I would also take to task the reliability of the Jeep 4.0 (or is it 4.2?). My
wife has
one in her 97 Wrangler Sahara. At only 27Kmiles on the first engine, it blew
the
bottom end out while she was on a trip. Chrysler replaced it w/o a word (and
never
would tell us exactly what happened), but it took them two weeks to do it...and
this was
all out of town. The second engine is up to 53K miles and is ok, but it does
tend to
run lower on oil pressure than I am happy with per my GM based prejudices.
Checking
into all this, I've since heard that these engines have reliability problems
exactly
along these lines.
However, I thought that the original question was more along the lines of
swapping an
EFI system from an engine of the approximate displacement to one of the
original style
engines instead of a complete engine swap. Somewhere I ran across a web site
for a
company that did just that, and they would convert period type multiple carb
setups or
port injection manifolds per what ever you want...$$$, of course. I've lost
track of
the site but you could find it again by searching out do-it-yourself FI and
checking the
links.
Mark Noakes
Miq Millman wrote:
>
> mark says:
> >
> > sac autorama-local yard had a 4.2 with tranny and computer and everything to
> > install it except gas tank-5000$ and that one only had 650 miles.
> > mark
>
> Guys, guys, guys. You are looking at the wrong inline-6 engines here.
>
> Speaking from the experiance of driving a Jeep with the 4.2 for 90k miles,
> and an old BMW with a 3.5l for 12k miles, you don't want to go with the
> iron cast behemoth from AMC lineage.
>
> Clearly the swap to do is a BMW M30. Put a pair of turbos on it and you
> can have 400+ horses.
>
> As long as you are going to swap engines to something non GM, might as well
> make it interesting.
>
>
>
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