Wrangler of the month October 2012 Entries

JeeperJess95
1994
2.5 4 cylinder 5 speed
Soft top with soft and hard doors. Upgraded radio and sound bar. 31" tires handed down from Barrie's jeep.
Got my 94 yj in Hinesville G.A. Handed down to me by my mother. She bought it from a soldier stationed at Fort Stewart. Bought it in either 2002 or 2003. Originally purchased with a salvage title and has been rebuilt.
Bed lined the tub. Soft top is 8 years old. Added front tow hooks.
Future plans include: new seats, winch, new bestop soft top (sailcloth).

Chris wins...ill conform.
Greenjeepgurl87
Luna is a 2007 x with dual top. Soft and hard w. Freedom panels or whatever.
3.8L V6. 6speed manual transmission
I went to the 30th dealership to test drive the I don't even know what number wrangler.... And of course the one I had called about was sold that morning..and as I hung my head and was ready to leave this ugly baby poop green jeep caught my eye...it was love at first site. I drove her. Fell in love and had her keys the next morning.
She's pretty much stock only mods so far: rugged ridge xhd bumper and winch. Rocking 33 inch Goodyear duratracs, on procomp rock crawler wheels. stock suspension til April then getting 2.5 teraflex lift, rear bumper with tire carrier, and other stuff I cant think of. I have a cb but haven't gotten around to installing.

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1995 Jeep Wrangler Rio Grande
2.5L 4 cylinder
5-speed AX5 transmission\
NP231 transfer case
Dana 30 w/ Alloy USA Disconnect Eliminator 27 spline Chromoly Axle Kit, Spartan Locker and Solid Diff Cover
Dana 35 w/ Solid Diff Cover
Stock 4.10 gears
4" Rough Country lift kit w/ upgraded nitro shocks
1.25" RC lift shackles in rear/stock height Daystar shackles in front
33x12.50 KM2's on 15x10 Eagle Alloy wheels
Spare KM2 on 15x8 Soft 8 wheel
Custom Front Bumper
Smittybilt Rear Bumper
Custom Tire Carrier (now with upgraded A-Z Fab Chromoly Hinge)
Pro-Comp 100w 6" lights on KC Windshield Mounts
Smittybuilt XRC8 Winch
Blue Torch Fab flat fenders
LED tails
Tuffy Overhead Console
iVault middle console
Herculined tub
Smittybilt GEAR seat covers
Cobra 18 WX ST II with 4' FireStik antenna
Sony headunit w/ Ipod hookup and HD radio

Bought this thing stock about 2 years ago now and have built it from there. It's been a fun ride but my wallet has seemed to be a little lighter these days

First pic I have wheeling it:


This was back when my club was doing a calendar shoot:


Here it is sitting as it does now at a local car show:

A year in the making

Sahara707 2000 TJ Sahara

Rubicon Super-Flex 3.5 lift
Daystar 1" Body Lift
Fox 2.0 Factory Shocks
Smittybilt Front Bumber, Sidde Bars & Winch
Rockhard 4x4 Rear Bumper, Tire Carrier, Gas Cans, Rock Rack
Rockhard 4x4 Sportcage
Pure Jeep Gas Tank Skid
Rugged Ridge Steering Skid
Dana 44 G2, 4.88's, 35 spline axles and ARB Locker
Dana 30, Alloy Axles 4.88's, ARB Lockler, Vanco Big Brake Kit
Bushwacker Flat Fenders
B.F. Goodrich 35 x 12.5 x 15 M/T KM2 tires
Magna-Flow Cat-Back Stainless Exhaust
2 Optima yellow Batteries
Banks Air System
Tera-Flex Transfer Case Linkage
B&M Auto Trans Temp Gauge
Rigid LED Lights
Cobra Hand-Held CB

This project started a year ago August. A partnership between my 76yr old father and I. Started out being a Jeep for the hunting club and turned into a Rock Crawler. (i could of influenced that). He's out there all the time turning wrenches, wiring things and driving it around town. It's given him something to do. He kept telling me we weren't going to lift it or put big tires on it... Well look what we built. I drive it on the trails and he yells at me to be careful. God for bid i grind the gears when i put it in 4 low. It's been a lot of fun.

05 wrangler Rubicon Unlimited 37's 5.13 gears, stock 4.0L 12" racerunner coil over, rock krawler long arm, tiangular rear suspension (no rear track bar)

2001 TJ
40" Maxxis Creepy Krawlers
17" Rockathon beadlocks
Suspension by EOR:
14" coilovers rear, 12" coilovers front
Triangulated 4-link rear
3 link front
Spidertrax 9" pro series axles
Tru-Hi9 differential 5.38:1 ratio
Atlas II 4:1
Savvy aluminum bumpers and skids.
Mastercraft seats and 5-point harness
Custom cage by Wide Open Design
4.0 bored .30 over.
ARB air lockers front and rear.

We bought this Jeep in 2005. All I could afford at the time was a 2" budget lift and 31" MT's. In 2011 I started getting serious about building it up. I have a couple of friends that I was helping build a tube buggy, and we were going to start on mine after that was done.

Well I was watching Xtreme 4X4 one morning and saw a commercial about how the Powerblock was going to take some viewer vehicles and help finish them. I got on the website and filled out the app. and a few months later Tim Strange and Ian Johnson showed up at my door. It took one month for transformation, and we had the tube buggy finished enough by that time, so we hauled it to Tennessee for the reveal and went wheeling. It was an awesome experience.


Stock to finished

GREEN-MACHINE


it started out as a stock JKU and somehow transformed into what you see.
3 inch teraflex lift and shocks
tom woods front drive shaft
lod mid width front bumper
engo 12k winch
OX rear locker
skid row evap skid
9th degree rear diff skid
rancho front diff skid
rancho oil pan skid
smitty build xrc rock sliders
day star switch panel
day star top dash panel
american racing rims ( not installed yet)
cobra CB
high lift jack
rampage high lift jack mount
2 KC long range
2 KC flood
IPF head lights
BM trans cooler
grand total, $6283 .....
up next is a mega build D-30 with 5.13
with 37's
tom woods rear shaft
i inch body lift
... and on the back burner is a LS2 V8 conversion
anything else i need.

OklaTJ
1997 Wrangler TJ 2.5 inline 4 with 5 speed
Other then stock is (Yellow 7" fenders, aftermarket rims, tube bumpers, 31 10.50 15's AT's, aftermarket stereo and 12" powered bass, and last but not least it has custom tail light's )
I came across my Wrangler on Craigslist in Feb 2010, it was in Ft. Smith AR. I gave 4,500 dollars for it

DrakeTJWrangler

2000 2.5l 4cyl Yellow Wrangler. 5 speed manual tranny.
Skyscrapper Suspension spacers with ProComp ES3000 Shock Absorbers.
Pro Comp steering box skid plate.
Banks Monster Exhaust
Smittybilt Rear light guards,
Smitttbilt XRC8 winch
Two KC 130W Hilite slimlites
Olympic Light Bar(currently off of my wrangler to do some touch paint work).
4 15x8 American Racing Alloy rims and 1 15x10 White Wagon wheel.
4 33x12.50R15 Falken Wildpeaks with 1 33x12.50R15 BF Goodrich Mud Terrain KM T/A
Hi-Lift Jack mounted to read bumper(currently not mounted due to mounting bolts shearing off).
Sylvania Performance headlights(they're pieces of junk).
Spectre Air filter with Spectre Intake(took a 90 elbow and some other junk to make if fit how I wanted).
Bestop Replace-A-Top soft top.
Bestop Two piece Soft doors, Khaki Diamond
Cheapo Rustoleum truck bedliner in the interior, soon to be Monstaliner or Herculiner.
Also have an aftermarket Sony stereo/12inch Jensen sub(currently not hooked, gotta wire it up to an amp).
And a 117 amp Alternator.
Don't really have a background story other than, I like modifying my Jeep. I'm a tinkerer so to speak. Been so for years.