The Jeep 4.0L HO Lives!
First fire up was late Sunday afternoon after some trial and tribulation. I took it for a little 20 block blast tonight and the throttle response is incredible. I can't wait to go for a hwy cruise but I wanted a shakedown run tonight to make sure everything was honky dory. Squealing the tires around corners was easy stuff. I'm not going to beat it up just yet though.. :-D It about jerks my head off right off idle and I had to quickly learn to be very, very easy on the throttle when taking off from a stop.
The first few blasts are just touching the throttle and the 4k blast was just half throttle if that.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQOYWtpKsK0"]YouTube- SSBuildDynomax.AVI[/ame]
For those that haven't seen the build thread, I built this engine in a super stock format using the best of the best of all the years that this engine was in production plus some custom machining and a few "non-stock" parts. My goal was a sensible, long-lasting daily driver with added power but a somewhat stock cam.
I'm very anxious to see what this will do at higher rpms as well. Will it pull past 4k? Will power continue to build to redline? What will the mpg be? How well will it pull a 700-800 lb. trailer? What would I do differently next time? About the only thing I know for sure is that is pulls hard right off idle and would smoke my new chevy work van vortec v-6 off the line. It really slingshots from light to light with minimal throttle input.
First fire up was late Sunday afternoon after some trial and tribulation. I took it for a little 20 block blast tonight and the throttle response is incredible. I can't wait to go for a hwy cruise but I wanted a shakedown run tonight to make sure everything was honky dory. Squealing the tires around corners was easy stuff. I'm not going to beat it up just yet though.. :-D It about jerks my head off right off idle and I had to quickly learn to be very, very easy on the throttle when taking off from a stop.
The first few blasts are just touching the throttle and the 4k blast was just half throttle if that.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQOYWtpKsK0"]YouTube- SSBuildDynomax.AVI[/ame]
For those that haven't seen the build thread, I built this engine in a super stock format using the best of the best of all the years that this engine was in production plus some custom machining and a few "non-stock" parts. My goal was a sensible, long-lasting daily driver with added power but a somewhat stock cam.
I'm very anxious to see what this will do at higher rpms as well. Will it pull past 4k? Will power continue to build to redline? What will the mpg be? How well will it pull a 700-800 lb. trailer? What would I do differently next time? About the only thing I know for sure is that is pulls hard right off idle and would smoke my new chevy work van vortec v-6 off the line. It really slingshots from light to light with minimal throttle input.
