I have spent a lot of hours on this site over the years. My father has an 07 300C SRT8 and thanks to this site we've made it into a pretty tough sleeper. Lately we've been working on my Jeep and even though this is a forum dedicated to the LX platform., I thought I'd share part of our build here.
I'm 40 and my dad is now semi-retired. He works from home and we built his garage so we could spend time in there doing things like this.
This project started over a year ago. Dozens of phone calls to several vendors and lots and lots of research led me to Dave Weber at Modern Muscle PerformanceGroup. I've worked with and bought several things from most all of the vendors in the Hemi community and Dave was the best fit for me. Our goal is a street oriented, driver friendly, powerful machine that can launch hard on the street. We are not interested in any track records. After a lot of discussions, Dave, my dad, and I decided on a 6.1L based stroker with Thitek heads. The actual pistons and pins Dave had in mind didn't exist at this time other than in his head. We had nothing but time and were in no hurry for the engine so we gave him the go ahead to start things rolling. He worked with Mahle over the next couple months and the pistons came to fruition. Dave also worked with ATI to get me a 17% overdrive damper that was lighter weight than the norm.
It was apparent from the beginning that the limiting factor of the engine would be the Magnuson sitting on top. Initially, the plan was to build a bottom end that could support the Maggie maxed out but as things escalated, as things often do, the Maggie became the weak link. Whipple had a new 2.9L twin screw out that would be a better fit but they didn't have one for the WK1 engine configuration. Dave talked us into a Whipple and challenged us to make it work. So that's what we did. We pulled the Maggie off and sold it. Put the Whipple on and redid the fuel system completely for the future goals.
Dave finished up the engine and we received it late in June. We've been sitting on the engine waiting for the winter when we can take the Jeep down for a few months. We've used that time to fine tune the Jeep and get it as ready as possible for the new power plant. I've had a lot of fun driving it and the weather has been unseasonably awesome for the last month so I've been taking advantage of that and been enjoying the Jeep. I expect to take a couple months to tear down the engine and build it back up. I want to redo some custom brackets I've made and that will be time consuming but so much easier with the engine out of the way. Same with the wiring. The stock wiring harness is going on 10 years old and needs a lot of tlc.
6.1L based iron block 405.
The build up.
The heads.
Thitek 100-2125
2.125" hollow stem intake
1.65" exhaust
Beehive
I'm 40 and my dad is now semi-retired. He works from home and we built his garage so we could spend time in there doing things like this.
This project started over a year ago. Dozens of phone calls to several vendors and lots and lots of research led me to Dave Weber at Modern Muscle PerformanceGroup. I've worked with and bought several things from most all of the vendors in the Hemi community and Dave was the best fit for me. Our goal is a street oriented, driver friendly, powerful machine that can launch hard on the street. We are not interested in any track records. After a lot of discussions, Dave, my dad, and I decided on a 6.1L based stroker with Thitek heads. The actual pistons and pins Dave had in mind didn't exist at this time other than in his head. We had nothing but time and were in no hurry for the engine so we gave him the go ahead to start things rolling. He worked with Mahle over the next couple months and the pistons came to fruition. Dave also worked with ATI to get me a 17% overdrive damper that was lighter weight than the norm.
It was apparent from the beginning that the limiting factor of the engine would be the Magnuson sitting on top. Initially, the plan was to build a bottom end that could support the Maggie maxed out but as things escalated, as things often do, the Maggie became the weak link. Whipple had a new 2.9L twin screw out that would be a better fit but they didn't have one for the WK1 engine configuration. Dave talked us into a Whipple and challenged us to make it work. So that's what we did. We pulled the Maggie off and sold it. Put the Whipple on and redid the fuel system completely for the future goals.
Dave finished up the engine and we received it late in June. We've been sitting on the engine waiting for the winter when we can take the Jeep down for a few months. We've used that time to fine tune the Jeep and get it as ready as possible for the new power plant. I've had a lot of fun driving it and the weather has been unseasonably awesome for the last month so I've been taking advantage of that and been enjoying the Jeep. I expect to take a couple months to tear down the engine and build it back up. I want to redo some custom brackets I've made and that will be time consuming but so much easier with the engine out of the way. Same with the wiring. The stock wiring harness is going on 10 years old and needs a lot of tlc.
6.1L based iron block 405.
The build up.
The heads.
Thitek 100-2125
2.125" hollow stem intake
1.65" exhaust
Beehive