Artec Industries 2018 JLUR Build

[Artec]

Great update guys!

I’m interested in the lift to see how it works in the real world.

From the look of your rear bumper is that made from aluminum?

One of the things I noticed over this past year with the group I off road with has been a major problem of weight with all of the add ons such as, armor, bumpers, roof rack and so fourth. It kills the MPG. Most folks think how bad could it hurt?
With my TJ we pulled the rear cabinet setup that was made of wood and made it out of aluminum. My MPG went from 10 MPG to 14-15 MPG on the HWY and off road from 6 MPG to 10MPG. Almost all of my trips my gas bill would run between $400-$600 for the trip, this last trip it was only $206. That is a huge saving.
Last weeks trip there were two JKUR, one with a gobi roof rack, winch, warn front bumper and armor. The other JKUR only had a front bumper that has been changed. The one with all the heavy upgrades was at half a tank while the other JK was at 3/4 a tank. For folks like us who do these trips every month the saving of $200-$400 per trip on gas ads up at the end of the year. Last year I did 80 days off road camping and if you do the math on what my gas saving would add up to it’s a good chunk of change.
With that being said. I have a JLUR on order, it should be here mid February per the dealership. I’m going to want as many of my upgrades out of aluminum as I can. I know it cost more upfront, yet the savings over a year will out weight the upfront cost.

Keep us updated on your build.

J

Our belly pan system will be made of aluminum with zinc plated steel brackets, The bumpers are only going to be offered in steel as of now. However, We will have some more bumper lines coming out in the future so there is a chance we may produce an aluminum line ! As for the Sliders they will stay steel we have seen too many aluminum sliders take a hit and bend the tub on Jeeps in our area so we are sticking with steel for sliders for that reason

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[James]

Our belly pan system will be made of aluminum with zinc plated steel brackets, The bumpers are only going to be offered in steel as of now. However, We will have some more bumper lines coming out in the future so there is a chance we may produce an aluminum line ! As for the Sliders they will stay steel we have seen too many aluminum sliders take a hit and bend the tub on Jeeps in our area so we are sticking with steel for sliders for that reason

Good to know

Please keep us posted.

 

[SuperSanta503]

Those welding beads are beautiful. MIG or TIG?

 

[Artec]

Those welding beads are beautiful. MIG or TIG?

That is a mig weld on the bumper, But we do tig weld our belly pans which are just as nice our welder lays a nice bead

 

[Artec]

Just a little sneak peak of the JL We received our Raceline Wheels today We went with a 20x9 defender wheel from them with a 37x13.50 x 20 maxxis razr

 

[MockBarbecue82]

I love the graphite match powdercoat. Lets see it on the rear bumper.

 

[Artec]

I love the graphite match powdercoat. Lets see it on the rear bumper.

Just waiting on it to be picked up from the powder coater We will be carrying this theme throughout the Jeep .

 

[Mattyp1214]

Looks awesome, what lift did you go with or are you guys developing them?

 

[XTJake]

We started off the build With our new JL Nighthawk mid tube stinger bumper Send it off to have it powder coated in a nice graphite to match the grille inserts and emblems and had the optional rock guard powdercoated in the factory red. Since it's a which bumper the obvious thing to do was dress it with a Superwinch EXP 10K lb winch with Factor 55 closed winching system .

Looks awesome guys!

Keeping the graphite gray theme incorporated into the bumpers is a nice touch. Looking forward to seeing the completed Jeep.

-Jake

 

[TIDALWAVE]

How are you going to prevent galvanic corrosion between the steel in the JL and the aluminum of the add-ons? Ford is still wrestling with this problem with their 'aluminum' F150! The hood is aluminum but the hinges have to be steel for strength, so they placed synthetic pads between the hood and the hinges. Then they forgot what they were doing and used steel bolts to tie the aluminum hood to the steel hinges.

 

[Artec]

How are you going to prevent galvanic corrosion between the steel in the JL and the aluminum of the add-ons? Ford is still wrestling with this problem with their 'aluminum' F150! The hood is aluminum but the hinges have to be steel for strength, so they placed synthetic pads between the hood and the hinges. Then they forgot what they were doing and used steel bolts to tie the aluminum hood to the steel hinges.

Are you talking about a specific product in general ? All of our products are Steel that are welded onto steel, Or steel bolted onto steel. outside of our bellypan kits which have zinc coated hardware and zinc coated steel brackets with the aluminum bellypan which have had no issues with corrosion. We are starting to offer more products that will be bolt on that are powder coated and will retain the factory hardware .

 

[AZCrawl]

The other day we did receive our wheels from Raceline , We went with a Graphite colored 20x9 defender wheel with a 37x13.50x20 Maxxis Razr Mt to keep with the graphite scheme . I'm really excited for the next few parts to be released which we know will be a big hit . I'll post more info about them when I'm allowed.

Are you going to re-gear? If so, to what?

 

[Artec]

Are you going to re-gear? If so, to what?

We will be re-gearing the Jeep to 4.88 once gears are available.

 

[AZCrawl]

We will be re-gearing the Jeep to 4.88 once gears are available.

Did you guys do the math based on the 8 speed auto gear ratios or just making an educated guess? I was thinking that 4.56's may have been an option, but I haven't seen a chart developed for the JL 8 speed yet.

 

[Artec]

Did you guys do the math based on the 8 speed auto gear ratios or just making an educated guess? I was thinking that 4.56's may have been an option, but I haven't seen a chart developed for the JL 8 speed yet.

We were just guessing with the numbers and tire size going from a 33 to a 37 but 4.56 may be an option for us to use also with the 8speed trans
once they have gears out we will know for sure what ratio we will be running

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