Holy shit Dude. That totally sucks.

Thanks for posting this review for the rest of us.

I was seriously considering one for my '10 Rubi, but not any more!

 

yeah sorry to hear the news... Ive had one for many miles and hopefully many more.. seems like a great system ... but too bad about the head gasket.. now i might be parniod..

 

I am kind of confused with the break in period with your new centri unit. Why didn't the place that did the install for you dyno tune it, or at least street tune the centri/meth kit for you. I do not know a lot about Jk's yet, but I have had a modded street car(cobra). If some installer told me to just let my pcm relearn itself I would of been out of there so fast my shoes would of left rubber. Can you explain the Learning process. I know pcm can account for minor changes in air and fuel but for a centri kit thats alot of change.

 

Yeah you can ignore my post above. Sorry to hear that man.

 

wow that sucks about your head gasket

 

i wonder how this system would work with Canadian weather and ripp i read some where you guys have a 2nd and 3rd stages for this set up is that true?

 

Damn!

You guys are killing me. I have a kit sitting in the box which I had intended to have installed just as soon as I could find someone in Florida that could do the work - right that it, but this is starting to make me skiddish.

I don't want to spend my time fixing, adjusting, worrying about my SC. I am starting to think I should sell it and just be happy at the end of the line of traffic.

Dang It

 

if i were you i would go ahead and install it .. Ive had one for awhile with no major problems.. just some small weird things once in awhile .. but nothing major for me .. and i am happy with it.. gives me the extra power i was looking for. i would just make sure you get a qualified installer.. did you check with ripp and see who they recommend in Florida? but i wouldn't worry just make sure its setup correctly and you should be fine.. but yeah i guess they might be coming out with one that dosent use the black box. which from what people are saying might be a better option. i think since you already have it install it and have fun... i do enjoy driving with mine..

 

Is the problem with the AEV hood because it allows water to be dropped in on the motor? I have heard conflicting stories. I was told that so I really don't know. Thanks.

 

(Joeblob) That’s exactly the back up info we wanted to hear – its water not air – When you wash your truck the water scaling down from the pitch of the vent dumps directly onto the supplemental injectors… It puddles in the injector clips and creates a resistance – when wet the injector may fire in an off pattern or not at all causing lean condition. You saying my truck acts funny when wet further solidifies the theory and proves it real. As you and your tuner expressed there are limits to the tuning on a JK -and our kits run anything but lean - So considering we've been successful in running 12-15psi through the 3.8 we don't think this is a pressure or tuning issue, we're leaning towards an outside variable, in this case the injectors not firing do to a short.

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https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/show...highlight=RIPP

Again, we can’t stress enough that – in our opinion, the only way your going to have any issue with head gaskets is running lean…the only way you can run lean is if something is hooked up wrong or not working and the JK will do a decent enough job telling you there’s a issue. By way of example it will throw more frequent TRD’s lights or Ceck Engine lights. We are extremely thorough in our information and would hate to have you think you would jeopardize your engines integrity… That’s why we did the 33000 miles of testing before launching our system into market – and also why we’ve sold 360+ kits since 2008 with many reliable miles behind them.

This is a fair and valid question and we can briefly explain it to you… Our system does not – reflash the ECU or force the ECU into a state it’s not ready to deal with – instead we use a piggy-back that “translates” the language of boost to the ECU through deflective tuning – the stock ECU and our Unit will in fact mesh and work together – Its for this reason the ECU will pull timing and keep the engine safe under all conditions… our position here (and Joeblob backing the theory up) is Sahara Black’s injectors were not firing under boosted conditions – the ECU can only supply “so much” fuel through the primary injection or pull so much timing, we suspect he’s been running without supplemental injectors for an extended period of time as a result of having the AEV Vented hood in place… please see link. We contend based on solid info from a valid dealer/installer of ours that water being washed directly onto the supplied injectors can short out or oxidize them causing the a lean situation that could lead to this failure.

https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/show...highlight=RIPP


Thank you for the positive input (which is what we’re used to) I think that this just demonstrates that we know our systems (as a whole) very well. And if something like this should happen there has to be a reason – and based on the input from this community and our relied network of dealers – we at very least have a viable theory… We thank all our clients and dealers for working so closely with RIPP to make us the prime choice in forced induction…

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