Interior: Because it’s poorly put together, uses poor materials, and isn’t designed well. Like most other 90s GM interiors.

Cheap bad interior, Bad build quality, Vortec/LT1 issues, 4L60E issues, bad fuel economy, bad handling (albeit comfortable), and many other reasons why a caprice could be considered crappy. Pretty much any car in the past 20 years could be considered “comfortable” and “reliable”, still doesn’t make them great cars.

The CRF450X is still carryover. Thing is ancient now. Good to see the RX though.

My 02 450r has over 200 hours on the engine.

Durability is going to be the biggest issue. The gearbox tolerances will have to be very tight in order to minimize noise and keep suspension control good. So overtime the gearbox will get louder as the gears wear in, and the amount of slack will increase as well.

Seems useful. Have had very loud vehicles, and there are many situations in which I’d want a quiet start.

I’d trust braided lines with durable AN flare fittings more than the cheap plastic “push-snap” fuel lines with cheap rubber o-ring seals OEMs use.

Erm, plenty of cars have the fuel tank or fuel lines inside the cab. The LS400s had the fuel tank, filler, high pressure lines, etc... all right behind the back seats.

The number 1 reason why this is CP, is because these conversions are inherently terrible. They’re almost always shoddily put together.

There’s even a 5MT version of the 3rd gen!

Lots of hyperbole in the post, but these numbers really aren’t that much higher than the outgoing truck. 1,000 pounds more maximum towing, and the payload is up about 600 pounds.

Gooseneck is not a rear-hitch type mount. It’s in the bed too.

My numbers seem to say that for a 1000 mile range, you’d need 1800 KWh worth of batteries, or 450 KWh for a 250 mile range - about 4-5 hours of driving.

The problem is the massive battery a truck would need. A semi gets about 6-7 MPG, so with a 150 gallon tank, you’re looking at a 1,000 mile range. Running the numbers and assuming the diesel engine is about ~33% efficient, you’d need 1860 kilowatt/hours of electrical energy (assuming the motor was 100% efficient) to…

I love Wranglers, but your “bones of the TJ” diagrams are missing all the rot holes and broken control arm mounts that every TJ in the North East has.

Yeah, but none of those issues really apply to gas burners. Malfunctioning EGR just means your engine runs bad sometimes, or if its stuck closed likely runs no different. Clogged injectors just means misfire or poor idle. Particulate matter in the exhaust stream is also pretty much a non issue on gas burners as well.

They only clog on some diesels. Non issue on a gas job

Not to knock it, but it doesn’t sound special at all in this footage. It sounds like every other video of a race car using bad GoPro on board audio.

Let me know when you want to do the Lexus V8 swap, like we did, and I’ll make a list of everything you need to get the job done.

The way I understand it, the EPA fuel economy results were correct, but the window stickers themselves were wrong. 1 MPG highway is a negligible impact on NOx production compared to a diesel running with little to no exhaust aftertreatment.