How did you decide on your engine?

[randyhub]

Like adding an intercooler, like turbo plumbing, like more sensors, like direct injection, like more heat? I beg to differ. These are all extra components and extra points of failure, never mind hybrid components. I am quite happy with a V6 engine with no flux capacitor. The only other option I would respect is diesel.

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[Twisted10]

easy choice w 392

 

[AnnDee4444]

easy choice w 392

If it became available in the 2-door, I would be trading mine in instantly. It will probably never happen though, can't have all those unintentional burnout wheelies.

 

[Remorseless]

Like adding an intercooler, like turbo plumbing, like more sensors, like direct injection, like more heat? I beg to differ. These are all extra components and extra points of failure, never mind hybrid components. I am quite happy with a V6 engine with no flux capacitor. The only other option I would respect is diesel.

I own both and have owned multiple Pentastar variants. The V6 is no simple engine, it's just as modern as the 2.0. It's got more VVT and VVL components than the 2.0, and their accompanying sensors. Water cooled EGR. Plastic oil cooler/filter housing smack bang in the middle of the engine. It runs at pretty much the same operating temperature envelope as the 2.0. Extra timing chains and tensioners. A janky PCV system (the smoke cloud is a dead giveaway that any 3.6 powered Jeep is going up a steep hill...).

I like my 3.6 (and liked my Gen 1 3.6 and the 3.2), but let's not pretend it's something it isn't.

 

[AnnDee4444]

V6 engine with no flux capacitor.

Ironic, given the age of the thread you necroed.

The only simple Jeep V6 was the Dauntless.

 

[Zon]

I think both engines choices are junk. Fact is a Chevy small block would be a great option. Since we are mopar…

FCA should have kept some of the good mopar power units longer.

 

[randyhub]

I get it, just want an engine made in the US as well. Having owned turbos b4 I chose to stay with a tried and true V6, I know little about Italian engineering only that the 3.6 has over a decade under it. So each to their, neither one of us are going to change each other's mind. All I know is the 3.6 is preferred by many around me.

 

[Twisted10]

If it became available in the 2-door, I would be trading mine in instantly. It will probably never happen though, can't have all those unintentional burnout wheelies.

I want a 2dr on 40's w/ a 6.7 cummins w/ a hood stack.

 

[AnnDee4444]

tried and true

Shit this thread is a blast from the past.



I suppose that makes other engines untested and false?

 

[Remorseless]

I get it, just want an engine made in the US as well. Having owned turbos b4 I chose to stay with a tried and true V6, I know little about Italian engineering only that the 3.6 has over a decade under it. So each to their, neither one of us are going to change each other's mind. All I know is the 3.6 is preferred by many around me.

They also make the I4 in the US, as well as Italy.

 

[randyhub]

Shit this thread is a blast from the past.



I suppose that makes other engines untested and false?

Oh man, just be happy with what you chose, going to unsubscibe now, as each to their own.

 

[Remorseless]

Shit this thread is a blast from the past.



I suppose that makes other engines untested and false?

Wonder if that includes the V8? Or is it disqualified because it gets made in Mexico?

 

[Colombian Guy09]

I have a 2021 JLUR 4 door Gecko with the 2.0 engine and I absolutely love it. I had to get it with the 2.0 cause it was someones ordered wrangler from factory but there trade in didn’t go through so the dealer had it for a while just sitting inside the show room. I’m glad I got the 2.0 because I had heard very bad things about the V6 pentestar engine and even my buddy that had a V6 told me it was bad.

 

[AnnDee4444]

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No politics please.

 

[azjl#3]

I just went and did a test drive. I've read nothing but good things about the 2.0L, so it was less about giving me a reason to choose it and more about trying to find a reason NOT to choose it.

The test drive was a blast, it was just as peppy and powerful as I was hoping, and it was $1K less, which allowed me to order other fun stuff.

That's it.

There isca reason they offer it for 1000 less

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