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Figured I'd do a little build thread for our 2007 JK that I recently bought to serve as our weekend warrior/prerunner. My buddy did a great job building the Jeep over the past 10 years he owned it, and wheeled it a ton all over the NorthEast. Luckily, there's still very little rust that I've found so we shouldn't have any issues with that. I've named it the Boozecruiser - not because we enjoy drinking and driving, but because we've always called recreational wheeling that doesn't take a ton of mods or technique booze cruises where we just focus on hanging out with each other and family while doing the camping thing and some easy trails. Anyway, it's currently got Rubicon Axles that have been trussed/gusseted/sleeved with 5.38 gears/rubi lockers, RCV's front and Carbon Chromos rear, PSC bigbore steering box and Hydro Assist kit, Rubicon 4:1 tcase, Adams Driveshafts, Dirtylife Beadlocks, 37" Cooper STT Pros, 3.5" RockKrawler Midarm Xfactor lift with 10" RK coilovers in the front. Underneath is fully skidplated. It's also got a Poison Spyder trail cage and a few different top/door options. Brian followed us around a few times back when I had my buggy on 42s and was always impressed with how the JK worked - but his wheelbase at still stock 95" reared its ugly head several times getting real tippy on stuff that the rest of us at 103" or longer didn't struggle with. My immediate goal, outside of some cleaning/repainting, is to add a rockhard rear passenger overhead bar and harness bar (we have kiddos we bring with us wheeling), and then do either a 6" or 8" stretch in the rear as well as probably a 2" stretch forward to get out to 103-105" wheelbase.
Here's how it looked on the first day I got it. Brian kept his PRP suspension seats and winch, which was fine as I had some Corbeau FX1 seats left over from one of my old U4 racecars. I also gave the good folks at Warn Industries a ring to get a Warn Zeon 10S Platinum like we have on the race truck, but unfortunately they're backordered until October of next year. Decided to go with a Warn VR12S instead.
Here's how it looked on the first day I got it. Brian kept his PRP suspension seats and winch, which was fine as I had some Corbeau FX1 seats left over from one of my old U4 racecars. I also gave the good folks at Warn Industries a ring to get a Warn Zeon 10S Platinum like we have on the race truck, but unfortunately they're backordered until October of next year. Decided to go with a Warn VR12S instead.
After that I picked up a locked Ripp Diablo predator tuner for free and paid the unlock fee.
I would never have paid the full price for this stuff but is does work well but is very raspy. It has been difficult to quiet down the exhaust even with the included 2.5" hushpower resonator. I think the SpinTrapp muffler needs to be replaced with something quieter but I really like the durable construction. When I don't use the Ripp tune I can get a CEL after a couple of days. It is a bitch to squeeze a traditional exhaust on a 2-door. I had to modify some of the pipes to get a muffler before the rear axle. I also suffer bad exhaust fumes without a tailgate window because the rear tailpipe is tucked up high and out of the under-car flow of air.
