Its official RIPP has a 2014 3.6 Pentastar Grand Cherokee in the shop working on a kit. At the moment we are working on fueling making sure our fuel system carries over from our very popular 2012-2014 Jeep Wrangler program. Once that's done, we will carry over the mean front mounted intercooler from the SRT and the same blower. Put that all together and we should have an awesome little option for the V6 guys.
Below there are few videos of the 3.6 RIPP supercharger on a Wrangler. We think the AWD GC should be very close in power with a larger tire JK becasue with the larger tires and drive train the JK's have a 33.3% drive train loss. The SRT and 5.7 GC by our calculations is about 25-27% AWD... Our target AWD-HP is 340AWD-HP to make it the same power at the wheels as a stock SRT 6.4 or close to it. Price should follow our other kits.
You're aiming for 340 HP AWD, wow! that's really impressive.
How long do you think this will take you to finish and will this be a straight bolt on will some slight modification be need it?
Thanks again for giving us little V6 guys a chance. :thumbsup:
No thank you, we look forward to supplying the community with it. The Wrangler guys are eating it up.
Realistically the we will need a least a month to R&D and the a month to full test, providing all electronic tuning parameters solid. Then a month or so to get product on the shelf. Our goal is a 3.6 GC and Durango by December for a January sale.
All our kits are minimally invasive with not cutting and hacking at the vehicle. They are also fully equipped with all the supporting mods needed to run the vehicle. Preliminary build list looks very much like our Wrangler.
We don't see why not, the trans architecture cannot be weaker than the 42RL found in the 07-11 Wrangler and we've kept those running for years on large tires and very heavy rigs.
Remember, a centrifugal supercharger by nature is a "lazier" compressor, the V3 happens to be a very good balance with respect to quick spool time and full set boost. But still not heavy to hit like a positive displacement compressor (roots or screw type). To that extent the engine and drive-trian are not shocked with power off idle or at any time and inherently less stressful. Instead they deliver a very progressive boost curve which is much more manageable to the entire power plant and from a tuning stand point.
Not to mention to some degree we can shape the power with tuning and always keep the trans integrity, MPG and over all reliability as the governing goal and max power is shaped based on it.
Please filter this through we have sold 1000+ of the 3.6 Pentastar Wrangler kits with positive reviews world wide (literally)
When kits are new we welcome local installs for testing purposes, keep an eye on our threads and social media for info.
Once you start seeing pics of a blower hung on the engine and dyno shots reach out to the shop and see where we stand for on going testers like yourself info.
Just an observation but the W5A580 seems to be able to handle a lot more torque than the 3.6 can put out even boosted.
ps I thought much of the power increase for a boosted engine comes from a bigger chamber (lower compression) allowing a larger charge with the same max cyl pressure. Without that and/or direct injection the max power is going to be limited by detonation.
You are correct that you can obtain more power with low compression by running higher boost. You will still get good power from 5-8 lbs of boost safely with our compression. I am curious to see how much but if the get the 340whp, that would be really good.
You are correct that you can obtain more power with low compression by running higher boost. You will still get good power from 5-8 lbs of boost safely with our compression. I am curious to see how much but if the get the 340whp, that would be really good.
This is awesome guys!! I will definitely be checking back on this in the future! Not a project to be doing right away for me, but maybe a few years down the line.