SRT-4 engine

02SRT-4Swap · Post by **02SRT-4Swap** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:33 pm

hi im new to 2gn.org..... I have just aquired a wrecked SRT-4. it was hit in the back, everything from the fronts seats forward is good. I was wondering if there are any problems i might run into while tryin to swap this into my 02 SXT. (keep in mind it is the whole front clip)

Thanks

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:44 pm

PM evilcreations[ if thats how u spell it] herecently did a SRT swap,

unsuper man · Post by **unsuper man** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:00 pm

yea, sell it, use the money to buy a built 2.0sohc and boost it

boosted 2.0sohc > 2.4dohc

grindpunk16 · Post by **grindpunk16** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:06 pm

unsuper man wrote:yea, sell it, use the money to buy a built 2.0sohc and boost it

boosted 2.0sohc > 2.4dohc

02SRT-4Swap · Post by **02SRT-4Swap** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:20 am

not to offend anyone but you think i should sell the motor, tranny, computer, and harness out of the car that is already boosted and more parts are made for and get a good old 2.0 and use the money to boost that......?

BlackRoseRacing · Post by **BlackRoseRacing** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:00 am

Probably the main reason they said that is due to the complexity of the swap. That or they just want to buy the parts from you

Do your search here in the forums, several have done the swap with success, but cussed the whole way through the project...

oh yeah,
Welcome to 2GN...

eVilcreations · Post by **eVilcreations** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:35 am

There are several determining factors to how hard your swap will be. Currently, is your car ATX, or MTX? If your car is already and MTX with hydro clutch.......the swap is pretty much a direct replacement......just takes time to get everything swapped over. Please feel free to PM me, and I'll do what I can to help you out.

Thanks,
Josh

slowmopar1 · Post by **slowmopar1** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:04 am

After breaking my timing belt this past weekend I've decided to go through with the swap in my 2k neon too. My neon is an ATX but I'm just gonna use a R/T tranny though to avoid the hydro clutch set-up. As far as I can tell that will work.

eVilcreations · Post by **eVilcreations** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:46 am

slowmopar1 wrote:After breaking my timing belt this past weekend I've decided to go through with the swap in my 2k neon too. My neon is an ATX but I'm just gonna use a R/T tranny though to avoid the hydro clutch set-up. As far as I can tell that will work.

As far as I know.....the R/T tranny won't bolt up to the SRT motor.

Josh

rice_eater · Post by **rice_eater** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:17 am

EvilCreations wrote:
slowmopar1 wrote:After breaking my timing belt this past weekend I've decided to go through with the swap in my 2k neon too. My neon is an ATX but I'm just gonna use a R/T tranny though to avoid the hydro clutch set-up. As far as I can tell that will work.
As far as I know.....the R/T tranny won't bolt up to the SRT motor.

Josh

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slowmopar1 · Post by **slowmopar1** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:35 am

Really? I would have thought they used the same bolt pattern and all. Bummer..oh well no biggie gonna be buying a wrecked srt anyway.

rice_eater · Post by **rice_eater** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:44 am

slowmopar1 wrote:Really? I would have thought they used the same bolt pattern and all. Bummer..oh well no biggie gonna be buying a wrecked srt anyway.

hey man, as long as you find out now and dont get stuck when you try it, i think that's all good

Novajoe · Post by **Novajoe** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 3:33 pm

In terms of 1/4 times and such, I have to agree that boosted 2.0>srt 2.4

The srt motor just puts too much tq to the front wheels. One of the main reasons there aren't any srts in the 10s yet is because of traction problems. Go to srtforums and look at some of the faster trap speeds

. Also just about all of the srt's turbo centered aftermarket(about 90%) can be switched to the 2.0 as long as you have the mattdog adapter. I myself plan on putting the agp 50 trim on my car later on once I get my bottom end rebuilt.

However the 2.4 is already a built turboed motor. As long as you aren't going for 9s or 10s or whatever, the the srt setup will be much more manageable.

Dark-one · Post by **Dark-one** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 1:54 am

I say go with the 2.4 there aren't any second gen neons in the 12's except mine but it is 2.4 liter

tamadrumr88 · Post by **tamadrumr88** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 8:50 am

id say keep the engine, but sell off the turbo kit to someone else thats really bent on boosting, replace the stock slugs with some JE 12.5:1 pistons, replace the weak cams with 22's (22's in a 2.4 is like 18's in a 2.0), and the 'usual' LT header, full exhaust, udp, intake, t/b, etc (im not sure though what to do about an ecu, because howell doesnt make a PT "race" ecu... im pretty sure that my AF/X-race from my '01 R/T wouldnt run for a few reasons (mainly 12.5: C/R on pump gas with af/x-race is a disaster waiting to happen, and the srt wiring harness doesnt use the same ecu connectors as reg neons)... but youd have one wicked NA 2.4 DOHC... and youd probably be the ONLY 2g to have a NA 2.4

i really considered this at one point but ill be going off to college and i cant be without a car, or have a wrecked srt4 laying out on my lawn

dinetuner · Post by **dinetuner** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 12:31 pm

tamadrumr88 wrote:id say keep the engine, but sell off the turbo kit to someone else thats really bent on boosting, replace the stock slugs with some JE 12.5:1 pistons, replace the weak cams with 22's (22's in a 2.4 is like 18's in a 2.0), and the 'usual' LT header, full exhaust, udp, intake, t/b, etc (im not sure though what to do about an ecu, because howell doesnt make a PT "race" ecu... im pretty sure that my AF/X-race from my '01 R/T wouldnt run for a few reasons (mainly 12.5: C/R on pump gas with af/x-race is a disaster waiting to happen, and the srt wiring harness doesnt use the same ecu connectors as reg neons)... but youd have one wicked NA 2.4 DOHC... and youd probably be the ONLY 2g to have a NA 2.4

i really considered this at one point but ill be going off to college and i cant be without a car, or have a wrecked srt4 laying out on my lawn

its called megasquirt sounds wicked... but why go throuh the fitment issues without boost? whats your power goal? you could go mid/low 12's on stock turbo ..or are you looking for massive amounts of power?..just wondering..

tamadrumr88 · Post by **tamadrumr88** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 8:46 pm

why do it? because no one else has

... going boost with an srt engine is just "the easy way out" - if everyone did what we already knew worked, neons wouldnt have made it into the 11's and 10's, and we wouldnt have footage of soh-cammers racing (and beating!) ferrari's

we need more people like xonn and jeff b that are willing to try things out for themselves on their own budget

that, and i think the turbo 2.4 makes TOO much torque and weighs too much... i think an NA 2.4 would make a much more balanced car

and you cant beat the unmistakable sound of a cammed up engine

refect · Post by **refect** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:39 pm

why not just get a 2.4 stratus motor and do that instead of getting a srt4 one and making it n/a?

J-Villa · Post by **J-Villa** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 11:26 pm

refect wrote:why not just get a 2.4 stratus motor and do that instead of getting a srt4 one and making it n/a?

scneonchic · Post by **scneonchic** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 11:36 pm

I thought I read about someone doing that (the 2.4 stratus engine) over on the other.org fairly recently...couldve been somewhere else though

refect · Post by **refect** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:20 am

i got a friend with a 1st gen dohc and put the srt4 turbo setup on it since they bolt up directly to those motors. last i talked to him he had a 2.4 stratus motor that he was building and getting ready to put in his 1st gen and swap all his srt4 stuff onto that. ive read of a couple of people doin the 2.4 stratus swap though. supposivly it snot too bad of a swap. dont know much more about it though :\ also didnt back in the day. in the long long ago. didnt they have 2.4L turbo stratus's over in mexico only or somethin?

Post by **jonnymopar** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:48 pm

Yeah they had the 2.4 turbo Stratus south of the border starting in either 2001 or 2002. They got that instead of the 2.7L V6

The pistons are actually a little different design than the SRT pistons, but I'm not sure how hard they are to get in the US.

Honestly, my opinion, unless you've got a buttload of money to spend, or you're hell-bent on having one of the fastest, most original cars on here, save alot of cash and grief by just using the 2.4L setup. As far as it being the "easy way",

for alot of people, it's also the "logical and practical way". I just can't imagine that selling off all the 2.4L turbo parts would actually fund a decent 2.0 turbo setup. Also, not sure who said that the Neon trans won't bolt up to the 2.4, but I am almost dead sure that they will.

Don't get me wrong, I'll sure as hell buy some 2.4 parts from you if you decide to get rid of everything, but, depending on your speed goals, my opinion is use it. You've already got it.