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Old 07-23-2012, 12:44 AM   #1 (permalink)
TheEnemy
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The Truck - '99 Nissan Frontier xe
90 day: 25.74 mpg (US)

The Ugly Duck - '84 Jeep CJ7 Rock crawler
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Time to work on Ugly

After the last couple of outings Ugly came back a bit worse for wear. So its time to do some major work, mostly body and frame this time.

So the plan aside from repairs it to build a custom roll cage and what I'm thinking is to have the front of the cage (the two bars right behind the windshield continue up past the top of the windshield then curve back and slope gently down to just behind the front seats. The intent even though it increases my frontal area is to reduce the low pressure area behind the windshield in hopes to at least improve highway stability.

After the front seats it will continue to slope down but also in so that by the time it gets to the back of the Jeep it will be even with the outside of the cargo box. I would apreciate any thoughts.

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