Funny everyone (previously including myself) argues the SFA side of a competitive vehicle. However. For 95% of folks on here SFA just gives them a harsher ride as most don't push the limits of a rig to really justify SFA vs ifs. Any ifs is proving to be more and more usable.
What's your next 'Jeep' or what do you have now.
- Thread starter collkid
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- Thornton, CO
I really hope this isn't true. I can't do this with IFS and this just Chinaman's, our shakedown run. If 95% of our members can get by with IFS we have a serious lack of wheelers in this group.
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Well 1- I would agree there is a serious lack of wheeling goin on.
2- most people are doing the scenic not too hard just fun kinda trails where ifs works
3- I'll try and find the pic of the taco still ifs dropping bunker and driving up patriot. Ifs isn't as crap as people think.
2- most people are doing the scenic not too hard just fun kinda trails where ifs works
3- I'll try and find the pic of the taco still ifs dropping bunker and driving up patriot. Ifs isn't as crap as people think.
time2getdirty
my cats breath smells
- Location
- Cheyenne, Wyoming
I rock ifs. I like it. Probably won't go back for a long time.
jdxj
NAXJA Forum User
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- Colorado Springs
IMHO there are still plenty of xjs out there, and as far as finding a comparable rig to road and wheel with room for 4-5 people there just is no comparison! I still run across em all the time for $1500-3000 range, if your willing or able to do some wrenching they can go almost forever! .02. I'll be wheeling truggy and blue for a long time and blue will still be road worthy for a long time, when I get some axles under it that is!
Plenty of skeltons to swap my parts over towhen i get tired of the XJ skin my parts are under ...lol...no hardcore XJ is much XJ left over you can build anything around your parts . For cheap V* power I'd go ZJ ,WJ or an older Durango 5.2-5.9 in the ZJ or Durango and 4.7 in the WJ we've had 3 vehicles with the 4.7 and no troubles up to 200,000 before they were sold .
- Location
- Golden, CO
Since I'm still on my first XJ, I'll have to keep running what I have.
Past that, I'll probably put another 390 FE in my '74, and adapt an overdrive automatic for fuel economy.
Past that, I'll probably put another 390 FE in my '74, and adapt an overdrive automatic for fuel economy.
In case you need reminded like I did, naxja is not a wheeling group. It is an enthusiast community and focusing on wheeling only is providing an injustice to the other areas of interest
WB9YZU
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Madison, WI
In case you need reminded like I did, naxja is not a wheeling group. It is an enthusiast community and focusing on wheeling only is providing an injustice to the other areas of interest
Well, though that's true enough, who formed the Club and why?
The answer that it was formed by a group of Off-Road enthusiasts who enjoyed modifying their XJs and taking them Off-Road.
Who formed the Colorado chapter, and where did they come from? A number were members of other Off-Road forums and a number came from the COXJ group, which again, was primarily made of Off-Road enthusiasts.
Colorado is also blessed with one of the largest inventories of trails in the US. The trails are public, and they are doable with few exceptions, by a moderately modified XJ. Events are what keeps clubs together, and events that share the predominant interest of the Members, much more so.
Though there are some Members who want to restore a numbers matching XJ, others which want to Autocross them, and some which either drag race, or endurance race them, and some who just want to lift them to make them appear tough, are those activities that a majority of CO Chapter Members partake? Or are they more apt to be seen on a Forest Road on the weekend on their way to a camp site for the weekend, or on the trail with a host of other XJs?
And back on topic. My XJ replacement was a Volvo XC90 with a V8.
My statement was pure sarcasm. It's funny if you know some back story. It was meant more for him than general statement.
YELLAHEEP
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Littleton, Colorado
I lol'd..... a little. Until I reflected on my fleet and was reminded that I'm not longer part of the wheeling group. I'm a useless chapter member now. :shhh:
collkid
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- Location
- Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Interesting stuff.
I think if I can find the right XJ, especially if I can trade it for my MJ, I would hold on to it forever.
Only other thing I would consider is a K5. And still, they're little old.
I think if I can find the right XJ, especially if I can trade it for my MJ, I would hold on to it forever.
Only other thing I would consider is a K5. And still, they're little old.
garr
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- Location
- Nassau County NY
4.0 WJ, Last of the Mo-Jeepins 
iratefla
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- Colorado Springs, CO
Beware the Chrysler tranny.
YELLAHEEP
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- Littleton, Colorado
UnlimitedMatt
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Cheyenne, Wyoming
Wait, are you saying that tranny is named Chysler?
YELLAHEEP
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Littleton, Colorado
Someone doesn't get it...... :dunce:
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