Huck731's 91 Mj Daily Driver

[neohic]

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.

 

[huck731]

that'd be the show. the guy in the grey t-shirt in the background of the pic with the chicks, is the guy who runs the entire show. last year he started to allow other makes on an application basis and only if he felt it had enough of the euro style in it.

[neohic]

...last year he started to allow other makes on an application basis and only if he felt it had enough of the euro style in it.

 

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

[huck731]

heck this last show in the 70's-pre class a 76 ford feista rs won 2 or 3rd place. but it was also MADE IN WEST GERMANY

[neohic]

Here... now build it.

 

[huck731]

oooh, I like. i even know of a company that makes aftermarket snowflake rims. btw, your pretty good with a pencil and paper.

[neohic]

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:

[huck731]

yes RML. I'd go 16 biggest, I like a good amount of tire on my wheels. as far as the boser hood I was thinking of yanking one of an old xj at the junk yard and welding the mod on there. shave the bumpers down smooth....this is a nice idea, now I need another mj so I can make my offroading truck.

[neohic]

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?

[huck731]

yes I am on vortex, under the same screen name. I'm more into the mk1's and mk3 jettas, so I'll keep the doors but convert them to pop-out vent windows, go mk2 door handles, boser hood, I'v enever been sold on the single wiper because I have never actually seen one in action to tell how it out be in a dd status, no skirts, 16 or 17 max on the snowflakes, interlagos plaid bench, ah heck, interlagos plaid headliner also, I've been tossing around the idea of making a custom dash out of 22 g.a. stainless with a 2b finish (do grain directionality, more of a dull finish), and I am working on the guys up in canada that did the tdi yj (91 even) to do a tdi mj, if they get the interest they will be doing the kit for the xj, yes smoothed (deleted) bumpers with euro plate, and rolled fenders.

[neohic]

... ah heck, interlagos plaid headliner also...

 

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

[huck731]

I read that, seems liek you did it fairly fast to. when I first say that I read caddy and got really exited because I have never seen a vr6 in a rabbit truck. first up on this mod list is boser hood/hid's. is our hood the same as the xj hood, don't want to go wrecking the only one I have now incase I mess up.

[neohic]

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?

[huck731]

header panel is the nose of the truck? if so perfect, because I have a spare one of those already

[huck731]

I think I would actually mod the hood anyways so it has no lines, seemless hood would look better than the hood then a line, then the drop down.

[neohic]

I'm just excited to see where this goes!

 

[huck731]

I noticed what you where saying abotu doing the mode to the header panel after looking at a few factory photos, I think I will have to do this because it is basically my only option.

[neohic]

I noticed what you where saying abotu doing the mode to the header panel after looking at a few factory photos, I think I will have to do this because it is basically my only option.

 

If you do any other color for the hood, you could always cheap the color down into the boser. Otherwise, if it'd all be white I think the body lines will be subtle.

[huck731]

all white for now, maybe midnight black after it is all complete.

[Mountain Dude]

If you are going to euro an MJ you have to GTI the headlights like I did on my old Sidekick project

 

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[huck731]

changing the headlights woudl be to much imo, plus then I would have to custom make a grill. keep in mind, it is still a jeep, therefor requiring a light bar and at least 70% jeep look.

 

I am going to start making hard plans this wednesday at ym weekly vw club meeting. on that note, the front suspension is done with control arms and not a beam (early vw bugs and busses) correct?

[huck731]

here is the latest spot of information about the hpa vw tdi conversion for the jeeps.

 

Scott,

 

We haven’t made any headway with the XJ/MJ platforms. We are still wrapping up on the JK. One of our staff members here just purchased an XJ so we’ll look at abducting it for some testing purposes however this probably will not happen until spring when he can be without the Jeep.

 

Still have you on file as soon as any updates happen I’ll be sure to let you know.

 

 

GREAT NEWS!!!!!

[neohic]

...the front suspension is done with control arms and not a beam (early vw bugs and busses) correct?

 

Eh? :hmm:

[huck731]

doesn it have ball joints and control arms or spindles and a solid beam suspension...this is hard to explain to those that have not lived in vw's for the past 20 years (through out my entire life at least one person has driven a vw)

[neohic]

Hu. I was on the impression you wanted to swap out the front suspension under your truck. :dunno: