XJawgi
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- Location
- cleveland ohio
I decided to start my build thread of my 2000 XJ that i recently picked up. I am basically playing "musical jeeps."
I started off with a 1989 XJ. Threw a Rubicon Express 4.5" lift, along with 2" spacer and shackles, and 33's BFG all terrains and wheeled it for about a year.
168,000 hard miles, the engine started knocking. So i decided to build a stroker (I had the thread buildup on here somewhere, but it must have got deleted.)
Heres the details on the first stroker - Renix injection - 1989 block and head - Casting #3214723 258 crank with 258 rods. .030 Sealed Power cast aluminium 677P pistons, and a crane 753905 cam. Also went with a pace setter header (piece of shit - egr tube didnt line up and the down pipe would keep slipping off untill i had it welded) a magnaflow high flow cat and muffler.
Some quick pics:
Short block
Rods and pistons
Cam
Stupid egr tube before we bent a new one
So that worked out well for a while. Ran the jeep hard for another year and a half. Got a 16.2 time slip on it with a 2.2 60 ft time (with the 33's and stock gears) and wheeled it pretty hard. Then the jeep started F*ing with me. Basically all wiring and electrical problems from the previous hack. It also started to rott out from the lovely cleveland weather. And once i fixed the wiring issue, i broke both the dana 30 and 35 (suprised it lasted that long) and i cracked the cardon joint on the front drive shaft, and spun the rear drive shaft on the hwy (couldnt find the shaft when i got out) So needless to say i needed a replacement.
On the trailer after breaking the front axle
Fixing the rott - well not really - covering holes...
So in the mix, i came across a really good deal on a 2000 XJ with a blown engine and a buckled front fender. Picked it up october of 2007.
The guy completely locked the engine up. Sent the # 1 rod through the side of the block
See the hole? - o yea - the kicker, the jeep only has 91,000 miles on it. Nothing but thick sludge in the oil pan.
So the plan was to drop my stroker into the silver jeep and start fresh with a really clean Jeep. I ran into a problem though. My 89 would have no engine. And i probably couldnt sell it the way it was.
Luckily, my old man had a 87 commanche with 106k on the engine. So: Out came the stroker :
and out came the commanche engine
Swapped the commanche engine into the 89. Also swapped the dana 30 with another and the 35 with a 8.25".
My plan was to then sell the black jeep and that would pay for the lift and other misc. parts for the 2000. Well instead of getting between $1500-$2000 for it, i stumbled upon ANOTHER gold 2000 xj country with a blown engine. I traded my buddy straight up for my 89 for his 2000 because he didnt have the cash to rebuild the engine. I also just so happen to have a brand new 4.0 short block for the gold jeep as well.
So the plan changed to selling the black jeep - to rebuilding the gold jeep and selling that and potentially making more money - more on this later.
BACK TO THE 00 SILVER BUILD...
I started off with a 1989 XJ. Threw a Rubicon Express 4.5" lift, along with 2" spacer and shackles, and 33's BFG all terrains and wheeled it for about a year.
168,000 hard miles, the engine started knocking. So i decided to build a stroker (I had the thread buildup on here somewhere, but it must have got deleted.)
Heres the details on the first stroker - Renix injection - 1989 block and head - Casting #3214723 258 crank with 258 rods. .030 Sealed Power cast aluminium 677P pistons, and a crane 753905 cam. Also went with a pace setter header (piece of shit - egr tube didnt line up and the down pipe would keep slipping off untill i had it welded) a magnaflow high flow cat and muffler.
Some quick pics:
Short block
Rods and pistons
Cam
Stupid egr tube before we bent a new one
So that worked out well for a while. Ran the jeep hard for another year and a half. Got a 16.2 time slip on it with a 2.2 60 ft time (with the 33's and stock gears) and wheeled it pretty hard. Then the jeep started F*ing with me. Basically all wiring and electrical problems from the previous hack. It also started to rott out from the lovely cleveland weather. And once i fixed the wiring issue, i broke both the dana 30 and 35 (suprised it lasted that long) and i cracked the cardon joint on the front drive shaft, and spun the rear drive shaft on the hwy (couldnt find the shaft when i got out) So needless to say i needed a replacement.
On the trailer after breaking the front axle
Fixing the rott - well not really - covering holes...
So in the mix, i came across a really good deal on a 2000 XJ with a blown engine and a buckled front fender. Picked it up october of 2007.
The guy completely locked the engine up. Sent the # 1 rod through the side of the block
See the hole? - o yea - the kicker, the jeep only has 91,000 miles on it. Nothing but thick sludge in the oil pan.
So the plan was to drop my stroker into the silver jeep and start fresh with a really clean Jeep. I ran into a problem though. My 89 would have no engine. And i probably couldnt sell it the way it was.
Luckily, my old man had a 87 commanche with 106k on the engine. So: Out came the stroker :
and out came the commanche engine
Swapped the commanche engine into the 89. Also swapped the dana 30 with another and the 35 with a 8.25".
My plan was to then sell the black jeep and that would pay for the lift and other misc. parts for the 2000. Well instead of getting between $1500-$2000 for it, i stumbled upon ANOTHER gold 2000 xj country with a blown engine. I traded my buddy straight up for my 89 for his 2000 because he didnt have the cash to rebuild the engine. I also just so happen to have a brand new 4.0 short block for the gold jeep as well.
So the plan changed to selling the black jeep - to rebuilding the gold jeep and selling that and potentially making more money - more on this later.
BACK TO THE 00 SILVER BUILD...
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