Need Someone to teach me the ropes
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Re: Need Someone to teach me the ropes
Originally Posted by Crate
If your even remotely worried or concerned about gas milage, don't get 33's on the 4cyl. I had a 98 w/ the 4 banger and 3" lift and 33's and i got prolly 12 mpg. At least not w/out gears.
Listen to this man, my girlfriend has about the same set up and her jeep blows on gas milage, doesn't want to go up hills, and 5th gear is the most useless thing unless your planted to the floor trying to maintain 65ish.
Captain night owl
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Re: Need Someone to teach me the ropes
Originally Posted by Odin
youd rather them be too small than too big. It really sucks buying some nice new big tire just to find out they rub or wont tuck
skankin'
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Re: Need Someone to teach me the ropes
Originally Posted by QwanSanchez
Im not planning to go hardcore rock crawling or anything, but at the same time i dont want to make a "mall crusier" either. Im guessing through that with a smal BL like a 2" and a 2" or 3" SL plus say 32s or 33s i will be able to handle most stuff in Virginia or at least things that i will run into. I know buying a 4cyl isnt the ideal thing to do but a 97 TJ with only 69,000 miles on it when i bought it for 4000$ was just too good to pass up. How much is regearing really going to help the power output or the actual feel of having power? And what should i regear to? Right now it feels extreamly underpowered but i assume thats just because of the crappy 2.5l under the hood
As far as regearing, people say you should be running 4.56s with 32s and 4.88s with 33s but its really up to you. I still have my 4.11s with my 33s but thats only because I''m gettin ready to swap axles and no use puttin money into something thats going to get trashed. They're only ever a problem when driving on the highway. On the rocks in 4-low, my Jeep drives like a champ doing anything the guys with the 6 cylinders do. If you can deal with it, leave it alone, if it becomes a problem, swap the gears out. You can do little things like intake and exhaust, and then mods get more out-there like swapping throttle bodies, electric fans, and reprogrammed chips. I even got plans on boosting mine this summer but thats another discussion.
For 4cylinder stuff, check this place out: http://www.4bangerjp.com/forums/
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Re: Need Someone to teach me the ropes
ok so what it sounds like everyone is saying is go for the RE BB and 32's and i am planning to run this thing on the highways, not often but i hate the feeling of not being able to go over 65, so regear to 4.56s?
skankin'
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Re: Need Someone to teach me the ropes
Go ahead and lift it and put on the tires. Drive it around for a while and see how it feels. If it continues to bother you, and you plan on keeping that setup for a long time, go ahead and regear(putting in gears is quite a bit of change to drop unless you know someone). It will still go plenty fast with the stock gears. I can take mine past 70, it doesn't feel very safe, but it will do it. It just requires some finesse and a lot of gas. Its a jeep though, not a sport compact. Going slow comes with owning one, and has kept me out of plenty tickets
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