Hey all, just bought my very first 4x4, I have a background in building forced induction cars and 1/4 racing. After blowing 2 transmissions in the past year on my drag car, and becoming interested in offroading, I am in the process of parting my car and bought my 1999 Cherokee CSE a few days ago. I actually had a deal in place for a nice YJ but got craigslist screwed and ended up buying this one, and am glad I did. Obligatory pics:









I bought it for 3k, which seemed high but was actually low for what these things are going for in arizona. It has 115k miles and runs great. I am just in the process of learning about these great cars and planning my build. It came with a set of new bushwacker flares he never installed so im going to put those on. Interim plans include picking up a set of wheels with some bigger tires 31" and a lift kit soon enough.

 

Welcome to the forum

 

Welcome! Curious...what kinda car/setup where you running? I had an 88 mustang trunk car with a 347 bottle fed 400 shot. I still have the motor, itd be interesting in the jeep lol

 

1997 DSM running a Holset HX40 @ 35 lb boost ran in the 11s. 280/280 overheads.

Build thread:

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/dsm-...ent-build.html

 

Nice car, mine was a trailer queen, but it ran 8's. Mine also wasnt much of a looker, but i intended it to be that way, no show and all go.

 

8's is flying, im not a great driver nor did my car have slicks. I was satisfied with 11.3 on radials with my last build. I'll eventually build another drag car but it is an expensive hobby. I think I'll be extremely happy with 6-7k into this xj when im done with it instead of 14-15k into a drag car at this point. I'm poor now

 

Welcome to Cherokee Forum!

 

2 blown transmissions but no crank walk? That's dsm blasphemy.

 

On a 7 bolt no less which makes all the more ludicrous

 

Welcome to the site.

Tony

 

Great platform to start with. Good luck on the build!

 

What suspension setup would you guys recommend? I was thinking of getting a short arm lift kit from rusty's, but what do you guys think about long arm/short arm. Is it worth buying a nice long arm kit? Assume that I know nothing about lifted jeeps. Because I know nothing.

 

It depend on your wheeling style and type of terrain

 

I'm going to be running over rocks and driving up ****.