A man of questionable intelligence doing precision guesswork

Hi all!

I'm Wreklus.
I joined the Mopar crowd last year when I bought a 2008 Grand Cherokee 5.7L 4x4.
Various reasons for wanting a WK2, but mostly because my Dad had one and we used to beat the hell out of it off road and it never broke in any significant way.
I had project car / daily driver before this that I just couldn't afford to maintain (read: keep breaking with mods that put out more than the transmission could take). I intend to do the same with the jeep once the warranty runs out (about 5k miles from now).

I'll be stalking the forums, looking for any wisdom / experience on the Gen 3 5.7. I'm not going to go too crazy with it because I've spent enough time in a rental Prius as my atonement for breaking the sacred laws of modding already.
But, it will soon be undeniably mine, good, bad or ugly.

Any Gen 3 5.7 tips, warnings, or wisdom welcome!
Author: wreklus