Reread my post. I never referred the Pentastar has a sports car motor. I was referring to motors found in sports cars typically make their peak power in the high rpm range. With this being said, the motor makes better sense in a sporty car than an off road vehicle.
In third gear my Max Tow automatic has lots of power too. But then the RPM's are up high.
How much off-roading have you done in the Pentastar-powered Gladiator? Because I've done quite a bit and at no point have I thought it was a problem. Does the diesel do better from a dead-stop? Sure. Does that mean the V6 is a problem? No. You simply manage them differently.
Very little in my Gladiator. I did quite a bit in my JLR. The motor is not an issue off road, but a majority of buyers, including those who take their Jeep off road use it primarily on paved roads. This is where the motor is an issue. I let my wife drive my Mojave last week. She hopped out of it and laughed. She said it is one of the slowest vehicles she has ever driven.
So it's perfectly fine then, right? I'm getting confused here...
Seriously? It's a damned TRUCK. Not a car. It's more snappy than my Silverado or F250 ever were.
Of course its used in just about everything. But I was just trying to convey that it would actually make a great sports car engine because of its willingness to rev. And the fact that it sounds GREAT.
The funny thing is that many young kids never lived in an era of 130 hp V8 sedans or 210 hp Corvettes. The bad old days. Ha. No perspective.
I can tell. It’s a fine motor for a sedan. It doesn’t do well carrying two and half tons around.
Ah, the 70s-80s. Detune, lean things out (set idle mixture by how much the RPM drops as you turn the mixture screws in), back timing off, A.I.R. systems, lower compression..............
Then neither does any mid-size truck, as the engine specs are very comparable across them and all make their torque numbers in the 4,000's. The Jeep isn't some forgotten stepchild with an underperforming engine, it's right on par with everything else. You bought a mid-size truck with a mid-size engine. One that performs quite well in fact. If you don't understand the market segment, or don't know how this engine is designed to perform, then of course you'll feel it's lacking. That isn't the engine's fault though. As others have said, you need to be willing to let it rev to power to get that power, just like the other gassers.
How high? I can get my rpm to hang near 2800-2900 rpm in 3rd gear going up a hill without crossing that 3k threshold.
I have 4.10 gears, so the revs will be higher. Also depends on the size of the hill and how much I want to mash the throttle.
I hope my truck is not damned.
There's the answer - comparing to supercharged vehicle or "cars".
