1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.9 Limited

[megahurts4]

If anyone has had the experience in a reasonably quick Jeep, it should have been one of these. Stock it goes to 60 in 6.5 seconds, with all wheel drive too. Only ~1400 were built.

Here's a vid of a friend of mine's before he sold it. This vid is right after he put on a Flowmaster muffler, chip, and intake. This has a wicked exhaust note!
http://megahurts4.servebeer.com/jeepfivenine.avi

(Please use save as, my dsl doesn't stream well.)

[nthfinity]

dont see to many vids of the 5.9 jeep... they seem to hold their resale well. somewhere, i got (or had) a video of a 5.9 jeep tieing a comero z28 in the quarter... its been a while, but i think the jeep was ahead by less then a tenth.
thanks!

[sentra_dude]

Cool vid, thanks...hehe.

[zevolv]

yeah they are pretty quick I went up against one in my friends Durango R/T (basically the same truck) and it kept up. They are pretty quick for such a heavy truck.

[Nemisis8u]

dont see to many vids of the 5.9 jeep... they seem to hold their resale well. somewhere, i got (or had) a video of a 5.9 jeep tieing a comero z28 in the quarter... its been a while, but i think the jeep was ahead by less then a tenth.
thanks!

Its spelled Camaro :D , thnx for the vid btw.

[sentra_dude]

They do have a pretty cramped back seat, those Jeeps...especially when you are 6'2", and the Jeep is sliding around everywhere on a wet road...:lol:

[nthfinity]

sentra dood; keep in mind, although it is quick, it is still an suv. i have a 98 jeep zj, and it doesnt slide around on wet, unless rear-wheel alone is engaged, or its snow/ice. the car does have inherent udnersteer when 4 wheel is engaged. being 6'2", ive had no problems in my back seat when letting others drive.... are you taller perhaps, or just 3 other adults in the back? can you fit in a sentra? ive never sat in one, but i know i cant fit in a mitsu eclips... just the spider w/top down.

Its spelled Camaro , thnx for the vid btw

nemisis, ive said it on other strands, and ill say it again. im terrible at spelling. all i truly care about is that i convey the message; which i did.

[novass]

my girlfriend used to have one. it was a pretty quick car and it drove nice too. made for a pretty good sleeper.

[megahurts4]

i have a 98 jeep zj, and it doesnt slide around on wet

That's your Jeep. Trust me, this one DOES slide and nicely at that, if you know what you're doing that is. You cannot floor it otherwise it tries to make up and correct. Perfect throttle placement is the key... and so is a wet road :) .

[BADMIHAI]

That exhaust note was beautiful! AWESOME! Just one question: why in a Jeep?

[hemi_fan]

Yes, that thing did sound amazing. I never knew they made these things! thats pretty awesome, but how would it hang with a Hemi Durango!?!

[zevolv]

Fuck the Hemi it could keep up with the Durango R/T (same Engine 5.9)

[hemi_fan]

the R/T made over 345hp!?! I didnt know that!

[coloradosilver]

That new hemi really isn't that great. It's way to modernized for mommies and everyday driving. They could have built an engine just as powerful (or more powerful) and saved on the cost of adding the hemispherical heads and the selling gimmic "Hemi". It's all about the marketing. Hemi just doesn't mean the same thing it used to.

[sentra_dude]

sentra dood; keep in mind, although it is quick, it is still an suv. i have a 98 jeep zj, and it doesnt slide around on wet, unless rear-wheel alone is engaged, or its snow/ice. the car does have inherent udnersteer when 4 wheel is engaged. being 6'2", ive had no problems in my back seat when letting others drive.... are you taller perhaps, or just 3 other adults in the back? can you fit in a sentra? ive never sat in one, but i know i cant fit in a mitsu eclips... just the spider w/top down.

Its spelled Camaro , thnx for the vid btw

nemisis, ive said it on other strands, and ill say it again. im terrible at spelling. all i truly care about is that i convey the message; which i did.

HAHA, yes this one definitely slides around; when it's wet, when the driver knows what he's doing, and when he's trying to get the tail out :twisted:. I guess 6'2" is probably an understatement...maybe more like 6'3" lol...but the floor seemed close to the bottom of the seats and I guess the front passenger must have had his seat pretty far back when I rode (multiple times).

Ahh, the great sentra, lol...well, in that car the front seat must be almost completely forward if I want to fit comfortably in the back seat. The older, boxier shapes... :roll:

[nthfinity]

i can believe that, mine doesnt produce nearly the same hp.. im only the 4.0L I6.... ill spinn my rears all day dry/wet, but in 4wheel, its just moderately slips. its tons of fun to make it slide sidways. right now we have about 3 feet of snow, so im in rear wheel having fun, or im in 4 wheel, and doing tiff style 360's, and sidways fully controlled for 100 feet. but it snow, not tarmac
id love to drive one sometime

[Garretts_turbo]

very capable vehicles. my mom test drove one before buying a regular grand cherokee with the 4.0 sounds awesome

[i_hate_the_enzo]

no offence, but how is a jeep a muscle car?

[megahurts4]

Ask yourself this question: What is it that makes muscle cars, muscle cars?

[FoxFour]

Ask yourself this question: What is it that makes muscle cars, muscle cars?
I think that the term 'Muscle Car' is open to such a broad interpretation. There are a lot of people that think that only the cars from the 1960's to the early '70's should be considered as such. And then there are people, like me; that think that the cars of the 1980's and today deserve the name. And then when I say that my car ( Mustang) is a modern Muscle car, the argument comes up that my car is a Pony car, not a Muscle Car;etc.

[i_hate_the_enzo]

in my opinion anyway, i think a muscle car should have a V8, or at least an 8 cylinder engine, a 2 door CAR, traditionally an american car, but it doesnt have to be, and of course it has to sound good, because anyone can claim that their camaro is a muscle car, and many of them are, but if it sounds like a cat died in the carborator, it doesnt count to me. so by my description, no jeep i have ever seen is a muscle car, sorry to break it to you, sure its made in america so its american muscle under the hood, dont get me wrong, but its not a muscle car