Art's One Ton XJuggy

[Jeep450r]

What are the specs of the jeep in the first picture?

I love the cage your trying to copy. Very sexy cage. Looks goo! Keep us updated!

 

[Art101]

i dont get rock crawlers lol that cage is ugly and un functional to me, maybe its cause I'm from the go fast scene where everything has straight clean lines instead on angled windshield bars and such

how the hell is it un functional? it is absolutely functional, driver protection and stiffening up the chassis are both obviously accomplished

 

[aintright]

i'm not bashing the cage or the build. that dudes jeep was featured on the cover of jp mag... i'm pretty sure it was his rig. but anyway it just seems like that cage is focusing more on style than practicality. no doubt you won't get hurt in that thing. but there just seems to be too much in it. it's like wearing a helmet and pads to drive your cadillac deville to the store. just not all that necessary.

 

[DeftwillP]

Maybe he's not opposed to having it show worthy. Is there anything wrong with that?

 

[aintright]

nope nothing wrong with that at all. just not my style that's all

 

[Art101]

for what i'm gonna be doing to this thing, i'm gonna need all the protection i can get:cheers:

 

[Art101]

finally been getting to work on this thing... got rid of the coils up front in favor of some radflo 2.5 14" travel air shocks...

started the cage work today... this is where we stopped today, we're getting a fresh start in the morning so i'll have more progress and pics tomorrow...

 

[Dozer11B]

I'm no structural gynecologist either, but that cage looks safe enough for me.

Not sure where the unecessary tubes are in that pic. If we are discussing the door area then I imagine the rig is running doorless and those tubes are for passenger protection, not structural integrity? Everything looks like it needs to be there to this untrained eye.

 

[Exxon Valdez Jeep]

keep pluggin away man, looks awesome! :greensmok

 

[bails85]

That cage is bad ass. Run with it.

 

[Art101]

day two on cage work

 

[Art101]

and this is where we ended today... ran through two milwaukee hole saws on the notcher really quick, never buying those again... the lennox hole saw lasted 10 times as long as the milwaukees

 

[stumpXJ]

Lenox makes great holesaws... still using mine too, after MANY notches. I have destroyed Milwaukee and Starrett holesaws really quickly too. Glad to know it wasnt just me!

Jeep looks good man, im in the middle of building my cage too.

 

[sheffeyva]

Oh to have the right tools! Someday I will be there. Slowly starting my collection of fabrication tools. Very nice work! Keep it up!

 

[Vanimal]

i have a machine shop and i use a lot of band saw blades, and lennox lasts quite a bit longer than most.
truck looks good, nice work!

 

[Art101]

man its been a while, this thing is almost done

since the update it has gotten a lot of loving. 4.7 stroker, detroits front and rear, full hydro, 5.38s, 2.5" 14" travel radflo airshocks up front, ford 57" springs out back with FOA reservoir shocks, tmr shave kit and artec truss on the 14 bolt, chromo 35 spline inner and outer shafts up front with drive flanges, tons of other stuff that would take me forever to list... what do ya'll think?

 

[DeftwillP]

It lives!!! Looks great. Love the simple looking suspension up front with the airshocks, but I bet they're not valved well for normal street driving?

Funny music too

 

[Art101]

they are tuned by downsouth motorsports specific to my application, and tuned for crawling. also rocking radflo nitrogen charged bumpstops up front for the go fast

 

[DeftwillP]

$$$

 

[XJLI]

airshocks + gofast = does not compute.

looks good though dude, i dig the speaker pods.