<By the way George, Wheres your car? What's it have and how is it doing?>

I sold my 97 talon. I picked up a 92 Talon AWD 6/4. It has 9:1 wiesco pistons, eagle rods. It has 1500 miles on the rebuild. I'm in the process of putting FMIC, alky inj, 660's, extrude honed intake with a PTE 50trim. 3inch custom exhaust. Maft keydiver chip. Pretty much same setup as the 97.
<And my technical worth quote was not geared towards you George, so good job for thinking something was intended for you and getting offended when it wasn't even meant for you and it was quoted about someone else totally different. And if what you said about Daddys buying stuff and fixing it was a stab towards me, you could not be any farther then from the truth.>
My apologies.

I liked the 2.3 on the highway too. When your cruising in 5th at 80mph at 3300rpm at 18% throttle and push it to 50% throttle, your instantly at 20+ psi and at 110 in a blink of an eye. Where as with the 2.0 I had a tendancy to downshift to 4th to get past the lag.

In order to get benefit of the high rpm output in the 2.0 you would need a lot of supporting mods. Big Cams big head porting with bigger valves bigger turbo and all that would seem to make it not as enjoyable as a daily driver. That would be my opinion. But you know what they say about opinions.