I have a 2.5 lift and 35's and average is 16-19 . Not very many people are crazy enough to drive 80 in WV for at least 5 months out of the year unless you want to be plucking a harp and sprouting wings. Mostly People drive 70-75 on out best freeway I-79 when weather is nice.
That's just it - someone has to realize that their speeds just wont' work in many other places. Fine for where they are, but here, it would be automatic license suspension.
Even at 65-70 with 3.5" of lift and 37s it's 14mpg at best. I realize my speed doesn't help, but out here you get pased by semis if you're under 75mph and in AZ half of them are rolling 80+. The lift and tires don't help either. I still argue that more adequate power for my harder than most use wouldn't hurt mpg at all and on roadtrips it would likely help. If that power comes from boost or a v8 swap, either way it's going to downshift less and therefore run lower average rpms in my experience. Obviously when I'm out playing with all of that extra 150 wheel hp the mileage will be crap... but it's already crap if I'm using all 215 wheel hp and spinning the 3.6L up to 6k rpm.
I wasn’t talking about a Jeep. Normal off topic stuff here. I later clarified.
I get better than that dragging my trailer around all weekendThis is driving county roads at 55-65. Fortunately I drive a company car for work so I don't really care but even if I hyper-miled this thing it wouldn't touch 16 mpg.
I wished for another cracked header on my I6 for a motor swap. The 6th one did it and I’m not lyingPersonally, I'd give the supercharger a spin (pun intended) if my goals were same as OP. But the pact I've made with myself is to just accept the Glad for what it is. Warts and all.
UNLESS I'm one of the unlucky few to get the dreaded tick of death. As I have no warranty - at that point it's new engine time. And if I'm shelling out bucks for a new motor - no way I'm putting that ticking time bomb back under the hood.
At that point, AMW will be getting a call.
And I must confess......a part of me is hoping for the tick of death
When mine is paid off, I will put a 5.7 in it. I love the sound of a V-8 and that is the main reason. I know it's immature but I retire in 4 years and it's all up hill from there. Or is it downhill. I don't know but I will have fun either way.
Ok so as you roll to a stop the trans will slowly downshift to 1st, but then you can upshift to 2nd that’s designed for taking off in snow and get a smoother takeoff then just go back to auto, or upshift quickly at 2,000 rpm’s. If I do that I can get 20+ mpg city, depending upon how many red lights. If I need to use half throttle or more an no rpm’s rise, then I’ll downshift as many as it takes to accelerate moderately at 1/3 throttle. This trans works very well, the 8 speed in my Colorado would still downshift too soon and often in manual mode. He Jeeps holds the higher gear till at least 2/3 throttle. Then wow look out! There’s a lot of nice engine noises with reasonable acceleration for such a small engine in a 4,800 lbs brick. Especially compared with the 3.9 Magnum V6, 5 speed I had in my 2003 Dakota 4x4, with 3:98 gearing. That was fine at the time but got only 16-20 mpg. But had decent low rpm torque, for towing. That could hold 55-65 uphill on Rt 80 PA hills in 4th gear at 3,200 rpm, without getting over 198 degrees coolant. While fully loaded to 10,450 lbs CGVW towing a 16’ inclosed UHAUL trailer loaded with 50, 60 lbs knockdown picnic tables, plus 12 more covered in the bed. I’m pretty sure the Gladiator could do the same amount of work, but at a much higher rpm.
