28-May-2014
Upgraded Driveshafts
From Tatton's drive shafts, my rear heavy walled CV driveshaft and heavy walled front driveshaft with all new u-joints
Front shaft has to be small diameter to clear the automatic transmission.
10-Jun-2014
Electric fans and shroud
I'm installing electric fans that came off of a Ford Contour. These fans move a lot of air and the fit of the shroud is just about perfect to the CJ radiator.
10-Jun-2014
Almost a perfect fit
The fit of the shroud to my CJ to V8 conversion radiator is just about perfect. The shroud completely covers the radiator right up to the edges of the upper and lower tanks. The side to side fit across the radiator fits all the way to the edges. I only had to cut off a small plastic bracket on the top of the shroud to make it sit flush.
10-Jun-2014
Fan shroud brackets
I made some brackets that will weld to the grill and the shroud will bolt up to the brackets
10-Jun-2014
Brackets tacked in place
I made sure that the placement was correct and tacked all four brackets in place.
10-Jun-2014
Tacked brackets
Another view of the brackets tacked in place
10-Jun-2014
Shroud brackets welded in place
Once the brackets were fitted and tacked in place I removed the fans/shroud and radiator then I welded all of the brackets to the grille.
05-JUN-2014
New head pipes
I made up my head pipes today.
I used 2.5" flanges and used some mandrel bent 2.25" tube to make the head pipes. The 2.25" tubes go into a Flowmaster collector which is 2.25" inlet and 3" oulet.
05-JUN-2014
Head pipes and collector
The cross over tube from the passenger side stays high and hugs the highest point of the oil pan
05-JUN-2014
Driver side view of head pipe
Since the frame is so narrow on the Jeepsters these pipes are pretty tight up inside the frame rails.
The 3" tube will exit the collector and run along the inside of the frame rail to a supported Flowmaster muffler. The tube that exits the muffler will be 2.5".
I think that the sound should be a nice rumble but I'm hoping that it won't be too loud and annoying!
17-Jun-2014
I added a "safety" to my hood
Since I used a CJ grille on the front clip I decided that I would add the extra safety feature of a hood latch. You never know when there is that time when you dummy up and forget to latch the hood latches!
17-Jun-2014
A slot is needed
I drilled a couple 1/4" holes and then used a die grinder with a 1/16" wheel to make the needed slot for the CJ hood latch.