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River Raider - Project "Rockster"

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River Raider has started it's latest project.
We are building a low, mean, fast, stretched, rock krawling roadster on 40's.

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Here is the rundown on some of the specs:

2007 2 door JK
Full aluminum armor
Custom cage
Fold down tailgate
LS3 motor


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Watch this thread for the complete build.

Just look at it.....the poor little thing dosen't even know whats coming.

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Now where's my chainsaw?
 
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Roll Cage painted

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Gettin' her back together

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New instrument cluster

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Front Bumper

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Rear Bumper

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Bling mirrors

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Just to get a better idea of what the finished project will look like we rolled a couple of 37's from one of Rock Krawlers other projects next to her.

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The Rockster is now in the capable hands of the boys at Rock Krawler. They will be posting up some progress shots of the suspension that they will be completing this week. Then we will get updates from the boys at the Jeep Speed Shop as they tear into the Motor Swap.