Why is it that more and more people are chopping the top on 2 door XJ's?

There getting fewer and fewer of these out there..

 

I will never chop my top.

 

To be honest...

I think it looks ugly chopped. Ide never do it. But too each, their own.
Plus, there goes a bunch of your structural rigidity. You want you suspension flexing, not your unibody.

 

for some people it gives it a pickup truck look compared to the avalanche look with the chopped 4 door xj's, but in retrospect a comanchee would provide the same results.

 

The advantage of an XJ wheelbase with the MJ look.

 

yummy yum yum portals.........

 

I plan on chopping my 2 door, but not all the way to the door (don't care much for the MJ look myself). I wanna cut it just behind the rear wing window, & won't start tell I have the steel to make my full cage!

 

Pretty much...

All I know is I wanted an SUV, and had an XJ in mind right from the start.
If I wanted a pickup truck, I wouldve got one.
Its completely Impractical to "chop" a 4dr XJ....you loose like 5/8th's of your cargo space and 7/8th's if you have 3 other people with you.

But like I said before...Do whatever makes you happy, Its YOUR vehicle.

 

Home made?? Those are sweet! Looks like someone took a fabbed 9" housing and made their own portals.

 

To be honest there are many reasons to chop a 4 door and a 2 door, but there are many reasons to not chop them also. I'm chopping my 4 door because I don't like to carry everything in the back. The other side of that is I would not want everything on the roof rack. You loose the aerodynamics of the jeep at high speeds, so by doing a chop you can take the stuff on the top like jerry cans and such and use the ledge that you made. This keeps the air friction down. Another reason why I'm going to do it is because I don't want people to see all the tools I carry around all the time. With an enclosed chop you get a new level of security. People can't peek in the back and see what you carry. Also I'm going to have two locking box latches on the drop down tail gate. Increasing the chance that people won't break in since there will be two locks instead on the one normal lock on stock jeeps. Over all it's the function of how you are going to use it. Everyone has a different use for their jeep.

 

Limo tint all the rear windows. Problem solved.


Also...
No chance of anything falling out on the trails too, when not chopped and everything is carried on the inside.

 

last I heard he bought them from portal tech. straight portal axles

 

Mog/9's.. with new prototype housings that will be available to the Canadian Market soon. You can see his thread at Pirate in the Cherokee section.

I always dug that ride..

 

^^^ bad **** looking chop on that.. has gear reduction to.. neat..

 

here is the full write up on the above posted vehicle:

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showt...=415385&page=7