Best and easiest way to get the Gladiator over 300hp?

[e36racer]

This Holley CAI sure produces some good numbers...

https://www.quadratec.com/p/holley/intech-cold-air-intake-jeep-wrangler-jl-3.6l-223-16

CAI do just about NOTHING for increasing power on a stock motor. That's why it says "up to" 24.86hp increase. So if you have high flowing heads, intake, throttle body and a huge cam, and go from the stock airbox to this CAI kit you might see a 20-25hp gain. On a stock motor, installing a CAI kit might be a 1-2hp increase, AT BEST. CAI kits are a gimmick that should be left in the Honda civic world.

If you realistically want to add power, or at least any significantly noticeable power, bust out your wallet. Horsepower is expensive, and that's a fact. Unfortunately there is now way around it. Well Nitrous is fairly inexpensive, but even then if you want your motor to last you need to do more than just slap a bottle of gas in the trunk with a nozzle in the intake. So a cheap N02 kit ends up being expensive in the long run.

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[MF Comics]

CAI do just about NOTHING for increasing power on a stock motor. That's why it says "up to" 24.86hp increase. So if you have high flowing heads, intake, throttle body and a huge cam, and go from the stock airbox to this CAI kit you might see a 20-25hp gain. On a stock motor, installing a CAI kit might be a 1-2hp increase, AT BEST. CAI kits are a gimmick that should be left in the Honda civic world.

If you realistically want to add power, or at least any significantly noticeable power, bust out your wallet. Horsepower is expensive, and that's a fact. Unfortunately there is now way around it. Well Nitrous is fairly inexpensive, but even then if you want your motor to last you need to do more than just slap a bottle of gas in the trunk with a nozzle in the intake. So a cheap N02 kit ends up being expensive in the long run.

Exactly. If this were turbocharged, you could easily get more power out of it, but NA motors are a different beast, unless they left a lot of power on the table to be played with

CAI's are more "It's your $$$$", since other than sound and a placebo effect, they're not gonna add too much, but honestly could all be worse.

 

[WildJD]

It’s the same 300hp 3.6 V6 Pentastar that’s currently in the 2019 Ram 1500 and the 2019 Dodge Challenger... Challenger lists it as 305hp and 268ft-lbs of torque... don’t know why they list Gladiator (same motor, same 8 speed tranny) as 285hp... 260ft-lbs of torque... (of course I’m sure they’re two different digital tunings), probably tweaking numbers for some Federal regulation, or safety rating... saw a dyno test of Cold Air Intakes... (interestingly, nothing beat the OEM factory intake... probably due to tuning)... but the dyno (on that Gladiator Rubicon), at it’s highest HP, registered between 295 & 305. ;{

 

[trez63]

So has anyone actually tried the RaceChip Pulsar product?

 

[WXman]

It’s the same 300hp 3.6 V6 Pentastar that’s currently in the 2019 Ram 1500 and the 2019 Dodge Challenger... Challenger lists it as 305hp and 268ft-lbs of torque... don’t know why they list Gladiator (same motor, same 8 speed tranny) as 285hp... 260ft-lbs of torque... (of course I’m sure they’re two different digital tunings), probably tweaking numbers for some Federal regulation, or safety rating... saw a dyno test of Cold Air Intakes... (interestingly, nothing beat the OEM factory intake... probably due to tuning)... but the dyno (on that Gladiator Rubicon), at it’s highest HP, registered between 295 & 305. ;{

See post #29

 

[Factoid]

Turbo with a free flowing exhaust (air in/air out) is the cheapest solution. Engine swap is the most expensive, but also the most reliable longer term.

From $5k to $10k for turbo with appropriate exhaust (weak link becomes the tranny and axles)

From $20k (do it yourself) to $35k (6.4L hemi installed) to $60k (6.2L Hellcat hemi with blower installed) including new tranny, radiator, exhaust, etc. (weak link becomes the axles and diffs)

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