New TJ Buggy build. Still prefer the jeep look after all these years.

smurfy90 · Apr 8, 2014

Ill be watching this! Looks good.

Elliott · Apr 8, 2014

Your going to have a lot of wheel speed with the crawl ratio your going to have, fab work looks great on this tho.

Roy_Hobbs · Apr 8, 2014

Elliott said:
Your going to have a lot of wheel speed with the crawl ratio your going to have, fab work looks great on this tho.

Well that's what I thought too, but I drove a friends rig with th400/3.8/4.56 gears and really liked his 2nd gear because was low enough to crawl and still had good speed at max rev. So I took a gamble and just matched his 2nd gear for my first and at same time got a faster trail gear in 2nd than his 3rd. Wheel speeds at 6500 rpm came to 30 mph in first and 55 in 2nd. He never stayed in his 1st gear for anything all day so maybe it will be ok

pennsylvaniaboy · Apr 9, 2014

Love the build. Are you making your own box brackets or buying them somewhere?

Roy_Hobbs · Apr 9, 2014

pennsylvaniaboy said:
Love the build. Are you making your own box brackets or buying them somewhere?

bought all my frame tabs, just not worth the time if you dont have the right tools, front tabs from ruffstuff and rear tabs from bluetorch

Roy_Hobbs · Apr 9, 2014

or were you talking about my rub rail/A&B pillar/body supports? I made those.

pennsylvaniaboy · Apr 9, 2014

Your 4 link mounts on the frame side, the square ones.

TN-CTD · Apr 9, 2014

my .02 cents I'm running a 5:1 Atlas II with 4.56's and a C4 trans, its a little to low in 1st gear but 2nd is about perfect.

Roy_Hobbs · Apr 9, 2014

TN-CTD said:
my .02 cents I'm running a 5:1 Atlas II with 4.56's and a C4 trans, its a little to low in 1st gear but 2nd is about perfect.

those are from ruff stuff.

Roy_Hobbs · Apr 9, 2014

Who knows what will be right! :dunno:

Ive compared a ton, some like mine, some like yours. Everybody has their own preferences.

With my set up im looking at : 1st- crawl ratio of 24, 10mph @ stall and 30 mph @6000 rpm; 2nd gear- crawl ratio of 14, 52mph @6000 rpm.

With the 3.8, 1st gear only went down to 24mph. i couldnt imagine being lower than that. Hell thats the same as granny low(6.68) in a 4speed on the highside.

Roy_Hobbs · Apr 9, 2014

I honestly dont see why you cant go as slow as you want if you keep your stall speed down. I bought a 2000, which will try to pull at 1500. With a strong motor this should be doable i would think.

TN-CTD · Apr 9, 2014

i'm running i want to say a 2500stall with my cam, its a snappy ****er in low. i mostly run mine in 2nd everywhere i go

1tonyj · Apr 10, 2014

How much rise did you put in the front of your frame? I like the low look and cut down grill

Roy_Hobbs · Apr 11, 2014

1tonyj said:
How much rise did you put in the front of your frame? I like the low look and cut down grill

Frame has 12" of rise on a 45 degree angle, grill height above was about 11.5". Hopefully motor and trans will be done soon and i can fit them in frame.