Nice,Clean and sweet engine bay 1st gen.

Neon4Life · Post by **Neon4Life** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:46 pm

I was out of town earlier today getting an alignment done finally by this performance shop and in their shop they had this nice 1gn neon with the 2.4 swap and custom everything sorta.From what i saw it has a big ass turbo.custom headers..he worked on the head alone for like 2 months. i wasnt able to talk to the guy who built it because he wasnt there but the other fellow adjusting my alignment was telling me about the car. i looked underneath and it had the solid metal bushings on the LCA..so yea its hooked up.

anyways.. i didnt take a picture of the dyno sheet but he showed me it and it had a awesome power curve and it Dynoed in at 609HP.
o yeah and it runs 10Sec flat at the track.
o yeah and its running on MegaSquirt as well.
they also got a Dyno next door wich he told me i could come on by and have a test run and tune whenever i get my stuff together..cause i told him my plans as far and engine mods was concerned.
oo yeah and almost forgot.. its running at 24LBS of boost at the moment..he said something about fixing a fuel problem or something but when they get that adjusted then they are going to turn it up to 30LBS. wich they hope to make like 650HP or so.

OB · Post by OB » Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:48 pm

Awesome

LowNSlow · Post by **LowNSlow** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:54 pm

Custom headers? Oh snap!

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:58 pm

LowNSlow wrote:Custom headers? Oh snap!

This...what's all this talk about headers on a neon?

Neon4Life · Post by **Neon4Life** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:59 pm

LowNSlow wrote:Custom headers? Oh snap!

when i said custom i think i meant to say ive seen them before somewhere on a website and they are like considered stage 3 type headers i think.

but i know the turbo was mounted very low..i wish i woulda tooken a better pic of them.

LilSparkPlug wrote:
LowNSlow wrote:Custom headers? Oh snap!
This...what's all this talk about headers on a neon?

u know what i meant.

and no i dont mean headers as in plural form. exhaust manifold if u wanna call it that..where the turbo sits on.

hybrid-Srt2001 · Post by **hybrid-Srt2001** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:03 pm

think thats mat trips car. he's on the org

k-b-s-neon02 · Post by **k-b-s-neon02** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:28 pm

nice...

Ntyvirus1 · Post by **Ntyvirus1** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:58 pm

ill believe it when i see it, not saying it cant be done but the website plastered on the valve cover links to a honda site.

edit: watched the vids in his progress log holy hell

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:28 pm

Tubular is niiiiceeee

dtjackten · Post by **dtjackten** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:50 pm

hybrid-Srt2001 wrote:think thats mat trips car. he's on the org

^bingo... i remember seeing it over on the org... nasty ass setup...

edit. link for his project log... nasty car..

http://forums.neons.org/viewtopic.php?f ... start=1960

Neon4Life · Post by **Neon4Life** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:07 pm

^^ nice. yep thats him.

his name is Matt Monday.

i wish he woulda been there. coulda asked him some stuff.

TheRandom1 · Post by **TheRandom1** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:16 pm

650 HP? Meh... I could beat that car. (if he blows it up before making it to the starting line)

What's Erick running? Should be a good race, no?

dtjackten · Post by **dtjackten** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:24 pm

i am thinking you are right random1, good race more than likely.... even though i think erick wants to get lower than tens if i remember corectly.. (or that is his goal atleast)

TheRandom1 · Post by **TheRandom1** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:25 pm

Oh I'm pretty sure he's aiming for 9's, I meant with the setup he has currently though.

Fuzzyneon · Post by **Fuzzyneon** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:55 pm

TheRandom1 wrote:650 HP? Meh... I could beat that car. (if he blows it up before making it to the starting line)

What's Erick running? Should be a good race, no?

erik has the driver and tuner mod

INVUJerry · Post by **INVUJerry** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:29 pm

Fuzzyneon wrote:
TheRandom1 wrote:650 HP? Meh... I could beat that car. (if he blows it up before making it to the starting line)

What's Erick running? Should be a good race, no?
erik has the driver and tuner mod

I would say that they are very close.

stdlystdmufn · Post by **stdlystdmufn** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:35 pm

whats the name of the race shop i wanna see it, and im looking for better performance shops.

chipdogg · Post by **chipdogg** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:49 pm

Matt Tripp parted his out long ago, chassis has been passed along 1-2 times since. That's Matt Monday's car. I'm shipping him some koni's to get revalved. I believe he's had the car at the track once this year, 10.37 @ 146 or something.

Ntyvirus1 · Post by **Ntyvirus1** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:15 pm

i tihnk tripp's engine is still for sale.

n20sxt · Post by **n20sxt** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:30 pm

Just spent an hour or so reading his log... that car is amazing

Neon4Life · Post by **Neon4Life** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:42 pm

stdlystdmufn wrote:whats the name of the race shop i wanna see it, and im looking for better performance shops.

oo hey.. its on the south side of Indy.. its called Performance Driven..they do all kinds of work..they only been there like 2.5 years or so.

ill txt u the address in a few if u want me too..or just google it when u get a chance.

n20sxt wrote:Just spent an hour or so reading his log... that car is amazing

im about to read up on it. should be interesting. im just wondering what kinda work it has internally.