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Īs AMC began the development of the next Jeep in 1985, management created a business process that is now known as product lifecycle management (PLM). However, the basic design for the Cherokee's replacement was well under way by AMC's in-house designers and the 1989 Jeep Concept 1 show car foretold the basic design.
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Three outside (non-AMC) designers- Larry Shinoda, Alain Clenet, and Giorgetto Giugiaro-were also under contract with AMC to create and build a clay model of the Cherokee XJ replacement, then known as the "XJC" project. The Grand Cherokee's origins date back to 1983 when American Motors Corporation (AMC) was designing a successor to the smaller Jeep Cherokee (XJ). At its introduction, while most SUVs were still manufactured with body-on-frame construction, the Grand Cherokee has used a unibody chassis from the start. There's plenty of room for the factory single exhaust, and the rear axle is miles away from the back of the tank, so if we ever do get a wild itch to add 1-ton axles or huge dual exhaust in this Jeep we know we won't have to make fuel tank modifications to accomplish it.The Jeep Grand Cherokee is a range of mid-size SUVs produced by the American manufacturer Jeep. But until then, we have the tank up and held in place with four of the eight mounting holes, and we're pleased to say the fit is perfect with no interference at the bottom of the floor. We'll have to drop the tank one more time to finish hooking up our fuel system after the engine swap begins, so we're going to wait until that time to hook up the filler and vent as well as welding the nuts to the inside of the frame to make install and removal much easier. Then, we pulled the tank back out and finished drilling the holes and then bolted the tank back in. Once it was up tight into place, we measured each side to make sure the tank was centered side to side and from the rear crossmember and then drilled eight small pilot holes through the frame at the center of each tank bracket.
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