Hey y'all.
Long time listener, first time caller. Been using this forum as a information resource for awhile now, but I figured since I am finally starting to put work into my LJ I should start supporting it as well as put a little build thread together. I like the idea of having a little journal of my progress, and having feed back on dumb things I might be doing would be great too.
Quickly catching y'all up on things. I've always been an automotive enthusiast, mostly been into european cars as that's what dad was into. Was into VWs for a long time. Grew tired of FWD's shortcomings, and moved onto BMWs. Spent awhile messing with those, owning a dozen or so e30s. Had a touring that I daily-ed through college.
Also spent a while tinkering on a coupe, swapping in an engine from a newer M3. Its purpose was to be a canyon cruiser, auto x, track day type car. But it had some electrical gremlins I never got around to fixing (I hate electrical problems) and it was always on the back burner to other cars.
Unfortunately found out that the "dad wagon' wasn't super car seat friendly nor is "track car" (I use that term loosely here) family friendly, I eventually ended up picking up some Toyotas. I first had a 3rd gen 4Runner, but wanted something with more capability than the IFS 4Runner. Sold that for an 80 series Land Cruiser. Great platform, just maintenance heavy and Cruiser parts pull a bigger premium than my BMWs did. So I got sick of it quickly. Only owned it for about 6 months before it was parked and left till I had money to fix and sell it. Not much time to do anything considered a "build."
My passion in cars had driven me to get an engineering degree so I could work in the aftermarket. About the time I was getting sick of the Cruiser, I was working at Teraflex, designing a variety of parts. I had always loved the TJ platform, but grew to love it more seeing coworkers TJs. Also wanting a Gladiator in the future, I picked up a cheaper TJ to build.
Covid brought in some price increases as we all know, and I couldn't justify spending what gladiator's were going for. I decided to sell the TJ and pick up a slightly more family friendly LJ.
Some pictures from the day I bought it.
Did a lot better than I thought it would on the RTI ramp. But not good enough.
Then build plan, as the thread name suggests, is to stretch it and throw on some 40s. Sounds easy right?
I'll update with more details on how I plan to get that all working soon. Just wanted to get something down for now.
Long time listener, first time caller. Been using this forum as a information resource for awhile now, but I figured since I am finally starting to put work into my LJ I should start supporting it as well as put a little build thread together. I like the idea of having a little journal of my progress, and having feed back on dumb things I might be doing would be great too.
Quickly catching y'all up on things. I've always been an automotive enthusiast, mostly been into european cars as that's what dad was into. Was into VWs for a long time. Grew tired of FWD's shortcomings, and moved onto BMWs. Spent awhile messing with those, owning a dozen or so e30s. Had a touring that I daily-ed through college.
Also spent a while tinkering on a coupe, swapping in an engine from a newer M3. Its purpose was to be a canyon cruiser, auto x, track day type car. But it had some electrical gremlins I never got around to fixing (I hate electrical problems) and it was always on the back burner to other cars.
Unfortunately found out that the "dad wagon' wasn't super car seat friendly nor is "track car" (I use that term loosely here) family friendly, I eventually ended up picking up some Toyotas. I first had a 3rd gen 4Runner, but wanted something with more capability than the IFS 4Runner. Sold that for an 80 series Land Cruiser. Great platform, just maintenance heavy and Cruiser parts pull a bigger premium than my BMWs did. So I got sick of it quickly. Only owned it for about 6 months before it was parked and left till I had money to fix and sell it. Not much time to do anything considered a "build."
My passion in cars had driven me to get an engineering degree so I could work in the aftermarket. About the time I was getting sick of the Cruiser, I was working at Teraflex, designing a variety of parts. I had always loved the TJ platform, but grew to love it more seeing coworkers TJs. Also wanting a Gladiator in the future, I picked up a cheaper TJ to build.
Covid brought in some price increases as we all know, and I couldn't justify spending what gladiator's were going for. I decided to sell the TJ and pick up a slightly more family friendly LJ.
Some pictures from the day I bought it.
Did a lot better than I thought it would on the RTI ramp. But not good enough.
Then build plan, as the thread name suggests, is to stretch it and throw on some 40s. Sounds easy right?
I'll update with more details on how I plan to get that all working soon. Just wanted to get something down for now.
