rage's 02SXT
If you belong to the facebook group you probably heard. The neon is limping along barley. First started with a suspected missfire friday. After inspection of the plugs and wires I found oil in the spark plug tubes. A lot in cylindar 2 and 3. I also got an CEL saying missfire in cylinder 2. I changed the plugs and the valve gasket. I was able to almost complete my 80miles round trip commute to work today when the car started skipping again and then on a steep down hill it just shut off on me while i was coasting it in neutral. It would start and then shut off within 10seconds and then it wouldn't start at all. I asked my gf's dad who lived close by to take a look. by the time he got there I was able to run the car again. I drove it to his place and it didn't skip.
I replaced the ignition coil tonight but it kept skipping with no CELs. I drove it home and finally it skipped so bad it threw a CEL (P0340(M) No Cam Signal At PCM No fuel sync
). Looks like its telling me the camshaft position sensor may be the culpret now? I hope so. Updates soon to follow. The other possible culprets are the PCM and or Fuel pump. I already swapped some relays and that didn't change anything. Along with swaping plug wires.
I replaced the ignition coil tonight but it kept skipping with no CELs. I drove it home and finally it skipped so bad it threw a CEL (P0340(M) No Cam Signal At PCM No fuel sync
). Looks like its telling me the camshaft position sensor may be the culpret now? I hope so. Updates soon to follow. The other possible culprets are the PCM and or Fuel pump. I already swapped some relays and that didn't change anything. Along with swaping plug wires.
2002 Neon SXT Sold
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2003 SRT 4 DD
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Glad to hear!
As for the K Frame keep and eye on ebay, there have been several clean SRT-4/neon ones pop up recently for reasonable prices. This is the cheapest one can find right now
K-Frame
As for the K Frame keep and eye on ebay, there have been several clean SRT-4/neon ones pop up recently for reasonable prices. This is the cheapest one can find right now
K-Frame
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You will have to get it from modernperformance.com
he does not have a turbo calibration for the 2.0 neon yet. that's one of his next projects. follow him on facebook his name is Kevin Sykes. lol actually get in touch with him today. he is doing custom calibrations this weekend in texas at the MPX meet!
he does not have a turbo calibration for the 2.0 neon yet. that's one of his next projects. follow him on facebook his name is Kevin Sykes. lol actually get in touch with him today. he is doing custom calibrations this weekend in texas at the MPX meet!
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Kevin At Syked Ecu - that's what he is listed as.7654800neon wrote:I looked on facebook theres like 20 kevin sykes
quicksilver- I believe he posted a calibration vs. a legit afx and his was a little better. As far as AFX, most of them were fake including the one I shelled out $450 for. so am very happy to have the real deal.
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So, since my friend has not come through with painting my SRT this year I am still DDing the neon. Thus a new K-frame and control arms go on this week. Prothane bushings are already installed on my spare arms. I also armour coated them so they won't rust (hopefully).
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2003 SRT 4 DD
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old one out and ready for the junk heap! new hotness SRT 4 03 k-frame in with new control arms and mostly all new bolts. Prothane bushings and new srt4 sway-bar bushings also. Just need an alignment and new coil-overs installed. She's still way out of wack but noticeably different with the new LCA bushings. The energy bushings lasted 80,000 miles!
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those Mopars are INOX metal... whatever the fuck that means... but they are not supposed to corrode and seize up like all the other "cheap" ones do.
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Got ya. Well if/when that happens just yank them and have them sandblasted and powder coated again. My SRT has Mopar coils and is driven in winter and the springs are fine.
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They do ride very nicely for a DD car. I didn't like the dampening/spring match on the BCs. I miss my NEX coils to be honest. They had better handling (higher spring rates) than the Mopar coils but the dampening was adjusted just rite for ride quality.
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2003 SRT 4 DD
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A litttle update. sorry for the dirty car but I was able to finally finish my front lip repair and re-install it. The front lip got torn off in a large puddle last fall, broke in two and i rand over one side. I managed to fiberglass it back together and repaint it. Its now on there good and it ain't coming off! BTW new tires too!
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Thanks shawn!slaw wrote:looks good as always
The hood was sprayed with a base and clear. Transtar base ( a paint shop mixed it and put it in rattle cans for me) and I used Duplicolor Wheel clearcoat.
I used dupilcolor base and duplicolor wheel clearcoat for the front lip.
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ragek23 wrote:Thanks shawn!slaw wrote:looks good as always
The hood was sprayed with a base and clear. Transtar base ( a paint shop mixed it and put it in rattle cans for me) and I used Duplicolor Wheel clearcoat.
I used dupilcolor base and duplicolor wheel clearcoat for the front lip.
Hmm I may have to try that clear coat out. When I painted my lip kit I used the dduplicolor spray can which matches but I couldn't get the duplicolor clear coat to lay on thick enough. Now I do need to Redo my hood so I may try that wheel clear coat and if doesn't lay on thick enough then I'll just have to buy the spray gun stuff. I didn't want to busy out my spray gun but might have too.
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