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He had a bunch of the mechanical stuff all figured out that all I had to do was connect all the dots. Everything went fairly quick because we both had very little time off work to work on it! I actually just redid his factory strut housings to he can lower it a little more. He got a set of Konig Rewinds for it too. Hopefully he'll be updating his build. As far as the hood, yup... same hood. Honestly, I'd do the boser in the header panel and leave the hood stock. I'm just thinking more along the lines of keeping the lines tight. Unless, are you thinking of trimming the header panel too?

The headliner! I forgot about the headliner! Good call. Most of the styling/mechanical cues were based off of the most stereotypical Euro looks. If I were to go Euro... I'd push it as far as I could. Huge thumbs up for the Mk1 crowd though. My brother and I did a 2.8 Vr6 swap from a '94 Passat into his '87 Cabby: http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?4824285-VR6-87-Cabriolet http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?5228135-Modifications-and-Drag-Times-87-Cabby

I've been thinking about this all night. Start with some '97+ doors for the one piece glass, graft in some Mk3 door handles, obviously the boser hood, single center mount wiper, smoothed front bumper (don't forget the Euro plate!), roll pan rear, smoothed fender flares, side skirts, and snowflakes. Interior wise, I totally agree with keeping the bench but recovering it in a VW material. Match that with '97+ door panels with a cloth insert to match the bench. I think the newer door panels would match in pretty well with an updated dash. Any dash?... I'm thinking working in a Mk3 dash! Probably swap the whole wiring harness over too. That'd make it easier for wiring in the 3.2 Vr6! Hey, you guys made a TDI work in a YJ, right? Yup. This creation needs to be built!... You go first though. You on VWVortex at all?

RML? 18s would fit the bill! I'm sure you have a hook-up in the VW world, right? Now you need to find yourself someone who can make you a carbon fiber hood. Get wrenching! :wrench:

Here... now build it.

Euro STYLE... not Euro MANUFACTURER!! :D

Eurowerks? That's an awesome show! Might take some persuasion, but I bet they'd let in a Euro spec MJ. It'd fit right in! I've always thought there was a connection here. Jeep offered the Sportruck trim... VW offered the Sportruck trim.

That's awesome... totally because I'm familiar with the material! You should make up a boser hood for it too! Don't forget to roll the fenders. :idea:

Euro plate? Man, you ARE a VW guy! :laughin: Sorry to hear about the bumper though.

^Agreed. I think there are plenty who would think that if you were to take the effort of swapping everything over, including the wiring, that you might as well just do a 4.0 swap. I'd say that if you don't need a 4.0 and you're happy with the 2.5 then just run with it. Not just the updated fuel delivery, but the updated wiring by itself. 10 years newer is a big difference when you're talking decay of wiring. What rear axle are is in the XJ? I think I'd even swap those over for the fewer miles.

I ran for a couple months with old and busted sensors and took my numbers. Sensors were then changed/cleaned for another run of numbers. Found an old notebook last night with that was keeping track of my millage. I got similar numbers.

Welcome! Congratulations for having my current favorite avatar here! ... love that movie!!

I made one up a number of years ago just for something else to play with. It held about a gallon of water. Installed it in my old '89 Eliminator and it was actually a noticeable bump in millage! I don't remember off hand, but the truck was a 4.0, manual, 3.07s on 33s. All depends on the amount of power you put to it, how many plates are submerged in the water, how close they are, so on, so on. I found that I had the best results when I went through and cleaned/replaced all the sensors. There's a ton of information online at most of it looks like smoke and mirrors. Do some real research on the differences on what might work and the magical "do-it-yourself and save millions" kits.

Anything in the parts manuals regarding manufacturer? Mounting?

YES!!! Awesome as all get out only for the fact that the robots aren't just playing some instruments... THEY'RE ROCKIN' THE @#$% OUT!!! :rock on: ... I've got a new challenge for the Mechatronics program at my school!

Very aware of these. Not totally interested. Thanks though!

http://comancheclub.com/topic/24323-cargo-light/

Anyone know the factory part number?

I looked over those pictures for about an hour trying to make up my own variation of Where's Waldo only instead of Waldo it was Jeeps. Sorry, BJ... best I could find was a few newer Grands, a couple Wranglers, and a Liberty or two.

Wait... whoa... what? Are we to expect a build on this truck? Please? :bowdown:

I love teaser pictures!

:agree: x INFINITY!!!