Archive for November, 2005
The Mudds are on Directv TiVo
So I’m sitting here burning through my shows on our Directv TiVo and episode 1 of Jeep’s Meet the Mudds that I blogged about before showed up in the Showcases list. The total clip was about 3 minutes long and features a minute-long promo for the new Commander following the Mudds episode.
The promo shows a pair of Commanders exploring the back country of what has to be Colorado along with a narrator’s voice bestowing the virtues of the new vehicle. Unfortunately at one point it shows the dynamic duo crossing a highcountry field off an established 2-track trail that’s clearly visible in the clip. Way to TreadLightly guys…
1 commentAEV Conversions to explore Iceland
AEV Conversions, the company that first gained notoriety building the LWB Wranglers that paved the way for the current Wrangler Unlimited, will be retracing the 1980 National Geographic expedition to Iceland. They’ll be using a group of highly-modified Jeep vehicles, including the two radical rigs shown at SEMA 2005 (the Commander above is one of them, if you hadn’t figured that out). The vehicles will all feature HEMI motors, huge SuperSwamper IROK tires, Warn winches, and a slew of other expedition-ready parts and modifications done by AEV.
The trip is going to be filmed in HD and is supposed to air on the VOOM network. For more info on the trip, the vehicles, and the mods, visit AEV’s Iceland Expedition.
No comments4.88’s rock!
On the highway anyway… we’re still in the break-in process on the new 4.88’s and rear ARB that I installed in our TJ back in August, so we haven’t had it offroad yet, but on the street the new gears are great! Take-offs from a dead stop are much easier and quicker, and 5th gear is useful again! On the highway in 5th the TJ will easily ramp up to 80mph, though it seems to top out not long after that—not that cruising at 80+ mph in a SWB TJ with 35” tires and a total of 6.5” of lift is really the safest thing to be doing though… At around 75mph in 5th gear the engine is spinning at a comfortable 2500 rpms. The only engine mods we’ve got on the TJ are a Magnaflow exhaust (a result of installing our long-arm kit) and a BruteForce intake kit from AEM.
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