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This is my 98 grand cherokee. It has a cummins 3.9 4bta engine and I used an A518 automatic transmission out of an early dodge truck, NP231 transfercase, dana 44A rear, 30 front. I had to use a long arm kit for the front to clear the starter and oil pan, so I chose a clayton's long arm 7" lift kit. I'm running 315-75-16 tires, and i've put about 2500 miles on it so far, and it works pretty nice. It has good power, and I've towed a 5000 pound car trailer around and it does just fine. It gets about 26mpg mixed driving on 35's .
I plan to upgrade the axles pretty soon, and I'm going to replace the transmission with a NV4500. I don't know what i'm going to do for axles yet. I'll probably go with 44's out of a wagoneer. I expect the fuel economy to go up to 28-30mpg on the highway with lockout hubs and the manual transmission
Here are some pictures
I. Want. One.
lookin' good
Bitchen for sure....
Excuse my ignorance, but A. How much power does it put out? B. Why not run 1 tons?
Mike
That is BAD ASS!
You should answer your questions on ebay I sent you 2 and you never replied!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...150290483&rd=1
You must have asked questions in the closing hours of the auction. I answered every question up until the last 12 hours or so. I wasn't very seroius about selling it, I only considered it to see if it was worth starting from scratch before I swap axles and a 5 speed transmission. You can PM me, or post here if you have any questions. I would be happy to answer them.
i would like to see some pic of the Build .
nice!!!!, whats the engine out of???
Yup, the engine is out of an old bread truck. The hole in the fender was for the snorkel when I had the v8 engine.
SOUND CLIP PREEEEZE!!!!
That's friggin awesome man!
I love it... from the Engine to the wheels !
you definitely have some skills; thats a very well put together build. nice choice on parts used, and it looks very clean under the hood.
Very cool build. Did you figure out a way around the inspection? If not, I have an idea for you that worked on an old BMW I restored (NY State).
The car sat so long that when I brought it in for emissions inspection, it failed due to the half-bad gas. I knew all it needed was to run a tank or so through the engine and get fresh gas. Anyway, I tinkered with it a bit, and had a local shop set the idle air mixture as best they could and replace the TPS, as the idle had been a bit unstable. I brought it back a few days later to try passing again. But I still failed, (still had the bad gas). The inspection shop, asked if I had a receipt for the repairs, and proceeded to give me a valid sticker....without ever passing emissions. Apparantly there is a loophole for vehicles that fail, and then you spend money to try to fix them. The sticker they gave me was a little different, but still 100% valid. Anyway, at the next inspection the bimmer produced almost no measurable emmissions, so I never needed to repeat this process.
Maybe a cooperative shop can give you one of those "attempted fix" stickers.
Last edited by Skyline; 09-18-2007 at 05:41 PM.
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