It's Time to SUPERSIZE Moby - MoTech 6.2L LS Jeep Motor Swap

Canvas JK

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Eddie and Mel are at the SEMA Show this week so probably not much going to happen with Moby until probably after Christmas. Hoping not but that might just be the reality. :mad:
 
bl17z90

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Random thought I had. Will you still be able to use the Superchips Trail Dash that you have for Moby with the new engine?
 
wayoflife

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Canvas JK said:
Eddie and Mel are at the SEMA Show this week so probably not much going to happen with Moby until probably after Christmas. Hoping not but that might just be the reality. :mad:
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Sorry, I just saw this for the first time now. As mentioned, we were at SEMA and so things got put on the back burner. Still, we are close. Exhaust went in but, we didn't like the way it was routed and so we sent it back to have it modified. Also, we are having some problems with the tune - running like crap. Motech is trying to help us resolve it. Hopefully it'll be ready for testing soon.

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Random thought I had. Will you still be able to use the Superchips Trail Dash that you have for Moby with the new engine?
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No. I have asked if I could get it to reprogrammed to work with our new LS but, they didn't recommend it. Fortunately, it will now work on our 2012 so, that's where we will be installing it.
 
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wayoflife said:
No. I have asked if I could get it to reprogrammed to work with our new LS but, they didn't recommend it. Fortunately, it will now work on our 2012 so, that's where we will be installing it.
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Thats a shame. Its a really cool tuner, I love mine. Good news for Rubicat though.
 
gtony12

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we are having some problems with the tune - running like crap. Motech is trying to help us resolve it. Hopefully it'll be ready for testing soon.

Looking forward to see Moby running again, How soon do you think you will be testing him out? please film the test would love to see!
 
JBurnside

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I'm not sure I would like to wait this long to have it done. I mean if it was my only Jeep. They are also having a lot of little issues that I would think Motech would have resolve before releasing a swap kit. Is Eddie and Cindy guinea piggy this for them and us?
 
CJ THAT WENT JK

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JBurnside said:
I'm not sure I would like to wait this long to have it done. I mean if it was my only Jeep. They are also having a lot of little issues that I would think Motech would have resolve before releasing a swap kit. Is Eddie and Cindy guinea piggy this for them and us?
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I am not sure why they are having issues that they are. I have seen alot of Motech kits being done in our area and we are currently putting one in now for a friend. They make excellent kits. Takes a while to get them, but it works out nice.
 
Canvas JK

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CJ THAT WENT JK said:
I am not sure why they are having issues that they are. I have seen alot of Motech kits being done in our area and we are currently putting one in now for a friend. They make excellent kits. Takes a while to get them, but it works out nice.
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Might have something to do with CA emissions maybe. IDK


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wayoflife

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JBurnside said:
I'm not sure I would like to wait this long to have it done. I mean if it was my only Jeep. They are also having a lot of little issues that I would think Motech would have resolve before releasing a swap kit. Is Eddie and Cindy guinea piggy this for them and us?
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Honestly, my patience is running thin and it would have been done a long time ago had it not been for the fact that I do have other Jeeps to play with.

CJ THAT WENT JK said:
I am not sure why they are having issues that they are. I have seen alot of Motech kits being done in our area and we are currently putting one in now for a friend. They make excellent kits. Takes a while to get them, but it works out nice.
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Really? RESQ1 has had nothing but problems, Moochie here on the forum has been working through problem after problem. I can tell you that we've already installed and replaced several revisions of the kit including one that replaced the entire controller and that was even before we got the motor fired up. The craziest things is, we have physically looked under the hood of a couple of other Motech kit JK's including one with a 6.2L and they don't even look like what we have. As of now, the motor starts but runs like crap and goes into limp mode, the temp sensor didn't work and we were told to just cut one of the wires in their wiring harness - seemed crazy but, we did and the temp sensor worked but now the tach has no signal. The wiring under the hood looks like a mess but we're being told to just shove everything back inside the loom and call it a day. At this point and time, we'll be shipping Moby out to Motech and let them figure out the wiring/programming as it appears to be something only they can figure out. An "excellent kit" is one that comes out of a box with numbers and an easy to follow instruction set that tells you to bolt X to Y and plug wire A to B. The only kit that I know to do this is the AEV kit but of course, we wanted to run an LS and this was the best out there. To be fair, we knew we would be running into problems like this when we decided to buy the kit but from the get go, we knew it was more of a "good idea" than a "kit".
 
silverbackjk

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wayoflife said:
Honestly, my patience is running thin and it would have been done a long time ago had it not been for the fact that I do have other Jeeps to play with.



Really? RESQ1 has had nothing but problems, Moochie here on the forum has been working through problem after problem. I can tell you that we've already installed and replaced several revisions of the kit including one that replaced the entire controller and that was even before we got the motor fired up. The craziest things is, we have physically looked under the hood of a couple of other Motech kit JK's including one with a 6.2L and they don't even look like what we have. As of now, the motor starts but runs like crap and goes into limp mode, the temp sensor didn't work and we were told to just cut one of the wires in their wiring harness - seemed crazy but, we did and the temp sensor worked but now the tach has no signal. The wiring under the hood looks like a mess but we're being told to just shove everything back inside the loom and call it a day. At this point and time, we'll be shipping Moby out to Motech and let them figure out the wiring/programming as it appears to be something only they can figure out. An "excellent kit" is one that comes out of a box with numbers and an easy to follow instruction set that tells you to bolt X to Y and plug wire A to B. The only kit that I know to do this is the AEV kit but of course, we wanted to run an LS and this was the best out there. To be fair, we knew we would be running into problems like this when we decided to buy the kit but from the get go, we knew it was more of a "good idea" than a "kit".
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Bummer Eddie:mad: Hope you get it all squared away soon. miss seeing Moby in pics and videos.
 
wayoflife

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silverbackjk said:
Bummer Eddie:mad: Hope you get it all squared away soon. miss seeing Moby in pics and videos.
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I hope so too. Granted, a lot of the down time we've had was due to the transmission and unrelated to the motor swap but, it's almost been a year since we've had him in our hands. :grayno:
 
silverbackjk

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wayoflife said:
I hope so too. Granted, a lot of the down time we've had was due to the transmission and unrelated to the motor swap but, it's almost been a year since we've had him in our hands. :grayno:
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Oh man. I was just hoping to see pics of Moby at the upcoming king of the hammers.(Just me going through Moby withdrawals)Haha :yup:
 
CJ THAT WENT JK

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wayoflife said:
Honestly, my patience is running thin and it would have been done a long time ago had it not been for the fact that I do have other Jeeps to play with.



Really? RESQ1 has had nothing but problems, Moochie here on the forum has been working through problem after problem. I can tell you that we've already installed and replaced several revisions of the kit including one that replaced the entire controller and that was even before we got the motor fired up. The craziest things is, we have physically looked under the hood of a couple of other Motech kit JK's including one with a 6.2L and they don't even look like what we have. As of now, the motor starts but runs like crap and goes into limp mode, the temp sensor didn't work and we were told to just cut one of the wires in their wiring harness - seemed crazy but, we did and the temp sensor worked but now the tach has no signal. The wiring under the hood looks like a mess but we're being told to just shove everything back inside the loom and call it a day. At this point and time, we'll be shipping Moby out to Motech and let them figure out the wiring/programming as it appears to be something only they can figure out. An "excellent kit" is one that comes out of a box with numbers and an easy to follow instruction set that tells you to bolt X to Y and plug wire A to B. The only kit that I know to do this is the AEV kit but of course, we wanted to run an LS and this was the best out there. To be fair, we knew we would be running into problems like this when we decided to buy the kit but from the get go, we knew it was more of a "good idea" than a "kit".
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I agree with you on the Excellent Kit part. Yeah If it was a Kit like AEV you would definitely pay for it. We have a shop north of here that has done multiple Motech builds and they work great. They have done so many of them that's probably why they are not having issues. Hopefully when Motech gets their hands on it, they will get through the issues fast and you will be back behind the wheel again soon and you will look back and say it was all worth it.:thumb:

Here is one I got to take a ride in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPC6tvScXzw Hopefully this will keep your head up.
 
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