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Chad Kassem has spent a lot of time and effort building his unique 1996 Jeep Cherokee. Under the hood sits a turbocharged 2JZ-GTE inline-six featuring a custom exhaust manifold and Mitsubishi Evo 8 turbocharger. Chad kept the Cherokee’s 4WD thanks to a hybrid A340E\/AW4 automatic transmission that connects to a NP231 transfer case. The rest of the drivetain is stock.<\/p>\n

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Source: NAXJA<\/a> (build thread) and FB build album<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chad Kassem has spent a lot of time and effort building his unique 1996 Jeep Cherokee. Under the hood sits a turbocharged 2JZ-GTE inline-six featuring a custom exhaust manifold and Mitsubishi Evo 8 turbocharger. Chad kept the Cherokee’s 4WD thanks to a hybrid A340E\/AW4 automatic transmission that connects to a NP231 transfer case. The rest… Read More »1996 Jeep Cherokee with a 2JZ-GTE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":56827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cherokee"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2180,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=2180","url_meta":{"origin":2014,"position":0},"title":"1996 Jeep Cherokee with a 2JZ-GTE Update","author":"swaptastic","date":"October 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Chad Kassem sent us an update on his Jeep Cherokee project. 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