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I just wish it was me having fun in it instead of my son commuting! Time to get my jeep back! 
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I just wish it was me having fun in it instead of my son commuting! Time to get my jeep back! 
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Sure, tire height is 1", but ride height should only be less by 0.5" or so.
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33's? Is your jeep lifited? I don't think 33's will fit on a stock TJ. You may want to ask on the other site we are both on.
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I wouldnt run 33s without a 3" lift
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huh? CTS-V does not have cylinder deactivation. Auto or Manual.
Some people will lose a few miles in manual if they drive accordingly.
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Auto: 12/18/14
Manual: 14/19/16
My manual average is about 16 in normal mixed driving. Auto(torque converter) will always be worse if you drive manual properly
Where did I say anything about cylinder deactivation?
Most people get worse mileage with a stick because they don't know how to use them correctly, and pretend they are driving a race car all the time. With modern automatics that have computer controlled shift points and lock up torque converters, most drivers cannot duplicate the mileage with a manual even though they they have the advantage of no hydraulic pump eating power full time.
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33's? Is your jeep lifited? I don't think 33's will fit on a stock TJ. You may want to ask on the other site we are both on.
2" lift ... and posted "over there" at the same time as here.
the 32"s only rubbed up front in sharp turns ... so thinking the 10.5 width vs the 12.5 width will help with that.
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Where did I say anything about cylinder deactivation?
I can get good gas mileage with my manual, but that's not why I have it. I drive the **** out of it
Which is why you get crap mileage. I know for a fact you can get 21-23 mpg in the Caddie with an automatic around town because I'm not deluded into thinking that I'm in a race with everyone else on the road. When I want to race, I go on the track with a car that costs less than 10% of what the Caddie or Vette costs, go faster, and compete against real drivers who know how to really race. Driving around fast on the streets is for losers with low self esteem or other ego issues. When they step out of the car, the car is often taller than them.
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My Camaro gets 28 or so on the highway. Most people with performance cars don't buy them for fuel economy....
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Which is why you get crap mileage. I know for a fact you can get 21-23 mpg in the Caddie with an automatic around town because I'm not deluded into thinking that I'm in a race with everyone else on the road. When I want to race, I go on the track with a car that costs less than 10% of what the Caddie or Vette costs, go faster, and compete against real drivers who know how to really race. Driving around fast on the streets is for losers with low self esteem or other ego issues. When they step out of the car, the car is often taller than them.
CTS-V Gen 2? around town 21? You are dreaming my friend. And don't bring
Vette into it, Vette gets a lot better mileage because it's a lot lighter. And less powerful(unless it's Z06+)
21 is what you see on highway at about 60mph
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Where did I say anything about cylinder deactivation?
I think I tried to reply to something else at the same time.... Maybe I thought someone things auto is more eco because it has cyl deactivation...
in any case, if you wanted to drive eco, manual is better. definitely in this car. Lock-up is not helping until top gears. Highway mileage would be very similar, but city... I don't think so... if you choose to drive to save gas..
If you don't you can get 7mpg in manual or auto... doesn't matter.
You really need to go into 8-9 gears to beat manual on economy. even with modern torque converters and computers. 15% loss is 15% loss.. it has to be accounted for something
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I'm averaging ~14.6 and have 130hp less and only 300lbs less than a V. Like I said, who gives a crap about fuel economy?
You should.
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All of them have the pentastar 3.6L v6 or the pig 3.8L v6. I got about the same mpg.
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we put 35" tires and a 3" lift on my son's jeep. It has the pentastar v6. It felt fairly peppy with stock tires, but the new rubber definitely bogs down the acceleration. We're getting around 15-16 mpg in the city. Given its aerodynamics, it probably wouldn't change much on the interstate.
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The 4.10 gears from the Rubi are pretty easy to swap in, and help out a LOT.
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I'd not take mine to the drag strip, but it gets off the line well, and pulls the trailer as well as can be expected. for 36" tires and 6" lift kit. What it really hates is a rutted road. where the big trucks have made a hollowed out rut in the lane. it will dive from one side of the rut to the other really quick.
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my son complained about the wider tires following grooves. I told him we could go back to the stock ones, but at age 16, it's all about looks.
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how do they do on the highway? He'll probably end up taking this to college, and I thought that may be too much gear.
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Hey! at 75 it's all about looksmy son complained about the wider tires following grooves. I told him we could go back to the stock ones, but at age 16, it's all about looks.
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AS long as I keep it below 65 I'm good. 70 it is screaming.
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I've probably have the 3.8.
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Fine. Does he have the 3.21s or 3.73s?
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3.8 is 07-11 3.6 is 12-current
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mine is a 07
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I'm not sure, but going to the taller tires, the 4.10 may not be too much gear. I'm going to check on the wrangler forums.
my son complained about the wider tires following grooves. I told him we could go back to the stock ones, but at age 16, it's all about looks.
The only tires I ever liked on a Jeep for the street were the BFG All Terrain Radials.
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the rubis come with 4.10s and 32s with the same trans. With 35s it will have lower RPMs than the stock rubi.
You say that until you do it for a couple years. You literally think about everywhere you go, and how difficult it is to get into that parking lot... and how many speed bumps between you and your destination. It's a huge PITA.
My bad, I thought it did have cylinder deactivation. Most vehicles that come in auto and manual get better mileage in the auto, but I suppose that is because up until a few years ago autos usually had fewer gears than manuals. Like the GTO only had 4 gears in the auto vs 6 in the manual.
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C6? The new C7 Z06/Z07 is a monster
The C7 ZO6/ZO7 is a nice car with ugly tail lights, it does ok for a production car, it is a kitty cat to boost people's egos.
This is a Monster:
You haven't handled a monster until you've handled one on nitromethane. Monster doesn't begin until you have a 1:1 power to weight ratio and a set of tires that will put it all to the ground.
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I like turns. Its easy to go fast in a straight line. The z06 makes porsches look silly.
I've got an '89 Cherokee with 33s on it that has so far powered through everything I've gone over, around, or through, and I paid $3000 to boot. I also get 17mpg.
That's what you need.
That's what you need.
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Well, going fast in any direction isn't particularly easy. Otherwise drag racing wouldn't be much of a sport. It's incredibly difficult to shave off tenths of seconds.
That being said, the Corvette is still hands-down the best bang for the buck you can buy. a $60-70K sports car that will run with $200K+ super cars. the Z06 makes some Porsches look silly. However, a Mustang GT can make a Boxter look silly, but a 911 GT3 will give a Z06 all it can handle. I'd still take the Z06 though, they look flat-out sinister, lol. I like fast in a straight line, but not at the expense of making the hairpin at the end of the road.
Like turns? Then these are monsters:
BTW, if you think it's easy to make 4000+hp go straight for a quarter mile in under 5 seconds, you have never driven a car with even 1000hp.
If all you have ever driven has been production vehicles, you don't know what performance really is, and if you've never taken it to the track, you don't know what it can do or how to make it do it. Driving hard on the street is just an ego boost for losers.
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It's interesting. Anything can be made into a sport because at the limit everything is hard.
Australian Top Gear(yeah.. smh) did a segment at one time(Series 4, Episode 3) about how difficult it is to drag race. Steve Pizzeti(their circuit racer with no experience and no love for drag racing) spent a day learning to drive and getting a race license in a modified dragster.
You can see it on youtube. It took him just a few runs(no experience at all) to get a race license. First 1/4mi run after that...9.28. Apparently that's respectable.
I'm pretty sure that nobody would be able to do the same in a circuit race car.
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Manuals are more fun and in the good ol' days it was a no brainer to get because they were also more efficient and higher performance compared to the slushboxes of old. Today, though, you lose performance AND efficiency going to manuals. So it's just for fun now.
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But does it have cupholders?