Cyouincourt007
Pavement Prince
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- 542
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- Miami,Fl
Awesome!!!!!!! :thumbs:
Heres an update, logged about 400 miles on it now and its back to daily driving duties.
Mileage is around 12-13 mpg. I live in a hilly area so it really depends where I am going but I would say about 13 mpg is average. I did get 16 mpg at one point where I was driving around 60mph for an extended period of time. I noticed my rpms at 60 were where they should be at 65 so 5.13s are a tad steep for the v8 but for now its doesnt affect driving, just hurts mileage a tad.
the v8 just laughs at 37s and makes short work of any long freeway hill climbs around here. I can accel in overdrive depending on the hill and if not it will downshift to 3rd and pull to 80 if I want to where before if I hit a big hill I would drop from OD to 3rd and even in to 2nd sometimes.
Other then that all is well. I have the A/C compressor covered and will probably wait till school ends to find an A/C shop to make me custom lines...I wasnt expecting to get any a/c lines super cheap but when I hear that CaseyS got his done for 29 bucks and I was quoted 500 you can kiss my ass! Things in CA are more expensive I get that but not that much!
Give it a shot. When I put headers on my 95 it made a big difference in keeping the starter from dying every few months and it keeps the under hood temp down as well and will help with the dessert runs. Rust is a non issue, will actually protect better than exposed bare metal header because it slows down the moisture from hitting the bare metal. Fiber wrap is cheap and easy to do. I actually still have a roll 1.55" wide if your interested.Also what's your guys opinions on exhaust wrap? I was thinking to exhaust wrap the portion of the exhaust by the t case? I've noticed these t cases get VERY hot and the fluid is dark within 20k miles on an I5 and a v8 may be worse.
Pros are it can contain heat
Cons I've heard of it rusting out as moisture gets in the wrap...but doesn't it burn it off?
What do the hot rod guys say?
An update, school is over and now I have some more free time. I took squeaky off road for the first time and flexed her out and made sure my exhaust clears the 3rd link which it does. I also hit some high speed dirt sections and with the revalved shocks it works awesome! Handles MUCH better! I was able to hit 50mph in some sections and it felt good. No whoops but that will be next.
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Today I went on a little road trip, about 300 miles round trip. My brothers 3.8 is slow and ripp superchargers are 5-6k and v8 swaps are 10k minimum so he found a used avenger supercharger last year for less then a 1/3 of a ripp SC so he jumped on it. He never installed it until just this past week. Since then avenger went out of business and the tuning on it is a BITCH, diablo tuners are a PITA, diablo support sucks and in the search of finding a tuner he found one well over 100 miles away. Turns out there was a big miscommunication and they dont do tuning, their sales moron said they do extensive custom tunes and have the software to do custom tunes turns out they are like a 4wheel parts. So we had it towed out there via AAA but we cant use the AAA tow back due to "piggybacking" tows. So with all the driving today to and from the shop I drove just under 300 miles and hit 1200 miles overall on it. Now his jeep is stuck back at that place. I gotta go get my old hitch I took off and go to storage put it back on and tow his jeep to another shop. After speaking with the other shop they in fact do extensive tuning and will keep the jeep for a few days doing dyno runs/tuning and street tuning to get it very drivable and reliable. I figure I am an h3 alpha now which has a 6k tow capacity. I am running an add a leaf in the rear which stiffens things up a tad so I will give it a shot. I have pusher fans to help cool and a trans cooler as well. I will go slow and think squeaky is up for the task.
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After yesterday and today I am happy to see how it did off road and on a long drive. Next up is towing and then some rockcrawling.
I can honestly say, as nice as the RIPP superchargers are, they dont help the dog motors much they put in the jeeps. I traded my RIPP supercharged 08 Jeep in on my Alpha and would never go back.