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bmyohn
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really clean stock XJ chopped
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[QUOTE=Fullsizexj;5866175]It is all done





we also added a hoop behind the rear window with downbars but by the time we finished it was too dark to bother with pics, Choptopxj will be sending some pics and I will post them up also[/QUOTE]



found this on JF, i like it a lot. if anything ever happened to the rear end of my jeep, this is probably what i would do. looks good to me

what do you guys think?

heres the link to the thread on JF
http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=5866175



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I like the look of a chopped XJ and can understand some of its function. However, I still don't understand why. The vehicle is still a unibody. So why not put more effort into creating a stronger chassis. Just my two cents.

Could'nt you create the same function by making a "midgate"( behind the rear seat) and simply remove the liftgate ( maybe even rear windows)? Leaving the rear roof line in tack. Keeping a stronger unibody.

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that is a good point. he did add though that he was adding a rear hoop and cage i believe, so that may add some structual integrity to the body

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Looks nice, mine was not that clean but it got the job done very well.
P.O. had cut out the rear wheel wells & went well past the pinch seam, so the Jeep wasn't "good" enough to still be road-worthy. Adding th eplate across the back stiffened it back up. I built a cage for it & then sold it due to a finance situation... wish I still had it, now I gotta do it all over again, lol.





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clean job on the gold xj.    hey what is that red rig in the background of the third pic?? just curious.

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look on FullsizeXjs profile on JF, thats whats left of his XJ...lol very cool rig

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I like that idea, but I'd like to do a new-libby like 'freedom top' although I'd leave the roof cross supports intact, and do some unibody frame reinforcement to help maintain structural integrity.

in that gold xj, is that a comanche bed front and nonslider rear window?  I like the looks of the nonslider windows, but like the function of the slider rear windows... and vent windows on early XJs, it'd make for a great AC system.

-- Edited by ChevelleSSLS6 at 23:33, 2008-10-20

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I think they should have made these with a Baja Bar with lights

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Glad to see you all like it, I had alot of fun doing this one for someone else, been a wile since I had done bodywork type body work, as for the red one in the third picture, that is what is left of my XJ


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Structuraly; What does it do to the unibody when you do a chop-it like that? Do you re- support the rear quarters? I also noticed in later pics. A hoop and down bars are mounted to the top of the existing rear quarters. Is that how you recreated the support the D-pillars create?

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When I did the inside and tops of the bedsides, I used 1/8 " steel plate and welded it all the way around, which should actually be alot stronger than the original sheetmetal that was there before, then I welded the hoop and down bars to the top of that. It was alot stronger than I had thought it would turn out. I wanted to do the cage into the inside also but the customer did not want to go that far so I did not do it. It should hold up really well for his intended puposes

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1/8 WOW defenantly stronger. Nice work. I would have let you put the cage inside too.
Maybe when I want to do more than just cruse malls and cart kids around, I'll have to give you a call.

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no problem, I had fun doing this one and would be more than willing to do more of them, It took me a little less than 2 weeks to do this one but most of that was figuring out how to do each step, now that I have it figured out I could knock one out really quick

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