Oh. I see what you did there.

Adionik · Post by **Adionik** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 7:38 pm

I changed the tranmission fluid and oil today. Shit was nasty.

yes, turbo is blown. Thank god turbofolds are cheap as shit on SRtforums, ordering a new one as we speak.

It is going to need work, but it is FAR from unsalvageable.

I'm still working on the car so I will post back in a few seconds.

Bought new pads and rotors as well, having friends giving you shit is FTW@!!!!!!!!

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:00 am

Nice! Keep working! Work on getting better pictures too!

Adionik · Post by **Adionik** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 2:51 pm

Yeah got some new pics, I will make a progress log.

I'm a total fucking noob with SRT's.

The turbo was not blown, installing a mopar riceplate tonight and painting the valve cover. Had my friends look over the entire car and things are looking good. (Turbo has no shaft play YAY)

It reminds me of the fast and the furious where he has the wrecked supra

S0 DW S2 injectors
JE Pistons 8.5:1 (.040 ob)
Eagle Rods
Race Ported/Polished Rev Valved Head
BC Stage 3 cams
Fidanza CG
DCR Oil Modifier
Walbro Fuel Pump

Yeah...pretty bad buy for $5,000

rushtom2 · Post by **rushtom2** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 4:47 pm

Thats a slammin' buy for 5000.
What other works needs to be done to bring it fully up to par?

Adionik · Post by **Adionik** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 5:00 pm

Need to connect the surge plate/rice plate and check the headgasket

A $65 DCR 5 layer will probably be my choice if I have to go that route. Getting some smoke from the breather. Might also be the piston rings. I bought the car knowing it was going to need some work.

Oh and the valve cover looks like shit.

Either way if I slammed another $2k into this car it would be very nice...

rushtom2 · Post by **rushtom2** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 5:31 pm

It looks stupid sexy from here. Even at 7k your still paying less than half than what I am paying for mine.

Adionik · Post by **Adionik** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 5:37 pm

Thank you very much!

$5k is nothing...I got $3k from my neon insurance when I crashed so that paid for half of it!

HAH!

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:07 pm

Where are the engine bay shots dammit! LOL

Post by **racer12306** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:20 pm

the .040 over probably makes it the 2.5. its no stroker.

<<<< too lazy to do the math

lilnicko11 · Post by **lilnicko11** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:41 pm

LilSparkPlug wrote:Where are the engine bay shots dammit! LOL

Adionik · Post by **Adionik** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:16 pm

Yeah I will get some, right now it looks like SHIT. A fucking blind retard painted the valve cover. My friend is going to spray it for me, gloss black with red letters. It has a polished intake manifold and needs a cleaaaan. Plus that stock airbox is HIDEOUS

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:24 pm

Yes well post up a before and after shot! Just for the record and such....

And yeah no stroking there.

Adionik · Post by **Adionik** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:27 pm

I'm sorry, like I said i'm very new to this SRT shit. I assumed it was stroked out because I thought that's what it was called when you bored out the cylinders

:O

But yes before/after tonight fa sho

LionheartedSXT · Post by **LionheartedSXT** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:29 pm

Finally some pics of your first neon! Bout time! lol
It does look nice tho. You should of kept that srt turbofold you got for free some time back...at least I think that was you...

Chris's 02 · Post by **Chris's 02** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:36 pm

thats a hell of a car for 5k..good find.....bastard.....

Knight · Post by **Knight** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:39 am

racer12306 wrote:the .040 over probably makes it the 2.5. its no stroker.

<<<< too lazy to do the math

Was gonna say... The only strokers I've seen is a 2.6L stroker . Either way nice buy

Adionik · Post by **Adionik** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:07 am

LionheartedSXT wrote:Finally some pics of your first neon! Bout time! lol
It does look nice tho. You should of kept that srt turbofold you got for free some time back...at least I think that was you...

I know...I never thought I would be getting an SRT

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:47 pm

I'm pretty jealous... that's pretty sweet for 5k... looks like a clean car. well hadn't you told us it looks like a birds nest under the hood anyway. Still, clean. Are there plugs in the trunk, or was it swapped?

Adionik · Post by **Adionik** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:22 pm

Trunk is swapped from a regular neon.

So a part of me is still reppin' the 2.0 LMAO

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:56 pm

nice. I hate plugged trunk lids.

Adionik · Post by **Adionik** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:37 pm

That's how my neon is. I'm getting an SRT spoiler for the SRT though.

For Sparkplug:

My friend is going to pain the valve cover for me. I am not sure what color scheme to go with...was thinking black with red letters? Although now that I see it I might go red with black letters...

LionheartedSXT · Post by **LionheartedSXT** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:20 pm

That is not as bad as you said it was, its just the valve cover that looks crappy...

Adionik · Post by **Adionik** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:31 pm

Yeah you can't really tell, but the manifold is polished. It's also ported on the inside. ^_-

So i'm going to throw some meguiars on it when i'm done with the major shit

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:56 pm

My Advice....

- Hmmm is the car an 03? That PCV valve looks strange.

- You need to get a breather filter from autozone for the intake side, don't attach that to your intake.

- Your vac lines are wrong, the green line shouldn't go to the wastegate if I remember correctly.

- Go to the dealership...now...and get a heatshield for that manifold. They are seriously like 8 bucks. You need ones.

- Get a plugwire heatshield too.

- That catch can is mounted totally tard...fix that. lol

- And where the hell is your vacuum solenoid??? Interesting contraption....very interesting.

What PCM is it running? Stock?

Adionik · Post by **Adionik** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:14 pm

LilSparkPlug wrote:My Advice....

- Hmmm is the car an 03? That PCV valve looks strange.
- You need to get a breather filter from autozone for the intake side, don't attach that to your intake.
- Your vac lines are wrong, the green line shouldn't go to the wastegate if I remember correctly.
- Go to the dealership...now...and get a heatshield for that manifold. They are seriously like 8 bucks. You need ones.
- Get a plugwire heatshield too.
- That catch can is mounted totally tard...fix that. lol
-And where the hell is your vacuum solenoid??? Interesting contraption....very interesting.

What PCM is it running? Stock?

First of all, car is 2003 with stock PCM. (ZOMG STG0 LULZ!) haha

-PCV is different because it's an 03, i'm getting new one at stealership tomorrow.

-The vac line colors mean nothing, they are all wired up the way they should be they're just different colors. My friends gave me all their old stock vac lines so I have like fifty multi-colored lines in my trunk. It's T'd from the TB to the BOV and brake booster I think. (My friend wired it up for me, he's got a 400whp SRT so I think it's right)

What do you suggest for the catch can? It's got a leak on it at the bottom, I need to cap it off.

I am not looking forward to getting a heatshield or putting it on...god

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:23 pm

Okay I figured it was an 03 because of how that PCV valve looked, but wasn't sure. And didn't know what PCM you were running so I had to ask. It doesn't appear that the TIP sensor lines are hooked up, and on a serious note it would be easier for you if the colors were all mated up the way they should be. That way if you were to change things around, you know exactly what the instructions were talking about.

Heatshield isn't bad AT ALL with a close end racheting 10mm wrench. Its wicked easy with one of those bad boys. I tell you, cause I know.

Leak on the PCV line is no bueno, car would idle kinda funny if the leak were serious enough. I'd go with a Greddy, JMB, Bwoody or if you really want to spend some money, an AGP Accumulator.

BTW not doing this to pick on you at all, just trying to help since you said you are an SRT noob. Oh and loosen up the bracket thats holding that A/C hardline, and then push the line downwards. The radiator hose should be on top of the hardline. Looks better that way.

Oh and if you can get your hands on an 04+ valve cover, I would seriously recommend it. The 03 PCV valves are more prone to leaks than the 04 PCV valves are, as they upgraded the design a bit.

Here is what I mean by the Radiator hose/Throttle cable setup:

supertrick_05 · Post by **supertrick_05** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:46 pm

Well I'm glad to hear the turbo isn't blown

Sounds like the car is comin along great! Keep updating this please!

Adionik · Post by **Adionik** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:48 pm

Please don't think of it as picking on me, I need all the suggestions, tips and helps I can get.

Faggots like this can DIAF

You didn't want to spend $5,000 doing a swap because it would be a lot of work and hassle so you spent 5000 on a beat up trashed SRT-4 that will end up being more work and set you back another I'm guessing $5,000. Am I missing something?

But everything else that will help the car works....

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:23 pm

Oh and like in my motor picture, the PCV valve hose should be on the opposite side of the injector wiring harness. Its pulling the harness by being run that way. But it looks like he ran it that way because he didn't have enough 3/8" fuel line for the catch can.

What is the car boosting? Without the tip sensor being hooked up you are running solely off either the wastegate or the boost controller, taking PCM controlled boost out of the equation. Good for someone like me with a Profec, bad if you dont have any thing else to control boost with.

Adionik · Post by **Adionik** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:35 pm

I have on idea what the hell a TIP sensor is...but it's not boosting at all, can't hit 1lb to save my life. I'm thinking maybe there is no clamp on the charge pipe because everything else is zip tied and clamped.