assuming it can go all the way up in the first place

you’re pushing a 2100lb brick through the air with 60hp (if you’re lucky).

Um... I actually get more speeding tickets in manuals, not less.

I try it every day in a 4cyl TJ. Bigger tires without changing the final drive equals a lower top speed because the engine just doesn’t have the guts.

You forgot grip heaters. They make all the difference.

I still think you trying to drive this instead of towing it behind an XJ or your J10 is the worst idea of all time. Putting 31s on this is going to make the top speed be 30 or so, and nevermind the hills you’ll run into in CO or wherever you plan on going through to get to Moab. Please, as someone who loves reading…

bigger tires gear things up... how exactly does that add top speed?

The 9-3 was based on a contemporary other GM product. The 9-2x was a Scoob.

Slight correction: It *had* a top speed of 50mph. He wants to put 31s on it.

except Spaceballs. Your argument is invalid.

I bought a ‘97 TJ last year when someone totalled my E30 and damned if the acronym is right: JEEP= Just Empty Every Pocket. Whether it’s a new soft top, a new muffler, a new cat because of an exhaust leak, a new header to fix the exhaust leak (so pretty much all new exhaust), a new windshield, new shocks, and all of…

Oldest? ‘55 Willys Wagon. 4-speed, former farm truck with a propane conversion and *serious* cooling issues. Not a fun truck in winter, either, thanks to the gas-powered cabin heater.

gold is a fancy word for yellow with glitter in it.

I had an ‘89 S10 Blazer that, after I replaced a faulty windshield wiper motor, would /not/ shut off the wipers in the correct place. If you turned off the switch at *juust* the right time, you could time it so it’d make one more down stroke, start the up stroke and then stop, but if you weren’t initiated, you’d end…

Colorado recently did numerous studies regarding the environmental and collateral automotive damage caused by road salt and found that a solution of MgCl2 is far less destructive to cars, can be a liquid so it doesn’t throw dust everywhere, and is as effective as NaCl at clearing snow (and Coloradans know a thing or…

I’ve got a 98 Legacy wagon with the 2.2 that has 284k miles on it and runs like the day it was made.

I’m a millenial.

except for the fact that you hang out in the passing lane, potentially harming other people. What if the car 4 cars behind you is a fire truck on their way to save a building full of children and they’re held up by the 3 cars behind you trying to pass you for long enough that people die? Think about the…

it’s especially fun when an RV does it without looking where they’re merging on the highway between Green River and Moab on an already windy day when you’re riding a motorcycle you just bought in SLC and are taking home to ABQ.

Because everyone *isn’t* doing the same speed, and just because *you’re* speeding doesn’t mean the person behind you can’t afford a bigger ticket than you. Get the fuck over if there’s no car on your immediate right. It also helps cut down on highway maintenance costs, because road crews don’t have to replace the…