Congrats to Charles Blossom

art leong · 09-03-2010, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Moock

What year PT cruiser is Charley racing, They didn`t make PT cruiser turbo convertible until 2005. Tom

Wrong They made them in 2004 All convertibles were turbocharged

bill dedman · 09-03-2010, 07:18 PM

And, shame on me for calling Mr. Blossom's PT Cruiser a Neon... I THINK the Neon's SRT turbo engine is a more powerful version of the OHC Mopar 4-cylinder than what goes (went?) into the PT Cruiser.

Sorry for any confusion....

art leong · 09-03-2010, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by bill dedman

And, shame on me for calling Mr. Blossom's PT Cruiser a Neon... I THINK the Neon's SRT turbo engine is a more powerful version of the OHC Mopar 4-cylinder than what goes (went?) into the PT Cruiser.

Sorry for any confusion....

Different intake manifold

treessavoy · 09-10-2010, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by art leong

Wrong They made them in 2004 All convertibles were turbocharged

Wrong,

Just like all Cruiser's you could get them with or without the turbo. The confusion is that ALL the GT models came with a 220hp turbo motor but you could all Cruiser's with the FI 2.4, 2.4 turbo/180hp or the 2.4 turbo /220hp (gt version) and the SRT Neon was 230hp, I believe.

I was told that all the turbo motors were the same but with different computer parameters.

Girlfriend has a convertible with standard engine and I have the 180hp turbo 4 door. love it by the way!

JimR

Owen S Quirion · 09-10-2010, 07:59 PM

Jim, I looked at the blueprint specs and the two engines are identical from a parts standpoint. If the only difference is the computer and NHRA allows any computer anyway, then the two engines should have the same factored HP. Pretty favorable combo here.

Rob Lloyd · 09-13-2010, 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Owen S Quirion

Jim, I looked at the blueprint specs and the two engines are identical from a parts standpoint. If the only difference is the computer and NHRA allows any computer anyway, then the two engines should have the same factored HP. Pretty favorable combo here.

That's not the only difference. I think the 230hp version was intercooled where the 180hp is not...

09-03-2010, 07:18 PM	#2
bill dedman VIP Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Conway, AR Posts: 1,739 Likes: 0 Liked 6 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Congrats to Charles Blossom And, shame on me for calling Mr. Blossom's PT Cruiser a Neon... I THINK the Neon's SRT turbo engine is a more powerful version of the OHC Mopar 4-cylinder than what goes (went?) into the PT Cruiser. Sorry for any confusion.... __________________ Bill

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Owen S Quirion Junior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Captiol District of New York Posts: 71 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Congrats to Charles Blossom Jim, I looked at the blueprint specs and the two engines are identical from a parts standpoint. If the only difference is the computer and NHRA allows any computer anyway, then the two engines should have the same factored HP. Pretty favorable combo here. __________________ BF/S 1985 Grand Am 3.0 V6