Donnie_K

I still wanna see a jeep chirp tires shifting up at 80 mph in any gear... dropping it in first and grenading your jeep doesn't count...

McCaffrey

cdhebert

I'll take that bet. 80mph in 5th gear and I can then shift into 3rd gear? I guarantee the tires will chirp. You sir, owe me a Jeep...

PS - Mine is an auto, so I'll need someone to loan me a 5 speed for the demo...

Cherokee_Rebel

does say enough i think.
how fast youre jeep's going? suppose how it's driven in his younger days.
got a 4.0 I6 Low Output and got it in germany once between 180 and 190 km/h. takes time to get it. but i think its supposed were the jeep is sold?
in belgium the limiter is on at 140 km/h for SUV's/Jeep's.
in germany the legal speed is cut off at 250 km/h. faster? cost a lot of money to do that on youre car. other ECU.....

it's not just how fast the jeep's possible go, it's how crazy is the driver to do that.
i did it once, just to know how fast my old XJ really can go. also the first and last time i did that to my jeep also.

weld3z

Last week we did a 800 mile trip ( one way ) around 1700 miles trip + some desert and beach sand .
Was my xj , 1999 limited xj with auto tranz , 1997 zj 5.2 and the 2001 Ho
Every jeep with 3 persons and 3 small bags we was driving 80-90 mph all the way without single problem except for the HO fan ( not a big deal temp rise a bit if stop for long than 3 min )
With this very long trips no one here can drive less than 70 mile because big trucks are driving like 65 here is some pics of the trip

weld3z

yes its in my xj sport easy to install wo temp sensor

Our trip

Greenfishinkayak

Chirping the wrong way... I had a Sebring with a battery terminal that was too talk and could short on the hood. It shuts down everything when it shorts and drops into second (safety) gear. I squealed both front tires at 60mph when it did that.

weld3z

The Ho was the strongest on the streets xj was on sand zj was the most confertable one
Ho was the best mpg zj was the bad on mpg


We did this trip without doing a single service the zj was 7000 miles old oil in it mine was 2400 mile ho was 1200 miles old oil in it all of them did the trip with 80-90 mph

xj_maniac_newb

You've apparently never been going 80 in 3rd gear in a 5 speed. You'd only be hitting like what, 7000 rpms?

austinjoe13

4250 actually stock tires, 3.07 gears, 1.44 3rd gear ratio

cdhebert

I think you misunderstood what I was saying.
If you go from 5th to 3rd at 80, I promise the tires wil chirp. It was a joke. I refuse to use sarcasm smilies so that everybody can get it...

SonicCougar99

Hell, I just turned 27 on Thanksgiving and I am right there with you. I got all my speed out of me when I was 19 and street racing my Cougar 6 nights a week. Did that for a couple years until I almost t-boned someone who pulled out of a side street while I was doing 90mph, and that was the end of that. I've pretty much driven like a freaking grandma ever since (on the street. Working towards road racing with that same Cougar nowadays. That whole time/place argument applies here). What is the point of hauling *** everywhere to save 3 minutes?

I took my Jeep over 90mph ONCE because of a tailgater and had a u-joint cap pop off my front DS. Scared the **** out of me, and also makes me firmly believe that no stock XJ has any business going that fast. Wanna do 100mph? There's PLENTY of cars out there that will get the job done a lot safer. ****, just go buy a 99-02 Cougar with a V6 and 5-speed, and I guarantee 130mph given a nice, long, open road. Do a few mods, and I have no doubt mine would do 150mph. Haven't gone to a track with a long enough straight to try it, and have no desire to try it on a public road.

130mph on a public road in an XJ? No thanks, I'd like to live to be old and senile and yell at you kids to get off my lawn.

Cherokee_Rebel

believe me, i've drove to my grand parrents with my XJ and steady 60 mph, the way back home hit the pedal almost trough the floor just to see how fast my old girl can realy go.
at 60 mph, almost got a few cars in the jeep's tail cause the minimum speed of the most germans they drive is 100 mph. with 180 km/h it looked like i'm standing still cause the most of them drive easy above the 200 km/h marker (limiter at 250 km/h).

weld3z

Our streets at night

xj_maniac_newb

well thats no fun..