Raised Motor mounts?

[stockMJ]

I'm currently working on building my MJ to a sport truck theme and was wondering if I ran raised motor mounts, would that raise my oil pan and therefore give me more clearance between the oil pan and front axle (2wd tube)?

 

[gradon]

Interesting thought. How much room until the valve cover hits the hood? til the bell-housing hits the hump? Would that improve the drive shaft angle? What happens if those things are too close when you hit a big bump? Mine is lowered 1.5" and could go down another 1" before I would be worrying about not enough suspension travel/hitting bump stops.

 

[stockMJ]

Interesting thought. How much room until the valve cover hits the hood?

Uhm. I hav'nt check that.

 

[wolfpackjeeper]

the answer to that question is not much. think about all the people with a K&N kit that rubs the hood, and those do not stick up much past the valvecover.

On the other had you can always cut holes for when it is dropped. A guy at my school has one where the shock towers and front of the motor stick out holes in the hood when it is sitting on rails

 

[beakie]

K&N with a Tb spacer will rub, not sure how much taller a K&N is than stock intake, but that spacer is just enough to close the gap.

I'd say you have no more than 1.5" of lift available for the engine, more likely 1" to leave a bit of room.

 

[wolfpackjeeper]

I think i might be concerned with the 1". You could always go with a cowl hood and that would give you a little more lift for the motor, you may still have to clearance the tranny tunnel though

 

[John(XJ)Jeep]

I have thought about this too for a time now, can't be sure exactly what would happen but it all depends on how much you are lifting that motor up. Hood clearance I think would be a big issue along with the transmission tunnel. There's not a whole lot of room in there between the engine and firewall and transmission to tunnel. I'm guessing lots of heavy bodywork would need to be done like the front floor pan and the fire wall, if you were to lift the motor more than an inch that is. That would be my guess.

Here's a few pics of my front undercarraige. I believe this is about as far as you can go before you have to start changing out suspension components, bumpstops were shaved about 1/2 inch.



Gee, any exscuse to use my camera ;p

 

[gradon]

What kinda rim/tire combo are you running John(looks like 235/50/17's)? How much do they weigh(rim w/tire)? How bout full body shots?

 

[stockMJ]

I have thought about this too for a time now, can't be sure exactly what would happen but it all depends on how much you are lifting that motor up. Hood clearance I think would be a big issue along with the transmission tunnel. There's not a whole lot of room in there between the engine and firewall and transmission to tunnel. I'm guessing lots of heavy bodywork would need to be done like the front floor pan and the fire wall, if you were to lift the motor more than an inch that is. That would be my guess.

Here's a few pics of my front undercarraige. I believe this is about as far as you can go before you have to start changing out suspension components, bumpstops were shaved about 1/2 inch.



Gee, any exscuse to use my camera ;p

Running that low have you noticed if the track bar moved your front end toward the passanger side? I just lowered my MJ and noticed it about an inch or less.

 

[John(XJ)Jeep]

Yes I actually have! In handling I haven't noticed it but when you look at it, it kinda looks a little off. The fix would be an adjustable track bar (or Panhard if you will) that lets it realign it again. Don't know where I can get one around but it would be nice though being able to realign everything.

 

[XJEEPER]

Why not do it right and go this route?

http://www.progressiveautomotive.com/street.htm
http://www.progressiveautomotive.com/ifstech.htm

Could even do some junkyard shopping for a similar wheelbased, trackwidth IFS donor rig?