This is why I sold my Jeep...

Mar 18, 2005 11 Replies

These are the pics of the Jeep replacement, it doesn't quite have the same articulation but it sure does have more power! ;)



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Jim "zooomzooom" Zorin



'97 ZJ "Mud Slinger" '01 WJ "Limited" '95 C4 "30,000 miles"


Nice.. but I prefer the 70's styling better, but its still a sweet machine, smoked any '05 stangs yet?

Snow...

Canary yellow. I guess now you are a web wheeler. KH

Funny, I thought the Vette ride was cushy compared to my old Alfa :-)

Dave Milne, Scotland '91 Grand Wagoneer, '99 TJ

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This is what mine looked like, although the front air dam was different.

The ride is comparable to strapping a steel plate to your ass, and having someone hit it with a sledge hammer. That's what they call performance handling! lol. The ride on a TJ or XJ os NO WHERE NEAR as stiff a ride as the vette. And mine is a '95, about half as stiff a suspension as the C4 had when they came out in '84. If I drive over a cigarette butt I CAN FEEL IT!! hahahaha.

Jim "My Aching Ass" Zorin

BTW, the car was originally bought by a 60 year old man who always wanted one (but waited too long), he drove it very little, kept it garaged, and decided when he was 67 that he couldn't get in and out of it on his own anymore, he sold it to the dealership at 20,000 miles. The dealership used it for a loaner when people brought their newer C5's in for repair. The dealership put another 10,000 on it before selling it to me. I talked to the guy (who is now 70) and he misses it, hahahaha too bad. The interior looks brand new, the body is done, I have the brakes and rotors to do (C5 big brake going on), GM hot cam kit going in (cam & roller rockers $500), and better flowing exhaust with electric cutouts. Should smoke the ZR1 when it's finished (like these things are ever "finished").

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I'm still getting used to laying down to drive, world of difference from the XJ. I'm sure it would take any of the stock '05 Mustangs though. The Vette has the same HP, more torque, way better suspension, and it's 1000 pounds lighter (must be the lack of back seats) lol. I'm still a Jeeper at heart though, I'm keeping my faithful old ZJ and the wife just got a WJ Limited (wow those things are plush).

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I can top that, when I first got my truck back on the road the suspension was so stiff I SWEAR I could feel the bump when I drove over a shadow!

Fortunaly it's losened up quite a bit, but it still rides like the 45 year old truck that it is.

Jeff DeWitt

Zor> The ride is comparable to strapping a steel plate to your ass, and having

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