The 73 J2000 Pickup, Ambitious to say the least. Long Term UA rig?

[ThatJeepGuy]

Did some tinkering with these turbo charge tubes.

 

Rough pie cuts

Rough filter placement 

 

Soo this is where i left it, the hood support ends up contacting the filter where I had it originally soo reaching a little deaper towards the firewall gets it out of the way.

 

Will need to modify the tube again once I settle on the routing to accommodate a MAF into the system. 

 

The other option I see would be to open up the inner fender and and run the filter into the fender well. There would be some work to be done on making an enclosure to keep the road debris from kicking up into the filter itself though. In the mean time I'm going to see this configuration through a bit more before I start making big holes to then plug back up.

[Pete M]

that's a super tight bend, but I guess it's simply a compromise at this point.  gotta do what ya gotta do to get that power.   

[ThatJeepGuy]

Today didn't yield me too much progress to speak of...

 

I did snag a cheap pair of XJ/MJ flip forward seats on the marketplace for $60. While trying to adapt them to a pair of 95+ xj sliders....

 

I believe i can stand to lose about 2" or more in height to really sink these seats to the floor. I'm 6' tall and even without the seats secured to the sliders yet my eyebrows are above the top of the glass in the door.

 

I really should have taken before pictures but I ended up spending almost 2 hours removing all 3 of these cross supports and bending the seat frame back to "square". PO did some very poor weld and alignment work fixing the cracks in the mounts.... it was super frustrating...

 

Good as used i suppose

 

I farmed the intake tube out to my brother for tig work soo maybe more to show for progress on that soon