smokeyyank
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Littleton, Crawlarado
Alright, so I've been debating back and forth if I should keep the new XJ I just bought. Long story short, I already have a 93 that is fairly well built (D30HP, 8.8, F\R LSD's, 4.11s, 33's, rebuilt 4.0HO and some other things) and a few weeks ago my tranny cooling line on my aux cooler busted and gushed fluid everywhere. I was able to limp it back home, but was feeling pretty chapped. This was adding to a fast growing laundry list of "sh*t that needs to get done to wheel this summer" and I wasn't feeling like working more on it. So I thought about scrapping the body, stripping my parts and making a new wheeler. I've always liked the styling of the 97+ XJ's better and figured now would be the best time to cut my losses on my 93 and swap my parts over. Luckily I just sold my BMW E30 so I had some extra cash. Through some CL trolling I picked up a fairly clean, stock 01 with 260k for 2k. I did a little bit of research before and knew of some common issues and I've bought enough cars that I knew what to look for in general. The 01 has been fine and starts, runs and drives. I haven't registered it yet because I keep going back to thinking I would be better off building my 93 vs. stripping it and bolting up parts to the 01. I like the 93 because it's already half way there, I don't have any power garbage (The 01 has power everything) and I wouldn't feel bad chopping it up because it's pretty rusted and beat up.
My overall goal is to create "The Ultimate XJ" in my mind. I do really like the set-up I have now with a few exceptions that would be addressed either way. I'm not big on rock hopping and really when I think of what I want is an overbuilt camping/expedition jeep that can go cross country no worries. On either of them I would plan on chopping off the back, stretching the wheelbase, caging it, running long arms up front, getting better LSD's or lockers and keeping 33's for now with a very, very small chance of going to 35's. Really the only difference I'm seeing in the 01 is newer styling, power accessory crap and more emission crap.
So after this rant, which would you guys build? Keep the 93 or strip it and move on the the 01.
Thanks
My overall goal is to create "The Ultimate XJ" in my mind. I do really like the set-up I have now with a few exceptions that would be addressed either way. I'm not big on rock hopping and really when I think of what I want is an overbuilt camping/expedition jeep that can go cross country no worries. On either of them I would plan on chopping off the back, stretching the wheelbase, caging it, running long arms up front, getting better LSD's or lockers and keeping 33's for now with a very, very small chance of going to 35's. Really the only difference I'm seeing in the 01 is newer styling, power accessory crap and more emission crap.
So after this rant, which would you guys build? Keep the 93 or strip it and move on the the 01.
Thanks