xtremexj
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- Location
- Edmonton, AB, Canada
OK, enough of me asking questions and absorbing info. After some friendly encouragement from Herzog it's time to start a build thread for my first actual buggy. Please go easy on me. Yes, my garage is a disaster area, but at only 20' x 20' it is a bit cramped for all my junk.
Background info: I'd been wanting to build a bobbed Scrambler for the last 10 years but could never find one at a reasonable cost. So, about 4 years ago, I bought a "rough" CJ7 for $500 that I planned to section and stretch to be my bobbed Scrambler. However, once starting to disassemble it, it had more rust than anything useful so I ended up saving only the cowl and firewall from it and scrapping the rest. About 1.5 years ago, I came across a YJ that a guy was parting out and that was going to be the next basis for my bobbed Scrambler project. Well, I just didn't have the time or money and ended up selling it to a buddy of mine who built a Juggy that some of you would be familiar with but I'll get to that a bit later. After I saw the article on Walker Evan's new trail Jeep, I fell in love with the concept and decided I really like the idea of a buggy that used full body panels to keep the Jeep look. I'm also a huge fan of Twisted Customs and Jim's Garage chassis. When I was down in Moab in September, I ran BFE and realized that it really wasn't very friendly to wider rigs like the XJ so buggy fever was taking over.
So, after taking all of these parts of Jeeps and ideas, I rolled them into my project. The name of the project reflects all the Jeep parts that are coming together to become my buggyized bobbed Scrambler - CYJ7+1.
The goal is to use the diffs, wheels and tires from the XJ, and possibly the engine and trans if I can't find some cash for a 5.3L+4L60E combo. I'm shooting for a wheelbase of 111"-114". So here we go.
Background info: I'd been wanting to build a bobbed Scrambler for the last 10 years but could never find one at a reasonable cost. So, about 4 years ago, I bought a "rough" CJ7 for $500 that I planned to section and stretch to be my bobbed Scrambler. However, once starting to disassemble it, it had more rust than anything useful so I ended up saving only the cowl and firewall from it and scrapping the rest. About 1.5 years ago, I came across a YJ that a guy was parting out and that was going to be the next basis for my bobbed Scrambler project. Well, I just didn't have the time or money and ended up selling it to a buddy of mine who built a Juggy that some of you would be familiar with but I'll get to that a bit later. After I saw the article on Walker Evan's new trail Jeep, I fell in love with the concept and decided I really like the idea of a buggy that used full body panels to keep the Jeep look. I'm also a huge fan of Twisted Customs and Jim's Garage chassis. When I was down in Moab in September, I ran BFE and realized that it really wasn't very friendly to wider rigs like the XJ so buggy fever was taking over.
So, after taking all of these parts of Jeeps and ideas, I rolled them into my project. The name of the project reflects all the Jeep parts that are coming together to become my buggyized bobbed Scrambler - CYJ7+1.
The goal is to use the diffs, wheels and tires from the XJ, and possibly the engine and trans if I can't find some cash for a 5.3L+4L60E combo. I'm shooting for a wheelbase of 111"-114". So here we go.
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