Recent content by Dylan_Shaffer

I went through 3 of the aluminum Jeff’s broncos ones. First two leaked within a year.

Got mega side tracked with some other projects but finally getting back to working on this. Got the firewall panels made and mostly in this weekend and just need to finish welding. They’re not perfect but neither am I. Stoked on how it came out.

Haven’t used them personally, but have only heard good things about this guy. Does a lot of transport for high end off-road stuff. https://www.instagram.com/lievenseraceservices/

Tech3 sandrail with a 2.5 turbo Subaru. Just made a new exhaust for it, which has been pushing my bronco to the back burner!

I’m going to make it solid instead of removable, while it’d be easier to access the ac components with a removable piece, I don’t expect to have to do that often (hopefully) and having it be removable seems to lend itself to more potential problems than I’d like such as water ingress and...

Made a bit of progress, aiming to make the rest of the panels and weld it up next weekend.

Working on boxing this in this weekend

I don’t believe it’s needed but I figure more space always helps. I’m still not sure which ac system I’ll go with.

Welding up seemingly endless holes in the engine bay this weekend, need to clean it all up then it’s ready to blast with paint. Still debating wether I want to modify the cowl to go straight across to make more room for an ac unit at some point.

Came across this video, does a decent job going into some of the details of this engine

This website has adapter kits for certain manual transmissions and transfer cases though I believe they’re all Europe based models and would be harder to source here. I was originally going to make my own adapter to use my nv4500 until I realized you could use the Zf8hp with this engine

The electrical has definitely been one of the more involved parts of this and has required a ton of research and staring at wiring diagrams. I was able to have the ecu programmed for standalone use, otherwise I would need the CAS module and key fob from the original car. The engine also came...

It’s pretty deceiving! I measured it all to be about the same length as my 351w nv4500 and Dana 20 combo.

I’m in California, I sourced the engine from a dismantler in Los Angeles for $2500 with the ecu and harness. The transmission was sourced from a dismantler in Northern California for about 3k and the transfer case I got on eBay with zero miles

Hey everyone! Figured it’s time I get a build thread going. I’ve had my bronco for about 9.5 years and daily drive it for 7 of those years. I’ve decided to swap a bmw diesel and automatic transmission into it and as you’d expect the project scope seems to increase indefinitely. The engine: the...