FrankNB
03-17-2009, 06:36 PM
I'm just curious and kind of alarmed at how my Jeep drinks gas. I calculated as low as 5mpg (roughly) on the highway(no OD). Well, basically I have the big tank on a 94 YJ(Wrangler in the US). With bumpers, rock rails, winch, T18a, Dana20 twinned with Teralow, 60 front locked, 8.8 rear with ARB and 3 gal onboard air, 4.56 gears and 5 x 37 inch Interco SSR on Allied steel beadlocks. Bla bla bla.. My point for this showing off is an all out description is that the thing is much heavier than a stock jeep for example.
I rebuilt the 360 about 5 years ago with the Edelbrock intake, TFI upgraded distributer, MSD Offroad box, Summit cam shaft, and turned around Rochester 4bb Q-jet.
What else can I say, I easily overheat. The Q-jet is an 81 model with no electronics (and now manual choke), but designed for EGR which I don't use since my manifold is the non-egr. I have and oxygen sensor and a stoich gauge on the dash and it gives me a lean reading. I haven't tried another gauge or sensor. I've enriched the carb about 10% by switching jets or rods, I forget but I wrote it down somewhere. I have a bigass 4 core rad, an electric fan set as a pusher. Its fine driving at cruise, it's just at low speeds and high rpm that the heat gets harder to manage.
Anyway, my buddy saw that article in the offroad magazine about the Howell unit. He's been kinda hinting me to get it. In the article, you know which one it's in here somewhere, they improved the power and torque a bit but almost double their MPG. And at the same time probably cure any potential problem that my damned egr carb might be causing.
Is that science fiction and should just keep the Q-jet? Here, in Canada with the exchange and all the Howell will cost me 2000$. I don't want to invest that much if I'm not going to recover it in fuel use.
Besides that, it runs alright. Anyway, the baby started crying so gotta to.
I rebuilt the 360 about 5 years ago with the Edelbrock intake, TFI upgraded distributer, MSD Offroad box, Summit cam shaft, and turned around Rochester 4bb Q-jet.
What else can I say, I easily overheat. The Q-jet is an 81 model with no electronics (and now manual choke), but designed for EGR which I don't use since my manifold is the non-egr. I have and oxygen sensor and a stoich gauge on the dash and it gives me a lean reading. I haven't tried another gauge or sensor. I've enriched the carb about 10% by switching jets or rods, I forget but I wrote it down somewhere. I have a bigass 4 core rad, an electric fan set as a pusher. Its fine driving at cruise, it's just at low speeds and high rpm that the heat gets harder to manage.
Anyway, my buddy saw that article in the offroad magazine about the Howell unit. He's been kinda hinting me to get it. In the article, you know which one it's in here somewhere, they improved the power and torque a bit but almost double their MPG. And at the same time probably cure any potential problem that my damned egr carb might be causing.
Is that science fiction and should just keep the Q-jet? Here, in Canada with the exchange and all the Howell will cost me 2000$. I don't want to invest that much if I'm not going to recover it in fuel use.
Besides that, it runs alright. Anyway, the baby started crying so gotta to.