Team Willys
www.rocksolidfab.com
- Location
- Chattanooga, TN
Well... its been a while. A long While. But here I am again! I am going to go ahead and start this new thread to show off my newest project. And really this is to provide an idea as to how to execute this. I have done hours and hours of research and came up dry... as far as I know, this has never been successfully completed. I have found threads that were started saying "starting the hemi swap" and such, but the threads always die out quickly and never show any progress. Not this time.
The idea:
Build a mild Comanche for show and light wheeling use. This is undoubtedly a mall crawler. But, still an extremely nice build. The goal was to build it like Mopar would build it. The truck started out as a 91 4.0, 5 Speed, short bed. I did a complete restoration on it. Kept the drive train stock with the exception of swapping out the 35 for an explorer 8.8 and swapping in a non disconnect HP30 and adding 4.10 gears. We refreshed the interior, ditched the tan and swapped to gray, added a console and bucket seats. we swapped to a 97 up front clip and painted the truck a custom flare of rescue green. We built custom bumpers for it, and installed a 6.5 inch lift with our 3 link kit. 35" tires were wrapped around 2015 Rubicon wheels and installed too. It was a beautiful truck. But the engine bay was unimpressive. At shows I would never open the hood... Why? There was a stock 4.0 in there. I decided to do something nobody had done before. Or if they have, its not been photographed or documented. So I decided to swap in a 5.7 Hemi from an 06 Grand Cherokee with MDS delete.
I am currently finishing up the swap and reinstalling everything for the final time.
Only question...
With Photobucket no longer hosting pictures, how do I post them on here now?
Also, in the mean time, I have been documenting the build on my Instagram page @rocksolidfab if you want to get a sneak peak on the progress.
Once I figure out how to post pictures on here I will continue this thread with some really nice explanations and pictures to go along with it!
The idea:
Build a mild Comanche for show and light wheeling use. This is undoubtedly a mall crawler. But, still an extremely nice build. The goal was to build it like Mopar would build it. The truck started out as a 91 4.0, 5 Speed, short bed. I did a complete restoration on it. Kept the drive train stock with the exception of swapping out the 35 for an explorer 8.8 and swapping in a non disconnect HP30 and adding 4.10 gears. We refreshed the interior, ditched the tan and swapped to gray, added a console and bucket seats. we swapped to a 97 up front clip and painted the truck a custom flare of rescue green. We built custom bumpers for it, and installed a 6.5 inch lift with our 3 link kit. 35" tires were wrapped around 2015 Rubicon wheels and installed too. It was a beautiful truck. But the engine bay was unimpressive. At shows I would never open the hood... Why? There was a stock 4.0 in there. I decided to do something nobody had done before. Or if they have, its not been photographed or documented. So I decided to swap in a 5.7 Hemi from an 06 Grand Cherokee with MDS delete.
I am currently finishing up the swap and reinstalling everything for the final time.
Only question...
With Photobucket no longer hosting pictures, how do I post them on here now?
Also, in the mean time, I have been documenting the build on my Instagram page @rocksolidfab if you want to get a sneak peak on the progress.
Once I figure out how to post pictures on here I will continue this thread with some really nice explanations and pictures to go along with it!