NickThePyro's 56k war machine

[NickThePyro]

If you have a slow ISP I would recommend turning around, I am a picture post whore. If you continue past this point this thread may feel like a battle to your slow hunk-O-crapola.

Now that the 1% of people still rocking WindowsStoneage are gone lets get this show on the road.


Lets go back, wayyyy back.
May 2007: Bone stock 1999 Steel Blue Cherokee(XJ) LE as my first vehicle.

Cute little grocery getter ey?

 

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Being a teenager in high school I needed some "tunes" since the stock stereo sucks.

I went up to Stereo Warehouse and got a Pioneer DEH-690UB and 2 pairs of Boston Acoustic SX-55 component speakers. I put an ipod jack in the glove box so I have access to 120gigs of songs at any given time.

I live in Kent and know a TON of people who had their cars stolen so I invested in the top of the line Viper system. Has remote start for the cold mornings and to start at the top of the mountain and get to a warm car after snowboarding.

 

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Now for some GOOD stuff. After saving up money from work I finally had enough to turn the little toy into a real Jeep.

I bit the bullet and ordered:
Rubicon Express 5.5" Extreme Duty short arm lift kit
Tom Woods custom heavy duty drive shaft
Advanced Adapters SYE
.75" front coil spacers
BFG 33X12.5R15 M/Ts
Dick Cepek Black DC-1 wheels in 15X8
Rubicon Express MonoTube shocks

Goodies

I always use fresh rubbers

They were big

 

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Needed a way to haul up my snowboards so I got a Olympic 4X4 top hat roof rack. Biggest PITA ever to install I might add. And the powder coat sucks!

holes did not line up. I took tie down ratchet straps and cranked the sucker down to get the screws in. Crappy design since they did not take into consideration that the front and back of the XJ is a different with on the roof.

rain gutter mounts

 

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Played with the pictures at school

Wider tires get it dirtier just from driving in the rain, need some new flares.

Dad bought an XJ for himself(just got a RE3.5 for his, will have pics later)

 

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D35 is craptacular so I ran over to a friends house and bought his D44 from him.

Sanded her all down and layed some fresh black paint on her.

Jeremy's D44 TrueTrac and new D30 housing

Bought 4.56 front and rear

Rebuild kits front and rear

Brackets/ ubolts, etc.

All new D44 brake parts

Needed protection so I bought Riddler's front and rear

With some black paint

Installed

 

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Time for some random new goodies

48" Extreme Hi-lift

SilverStars
4' Firestick 2 CB antenna
Hilift handel holder
Co-ax cable

Cobra 29LTD Black Chrome

I fabbed up a bracket real fast for it

Blacked out as always

Trimmed visor mounts

With stuff screwed on

mounted

With CB

Room for wires

With Mic

 

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Got a lot of bad looks by hippies in Prius's because I use what they save. Also rice burners have no love for of real rigs so i showed them how I felt about theirs.

Got pulled over and issued a $535 ticket for no mud flaps, no front plate, and speeding. Decided to fix her up with some stuff to make it more legal.

BushCrackers & ARB bumper

Mud Flap install

One of my Sr. Pictures. Yes I look 15 but I was 18 then

Playing around at Snoqualmie

 

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Ordered AJ's Super Rails. Took them and had them professionally sprayed with bed liner.

Mounted them to the unibody with the bolts then just welded them onto the pinch seems.

on the Jeep

 

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I mounted a fire extinguisher in the cubby hole

Wheels are corroding

5% Black limo tint on everything except front windows. Front Passanger and Driver windows are 35% black tint.

As she sat then. And with a front plate finally on.

 

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under the hood.

Optima Yellow top

AEM Intake

 

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33s werent cutting the mustard anymore so I bought new 35X12.5R15 BFG KM2s

Spare

Fills them out a little better

Nice little stance

 

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Well its about time the jeep gets a little more bass, errr well maybe a lot more.

Got ahold of the good guys at Fi Car Audio and had them make me a 12" Q with the full power options. The sub weighs in at 30 pounds on the dot and is a beast to say the least. I also picked up a Kicker ZX1000.1 that is pushing over 1000 watts RMS. Also have all the RCAs, distribution blocks, small wire, fuses, and 60 feet of true 0 gauge wire.

I got a ZX350.4 for my component speekers but im not sure if I want to wire it up since it will be a pita to rip out all the old wire and run all new wire.

A local guy I am buddies with, and who has a system pushing 150dbs, is currently building me this box custom for the sub.

2.5 cubic feet tuned to 33hz. 24'' wide x 15'' high x 19'' deep. 2.5'' wide port, port painted black, box painted speckled grey, and 33.75 inches of port area. Wood is 3/4" MDF.

Mock up

glue sides

painting port

masking port

painting outside

more paint

Finished. The textured paint looks very cool in person!

 

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Start of install

I ran all the wires under the carpet all the way back. All wires are hidden, very clean isntall.

Soldered all the wires, no crimping

0 Gauge positive distribution block

Drilled holes for the power wires on drivers side

Remote bass controll

Kicker ZX350.4 wired up

Kicker ZX1000.1 wired up

Programming the head unit.

 

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's Northwest Fest 2009

Some new bling

Bushwackers and fenders didnt last long when I tried to jump it

 

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TNT 1ton OTK steering and inner and outer steering box braces

Updated picture with all 3 jeeps.
Blue: RE5.5 35s
Black: RE3.5 31s
White: Stock 30s

Mounted the KC 130w slimlites, TNT 1 ton OTK steering, TNT inner and outer steering box braces, mounted spare to the roof, etc.

Fogs

They are BRIGHT!

Switch

Rewired CB

Some drunk fool smashed out my taillight

Spare

 

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Gutted it to start yearly maintenance

Took a wire wheel to any surface rust and primed and painted it.

Had a tree fall and hit my hook so I hammered out the dent as much as I could and primed it up

Bought a custom fabbed rear tire carrier bumper. Painted it all up

 

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's NWFest 2010

 

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2 more from NWFest 2010

Rear swaybar quick disconects

Trimmed and folded rear quarters

Rear bumper isntalled

Also all the Dick Cepek DC-1s have been swapped over to DC-2s

 

[FlexdXJ]

Badass Jeep man, Love the color! Why does that thing still have a rear sway bar? Also, Nice choice on the Sub. I want one for my car when I buy one in March.