WJ & WH owners who wants a snorkel ???

[MRGC]

Anticipating the floods that are coming to NSW (not in populated areas hopefully), having the jeep ready for a weekend of fun.

[johnv]

Spot on Bomber, thanks for adding some technical "words of wisdom" are you a member of MJOC as well as this forum?
The snorkel is so close I can sniff it, but we just dont seem to have that person coming forward with their WJ CRD to complete the two models WJ & WH.
Are there any members of MJOC who would be willing to volunteer their vehicle?
When I went to the GIBSON RM factory and had castings done of my WH body, sure it took half a day, but that's a small bit of time with a lot of future value, at that time my WH had less than 10,000Km on the clock and so I was very, very, wary about damage, I was reasured from the word go that all would be well and not a scratch was made on the vehicle!
Perhaps Airflow may have to bypass the WJ CRD series if we cannot get a suitable donor and wouldn't that be a catastrophy!

[drover]

Johnv, be a bloody disaster. If I had enough holidays I'd drive down to Mexico and they could play with my WG CRD.

Work ruins a blokes social life.

[johnv]

Yep, Drover we're definitely all becoming frustrated with the process and the Commander is nearly finished!
I will contact Michael next week to see where we're at.
Keep smilin' it's all we can do - cheers

[DarwinDave]

Hi John,

Email is "d.m.turner@optusnet.com.au", it really hurts to think that the Commander is going to beat the WH. Be interesting to see the numbers on the spreadsheet.

Cheers

[popeyeroo]

Hi,i would like to reg my interest in a snork for 06 wh grand 5.7 hemi. Thanks

[Bomber]

Originally Posted by DarwinDave

Hi John,

SNIP it really hurts to think that the Commander is going to beat the WH. Be interesting to see the numbers on the spreadsheet.

Cheers

Whaddya mean, I've been waiting nearly two years behind the WG/WH for mine .

I volunteered the WG in about April 07 and then sold it to get the XH in June 07 before even the most basic planning for the WG snorkel. It seems that the WG/WH development is a litany of wannbees and almosts with the development starting and the stopping several times. Granted some re-engineering, and probably commercial priorities, have slowed Gibsons down at times (after all there are three engine configurations with three airbox locations, so a "WG snorkel" is really a misnomer) but the reality is that it is very easy to find other priorities if something falls into the too hard basket. Even the KJ beat the WG - and it had two versions needed whereas the XH only needs one which vastly simplifies things from Gibsons end, all it took was someone () willing to commit to the time and the car.

Seriously though folks the sooner you guys can get a car for the final stage of WG fitting (as far as I know everything is ready except for the final test and production at least for the WG V8 ) the sooner the rest of you can have your wish granted.

MJOC seems to have been overrun by JKs in both forms, WGs are thin on the ground and WHs even thinner, perhaps that's the real issue - not enough people down here taking WG/WHs seriously as off roaders. There's only 2 or 3 Commanders in MJOC but it only takes one of us keen enough to get the thing moving, same applies to the Grand.

Full credit to Michael and Gibsons for perservering I reckon. He must reckon that there's a buck to be made eventually of course but even so it would have been very easy for him to have given up by now and moved on to more profitable projects forever.