Re: My new turbo neon.
 

Saw this car the other day down on university and checked it out myself its a pretty good trade and definitely a fuel and turbo upgrade would make it fly. p.s. I am the guy that came over with toua the other day and talked to you about it. I see you have been reading up on SRTforums GL!

, Jeff

Re: My new turbo neon.
 

looks like a fun car

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Thanks Jeff. I remember. I want to see your srt-4 tho.

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No,not this one. You have to see it yourself..hahaha. Plus it's way too low. I will just be plowing the driveway.

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I drove a 3" lowered 1G FWD through the Duluth winters.

Re: My new turbo neon.
 

Haha, Yea, this is my old car... I ran a 12.9 at 117 with this setup and turbo at 17psi and 111 octane at Sabin this summer.

I owned the car for 9 months, I bought it completly stock with a SOHC.

This Neon is actually really clean considering that it is a 97, and considering that it IS a Neon.

Good luck with the Neon Nhia, I hope it treats you well.

Re: My new turbo neon.
 

Here is a list of most of the things done to it.

-Engine
2.0 DOHC
JE pistons 8.5:1 +.20 bore
Eagle H-Beam rods
Mopar OEM bearings
ARP Rod bolts
ARP Head studs
Fel-Pro Permatorque head gasket
Melling oil pump
Ported and polished head
1mm oversized valves
3-angle valve job
SBI rocker/rollers and lifters
Crower valve springs
Crower stage 3 camshafts
Full wire tuck and fuse box relocation
Battery moved to trunk (securley mounted)
PCM Relocate.

-Turbo setup
Stock SRT-4 turbofold
Stock SRT-4 turbo
Stock SRT-4 wastegate
Stock SRT-4 FMIC painted black for the sleeper look
TurboX RFL blow off valve

-Transmission
Clutchmasters stage 4 clutch
Royal Purple Syncromax fluid
Freshly rebuilt transmission (new bearings and all)
Tappered open diff pin

-Suspension
Eibach Prosport springs
Koni shocks
Rear upper strut bar
Stock anti-sway bars

-Exhaust
Full turbo-back, non-restricted, mandrel bent 3" stainless pipe
Apexi n1 muffler, 3" straight through.

-Interior
Custom gauge cluster dual pod
Autometer sport-comp boost and pyrometer (EGT) gauges
AEM wideband
Super short throw shifter
Razo counter weight shift knob
Everything else is stock, and clean

-Exterior
Stock ACR wheels, painted black with polsihed lip
ACR front bumper cover with 95 Honda Civic lip
White eyelids

Re: My new turbo neon.
 

Yeah I will try to bring it next time im around but its nothing crazy.

, Jeff

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Only 17 psi on 111 with a built motor? Why so little boost?

Re: My new turbo neon.
 

Turbo is pretty close to maxed out at that point I believe.

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Yeah, SRT-4's use piss ant little turbos stock just like my WRX, the little TD04 that comes on those is maxed at about 17-18 psi

Re: My new turbo neon.
 

Wow, that's pretty lame. So that brings me to my next question. If you're building an engine, and throwing a turbo on it, why put such a small one on?

Re: My new turbo neon.
 

Yeah I know anything past 16.5psi or so is useless without meth and even then a bigger turbo is where you want to be. Lots of people try to use meth with stock turbo and run just north of 20psi but 50trim is where its at.

, Jeff

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I think the engine was probably from an old car he owned and the SRT parts he, most likey, got for free or uber-cheap since I remember he says he knows many SRT-4 owners up there with big turbo setups.

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Yea, Mike is correct... kind of. I had my HX40 on there for a little while, but I had the srt4 turbo shit just laying around that I got for free from a buddy who went with a bigger setup.

I took the HX off, so it would be nore practical to drive. And I also only had open down pipe exhaust with the HX40...

The reason I hit 17psi max is because the srt turbo is no good after 16.5 really, anyways, so why push a turbo to the point where it's un efficent.

The engine in the Neon is the 2.0 I used in my RS, so I already had al laying around, so why not use it?

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117mph in the 1320 is moving pretty good!

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I noticed in one of the pictures that the TB looked like it had some slack in it, I assume that it still has the hydrolic tensioner in it, I know alot of neon people will use the mechanical one, It might even be an srt one.. Im not too sure i just know that the hydrolic ones suck on neons..

Nice car though, My buddy has a 99 Platinum 4 DR With a built motor, His is a NA setup but it moved pretty good till he spun a rod bearing..

-Stephan

Re: My new turbo neon.
 

Yea, it does still have the hydrolic tensioner.

I havn't heard any updates recently from nhia on my neon that he hasn't yet finished paying for... Guy went awol on me, he still owes me money for the car and until I get the rest of the cash I still have the title in my possesion and in my name... What do you guys think I should do about this?

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Repo it :)

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Yea, I sent nhia another warning email, this is the last one he is getting, if I don't get a response, I will be going down there personally to get it back