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Jul 15, 2014 | 07:39 AM

#46

XJlimitedx99

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From: Andover, VT

Year: 1999

Model: Cherokee (XJ)

Engine: 4.0 L

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Originally Posted by DenaliRanger1

Wow ya'll drive damn fast! I wen't 75 once in my rig. Fellt like the wind was going to throw me off of the road. Speed limit around here is 35-45 in most places and 50% of the road I'm on are dirt so it's usually more like 10mph. 110? Hard to imagine for a pumpkin on wheels.

I did dumb **** when I was a little younger haha. I wouldn't ever go that fast in a jeep again.

Jul 15, 2014 | 09:56 AM

#47

mdtobe

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From: Chicago

Year: 1998

Model: Cherokee

Engine: 4.0

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Originally Posted by alheim

Quote:

Originally Posted by 99rockies

Dam Ive only hit 95, but on 1 rear shock, no swaybars, and bad control arm bushings.

I don't know if you are my hero, or my worst enemy.

Jul 15, 2014 | 10:26 AM

#48

jon with the jeep

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From: long island NY

Year: 1996

Model: Cherokee

Engine: 4.0 HO

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Originally Posted by BlueXJ

Most will top 100 easily but why would anyone need to push a non-aerodynamic box that fast? You want speed get a Porsche.

I have seen a Jeep with a bumper sticker that said "You may be able to go fast but I can go anywhere". I like that philosophy.

do you live near me? because I have that sticker lol.

Jul 15, 2014 | 11:45 AM

#49

PurpleToxin505

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From: Albuquerque, NM

Year: 1999

Model: Cherokee

Engine: 4.0

When stock I've done at least 115, speedo was way past the 100 mark. But that was down hill floored open highway. Sunday night around 2am, we were leaving a lil midnight muddin trip, and my speedo was reading 95(on 31s now). Once again, downhill and floored but on a empty paved county road.

Jul 16, 2014 | 06:38 PM

#50

Michael952

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From: WV

Year: 98

Model: Cherokee

Engine: 4.0 i6

I've have mine to around 95. I wouldn't push a brick much faster.
I have another vehicle for that

Jul 17, 2014 | 05:13 PM

#51

Kris smith

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From: Ramona ca

Year: 1990

Model: Cherokee

Engine: 4.0

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Originally Posted by F1Addict

I hit 107 (GPS) out in the desert. I don't typically drive that fast but the highway was completely empty and I was already going 85 so in a moment of youthful indiscretion I thought, 'why not?'. With my foot on the floor, we fluctuated between 106 and 107 for about 3 miles of very slight uphill. Even saw 108 (briefly) before dropping down to a more... prudent speed. I hadn't noticed a head wind but when I stopped to change my underwear it felt like it was blowing around 10 mph. That might have been the air rushing back into the big, square, 3-mile-long hole I just punched in the atmosphere behind me, though. Not really sure.

Underwear jokes aside, the experiment was completely drama-free. Besides a lot of wind noise my '89 was rock steady. Of course, I maintain it very well and wouldn't have tried if not for this and the completely empty, smooth highway.

last time i went out through the desert i was hitting 110 in my heep that was a gps reading. stock 4.0 aw4 on 31s with 3.5 lift and no sways. no wind though no hills or any of that. if there was i would have been ****ed. good to know that she has it in her tho. we were about 4k rpm

Jul 17, 2014 | 05:40 PM

#52

SteveMongr

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From: Cape Hatteras, North Carolina

Year: 2000 WJ

Model: Grand Cherokee

Engine: 4.0

I had an XJ with 4.88 gears and heavy 33" tires. Got it up to 70 and it was screaming like a banshee and getting hot..

Jul 17, 2014 | 09:21 PM

#53

F1Addict

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From: SoCal

Year: 1989

Model: Cherokee

Engine: 4.0

This isn't the actual top speed run but this is the road...

http://youtu.be/Spo233ipT24

Mar 3, 2015 | 05:34 PM

#54

brandonxj2001

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Model: Cherokee

2001 cherokee sport

I bought my xj used and put a k&n in box filter on it. That's all I have done and its bone stock besides that, that I know of. I have reached over 125 mph according to my Tom Tom gps. I don't know why it's so fast. My other 92 only got to about 105 or so At almost 5 Grand. This one is at about 3850 rpm when I'm at 120. This is all on a straight stretch of flat highway.

Last edited by brandonxj2001; Mar 3, 2015 at 05:38 PM.

Mar 3, 2015 | 05:56 PM

#55

kgm

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From: Denver

Year: 99

Model: Cherokee

Engine: 4.0

Time machine capable.

Mar 3, 2015 | 07:35 PM

#56

ITTs_Cole

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From: Hagerstown MD

Year: 93

Model: Cherokee

Engine: 4.0 I6 w/Flux Capacitor

red lined the rpms at 125mph... brakes where smoking when i slowed down to the stoplight.

Mar 3, 2015 | 09:00 PM

#57

Marrero_XJ

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Originally Posted by ITTs_Cole

red lined the rpms at 125mph... brakes where smoking when i slowed down to the stoplight.

I got mine up to 125 a few weeks ago! They really shouldn't be able to go that fast, but I'll take it!

Mar 3, 2015 | 09:14 PM

#58

Skb2706

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Year: 2000 SE

Model: Cherokee

Engine: 4.0

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Originally Posted by truckntractorhick

idk i was workin on my jeep xj and was wondering......... whats the top speed of these things? i know it'll prolly be different fer everyone.......

Around 80 No doubt it goes faster but a solid axle, inline 6, 4x4, with aggressive oversize tires, shaped like a shoe box with a nose, geared for off-road, sitting a foot and a half off the pavement, with marginal brakes does not a 100 mph ride make.
My real car does that.

Mar 4, 2015 | 01:48 AM

#59

basegrinder

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From: Cali

Year: 1993

Model: Grand Cherokee

Engine: 5.2

sneaking on to old runway that the local sheriff used as a precision driving course

Nov 14, 2018 | 12:02 PM

#60

Dylan Seifert

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Model: Cherokee (XJ)

Engine: 4.0 inline

top speed

I got mine at least past 100 and she cut power I guess it was maybe 110 or something then everything started to rate and that is when I slammed on the brakes then a **** ton of smoke came pouring out of the engi

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