after the drive to/from work yesterday, definitely need to work on some things. the idle is way too rough to be correct, and my drive shaft angles are super bad. but it runs!
i got back into the IQ and 'hammer mod' reset myself to 3.8-4.0, it only just kind of flips back n forth slowly. that seams pretty good, but it's still just shaking the crap out of the jeep. smooth while cruising though, so I'm hopefully it's something like a timing adjustment in VCDS that i just haven't figure out how to do yet.
building this i put the engine in where it fit the best, and just blindly swapped the lift kit on quick so i could move it around. now that it's running, it's time to go back and tune in the drive shaft angles. measured last night and I'm 13deg out in the back and 16deg out in the front!