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I checked out Jeep speed, reminds me of home, I grew up outside of Barstow. I made a post about limit straps, awhile back. Said most of the damage done to the suspension pieces was over articulation. The differentials getting to far from the body or to far off the center line. The Jeep speed crowd requires, limit straps on all there race participants. Nice to know I wasn´t talking through my exhaust pipe.
WWW.MadXJ.com has a homemade adjustable MAP sensor and many other homemade projects.
That said, I`m gonna advise against, hot rodding a 4.0 much. Most people start the hunt for horses from the top down, on a motor. Most of the people, that have been doing it for awhile, start from the bottom up. The bottom of the 4.0 though paterened after some Dodge motors and designed to function with a lot of wear, are still pretty much engineered, for a lot fewer horses than the produce now. Jacking up the horses is only going to shorten the life of the motor.
There are many homegrown and aftermarket goodies to get a few more horses out of the 4.0. Most of the mods I make are for reliability not horses.
I´m thinking of getting an 88 XJ, one of the first mods. I´m gonna do (even before tires and lift) is a double diaphram brake booster, to get that mother stopped. A lot of races are won by outbraking an opponent (something to think about). Then I´m probably gonna buy a sandwhich type (by the oil filter) motor oil bypass and install a thermoastatically controlled engine oil cooler. Then maybe a transmission oil cooler. Gonna take a close look at the suspension and then maybe add some side guards and skid plates[addsig]