1983 Jeep Cherokee street fighter project

[ghinmi]

Body back off the frame again.





Sandblasted and painted.





Plated trailing arms

[ghinmi]

Rolling chassis.









Body back on and ride height (at the time) set. It will be much lower and obviously a different wheel/tire combo.

[ghinmi]

And off to the chassis shop for the roll cage. It's a full chrome moly 8.50 cage (remember, it was going to be a drag car).

[ghinmi]

Got some fiberglass parts and made a lift off style front end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX3RpiTf1N8






And a shot of the engine plan (at the time). AMC 401 based engine with an 83mm turbo. It's now all in my '77 4 door Wagoneer.



After the engine/turbo got donated to my Wagoneer, I threw this one in there for the time being. 712 hp all motor 401 stroker (454").

[ghinmi]

Around this point is when plans changed from drag racing to autoX and street fun. No more spooled Ford 8.8, bought a floater 9".







Converted the rear to coilovers and made adjustable panhard bar mounts.

[ghinmi]

And now we're up to current, the new engine/trans showed up the other day. It's a 5.7 hemi and TR6060 out of a 2010 Challenger. Plans are to do a simple cam swap and build custom headers. Will be going MS3x engine management and a cable style throttle body.

[WSSix]

Do you expect the fit to be difficult? Glad it's moving long for you.