My custom intake (TIG + Machining + CAD/CAM)

[beatupjeep]

This is a custom intake I manufacture and sell for a different chrysler, the 2.2/2.5 K-car from the 80's and 90's.

It was completely designed in Solidworks and machined at home using a 3 axis CNC mill.

It is then TIG welded by me. Yes I know the welds arent pretty, but its function not form! Or at least thats what I tell myself.

I'd REALLY REALLY

REALLY

like to make something for my '89 XJ. The only idea's I've come up with are a custom winch bumper for my harbor freight winch, but thats been done so many times before its not really that exciting to me.

I don't off road the Jeep anymore so thats probably why I'm drawing a blank as far as ideas. Is there something cool I could make for it?

And I just got a tilting rotary table which I will be converting to CNC so the possibility of custom spiral bevel gears and differential components (new low cost lockers??) are possible.

If anyone wants to know the details of how I made all this ask away!

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[XJ Wheeler]

Man, that manifold is SWEET! Really wish i had those tools to do that stuff.

Sent via messenger pigeon - i talk, he types.

[beatupjeep]

Man, that manifold is SWEET! Really wish i had those tools to do that stuff.

Sent via messenger pigeon - i talk, he types.

thanks!! I really want to make something for my jeep now..

If I had good plans Id make a class III trailer hitch with torsion bars because I actually need it and they are $300..

I could probably do the hitch but Im not sure what the geometry of the torsion bars and their mechanism is.

[4.3LXJ]

Those aren't hard to make. The hardest part is the receiver tube, which can be bought at Tractor Supply for $10

[beatupjeep]

Those aren't hard to make. The hardest part is the receiver tube, which can be bought at Tractor Supply for $10

awesome I may just do that!! a new tractor supply just opened up down the street and Ive never been..this is a perfect excuse lol

any idea how to do the sway bar/load equalizing?

maybe I should buy a used one then copy it, then sell the used one

[4.3LXJ]

That part can be bought. It just slips into the receiver and usually comes with the sway bars. I am not sure what they cost. The stuff could be made, but the sway bars are spring steel and tapered. So those have to be bought anyway