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Well, that's the update. All metal work done, body stiffeners bolted in so it wouldn't tweak while being trailered and pushed around the body shop. Next time you see it, it will be in one color or another.

Here's the tailgate. It wasn't too bad looking from the outside, but when I started poking at it with an awl, holes appeared in droves. You may notice that I stuffed a section of 3/4" x .090" wall tubing inside the lower part of the tailgate before the patch panel was welded in place. I figure...

I forgot to mention, when I was fitting the fenders, hood and grille all together, a 5 pound sledge hammer and concrete chisel were used to reshape the bump where the fenders meet the grille. It sometimes makes my stomach turn, thinking of the damage I could do with a few mis-struck blows, but...

Once the mechanical portion was completed, ie- intake and such, the body came off to be able to access the interior of the engine bay. At this point, the CJ7 grille took delivery of the Jeepster eyebrows. Even those had to be modified in the name of proper panel fitment. And since I couldn't...

Here are some pics of the hood and the damage to the front of the hood. The damage caused there to be a large gap between the top of the grille and the front lip of the hood. I ended up cutting out a section of the nose of the hood and reshaping it. The resulting fit is probably better than when...

Turning attention now to the engine bay. Intake tube and air box, fuse panel bracket and power distribution panel and bracket. LS crate engines use a 4" intake tube. Some say it is too big for the engine and a smaller one will build more torque, but I've built enough with the larger tubing to...

When I finally got around to building the sticks for the t-case shifter, I used some solid 1/2" round steel. The ends were machined first so I could tap them to 3/8-24 to fit the ball knobs we're using (there's a story there too). You will see in the pics just how far to the left I had to bend...

My original plan for the t-case shifter was to have it come up into a flat floor. That didn't happen as the shifter was so far forward that it wanted to compete with the tailhousing of the transmission. So a bent panel was formed with the intention of having the twin stick boot be on an angle...

Next up, fitting the passenger seat. The shape of the new floor is different from the original. In fact, massively so. The tiny little transmission in the original Jeepster made the original floor pretty flat. Not so with the huge Tremec TR4050. Some measurements were taken and the passenger...

You can see in the previous pics that I ultimately decided to make my own twin stick shifter. The stock stick wouldn't be easily fit around the passenger seat, and the twin sticks currently sold would have to be modified anyway, so here we are. Custom bullet proof D300 twin stick. At this point...

Building the transmission tunnel and floor. I was able to go ahead with part or it without mockup, based on measurements alone. Overall, I don't love the angularity of the firewall, but it really was a tight fit to everything around it. And besides, once the motor is in, you don't hardly see any...

Great. I love when you guys ask for updates. It makes me feel like the time spent compiling pics is not wasted. Here's a bit of an update. All of the sheetmetal work has been completed, and the body is now back at American Stripping for a final white metal blast and powder coating. The powder...

I've been working hard to get the Jeepster body ready to bring to the painter's, so I apologize for the lack of updates. In the past few weeks, I have finished the dash, firewall and transmission tunnel. We went ahead and built our own custom twin stick shifter for the D300 and attached a nice...

Thanks everyone. For many people, gadgets and features make a vehicle more interesting. For me, it's always been simpler is better. Direct your eyes to the important things, instead of to blinking lights all over the dash. Re- the pics, I've been with Photobucket for so long now that I could...

If I hit refresh on the page, different pics are absent every time I refresh. I wonder if the file size is too big, but you'd think the forum would warn me that they were too big. Thanks.

I figured it would be a refresh thing, but nope. Sometimes I see all of them, sometimes not all are shown. I did change my resize parameters the other day. I wonder... Thanks.

For Sale - 4.0L 1GR-FE V6 Engine was used for mock up only and is rumored to have internal engine damage. Make Offer. Intake plenum is a twin to the one I built for "Superrunner" a few year back. It was machined by Inchworm Gear owner Jim Christiansen and was designed to replace the stock...

I am currently working on the transmission tunnel, which is a challenge. True to form, it will also be simplistic. I am designing it to accept a console, should we decide to go that route, but will still look good without one. The challenge right now is the location of the shifters. The trans...

For some reason, my browser is not showing all the pics I've loaded. Let me know if you guys are experiencing the same problem. Back to the Jeepster. With the new gauges in hand, the entire dash was assembled with all accessories present. Yes, there is a mix of chrome and black going on here...