Project: Canadian JK (YUP! New Bright JK)
 

Everyone should have one of these new bright JK's in their collection, atleast I think so. So here is my take on this popular body. I had no idea which direction this rig was going and still have alot of options in my head but here is where I'm at so far.

I decided the fenders and bumpers had to go, but some minor filling had to take place.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/cagedcbr/090.jpg

Antenna hole.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/cagedcbr/092.jpg

Front tube work.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/cagedcbr/093.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/cagedcbr/094.jpg

Tried some 2.2's early on, and did not like them. Could be an option for serious crawling later on.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/cagedcbr/058.jpg

Most recent pics from yesterday, 3 Racing 1/8 scale winch, Wraith axles, 1.9 steelies, TSL boggers. I still need to make some rear upper links and decide on what shocks I'll be using (no it won't sit so low). I've got the rest of the cage built but I still have to build a roll cage inside the truck that will all tie in together, I will also be running a spare in the luggage area.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...dcbr/011-1.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/cagedcbr/008.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/cagedcbr/001.jpg


More to come....

[QUOTEloving the tube work man. can't wait to see this build progress.][/QUOTE]

Thanks, I actually ended up making all the bends by hand LOL. I have a friend that lives across the street from me with a Robbe bender but he's holding it hostage until I paint his body for his 1/8 buggy. You can see it in the background in some of the pics. Boy, when I get ahold of that bender it's on LOL :mrgreen:.

thats fantastic bending. id hurry up and paint your buds body.

Couple more pics I just snapped, time to get to work LOL. I'd like to hear some opinions on the rear roof section.

Lower tubing painted, and roof on.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...dcbr/016-1.jpg

Roof off, this is pretty much where I want the ride hieght aswell.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/cagedcbr/018.jpg

As I mentioned I still want to make up an interior cage and tie it into the cage work already finished. Once that's finished I can start working on electronics.

if you're goin with the inner cage i think the rear cover should stay off so you can show off the cage. its lookin pretty good man

Yess I couldn't agree any more, I'm currently doing the same on mine.. I've started my EXO cage on my jeep jk too. Love the way the look with the cage.

I recommend using the Dingo scx10 cage inside the jeep jk.!! I did & looks bad ass,

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And you still can use your hard top lol "thumbsup"


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Nice lookin' jk, I have one of those cages and was going to use it but I'm having so much fun making up my own cage work. I think I may have to pick up another JK and I would use it for that as I would like another one of these bodies for my SCX10. I would try and keep the next one a little more stock though (if possible).

Keep bending! You're on to something good. The exo looks sharp. I'd stay with your plan and post up your thoughts and plans. We'll go from there!"thumbsup"

Thanks guys, Bulldog that means alot coming from someone who owns my dream crawler hauler (yeah I know it's for sale). I'm trying to get some more of the tubing work done as time permits throughout the day. Here is my inspirations, the side will remain as the black JK but the roof will have some detail similar to the MBRP jeep's interior cage (I love the halos over each seat).

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14.../blacjeep2.jpg

This is were I would like to tie the 2 together to get some bars in behind the seats ect...

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/cagedcbr/15.jpg

Killer 1:1!!! Thanks for the thoughts on my hauler to be. As I mentioned, keep up the work you're doing. If you emulate the one in the pics, you'll have one bad azz rig!"thumbsup""thumbsup""thumbsup"

Hate to bust your bubble but this thread looks alot similar to mine, Hmmm thinking if you stold my ideas :mrgreen::lmao: lol lmfao

http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/axial...s-jeep-jk.html

LOL, that jeep is so inspiring. A friend of mine sent it to me from the for sale section on Yotatech when I told him about the jeep.

I actually started with inspiration from this pic with just the bumper build (when it had fenders) but just had so much fun with that I had to keep going.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...withflare3.jpg

And this will be something I may do with the paint department (coutesy of Patrick Guyton), if I can hold myself back from camo'ing the thing.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...ton_tacoma.jpg

So that's what happened to your Wraith!

Now that is some true flame! Wow! That is SICK! For as much as I love it, I'd love to see full camo!

Somebody knows how to paint. That is unreal true looking with the smoke :shock:

nice build going down....wow those wraith axles are wide :shock: ....can ya say sidehills great "thumbsup" ....only thing i see with that width is your....stuck in class 3 with the way the tires fall outside of the body........bob

class 1 tires must have center half of the tread covered

class 2 at least the inside of the tire covered

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Well the axles are back on my Wraith, I just don't have the heart to render it useless so I ordered some VP goodies for it. The jeep will get standard ax10 axles beefed Up a bit and RC4WD hex adapters for the steelies and 12mm wideners. I also picked up the paint for it today, I will have more pics soon...

Now that your Wraith is back together do you want to trade for my Clodbuster Racer (RCCanada).

Would you be in Toronto for any reason in the next little while?