I've been lurking on here for a few months whilst I've been completing phase 1 of my project car, which is not an SRT..... yet. The project car is a '71 Chrysler Sunbeam Alpine GT that I've customized. I'm an old skool Mopar fan and the theme of the project was to build a custom that has old skool muscle car styling but is right hand drive (cos I'm a limey), and is small enough to navigate the narrow twisty turny roads we have over here. Most importantly it has to be practical enough to be a daily driver when it's done. No room for trailer queen's around here.
Although it's possible to put a V8 under the hood, you have to move the battery to the trunk, chop the bulkhead and throw the heater unit into the scrap skip to make it fit. The car was designed to be a 4 pot and this is England where a daily driver without a heater would be a crazy idea. So I've decided to keep the heater and put in a cloned SRT4 engine instead.
Chrysler didn't make the SRT4 or the PT Turbo in right hand drive, so I'm going to have to rebuild a n/a 2.4 engine out of a PT (only got 2.0 L Neons over here). Got a couple of thousand bucks to spend on the engine, so I'm hoping I can source everything I need to squeeze 250 stampeding horses under the hood. The car weighs around 650lbs less than a Neon, so is no need to go mad with the horses especially as it still has its leaf spring suspension on the rear, so I'm expecting loads of axletramp and wheel spin as it is.
Never built a turbo engine before but I'm hoping you guys will be able to give me the pointers I need along the way. Looking forward to it.
Tim
Although it's possible to put a V8 under the hood, you have to move the battery to the trunk, chop the bulkhead and throw the heater unit into the scrap skip to make it fit. The car was designed to be a 4 pot and this is England where a daily driver without a heater would be a crazy idea. So I've decided to keep the heater and put in a cloned SRT4 engine instead.
Chrysler didn't make the SRT4 or the PT Turbo in right hand drive, so I'm going to have to rebuild a n/a 2.4 engine out of a PT (only got 2.0 L Neons over here). Got a couple of thousand bucks to spend on the engine, so I'm hoping I can source everything I need to squeeze 250 stampeding horses under the hood. The car weighs around 650lbs less than a Neon, so is no need to go mad with the horses especially as it still has its leaf spring suspension on the rear, so I'm expecting loads of axletramp and wheel spin as it is.
Never built a turbo engine before but I'm hoping you guys will be able to give me the pointers I need along the way. Looking forward to it.
Tim