buzzboy
SuperDork
1/23/23 9:32 a.m.
Really digging the Filipino hotrods!
I quite enjoy how my lowered(plastic deformation of springs over time) jeep drives. On smooth asphalt a solid front axle isn't "that" bad. Bet you could get it low enough without too much crazy work, especially if you drop to a shorter tire. Weight though... may be harder to remove. They are chunky.
kb58
UltraDork
1/23/23 10:56 a.m.
The truly fast "Jeeps" appear to be replica Lotus Sevens with a Jeep grill.
To the OP, it all depends on where you fall between: your desire to have fun, meeting the rules, and what cost/work you're willing to confront. One thing I haven't seen addressed is oil slosh, or are the Jeeps in question so slow that it's not an issue?
Apparently, you move the axle in front of the bumper to get the drop you need.
Roadkill had a pretty cool flat fender Jeeprod. Would be easy enough to build but you would likely be further ahead to start with a streetrod or custom chassis and put Jeep bodywork on it if you wanted it to handle. Its sort of a modern, more cool T-Bucket though, and I dig the look.
To do a modern jeep would be a lot of cutting and throwing away of what makes a Jeep a Jeep, so unless you had one for free in my mind it would make more sense to do a complete ground-up build considering there is no classing advantage to keeping anything stock
