Suspension: Procomp front lift springs in the front, Stock front springs
in the rear. I might add spacers later on, since it has
quite the texas tilt currently. The front stock
springs lift the rear almost 4" (without even the stock spacers!), whereas
the
Procomp springs only lift the vehicle 2-2.5". Cost:
Free (Pro comp springs were donated by Brian Rice since he upgraded
to a Teraflex lift).
Shocks: None for now. I will add Rancho though once I measure for length.
Tires: 31x10.50 Goodyear somthinorothers I traded a friend of mine these
for tires on his TJ rims for my 5 31x10.50 BFG M/Ts
thinking that this vehicle would resume street duty.
I'll get either a set of 30x11.50 TSL SXs, or a set of 31x13.50 TSL SXs
depending on what kind of a deal I can get used.
I'll keep the TJ rims for now, since they tuck so nicely under the fenders.
Misc. mods: Removed doors for visibility while rockcrawling. This could
cause structural damage due to this being a unibody
design, but I'm not too worried about that. An external
roll cage will come sooner or later. Removed sway bars. This is not
a street ZJ, and in the present mind of cheapness
I opted to simply remove the sway bars rather than buy disconnects. I did
have disconnects when I drove it on the street though,
and this is what I'd recommend. Cost: Free
Soon to come: EZ lockers F&R (not recommended on the front of a
ZJ with a QTrac T-Case on street driven vehicles). I have an
NP231 out of a TJ which I might swap in so that
I'll have 2wd capabilities, but I'll see how much I dislike the lockers
in the front.
Current status: Unfortunately my mom had a mishap in her grand and broke
the rear axle. We swapped my old rear axle onto
her Grand so that she could have some body work
done. Dynatrac is building her a Dana60, and when that comes in we'll put
the old rear axle back on The Doorless Wonder, and
resume the buildup.
Pics: What you really wanted to see...
Alright, here I was checking out how badly the shocks limited my articulation.
It was pretty considerable since
they were stock length shocks.
Here is it ramping without the shocks. The rear tire drops well, but
not as much as I'd hoped. I'll have articulating
control arms for the rear soon enough.
Same time as above. You can see how the spring laying on the ground
next to it. I should have taken a picture
from the other side to show the droop in the front, but, like in the
back, it wasn't very spectacular. I hope that
with articulating control arms the axles will rotate more.
And just for immaturity's sake:
I was smoking all 4 tires trying to pull someone out, but got smoked
out of the car, so you can see me running.