Baxter Performance Cartridge To Spin-On Adapter
Cold starts are hard on your engine, Baxter Performance offers an oil filter adapter to keep your engine lubricated and extend your vehicle’s service life.
Performance
If it makes you go faster, stop shorter, or corner sharper you will find it here.
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Review – B2 Fabrication Gladiator Exhaust
Choosing an exhaust for your vehicle can be exhausting! So many options for sound, materials, and routing a person can go crazy. Instead of making it easier, I am going to add another choice to the mix with a 3 pack of exhaust options from B2 Fabrication.
Power Adders – Turbo or Supercharged Wrangler?
Unlike the CJ, YJ, and even the TJ swapping the motor in the new JK/JL platforms isn’t as simple or cheap as it used to be. Supercharging and turbocharging offer similar performance to a V8 for less money.
Unleashing The Power Within – PCM Tuning
June 17th, 2020 we unlocked the PCM in our Jeep Wrangler JL. Since then we have made some changes to the tune trying to unlock more performance. This is our first update in that progress.
Hooker Blackheart Exhaust For The JL Wrangler – Revisited
At the end of last year, we published our initial review of the Hooker Blackheart exhaust system for the JL Wrangler. At the time it had only been on the Jeep for a brief period and I feel like it’s time for a long term follow up.
Stay Tuned As We Get Ready to Tune Our JL
After reviewing several ways to change tire size, gear ratios, and even transfer case ratios its time to step it up a notch. I did something similar with the JK I had and you can go back and read about that here – ECU Tuning our JK.
How Much Performance Was A Gear Swap Worth?
In the last article “Gear Swap – From Turtle to Faster Turtle” I broke down some of the “why” a gear swap makes sense.
Make Your Jeep Moan – Hooker Blackheart Exhaust
Adding performance to a Jeep Wrangler is a series of tiny steps. Each upgrade adds a small amount of positive gain until eventually, you meet your goal. Adding the Hooker Blackheart exhaust is a perfect example of small gains with other benefits. (This kit fits both 2 and 4 door JL Wranglers.)
Bolt-On Power – Holley iNTECH Intake – JL Wrangler
Cold air intakes and the amount of power they do or don’t make have been the subject of many arguments. Some people swear they add horsepower, and others say they are modern-day snake oil.
Jeep JL Programmer – Tazer JL Review
There are several different ways to update the computer in the JL for new tires, gear changes, and even to change the status of the sway-bar.
Performance Gains with an Electric Fan
Your fan isn’t often a part you think about when you’re looking for bolt-on performance parts, in fact it rarely comes to mind at all until you have a cooling or space/fitment issue. Recently though I had the opportunity to test a Jeep Wrangler before and after replacing the stock mechanical fan with an electric…
No Regrets Jeep Upgrades
A question we see asked often, on discussion groups and Facebook, centers around the modifications you have done to your vehicle you regret most. Instead of focusing on the negative today I want to touch on the upgrades that we have done to the 4WAAM Jeep that we absolutely have no regrets about.
Brakes – Why Bigger is Better
Almost everyone understands that brakes are necessary to safely drive a motorized vehicle. Hopefully most people understand that the brakes that come from the factory on your vehicle are more than adequate for your vehicle as long as you stay within the manufacturers stated ratings for weight, tire size, and towing.What seems to escape many…
Review – TeraFlex Alpine Arms
Every time someone asks me what lift they should buy, I always ask how often they drive off road. The more road miles you drive the more money you should spend on your lift.
Review – Pypes Performance Exhaust
We just installed our third exhaust system to test and we wanted to take a moment to do a final write up about our Pypes Performance High Ground Clearance (HGC) system.
Upgrades – Dynatrac ProGrip Brakes
A few weeks ago we previewed upgrading your brakes when you add larger tires, more lift, and other parts that make your vehicle weigh more. You can read that article here.
Review – Max Atomizer Fuel Treatment from Royal Purple
Fuel injector cleaners, fuel stabilizers, additives of all kinds are on the market. It is a crowded category that can be hard to muddle through and make choice on what is right for you. Let us help.
ICON Vehicle Dynamics – Install
It was a pretty fortunate week for us here at 4 Wheels. We spent an all nighter Sunday into Monday, and almost Tuesday, to finish up our new suspension and then ran the shakedown 5 hours to Bantam Jeep Festival in Butler PA. The trip was worth it to witness a bit of history.