The weight today was with my stock tires and rims and no back seat. I have my 32's off since I was playing with my coil height. I will go to a Certified Cat Scale this afternoon and will get total weight and front nose weight again. I know the tires weigh 60-70lb more each and the steel wheels probably another 15lbs each. I was not in the vehicle and the tank was full. Yes it is fuel injected and I can pick up 5.0 engines complete with harness and ready to run for about $600 and with transmission about $850. I paid $750 for engine and transmission with 45k miles and it was complete. I was looking for a 94-95 engine only because I wanted the Tracker to be allowed to pass emissions and I own a 94. The other thing is if you don't use a 94-95 engine you will need a upper intake off of a 94-95 anyways because the upper on these years have a elbow bend molded into the upper and it allows the engine to clear the inner fender with the body lift. I measured today and I was thinking you could get away with a 2" body lift but it does need to be a 3" because not enough room for the transfer case to clear the floor if you don't because how the transfer case needs rotated for the front driveshaft. I will work on a article with pictures when I get back from my race in Ga. this weekend. I don't have a digital camera so I will take 35mm pictures then scan them into the article and get permission from the Moderator and send him the document for you to see what I have done and show you guys my Jig for the front end which I cut to correct length using my original and put endcaps on from a Ranger and use those half shafts after they are cut and balanced. The frontend was the most expensive to do because of the half shafts and the spindals for Ranger bearings but I did not want a solid front end but that would be much easier and I would still keep the struts with coil overs. The rear end took nothing to build just put adjustable rods on the rear for the new 6" coilover shocks and it was done. The lift kit which is like the Pro-Explorer and Fabtech for the full size Chevy works great and if your worried about clearance that is what the large tires are for just like on the new lift kits for all your fullsize. Well we have a 4WheelParts store in Columbus and I think they have a Ratio Ramp but this thing will flex but how well I will need to see. This setup would be wicked on a 2WD Trackick and you would not need the body lift just my mounts and the rearend. It was fun now someone wants me to convert a Sportage and use a Ford 4.6. This could become a career I don't have time for except maybe in early Spring when my business is slow
