it's not that i'm resistant by no means. i hope this comes out right:: i always have built my personal jeeps the way i see it, the way I know how, the materials i have access to and capable of doing with reasonable work/tools. I get advise when i can, i get ideas when i can, but usually i build something already...then post up my build and that's where the comments start. I never really paid much attention to what people say about my stuff...some points def taken though...but never really bought into it. and IT"S NOT AT ALL that i don't believe people's advise, or trust their advise it's just that i (with much much personal experience) believe that many different ways of getting a similar outcome of product and even though everyone's advised way of building something might be the "proper good looking way", i just do what i come up with and work it. none of you will believe me on this but i've had couple real builders see my rig and they didn't see anything wrong with my build or unsafe and i know they weren't just being nice cause i asked for their honest advise and they gave it to me. Effective: the lift is not affective because it was cheap...stock shocks on 5" lift and 2sets of stock leafs combined with stock shocks also so there is no real good way to make that affective except just to clear the 35s. now i have gained shocks for 4.5"lift which helped dramatically, added new longer shackles but my rear still needs some work to get full use of flex. Do I want it Ghetto??: not really but i've always had "ghetto jeeps according to others". I don't think my jeep is that bad or ghetto but i just call it that cause everyone else does...just like the name of it
"the Abomination"....that is not mine...that is what everyone called it when they saw it. to be honest, if i had 5K to throw at it right now, it still wouldn't be anything close to what most would consider proper but for me, that 5K would turn it into My Personal Baddest XJ ever even though most would probably still feel the same way and still call it a deathtrap but whatever, my jeep is my build, my taste, my preference, my abilities and work and it makes me very happy and proud to be able to impress myself and others with my "abomination" build that so many constantly predict won't make it out of the parking lot. I don't make it my job to prove my jeep or myself to others but when so many are against me and my build all the time....i too can get flustered and make it a thing to prove a little something lol.
