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Alright, cooling system question. I am running a Cherokee radiator which does not have a fill on it. I am using the factory overflow/fill container from the same year Cherokee. For simplicity's sake I ran the heater hoses directly to the overflow. I need to figure out a new way to route coolant to the overflow/fill because the thermostat doesn't like the way it is setup now. I also need to look into why the fans aren't cycling on when they should, do some PCM output diag. I have been doing other things though, got the front shaft in and bought a tailgate off of a guy who stopped by the shop. He came to drop a friend off to pick up a car and I asked if he wanted to sell the gate off his truck. I showed him mine and he sold me it for $30. I took the mounting brackets as well as mine were long gone. I also swapped an adjustable proportioning valve in, which helped my brake bias greatly. My pedal is softer due to the larger piston size on the calipers, but it stops well and locks up all four at once instead of just the rears. Some more bling as well.

I haven't posted up on this build for awhile, but there has been some progress. After the wiring was finished, of course I wanted to drive the damn thing. That began the clutch disengagement fiasco. Long story short the trans came in and out three times, I lengthened the throwout bearing arm pivot. I threw an old extension on the lathe and made it long enough for the arm to be in its forward most position in the bell housing hole. Then I ended up swapping to a Wilwood master and finally swapping out the pressure plate to arrive at a functioning clutch. Lord have mercy. I then started on the brakes, after some digging I found out that the owner of the Wagoneer that I got the axles out of used '85 Lincoln Continental calipers when he did the rear disc brake conversion. Threw some new calipers and pads on as well as a new master, which I couldn't resist throwing in the powder oven. My brother came over Friday and started on the exhaust system, just a simple 2.5" dual into a single muffler to a 3" tailpipe. Threw a bunch of V-bands on it for good measure and this is how it sits. Kind of reminds me of BMW exhaust with the pipes running parallel like that. Pulled the springs out today to check clearances at bump and compression Here it is all hunkered down. The track bar hits the oil pan at this point, but the bracket on the frame side needs to be lowered to put the drag link and track bar parallel. Once that is done I'll decide if I need to put a bend in it for ultimate clearance. Either way I will be bump stopping it so I won't have to worry about cracking that oil holder when I come down from some air borne fun. Here she is at full droop, you can clearly see that the links aren't parallel, hello bumpsteer. I'm thinking that I will end up using a 14" travel shock or coilover. Not too excited about the hit that will have on my wallet though.

Does anyone know how to get a good VSS signal from a 231 case? What VSS do you use?

Look at the concentration. Building these makes me want to do a turbo setup..... More room than I know what to do with. Vacuum hardline for booster, couple of other new things. F150 hood struts.

Want one? My friend has a plasma table and he'll cut whatever you'd like.

Put some more stuff together. Did some lines. :yay: NiCop FTW. The stock latch location is inside of my current radiator. If you have to use hood pins, might as well get the fancy ones. Upper radiator hose is two piece and has a pipe between with a nipple for the steam line. Hose. Lines. Bling. Hood art. 32" wide. Thinking of "MKMYDY" license plate.

Added another tap two days ago, up to five! Hooked up my LS1 throttle cable with only minor filing on the firewall. Also fitted a radiator hose and started messing with my clutch hydraulics. Lots of little things to fit together.

Hell yeah I live in NH, and 80's cars are the best. Cheap, non OBD and I think they look great. Oh the homebrew. That particular one was a spring pale ale that I backhopped with citra and amarillo, came out really floral and citrusy without the bitterness of an IPA. I've got a chest freezer with an 8 corny keg capacity and four taps. It's becoming an addiction. We brew one all grain 10 gallon batch a week, maybe it already is an addiction. :rotf:

Homebrew motivation.

I chatted with a knowledgable Poly Performance rep and found out that suspension is big bucks. He recommended running coil overs in the front as lift coils aren't stiff enough for jumping and the tunability is tremendous. Using a 2.5" body 14" travel front coil over and a 2.5" body 16" travel rear shock my wallet would take a $2200 hit. That would be with King shocks, Fox would be even more cash. I'm looking into black market organ sales.

I'm excited for this build. :wrench: When you send your harness out make sure they change the injector plugs to match your intake.

Thanks guys, it's my daily. Few more pics for your enjoyment.

Still waiting on intake parts to come in. I used up some more powder on the coil pack holders. Wire wheeled and painted up the leaf springs as well.

Thank you. :jump:

Thanks! I ran a fuel line, bent up some 3/8" line with vice grips and a hammer. :yay: You can see the other end poking up by the intake. Made a wee hole for the throttle body. Ordered up an elbow and some connectors . I plan on welding a piece of 3.5" to the new firewall section that I make and using that as a bulkhead for the intake. Bouncing a flash in a red cab makes for an interesting whitebalance, all the more reason to paint it white.

I'm working on it! I guess I should run fuel lines and whatnot, I'm using a Corvette FPR/Filter.

I'm using a 4.0 HO pump from an XJ, we'll see how that works out. I honestly think the 4.0 sucks down more fuel than the LS motors, shouldn't be a problem. My RX7's stock NA 160HP rotary fuel pump is still in my car, no problems. I'm not sure if I'm going to swap a cluster in, I have a base cluster, no tach just a speedo, fuel and temp. The speedo won't work because I'm running an electronic VSS so the ECU will be happy, but I can have it tuned to run basically any speedo head, I am running an Acura Integra speedo head in my car, it's 1000 pulses per mile, if I remember correctly. Honestly all I really care about is fuel and engine coolant temp. I won't be speeding and if the oil pressure is low I'm not going to be doing much about it, haha.

Did a bit of work this week on the poor bastard. Bit of a crossmember. Pig nose. Pig.... bacon! Mmmmmmm.... Tied the mounted plates into the lower control arm mounts which are through bolted with sleeves through the unibody rails. Even a blind squirrel.... Dimples! That doesn't stand out does it? Painted my new fuel tank in some paint over rust chassis goop, seems rugged. Mounted that hot mess with new straps. Radiator and electric fans all mounted up. Painted the booster and swapped in the clutch master. Lightening. Interesting.... Mounting posts for radiator. That's how it its.

Excuse the grossness everywhere. Note the passenger exhaust is down to the framerail. Crossmember ideas, GO!

I'm not entirely sure, I do have the compressor and brackets, I can check for you.

I decided that the next order of business was to figure out a transmission crossmember, so I grabbed the slip yoke eliminated t-case out of my XJ and tried to put it up to the AX15. Then I remembered something, they changed the input spline count from my XJ trans, BA10, to the AX. :doh: Damn. Then this happened. I had a broken NP231 lying around which happened to have the larger input, so I did a speedy-dry swap and put the newer style planetary in my old case. Happily it fit. Now I have to decide how I want to support the trans and t-case. I'll take some photos tomorrow and post them up in hopes that someone will have a better idea than the weird ones floating around in my head. :wrench:

Made up the second tail light housing yesterday, it's amazing how much time these little suckers can take. Damn them. I'll throw it in the oven sometime this coming week. I took a sawzall to the radiator support of the Comanche so I could fit a Cherokee grill and radiator on it. I have two stock fans as well and I think that's about it for cooling. If it overheats I guess I'll add more fan, or pull some plug wires. Look at all that room!! All normal looking, I want to put another S15 grill on this thing but the Jeep die hards are such haters. Organic prop rod in full effect. The intake seems to not quite fit. :yay: For clearance and fresh air reasons, I think I'm going to run the intake backwards into the HVAC/cowl area. It means more work so why not? Damn you tail light.