Re: Grand Cherokee gets a diesel

From: Steve Preston (steveophonic@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2007 - 19:30:18 EDT


That's awesome news. I've got one with the 4.0,which
is great,but a diesel at 3.0 liters? Wonder how well
it would do mileage and power wise?

The new 4.7 has me thinking about maybe a future
engine swap,because mileage is supposed to increase as
well,in Daks at least.

Steve P.

--- Terrible Tom <SilverEightynine@aol.com> wrote:

>
> Just read in this months issue of Petersen's 4 Wheel
> - that the GC is in
> production with a 3.0L common rail diesel V6 . No
> numbers on its power
> output - but they are also offering the Jeep with
> the 6.1 L HEMI in the
> SRT version - and the 4.7L got a power boost to
> 322 TQ and 291 HP.
>
> This has me drooling of perspective diesel engine
> swaps heh... I wonder
> how much effort would be involved in retrofitting a
> 3.0 V6 Diesel into a
> Dak :-D
>
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