Actually the duster was the naturally aspirated performance version (stripped down) of the sundance, I do have to comment that your opinion is coming from someone that owns more then one French cars????


Seriously, the P bodies had over 600 million invested in design and engineering, 3 times the typical car in the late 80's. and were an excellent platform. the lackluster 2.2 and 2.5 engine and Chryslers complete lack of promotion killed sales. Chrysler was loosing money on every P body ever sold, and therefore used it 1 for a racing platform, and 2 a CAFE lowering device. the neon cost chrysler 1/2 of the P body to build.

there are some tried and true modifications for the TBI cars, cranking up the timing and adding fuel pressure (since they run lean for mileage) a healthy 125 or so horsepower would make a good lemons racer.

there are a bunch of Turbo and V6 versions littering junkyards so to make a Junkyard dog CSX is not hard, or even outside of Lemons budget constaints.

but with the crappy 1980's tires the factory Pbody pulled .80 G's on the skidpad. that number can be close to .9 with good tires. since for some reason Chrysler actually tuned this suspension to work. with some camber and a cheap coil over kit. I'm guessing a near 1G car can be put together on the cheap.


The Straight four was derived from the old slant six. and except for crappy head gaskets (you bmw fans are familiar with this) it's a stout package but with modern gasket materials this can be solved.

The CSX is a little snot rocket, so all that Carrol Shelby engineering is availble at near ZERO cost.