WOW you aren't kidding about that color being sick as hell Luai! Love it!!! Those ARB covers are drool worthy. You already have the dream JK and soon to be dream LJ. Love your taste in, well, pretty much everything! Keep it up,your an inspiration to us all!

 

That ARB diff cover is just too pretty to bolt back on to an axle that will actually get used! Your color choice is going to look really amazing on the LJ


BTW, I know this is a topic in your 20's or 22's thread, which wheel did you choose, the Fuels or the XD's???

 

Thank you very much my friend!!! I really appreciate the kind words

comments like this fuel my pasion! thanks again

Thanks, it's goin to be a surprise

 

I have better pics of the diff cover.. will post once i'm done with the JKX photos

 

Those are incredibly nice photos from JKX. I am sure Mel will dig them all

 

Nice shots! Did you get any of Andrew and the Falken crew?

 

right here buddy

https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/show....-let-see-them

 

That color is bad ass....love how the diff covers turned out..

 

This is just an awesome build!!! Great work, keep us posted.

-Oside

 

Here are some pics of the Jeep getting stripped and prepped for paint

Windshield is out and sanded the rusted area behind the hinges



Cage while getting it out



some body work to get rid of the wavy surface off the new fenders







cage is out





LJ Willys





Here's the grill, it's got some surface rust because of that stupid chrome insert that was on it from the factory that was cleaned up today (no pics of that yet)



half doors fixed and primed









and some better pics of the diff cover. I don't know if there are any painters here that could possibly explain what i'm about to say in any better way. but from choosing between all the colors that I went through, this is an interesting color for many reasons. first, it has black in it which you will see here in a bit. when you look at it from one angle it looks gray but everything else seems much darker to where it's almost black. which I think is really super cool! the other thing is that it's rich with metallic when you get really close to it but from a distance it looks plane lastly it looks light gray almost silver under light. maybe yellowish under the sun! really interesting or maybe I just never looked at car paint in detail

like I said before the color has been slightly modified so if anyone wants the color code or whatever the painters use to know which one it is, let me know and i'll talk to my painters! so far everyone loves it and that's great

hard to get the color with a camera on a small surface like this cover. but you guys get the idea for now













I got all the plastic sh*t that goes on the outside of the Jeep like the fuel surrond thing and the hinges for the hood and tie down..etc
I don't think you guys want to see factory crap but god damn!! they are expensive at 600~ with 20% discount!

body work + paint is at about 6500 with a new factory Windshield just to give you guys who are considering a paint job an idea. I'm sure the cost goes up or down depending on the body work.

I got factory fog light switches that I'll wire the roof rack lights too again retraining the factory look on the inside

The interior (seats, roll bar padding and carpet) has been dropped of at detail. should have it all back by Wed.

That's all I have this week for the LJ

as for the JK

40s and 20s next week

I'll have the 40s side by side with my new 42s. will be interesting to see the size difference.