If youve owned 3 built wranglers and actually used it for its purpose or went on any Jeep/offroad runs you should know darn well a 4cy, I6, v8, etc have all been proven reliable and useful in an offroad setting.
Sorry if Im coming off as a '*********' because I dont buy into the 'v8 or nothing **********' going on around here but thats just my opinion. Not every prerunner, offroad vehicle, or heavy use vehicle is a v8 simple as that.
Throw the right reliability, engineering, hp/tq, and driver into an offroad vehicle and you can tackle a lot of gnarly shit no matter what the engine choice is. Im a firm believer that technology is a replacement for displacement and that the ttv6 does not neuter the Raptor one bit.
Sorry I do not agree with you.
Technology, superchargers, turbochargers, direct injection, etc., none of these are a replacement for displacement, they are at most displacement simulators, all of these things can be added to any displacement engine, the total maximum power an engine can make is determined by it's block and displacement, adding any of the things mentioned just gets it closer to that theoretical maximum output
Actually:
98 Grand Cherokee Limited 5.9 (ZJ)
Iron rock offroad 3.5" premium lift kit
Iron rock offroad adj. track bar
Iron rock offroad rear track bar drop bracket
16" Black rock steel wheels
31.6" Duratracs
Kolak 3" mandrel bent exhaust headers back
3" high flow cat
Flowmaster 50 series SUV muffler
4" chrome slant cut tip
K&N CAI
NV 249 to NV 242 transfer case swap
Coming soon is getting rid of the mechanical fan to electric rad. fan
2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited 4.7L (wife's ride):
1.5" HD OME lift
K&N CAI
245/70R-17 Duratracs
Its all my wife will let me do to it. Selling when the new Raptor is coming out
2005 Subaru Legacy GT:
Lightweight main pulley
Gutted down pipe
Cobb accessport light stage 1+
AVO Cat back 3"
Nokian WR3G tires
Wife's daily when she has pharmacy rotations. Will be sold for her car of choice when she graduates, most likely an S4.
Selling: (bought cheap and not modded by me)
2003 Wrangler Sport (TJ) 4cy (gutless)
Iron rock offroad 4" short arm kit
33" BFG AT
SYE kit
Smittybuilt SRC front bumper (piece of crap)
Be happy to take any pictures to remove any doubt.
In your earlier quote you stated that 4, 6, and 8 cylinders are all good for Offroad use, but in this one you have stated the 4 cylinder is "gutless", directly contradicting your previous statement and implying you yourself don't believe what you spout on the internet
Just my .2 cents.. Were all bitching about the new EB motor replacing the V8.. but lets be honest. Who the **** wouldn't buy the new raptor even with that motor. Im a hard core V8 guy myself and the EB wouldn't stop me from buying it. You can always do an engine swap with something sexier.. end rant. start complaints.
Not a complaint, just stating it's going to be much easier to do a suspension swap to put the new suspension on the old raptor than to do an engine swap and put the old engine into the new raptor
