[Motorsport-SVX]

Originally posted by Chicane


Nope. The eclipse engine is not the same as the neon engine. While they share the same bore and stroke, the parts do not interchange, and they're completely different engines.

Anyway, my point was is that Mopar and Mitsubishi have 'co-designed' a lot of things over the years... mitsu was big into turbos, hence a lot of older dodge cars had turbos. Dodge Omni GLHS. Shelby Daytona.. Lebaron GTC... Grand Caravan (yes TURBO!), Chrysler has a LOT of turbo knowledge (thanks to mitsu) and if Dayle here is saying the 'srt4' will blow up, he's also saying any turbocharged mitsu is going to blow up. Which is untrue.

- Rob

the Only car worth mentioning in that group was the GLH, and even then only like the last yr was quick ....None of them where reliable at all, hence the reason they never kept them in production. Ive seen the older Lazer turbos etc built up and made quick, but after $4k plus, seems a little steep to keep a street motor race ready, when its not a Supra or RX7.
To put it in perspective, try this:

Ford started building the 2.3L motor early 70s, pintos and mustang IIs (haha).in 1979 they turbo charged it, a weak design
but it still made it in the 1979 Indy Pace Car Mustang. They continued to use the engine up till 1983, where they made it more powerful, and better by changing some internals and adding EFI. Those where all used the Mustangs and Thunderbird turbo coupes from 83-88 with Excellent results and cars with well over 150k miles on them, some stock, many boosting 15 psi. or more. Then It was even used in the well known 84-86 Mustang SVOs with nothing but praises from the race teams and public.
Thats 2 decades of using the almost same style block for almost 20 yrs !!
So much so, the 2.3L was used thru out the 80s and 90s, and today still in GTU road racing. Now THATS a proven engine you can be comfortable using for any reason, street, race or whatever!! Sorry....mits or dodge cant touch a reputation like that with their 2.0 or 2.2s ......sorry