See, now damn, this stupid thing is 4 pgs long. Can't we just drop it??

 

Don't take this shit personally leadfootedfool. There always has to be at least one pre-auto-x event off topic thread (that also does not appear in the auto-x section of the site) where there ends up being a lot of heated discussion and kidding around about who is faster than who.

Its just your luck that your particular war story has become the place for the Saturday event trash-talk-a-thon.

I look forward to seeing you there.

 

Just for that, the neons handing out schoolings all night long free of charge, although i may have to collect some money from all the gawkers to watch my mizadd skizzillss, and bizadd izaass cizarr.

Frankly, i'm gonna put my money on chris (bodyrollin) on this one

 

to tha mutha ship lol

 

hey, that picture is in my signature as i took it.

for anyone who didn't already know, thats my best friend going crazy on a john deere 670. actually, i'm confident the 670 could take a neon in the 1.4 mile.

 

not with him driven

 

That must have been reverse psychology because now I am going to try and tell you otherwise

GLH, and GLHS were Shelby cars. It was Shelby who decided to no longer produce them. Just think about how many new shelby cars there are right now? Only one, and its completely unique to shelby, not a souped up ford or Chrysler.

Secondly these engines even the turbo ones, don't blow head gaskets left and right. If the head and block is true, the bolts are torqued in the right sequence and specs, and a Mopar gasket is used (not Fel Pro stuff), then they should last as long as any other "reliable car". This is proven by many Turbo Dodge owners who run 300+ hp without such failure.

The actual 2.2/2.5 engine design didn't go away until about 94/95. It was in production over a decade in more than several forms including Carbed, TBI, MPI Turbo, SMPI Turbo, and even flex fuel config. Why did they stop producing it then? Probably because by the early 90's everyone else was building sub 2.0L 16 valve 4 cyls for fuel economy, and the design of the 2.2 was starting to age. Just about every company practices this, especially with 4cyls. A company has to always adapt to new technologies, if they want to survive, because new ideas are what sell.

Lastly the Neon SRT-4 powerplant is nothing new, they have been selling cars with this engine for years in other countries, its a stroked Neon engine with a turbo. Its already been tried and tested. And on top of that despite the fact that I am no huge Mercedes fan, their known for quality, and a lot of that has been slowly creeping into Dodges since the 98 takeo....merger

I am not trying to start a fire fight, just felt that I needed to express my opinion and share some of my knowledge in the hopes that someone can take something useful from it. I respect you for expressing your opinion and sharing your experience, even though I may not agree