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that is one crazy looking ride. I was wanting to gear my jeep in that direction but the wife wanted it to look more like a 4x4 jeep. As you all know when it comes to spending money, make the wife happy and she doesn't mind as much, lol. No seriously. My wife was a key player in my building this...

you are exactly right, there was a lot of work involved in getting the hood what i call, "ready to bolt on". It still doesn't fit right either. I just split the difference and i guess i will have to live with it until i can get my local fiberglass man to fix it. I was just hell bent on having a...

Franken yj lives: Well, this is the finished product. It has been about a year since i started this project and about 6 months of that time was spent in the disassembly, research and parts buying process. Overall it was a very fun project that me and my 13 year old son worked on. We have...

yes it is and dont ever buy a hood from those folks, they absolutely suck in quality and in customer service. i called to voice my displeasure and they basically told me to f*^& off.

Well, i will tell you this superj, i dont think it is worthy of a drag race with some cars i have seen but i drove it yesterday and at a quarter throttle it feels like it is going to flip over backwards, lol. It feels like it is going to be very fun to drive. This is my first jeep and i already...

Well, i drove the jeep this week and wow what a beast. It runs really good and drives good as well. I haven't quite finished it all the way but only some minor things to get done. Here are some new pictures of the jeep as it was on 03-10-2012. I should have the windshield in this weekend and...

NOT MUCH PROGRESS LATELY ON THE JEEP, I'M WAITING ON TAX MONEY SO THAT I CAN BUY THE LAST FEW ITEMS I NEED TO FINISH IT. I HAVE POSTED SOME VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE OF IT RUNNING. THE TWO MUSTANG VIDEOS ARE JUST A HINT OF WHAT THE ENGINE RAN LIKE. THERE HAVE BEEN NO CHANGES TO THE ENGINE OTHER THAN A...

This is what a new years weekend of working on the bignasty1987yj looks like

Update: I have been playing around with my jeep the last couple of weeks and here are a few of the things that i have accomplished. I pulled the wiring harness out of the firewall sleeve and started cutting on some of the wiring that is not relavent to my conversion. A lot of the wiring...

thanks for the replies to my posting, i think i have an idea what im looking at now. my jeep was a 4.2 carb vehicle and it looks like i have a 20 gallon tank. i may go ahead and buy a new one so that i know i will have good parts.

I am doing a major 302 ford motor conversion on a 1987 jeep wrangler yj. I am fairly new to the jeep scene. I know someone knows the answer to the question i am going to ask but on other forums i have gotten mixed answers. The jeep i have was carbureted in its orginal form. I need to know the...

thanks for the posting superj, i'm sure your jeep will be nasty as well

I got the rear end in the jeep this weekend, here are some of the newest pics of the progress.

no, they have gussets in the middle now and a gusset in the front that runs at an angle but thanks for asking

Here are some pics of the install, more coming later

I finally got the engine, trans and transfer case in the jeep this past weekend. It went pretty well overall. The mustang fox body radiator hoses even worked out perfect with a little trimming. I did not move the engine back due to driveshaft concearns. It appears that i will have about a 12...

Update on the beast: I attempted to put the drive train in this past weekend but snag after snag prevented me from doing anything productive. It seems that i may have to can the idea of using the modified skid plate and make a crossmember. No problem i guess but i wasn't quite ready for that...

Thanks for the reply superj, i looked into the engine only swap but there seemed to be lots of problems there. The motor mounts and the fact that jeep doesnt seem to make a transmission strong enough for my taste. It also seemed that it was going to be a more expensive and harder swap than...

I didn't get much input on last message so i guess i will try and help someone who may be thinking about a transplant of a 5.0 or at least considering it, here goes.... I got out side the other day and tinkered with the frankenyj. I cut the existing motor mounts off and measured where...

Got a ups truck full of summit parts the day after thanksgiving. Got a boat load of autometer gauges and the gauge pods to house them, a ultimate 8.8 rear end cover, an 8.8 bearing and shim kit, ford racing 4.56 gear, a ford racing 31 spline cobra carbon fiber clutch 8.8 unit, an msd digital 6...