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Mike Romain

08-26-2007 04:27 PM

Re: Jeep wrangler and CJ daily drivers?

Jamie Mello wrote:
> I have a 99 wrangler I drive it ever day to work and back home almost
> every day.
> And I wanted to know how many of you Jeepers do the same with there
> wranglers and CJ?
> If you want you can tell us a little something about your Jeep you
> drive. Feel more then welcome to post a few pictures of your Jeep if
> you want. Here is a link to a web page to where my Jeep
> can be found. But please note these are from when I got my Jeep I did
> not do any upgrades
> when I took theses. I will try to upload some new one some time today.
>
> http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/c...andingfish.jpg
>
>
> like mine I got it in dec 2006 almost stock now. It has a 2.5 lift
> (spacer lift) offroad lights light guards and a warn M8000 winch (I
> got the winch used but works like new). Skyjacker shocks a CB a 1989
> trooper shift knob. Even more to come.
>

I have an 86 CJ7 I have been using as a daily driver since 1997.

I also take it out to 'play' lots in the past and on deep Canadian Bush
camping trips these days of which we have a ten day one coming up with
other folks from this group in their Jeeps coming, even from other
provinces and countries in the past.

I had to rebuild it in 2000 which was expected and planned for when I
bought it. I did a frame up restore using a fiberglass body and rust
coated, then rubber coated all the frame parts as well as replacing all
the plumbing and every seal I could get my mitts on.

http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=4292105877

This CJ7 has been from Ontario Canada to the East Coast Mainland and
Newfoundland 3 times with 3000-4000 miles average round trip.

I had to compromise for street manners and bush use so stayed with the
'mileage' 3.31 gears with my tall skinny 33x9.5 BFG Muds for the highway
and use 4 low more often off road to get the power ratio back.

I recently clocked 23 liters for 200 km fully loaded for camping. That
is close to 23 mpg or 11.5 L /100 km, so no complaints from me. :-)

We started organizing Bush Runs for folks from this and alt.jeep-l
newsgroups in central Ontario Canada, going way back in there in 2001
with this first 'RAMJ+W' run:

http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=4292076845

The runs caught on and went strong for a few years. I haven't been up
to it for the last couple due to me getting damaged as a passenger in a
car accident so things slowed down.

Here are links to other runs with folks from rec.autos.makers.jeep+willys.

Day Trip Misc. http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=4291902217

Jan/02 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=4292141347
Easter/02 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=4291929351
June 16/02 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=4291718705
Aug02 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=4291402603
Jan03 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=4290887779
Aug 03 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=4289239511
Summer 04 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=3697290093
Jan05 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2132336104
Aug/05 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2120343242
Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's - Gone to the rust pile...
Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view!
Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590
(More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page)

Mike Romain

08-26-2007 04:27 PM

Re: Jeep wrangler and CJ daily drivers?

Mike Romain

08-26-2007 04:27 PM

Re: Jeep wrangler and CJ daily drivers?

Peter Stolz

08-26-2007 10:58 PM

Re: Jeep wrangler and CJ daily drivers?

Jamie Mello wrote:
> I have a 99 wrangler I drive it ever day to work and back home almost
> every day.
> And I wanted to know how many of you Jeepers do the same with there
> wranglers and CJ?
> If you want you can tell us a little something about your Jeep you
> drive. Feel more then welcome to post a few pictures of your Jeep if
> you want. Here is a link to a web page to where my Jeep
> can be found. But please note these are from when I got my Jeep I did
> not do any upgrades
> when I took theses. I will try to upload some new one some time today.
>
> http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/c...andingfish.jpg
>
>
> like mine I got it in dec 2006 almost stock now. It has a 2.5 lift
> (spacer lift) offroad lights light guards and a warn M8000 winch (I
> got the winch used but works like new). Skyjacker shocks a CB a 1989
> trooper shift knob. Even more to come.
>

Hi Jamie,

I have an '84 CJ-7 with the Renegade trim package that I bought brand
spankin' new with only 7 miles on it. Well, actually the title might
say 11 (I drove it 4 miles on my test drive). Anyway, it was my daily
driver for about 10 years. Then I got a Cherokee, and was able to store
it in the winters. Since then, I've kept it very stock except the drive
train. I put an AMC 360 in it with a K&N, Edelbrock carb and intake,
sweet looking aluminum Offenhauser valve covers, Hedman ceramic coated
headers, 2.5" dual exhaust, Dynomax SuperTurbo mufflers and
SuperConverters, and an MSD distributor, coil and ignition with a rev
limiter chip. I also have a Comp cam on my bench awaiting me. It's got
an NV4500 gearbox, too, but like Mike's CJ, only the 3.31 gears in the
axles. Probably not for long though, but for now, I can easily bury the
85 MPH needle.

It's pretty much my daily driver all summer long if it's not raining. I
take the top off and stow it until I get caught in the rain. Even
then, I sometimes I just live with it and get wet. Nothin' like a Jeep
with the top off.

I also put on a homemade on-board air system so I can air up my tires,
work air tools, or have some fun launching potatoes with my spudgun.

From the outside, it looks very stock except the 31" BFG Mud Terrains,
and push bar, and so it's very much a sleeper. From looking at some
computer dyno programs, I figger it's got about 325 HP. I've yet to put
it on a chassis dyno to verify it, but nobody would ever guess it's got
that much snort from looking at it.

Have fun with yours!

Pete

Peter Stolz

08-26-2007 10:58 PM

Re: Jeep wrangler and CJ daily drivers?

Jamie Mello wrote:
> I have a 99 wrangler I drive it ever day to work and back home almost
> every day.
> And I wanted to know how many of you Jeepers do the same with there
> wranglers and CJ?
> If you want you can tell us a little something about your Jeep you
> drive. Feel more then welcome to post a few pictures of your Jeep if
> you want. Here is a link to a web page to where my Jeep
> can be found. But please note these are from when I got my Jeep I did
> not do any upgrades
> when I took theses. I will try to upload some new one some time today.
>
> http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/c...andingfish.jpg
>
>
> like mine I got it in dec 2006 almost stock now. It has a 2.5 lift
> (spacer lift) offroad lights light guards and a warn M8000 winch (I
> got the winch used but works like new). Skyjacker shocks a CB a 1989
> trooper shift knob. Even more to come.
>

Hi Jamie,

I have an '84 CJ-7 with the Renegade trim package that I bought brand
spankin' new with only 7 miles on it. Well, actually the title might
say 11 (I drove it 4 miles on my test drive). Anyway, it was my daily
driver for about 10 years. Then I got a Cherokee, and was able to store
it in the winters. Since then, I've kept it very stock except the drive
train. I put an AMC 360 in it with a K&N, Edelbrock carb and intake,
sweet looking aluminum Offenhauser valve covers, Hedman ceramic coated
headers, 2.5" dual exhaust, Dynomax SuperTurbo mufflers and
SuperConverters, and an MSD distributor, coil and ignition with a rev
limiter chip. I also have a Comp cam on my bench awaiting me. It's got
an NV4500 gearbox, too, but like Mike's CJ, only the 3.31 gears in the
axles. Probably not for long though, but for now, I can easily bury the
85 MPH needle.

It's pretty much my daily driver all summer long if it's not raining. I
take the top off and stow it until I get caught in the rain. Even
then, I sometimes I just live with it and get wet. Nothin' like a Jeep
with the top off.

I also put on a homemade on-board air system so I can air up my tires,
work air tools, or have some fun launching potatoes with my spudgun.

From the outside, it looks very stock except the 31" BFG Mud Terrains,
and push bar, and so it's very much a sleeper. From looking at some
computer dyno programs, I figger it's got about 325 HP. I've yet to put
it on a chassis dyno to verify it, but nobody would ever guess it's got
that much snort from looking at it.

Have fun with yours!

Pete

Peter Stolz

08-26-2007 10:58 PM

Re: Jeep wrangler and CJ daily drivers?

Jamie Mello wrote:
> I have a 99 wrangler I drive it ever day to work and back home almost
> every day.
> And I wanted to know how many of you Jeepers do the same with there
> wranglers and CJ?
> If you want you can tell us a little something about your Jeep you
> drive. Feel more then welcome to post a few pictures of your Jeep if
> you want. Here is a link to a web page to where my Jeep
> can be found. But please note these are from when I got my Jeep I did
> not do any upgrades
> when I took theses. I will try to upload some new one some time today.
>
> http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/c...andingfish.jpg
>
>
> like mine I got it in dec 2006 almost stock now. It has a 2.5 lift
> (spacer lift) offroad lights light guards and a warn M8000 winch (I
> got the winch used but works like new). Skyjacker shocks a CB a 1989
> trooper shift knob. Even more to come.
>

Hi Jamie,

I have an '84 CJ-7 with the Renegade trim package that I bought brand
spankin' new with only 7 miles on it. Well, actually the title might
say 11 (I drove it 4 miles on my test drive). Anyway, it was my daily
driver for about 10 years. Then I got a Cherokee, and was able to store
it in the winters. Since then, I've kept it very stock except the drive
train. I put an AMC 360 in it with a K&N, Edelbrock carb and intake,
sweet looking aluminum Offenhauser valve covers, Hedman ceramic coated
headers, 2.5" dual exhaust, Dynomax SuperTurbo mufflers and
SuperConverters, and an MSD distributor, coil and ignition with a rev
limiter chip. I also have a Comp cam on my bench awaiting me. It's got
an NV4500 gearbox, too, but like Mike's CJ, only the 3.31 gears in the
axles. Probably not for long though, but for now, I can easily bury the
85 MPH needle.

It's pretty much my daily driver all summer long if it's not raining. I
take the top off and stow it until I get caught in the rain. Even
then, I sometimes I just live with it and get wet. Nothin' like a Jeep
with the top off.

I also put on a homemade on-board air system so I can air up my tires,
work air tools, or have some fun launching potatoes with my spudgun.

From the outside, it looks very stock except the 31" BFG Mud Terrains,
and push bar, and so it's very much a sleeper. From looking at some
computer dyno programs, I figger it's got about 325 HP. I've yet to put
it on a chassis dyno to verify it, but nobody would ever guess it's got
that much snort from looking at it.

Have fun with yours!

Pete

Peter Stolz

08-26-2007 10:58 PM

Re: Jeep wrangler and CJ daily drivers?

Jamie Mello wrote:
> I have a 99 wrangler I drive it ever day to work and back home almost
> every day.
> And I wanted to know how many of you Jeepers do the same with there
> wranglers and CJ?
> If you want you can tell us a little something about your Jeep you
> drive. Feel more then welcome to post a few pictures of your Jeep if
> you want. Here is a link to a web page to where my Jeep
> can be found. But please note these are from when I got my Jeep I did
> not do any upgrades
> when I took theses. I will try to upload some new one some time today.
>
> http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/c...andingfish.jpg
>
>
> like mine I got it in dec 2006 almost stock now. It has a 2.5 lift
> (spacer lift) offroad lights light guards and a warn M8000 winch (I
> got the winch used but works like new). Skyjacker shocks a CB a 1989
> trooper shift knob. Even more to come.
>

Hi Jamie,

I have an '84 CJ-7 with the Renegade trim package that I bought brand
spankin' new with only 7 miles on it. Well, actually the title might
say 11 (I drove it 4 miles on my test drive). Anyway, it was my daily
driver for about 10 years. Then I got a Cherokee, and was able to store
it in the winters. Since then, I've kept it very stock except the drive
train. I put an AMC 360 in it with a K&N, Edelbrock carb and intake,
sweet looking aluminum Offenhauser valve covers, Hedman ceramic coated
headers, 2.5" dual exhaust, Dynomax SuperTurbo mufflers and
SuperConverters, and an MSD distributor, coil and ignition with a rev
limiter chip. I also have a Comp cam on my bench awaiting me. It's got
an NV4500 gearbox, too, but like Mike's CJ, only the 3.31 gears in the
axles. Probably not for long though, but for now, I can easily bury the
85 MPH needle.

It's pretty much my daily driver all summer long if it's not raining. I
take the top off and stow it until I get caught in the rain. Even
then, I sometimes I just live with it and get wet. Nothin' like a Jeep
with the top off.

I also put on a homemade on-board air system so I can air up my tires,
work air tools, or have some fun launching potatoes with my spudgun.

From the outside, it looks very stock except the 31" BFG Mud Terrains,
and push bar, and so it's very much a sleeper. From looking at some
computer dyno programs, I figger it's got about 325 HP. I've yet to put
it on a chassis dyno to verify it, but nobody would ever guess it's got
that much snort from looking at it.

Have fun with yours!

Pete

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