5.9zj

are there any concerns with shortening the life of the auto trans with the SC. What is the max HP/TQ rating?

duglas

My 6.1L sounds awesome.... worth the extra money I think..

RIPPMODS

Prospectively speaking your going to have to ultimately decide what makes you happy – regardless of what anyone says the 3.8 is a well built engine and our program over 3 years and 400+ kits has an excellent track record. Probing deep for dirt you’ll find a few blow head gaskets all running black box’s with supplemental injectors and all can be reverse diagnosed to hiccups rather than engine weakness.

That being said our shop JK’s have been put through the ringer – we’ve pumped more boost than we would rather post – but its plenty. With our stage 2 and headers our shop JK running 37’s through an automatic and 5:38 gears lays down 290ft/lbs of torque@2700rpm and 240rear wheel HP at 3300 – is it more/less the HP a 5.7 puts down yes, will you enjoy a one day install and the best gas mileage you’ve ever seen yes… have we been through the engine and feel (with our professional reputation at stake) the engine is solidly built, yes. The heads are a bit on the old side, the cams a bit mild, but the block is a tank, and so is the bottom end. It has Teflon coated pistons and extra oiling on the big end of the rod and metal head gaskets…

At the end of the day we are a solution in a box for half the price – and a quarter of the time – IF we had to play dirty and point out some craziness, one resent client who purchased a GEN2 Stage2 for his 2010 confessed that he had a V8 JK and got into an accident with it, his insurance tried to drop him because the engine was not original equipment, he had to hire a lawyer to get a rather large law suit off his head (that’s scary) in the tem years we’ve been selling SC no one has ever reported something like this.

Disagree – this engine stout

Good points – and fair perspectives

These are all very old threads having to do with our piggy back set up – like we previously posted any issues we have seen can be reverse diagnosed to find the issue.

Correct – with any mod there are risks – there are plenty of 5.7’s with knocks from gummed up oil pick ups – how many – we don’t know, however, the idea is we (RIPP) did not set up this kit to extract every last HP from the engine, we set it up to get usable power throughout the powerband. We take the responsibility of supercharging a Jeepers vehicle – You guys are out doors men, you’ll drive miles from home to go miles into the woods, the last thing we want to do in ruin your weekend searching for 10 extra hp or an oversight. Instead we took volumetric’s into account and let the air do the work more like a light pressure turbo – Most of the time you’ll be running 2-6psi and ultimately when your looking for more stretch out the RPM’s and get a little more…

Bottom line, RIPP has done everything in its power to be the best power option on the market – factoring in the extra work and capital for a V8, we don’t feel we are a second choice, we feel we are the first and the variable in the swap (its ballsy but then again it’s a ballsy business).

RIPPTECH

jk0311

Without fail, and as always, I now feel like a genius for listening to RIPPTECH. Every time you post makes me wish I could convince the wifey to drop the cash on one of your SC's... Maybe tax time.