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Thanks guys. I appreciate the comments. I agree, that engine looks right at home in the Jeep engine bay. I'll try to keep the updates coming. Last night I was getting so excited I almost forgot to take pictures though.:D Mike

A little more progress was made last night, but first, look what finally arrived today. I ordered these on a Black Friday sale and they were back ordered until now. 37x12.50x17 Nitto Ridge Grapplers. They will be mounted on my new Raceline Avenger 17x9 wheels. After drooling over my...

I had to clear another inch if heavy, wet snow when I got home last night before I was able to get a little work done on the Jeep body, more specifically, the engine bay. I removed the OEM radiator and automatic A/C condenser but left my stacked plate transmission cooler in place. Actually...

Yep, she's a sweetheart all right. Definitely wanted me to be happy with our forever home and shop. Mike

I had to have fully engineered plans to submit to the city before they would issue the building permit, not sure if other cities are that way or not. This was in West Haven, but I also had to submit engineered and stamped plans to West Point back in early 90's when I built my last shop. I drew...

Nothing special Brent, just a densifier that I purchased locally. I do a lot of welding, machining and fabrication which epoxy doesn't hold up so well under. Spills clean up pretty well as long as you clean them up immediately. If you let the oil sit for very long it does stain the concrete...

I have been truly blessed and have been able to build my dream shop about a year and a half ago. Our first home in West Point I built a 34'x34' shop with 14' ceilings. It worked great for the 26 years we lived there. We built many specialty vehicles in that shop and campaigned a couple of...

Great job on the toolbox. I like the pivots you added to raise it to allow access to the LP tanks. Mike

Great trip report. My wife and I love Monument Valley. We generally stay at Goulding's campground and use the Jeep for sightseeing around the area. Absolutely beautiful area, thanks for sharing your trip. Mike

I had big plans to get the body ready to drop yesterday, but unfortunately I didn’t get any shop time due to the winter storm we had. We woke up to this. Three plus inches of white shit and still falling. It quit snowing around noon and this is what it looked like after 3+ hours of...

During Saturday's work I was able to pretty much wrap up the chassis. If all I wanted to do was throw the engine in, drop the body and get it running I think I could have accomplished that easily by now. Unfortunately it’s all of the little details that take so much more time. The downside to...

Thank you. I appreciate the comments. I'm glad I am able to communicate the process in a manner that is well received. The 6L80 /6L90 are both low friction dual clutch transmissions so a little different animal than their predecessors. I agree, the 42RLE is a POS. I think even the 3.8...

I would steer clear of the KM2's is you want a good traction and smooth running tire on pavement. They are an awesome tire off-road but I was not impressed with the ride the last 10k or so miles and if even a skiff of snow on the road I had to use 4WD to even get moving and then it wasn't the...

Sounds like a fun trip, other than the camping in the snow part. Thanks for the trip report. If you get the opportunity to get to Big Bend in Texas, please make another attempt, it is beautiful down there. We attended and RV/Jeep rally down there about three years ago and it was a blast. Mike

I have already had a tune uploaded that not only tweaked the engine performance but also has slightly firmer shifts than the OEM program. I also will have the Tap shift function along with gear-lock with mine, plus I love the RPM match shifting that this transmission has. It will be especially...

Nice work. I'm jealous of your plasma table just FYI.;) Mike

I apologize that there are no new pictures or nothing really to report from last night's work. It was pretty boring and I had several people come by the shop as I had all of my original parts for sale. Last night guys showed up to buy my PSC XD2 steering gearbox, engine and transmission and...

Thanks for the comments guys, I am very flattered. It will definitely be somewhat unique to our area as I know many who have talked about doing an LS swap into their JK/JKU but no one that I actually know of personally. I know a few guys that have the Hemi's around here but every one of them...

Thank you. We are very happy with the way our new home, shop and yard have turned out but it was a shit-ton of work for the past year and a half to get it to the point I am happy with it. My wife and I feel very blessed to have been able to not only purchase the home we did but also to be able...

Thanks for the comments Russ. As for the gearing, if my Jeep wasn't so heavy with all of the tools and crap I carry around I could have gotten away with 4.10's. The sweet spot for this engine is around the 1900-2100 RPM in a fairly heavy, "non-aerodynamic" vehicle (read brick) so with my...