Frame swap?

CarNutCertifies · **Posted:** Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:12 pm

For those that have researched the SFA conversion...What about dropping the KJ body onto a Cherokee frame or a simular truck chassis with the same wheel base? Is this possible? Please dont give me the enough time and money anything is possible line. I am trying to get some thinking outside of the box here.

Brigrat · **Joined:** Sun May 21, 2006 6:17 pm **Posts:** 92

I thought the KJ's body and frame were unibody construction, which is why we have no body lifts available? I am a newby to the KJ world, but that is my understanding. Not to mention that the KJ is longer and wider than Cherokee.

swyszomirski · **Joined:** Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:59 am **Posts:** 286

Go look under you KJ, and you will see the frame and body are one piece= unibody, so it would not work to try and drop a KJ "body" on another frame unless you essentially cut the KJ body up.

Tokyojoe · **Posted:** Sun Jun 11, 2006 9:00 pm

CarNutCertifies wrote:

For those that have researched the SFA conversion...What about dropping the KJ body onto a Cherokee frame or a simular truck chassis with the same wheel base? Is this possible? Please dont give me the enough time and money anything is possible line. I am trying to get some thinking outside of the box here.

Sounds like Blasphemy also. :lol:

jeepkj02 · **Posted:** Sun Jun 11, 2006 9:11 pm

KJ and all the cherokees and grand cherokees, up until the wagoneers, are unibodies. I suppose you could swap out the front subframe of a grand cherokee/cherokee into a liberty. You would have to take out the engine and drivetrain. Probably the easiest way to do a SFA swap is remove the IFS components and exchange it with SFA stuff.

CarNutCertifies · **Posted:** Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:35 pm

Well i knew it was a unibody construction i just remember as a kid this car that ran around town i wanna say it was a chevette or an AMC that someone had put on a toyota frame and wheeled it. What would the feasablity of swaping the suspensions from the cherokees to a KJ? Anyone ever looked into it. remember I started this thread to get people thinking about ways to do a SFA on a KJ cheaper.

JJsTJ · **Posted:** Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:56 pm

I hate to say it but....... You said it best.
"Please dont give me the enough time and money anything is possible line."

I have seen a custom frame built Under an XJ's unibody and it works Great. It has custom suspension hanging under it, none of it original XJ though. (it also has an injected SBC too and many other goodies)
I imagine if you took an empty KJ body and modded it to sit on an existing chassis it could be made to work but I do not think it would really be cheaper or better than what has been done w/ SFA's on KJ's so far.

zjmikey · **Joined:** Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:01 am **Posts:** 90

It would be a whole lot easier to just cap the frame rails with some channels, plug weld them in multiple places and creat an entire "subframe"..

seperating the body from the unibody frame causes alot of issues as the frame rails are structural to the body pillars and overall shape of the vehicle

DarbyWalters · **Posted:** Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:08 pm

You could build a custom tube frame and then place the entire Liberty chassis on top of it...it would be expensive but very trick... :twisted:

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