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- Joined
- Jul 1, 2009
- Messages
- 134
- City
- Falcon, CO
- Vehicle Year
- '99 Ranger
- Transmission
- Automatic
- Total Lift
- ORI Struts, front and rear, 14" travel
- Total Drop
- At ride height, 6" exposed on the front and 7" exposed on the back.
- Tire Size
- 37s and 40s
- My credo
- DoL
New member in Falcon, CO. I've been wanting to build a Ranger for a while, my daughter finally killed hers, so I have a new project...
How it looked when I started:
The tear down has begun...
I've been working on it for about a week now and have made some progress. Kind of a mock-up of how I want it to look when I'm done:
What do I want it to do when I'm done: I love Moab, so Pritchet Canyon followed by Behind the rocks and then drive back to camp. I have a full on buggy for when I want to do 90 across the desert, I want something a little more street-able... And by that I mean legal to drive on the road.
Final specs will be:
Engine is a 351W, MAF EFI with the FRPP harness and an A9P EEC.
Trans is an AODE-W/4R70W with a Quick-4 controller.
Transfer case is a 4 speed Atlas.
37" or 40" tires, 40s are in the mock-up pic.
Custom frame. I have some 2X3" rectube on the mock-up, but it might be easier to just build it out of 1.75" round tube. Kind of like my serious toy:
Rear axle will be a full-float 35 spline 9" with a True Hi-9 center section.
Front axle will be a hybrid 44/60, 35 spline inner/outer.
Major questions I haven't answered in my head are interior or exo cage? Or a hybrid of the two? I like an exo to keep the body off the rocks some. Other side of the coin, I'm probably not mounting seats/harnesses to the floor...
Final wheelbase, I'm thinking @120" to keep the break-over angle reasonable.
And a question: Does anyone make a decent set of flares for the front end that will allow me to move the front axle forward @6" and still cover? I'm looking at trimming the fender off so it cuts through the corner right below the bottom corner of the signal lens.
All thoughts appreciated.
Joe
How it looked when I started:
The tear down has begun...
I've been working on it for about a week now and have made some progress. Kind of a mock-up of how I want it to look when I'm done:
What do I want it to do when I'm done: I love Moab, so Pritchet Canyon followed by Behind the rocks and then drive back to camp. I have a full on buggy for when I want to do 90 across the desert, I want something a little more street-able... And by that I mean legal to drive on the road.
Final specs will be:
Engine is a 351W, MAF EFI with the FRPP harness and an A9P EEC.
Trans is an AODE-W/4R70W with a Quick-4 controller.
Transfer case is a 4 speed Atlas.
37" or 40" tires, 40s are in the mock-up pic.
Custom frame. I have some 2X3" rectube on the mock-up, but it might be easier to just build it out of 1.75" round tube. Kind of like my serious toy:
Rear axle will be a full-float 35 spline 9" with a True Hi-9 center section.
Front axle will be a hybrid 44/60, 35 spline inner/outer.
Major questions I haven't answered in my head are interior or exo cage? Or a hybrid of the two? I like an exo to keep the body off the rocks some. Other side of the coin, I'm probably not mounting seats/harnesses to the floor...
Final wheelbase, I'm thinking @120" to keep the break-over angle reasonable.
And a question: Does anyone make a decent set of flares for the front end that will allow me to move the front axle forward @6" and still cover? I'm looking at trimming the fender off so it cuts through the corner right below the bottom corner of the signal lens.
All thoughts appreciated.
Joe
