs never went mudding before so it was definetly a new experiance expecially at a competitive level ended up getting 3rd overall in my class of 29. smallest motor smallest tire the announcer kept yelling the little jeep that could(i think my cherokee is big... guess not haha)








Now heres the bad thing this mud bog landed right before the biggest car show/meet in southern Wisconsin. literally the weekend before so i spent the entire next week detailing the hell out of my rig getting it ready i was really surprised tho all the gen-eras tuners muscle truck imports and domestics all really drew to good ol black Betty it was really a rewarding thing to have so much respect from the community heres some shots of the show there was also a small jeep meet in barboo the same day to raise some money for diabetes so the jeep ended up doing a little obstical course and got a bit dirty. i did not sleep the night before worked til 2am and just started finalizing everything we were in the jeeps by 5am ready to roll out. it was a woping 32 degrees doorless the whole way. we get up there and my starter goes out haha roll with the punches i guess had to drive 20 miles to get a starter took about 15min in the parking lot and off we went. towards the end of the trip home thanks to hitting a rock wron on the obstical course 2 of my bolts on my steering box snapped and my jeep ended up getting trailered the rest of the way home... but hey just finding weakpoints!

 

had a fun weekend did some burnouts looks ridiculous but im not wasting my 35's and did a new crick bed weve never attempted overall destroyed my discos ripped off my muffler and had the tires tucked to high and started rolling the fenders. but i built it to play and i plan on playing hard. i got hung up for a solid half hour but eventually i made my way out of it