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Old Mar 24, 2009 | 10:58 PM
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I now live in farm country and dont have to smog! Is there some easy possibly free things to do to get more power out of my 96 Cherokee Classic!
Also I keep loosing my dome light at the fuse plus my blinkers and tail lights flicker when in use and sometimes pops the fuse too??? Anyone been there?
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Old Mar 25, 2009 | 08:00 AM
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you could bore your throttle body out and get some kinda different intake. everyone will tell you TB spacers are just fancy paper weights and chips are a waste. look into some kinda high flow cat and cat back exhaust.
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Old Mar 25, 2009 | 08:17 AM
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do the basic intake and exhaust, either bore out ur tb or buy one thats been bored, if i remember someone seels this for ur year with a chip, i think bu thats like 300 bucks, but other that that there aint much choice on power gains, other than a super charger or turbo if u wanna get exotic
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Old Mar 25, 2009 | 06:42 PM
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get rid of your cat and open your intake. and if your running larger tires, then re-gear.
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Old Mar 25, 2009 | 06:45 PM
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dont get rid of your cat, even if you dont have smog inspection, its still bad for the enviroment, just buy a high flow cat...
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Old Mar 25, 2009 | 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Long Island XJ
get rid of your cat and open your intake...
Prepare to get flamed in 4.....3....2.....
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Old Mar 25, 2009 | 07:15 PM
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ok the fact remains that there is alot of controversy about power mods on the 4.0. I personally knocked out my cat and put some spark arrestors in so as not to catch the forest on fire, just in case. and i get a little more power out of it. Its free and it takes 30 minutes. I dont know how much a chip would do, especially being so pricey. I know they kick ***** on deisels but on gas engines I've never seen one so i dont know. What I have seen and know is a guy who took a turbo charger out of a pt cruiser and modified his ride to take it. It's a small turbo charger so there isn't much turbo lag. Alot of what you can do depends on what you are going to be doing with it. If you like mud bogging and high rpm's then the turbo charger is the way to go. If you are more partial to the rocks like myself then you want all the low end response you can get, in which you can add displacement. There are alot of modifications out there just too much controversy on which works
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Old Mar 25, 2009 | 07:23 PM
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please dont get into the cat no cat fight, people are way to much of tree huggers around here and gassers like me, we just dont agree on this subject
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Old Mar 25, 2009 | 07:25 PM
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alright i agree
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Old Mar 25, 2009 | 07:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Venumb
Prepare to get flamed in 4.....3....2.....
is no cats a touchy subject around here?
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Old Mar 25, 2009 | 07:57 PM
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no cat ...............i like cats they make great hood ornatments or bumper decoration
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Old Mar 25, 2009 | 07:58 PM
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extrememly!! so if ur gonna pull urs off, dont say anythin lol
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Old Mar 25, 2009 | 08:06 PM
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I have no cat on mine and flowmaster muffler and passed the smog test in OHIO! True story. SO what does that mean?
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Old Mar 25, 2009 | 08:34 PM
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i am currently running a high flow cat from magna flow.
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Old Mar 25, 2009 | 08:48 PM
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So yeah the thread was about more power for cheap not high flow cats or anthing like that...

Do a new intake for cheap its maybe 30 bucks for a cone filter and some PVC pipe.

As for just anthing else other than the exhuast i cant think of anything. maybe larger injectors but they would cost some cash
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