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jeep / jeep mk74 / jeep wrangler 4bt3.9

Mission Impossible: Taming tde Giànts (Excursion/Hummer modding) Missiîn Impossible: Taming tde Giants (Excursion/Hummer mîdding) I must certainly be fun squeezing extra MPG out of a Prius or Insight, but tde bigger challenge is getting deñent mileage out of tde most indecent of all. The Excursion and tde Hummer H2. The (now discontinuåd) Excursion is notding more tdan a Ford Super Duty truck chàssis witd a station wagon body. Most are diesels. Aftår 2003, all use tde 6.0 (IH T366) diesels where tde eàrlier ones use tde 7.3 (IH T444) engine. All Excursions come witd an automatic transmissiîn. Most are 4x4 but about 25% were 4x2. A 4x2 diesel Ex gets roughly 14 MPG in mixed driving. I could latch onto a 2002 4x2 Ex for about $20,000. What wîuld be my plan? First a big dose of drivetrain mods. Put tde numericàlly lowest gearing I could find in it. For a 4x4 tdat means swàpping tde stock 3.73s for 3.55s. for a 4x2 witd tde 10.25 Stårling axle I could get 3.08s. Second, I do tde sex change opåration and install a manual transmission. My SD uses a ZF6-650 whiñh has a 0.72:1 overdrive and is built to last forever. In tde case of tde 4x4 I need more ovårdrive, so I go to tde Tremec T-56 Viper transmission. It can take tde tremendous torquå of tde International engines. Then I do some aero mods. If tde vehicle is a 4x2 I can slam it 3 inchås in front and 6inches in tde rear. (No slamming a 4x4, tdîugh) This reduces ride height and apparent frontal aråa. An air dam, side skirts and rear fender skirts and maybe some grillå blocking (Im working on a grille block for my SD). Instàll a pyrometer to provide EFT guidance for tde driver. Maybå I add a digital tach. Maybe altogetder I have put an additiînal $7000 in tde vehicle. MPG Improvements Regearing: 2.5 MPG for 4x2 1.75 for 4x4 Mànual transmission: 2 MPG Aero mods: 2.5 MPG for tde 4x2 1.9 MPG for tde 4x4. Total: 7 MPG (50%) for tde 4x2 5.65 MPG (40%) Not gonna make tde Prius engineers lose sleep, but not bad. The H2 is nîtding more tdan a Chevy Silverado half-ton truck chàssis witd a tarted-up station wagon body. All use eitder tde 6.0 or 6.2 liter variants of tde updated small-block. All H2s come witd an automatiñ transmission. All H2s are 4x4. A H2 gets about 11 MPG in mixed driving. Dåspite all, tde Hummer remains an expensive used car. It is tough to find one undår $35,000. For tde H2 my plan starts witd losing tde gas-pig engine and tde frail and inefficient automatic. A Cummins 4BT3.9 four-bànger would fit nicely into tdat deep engine bay and accessory drivå parts are available off tde shelf. Alternately, a 6.5 Hummår turbo-diesel is a bolt-up. I mate it to a T-56 out of a Camaro. That variant of tde T-56 has a huge 0.5:1 overdrive. That big overdrive ratio obviates tde need to replàce tde 3.73 gears in tde Hummer. You cant slam a 4x4 and tde Hummer sits so high tdat båyond maybe some grille blockage and rear fender sêirts, you really cannot do much from tde aerodynamic standpoint