My official Jeep Comanche Project Thread (updated 56k nono)
09-17-2005, 11:01 AM
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Re: I bought a new project truck (PIC)
Originally Posted by customcoach
4.0 FI is a great motor. You are right about the 2WD to 4WD swap being a snap. I did one on a Cherokee. I took the front end and trans out of a junkyard Cherokee for $300 and put them in the 2WD I had and doubled its resale value. The center console is even the same for the transfer case shifter, just took out a piece of trim. I have always wondered what the 4.0 would do turbo. The manafold is going to be a bitch. The intake and exhaust are held down with the same bolts. I love anything different. Keep up the good work.
factory jeep exhaust routes down under the oil pan to the passenger side, so I will follow that route and bring the turbo up to the passenger side of the engine and mount it there. This also works out kinda nicely cause it keeps that hot *** turbo away from the intake manifold.
Originally Posted by AbaZ
I'd like to do that in my van 
09-17-2005, 03:43 PM
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Re: I bought a new project truck (PIC)
hope you dont plan on using a stock exhaust manifold because they are peices of ----, they always crack. Its like the ssautochrome of factory manis. We use to be a jeep dealership so I've done plenty of them.
09-17-2005, 08:15 PM
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Re: My official Jeep Comanche Project Thread
Just got the new tracbar in, need to go take some pictures.
NEW PICS
Missing shift ****
Pimpin Light Bar, haha (both that and the canopy go to the local dump)
Old Trac Bar, bye bye wobble
4.0 Litre Baby
Dings in bed (will be fixed or ignored)
Missing mirror and bad windshield(replaced soon)
Headliners Toast (will re-cover with new fabric)
Powerplant
Turbo Goes here, somehwere in front of dizzy
Front shot
Four shots of Jerry's 91 Eliminator 4x4, all tubework and bed is his own work
35" BFG's on TrailReady Beadlocks
Sidebars built by himself
for now as a temporary solution, yes...
but i know what you're sayin so yeah it won't last. this one runs $120 shipped, and is stainless.
no and no.
probably going to be going with something more like megasquirt, and some sort of front mount in front of the radiator, or possibly an AWIC.
NEW PICS
Missing shift ****
Pimpin Light Bar, haha (both that and the canopy go to the local dump)
Old Trac Bar, bye bye wobble
4.0 Litre Baby
Dings in bed (will be fixed or ignored)
Missing mirror and bad windshield(replaced soon)
Headliners Toast (will re-cover with new fabric)
Powerplant
Turbo Goes here, somehwere in front of dizzy
Front shot
Four shots of Jerry's 91 Eliminator 4x4, all tubework and bed is his own work
35" BFG's on TrailReady Beadlocks
Sidebars built by himself
Originally Posted by AbaZ
hope you dont plan on using a stock exhaust manifold because they are peices of ----, they always crack. Its like the ssautochrome of factory manis. We use to be a jeep dealership so I've done plenty of them.
but i know what you're sayin so yeah it won't last. this one runs $120 shipped, and is stainless.
Originally Posted by 45psi
are you planning on a fmu and top mount intercooler?
probably going to be going with something more like megasquirt, and some sort of front mount in front of the radiator, or possibly an AWIC.
09-17-2005, 09:13 PM
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Re: My official Jeep Comanche Project Thread (updated 56k nono)
Are you sure it's the track bar? I've hit some corners pretty hard in leaf sprung trucks, with no track bars, and it's not that bad. Hell most pre runners don't use track bars. ---- fender flares! Take a sawzall to that bitch and be done with it. I mean look at your buddies truck.
09-17-2005, 09:22 PM
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Re: My official Jeep Comanche Project Thread (updated 56k nono)
Originally Posted by FURACERMAN
Are you sure it's the track bar? I've hit some corners pretty hard in leaf sprung trucks, with no track bars, and it's not that bad. Hell most pre runners don't use track bars. ---- fender flares! Take a sawzall to that bitch and be done with it. I mean look at your buddies truck.
As for my brother in law's comanche, his is great for what he does with it, I have my own tastes as far as what I want to do, and my truck also isn't 4 wheel drive.
09-17-2005, 09:50 PM
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Re: My official Jeep Comanche Project Thread (updated 56k nono)
Here are the fenders for the front. I am going to have to find a bodywork guru to match the bedsides.
These run $350 for the pair, and are found here... http://glassworksunlimited.com/gu71.shtml
These run $350 for the pair, and are found here... http://glassworksunlimited.com/gu71.shtml
