Who is currently using what header on their 4.0 TJ ? How is it holding up as far as welds cracking and how much "tone " has it added to your exhaust ?
Posts by sandtostand
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We sent my dads 4.8L LS heads to Accurate to get checked for cracks ( we suspected one might be bad) and have new valves and seals installed. Guy said two weeks.... 4 weeks later after repeated calls he says they are done And they are all good. The heads looked exactly the same. Didn’t look cleaned and no sign of dye or anything indicating they were worked on. Installed the heads and just like before within a week or two a cylinder filled with antifreeze the engine hydrolocked and bent a rod. I’m glad you found someone else as I would never use those d-bags again.
Next time we get to MOAB I might be able to keep up with Gavan with my new power plant...lol
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What shop did you ended up going with?
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"The Engine Shop" in , Collingdale PA. The owner Carl is familiar with the 4.0, he asked a lot of questions on how I use the jeep. We decided to go with a performance cam, slightly upgraded pistons and he is going to do some upgrades on the head (valves springs etc) he says I should pick up close to 20 hp over stock as long as I run a 62MM throttle body with a C/A intake.( he did try to talk me into building a stroker) The price was more than fair as compared to all of the crappy reman companies that are out there and he backs his work with a 3 year unlimited mileage
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I'm glad you it worked out good for you, I've a few to many bad experiences with them to try them again. It almost makes me wonder if they didn't just get you a reman engine from there supplier like they were doing years ago.
Thanks for the lead John but I committed to a shop that came highly recommended from several guys that I work with that are into muscle cars . The guy is great to deal with I will post up more once the engine is done. They are going to "hop" it up to get a little more umph out of it and I will probably be doing quite a bit of bolt on upgrades to squeeze every last bit of power out of it too.
Im am not into bisiness bashing but i did speak with Blitz. After talking to a half dozen of the bigger auto repair shops in the kennett area lets just say i decided to go elseware.Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk
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I used Accurate machine https://www.accurate-machine.com/ to do the machine work on mine last year. I got their name from recommendations on this tread:
Looking for a machine shop recommendation
They did excellent work, on time and within budget. He is very familiar with 4.0's.
Thanks for the info. I did find a polace in PA closer to home that was recommended by several co workers that are into muscle cars. Their price was average and the owner knew a good bit about the 4.0.
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message Astape here on the forum. he is probably closer than some of the others that are here.
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Thanks Neil,
Interesting that ATK builds their non baha engine. I researched ATK and they have piss poor reviews. The Baha is 275 HP but needs a chip. Golen will run off of the OEM ECU. Golen emailed me me today Chad said the stroker is rated at 270hp but with a header, cold air intake and a 62mm throttle body it will get 300hp easily. I am $4400.00 away from a stroker -
to be honest if I am going to spend that kind of money I will buy a Golen stroker. I am leaning that direction more and more
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He was honest and fair. Not complaining about the man at all. He definitely had work stacked up. Impressive shop full of race engines waiting to be rebuilt. He had a ton of diesels in for rebuild too.. He said he stopped working on stock engines a couple of years ago and all he works on are performance engines
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Stopped by Miller's today. He was polite but outright said he had no real interest in doing a Jeep engine. If i insisted he do it I would have to wait 5 months or so at a price tag of 3k give or take a little.
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As the title says, I am looking for a local shop to do a complete rebuild of my 4.0. I have checked out most reman companies that are listed online and none of them have any kind of positive customer reviews except for one place in Stevensville MD. I think I would rather keep mine instead of getting stuck with somebody elses junk. southern Chester County, Northern Newcastle or Ceciltucky would work
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ha. I just did the brakes before it was totaled
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Oh ok, I'm in. lets do this we have a title to take back
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the tree huggers are out of control. When I lived near philly we use to drive down the middle of the Schuylkill river on the gravel bars with our pick up trucks. we would go until the water got up to the bottom of the doors then turn around facing upstream and stop.. jump in the bed of the truck fire up the grill and fish for catfish til midnight. The guys with the jet boats didn't like us very much...lol
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Well I am out have fun all
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10. Icky
11. Slimer
12. Kitkat (Slimer's wife)
13. Antnyr
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I totally missed the TJ part of you post....im fried....
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Do you follow the PA/MD/NJ/DE Jeeps Classified group on FB? People post XJ's all the time. Some are stupid overpriced and some need a lot of work but every now and then there's a good one.
I check this on a daily basis. Some of those people are off their rocker... 7-10K for an XJ with 225K plus miles on them. I thought the blue one was going to pan out until he sent pictures of the front end and said it was a farm truck that hasn't been on the road in years
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I have a 98 TJ.
Ha... I was with you when you beat the living piss out of that thing...There is no way possible that jeep can still be road worthy