Dodge Freeon
 

Never heard of a Freeon? Me neither untill a guy at the local steel yard gave me a 96 Neon with 76K on it for free. Thats what makes it a Freeon. The good news is its a 2.0 DOHC 5 speed car with all the rice boy addons, projector beam headlights, alteza taillights clear side markers and a HUGE chrome muffler. The bad news is it has a rod through the block. I found a 9K motor for $650 so that fixes that. I plan on turboing it and selling it on Ebay. I will do the write up and post pics on here as I go.

**UPDATE**
here are the pics as promised:

http://www.geocities.com/speedpartsrus/freon1.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/speedpartsrus/freon2.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/speedpartsrus/freon3.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/speedpartsrus/freon4.jpg

I forgot to mention it has indiglo gauges and a B&M short throw shifter. The poor bastard couldn't afford to have the engine replaced, so it sat in his driveway for a year until his "mommy" made him get rid of it. It looks like it's going to be an easy car to turbo. There's like a foot between the back of the motor and the firewall. The only hard part is going to be running piping. I'm either going to have to put the battery in the trunk or relocate it somehow to have somewhere to run the piping. I will keep updating this post as it progresses!

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Thats ------- awsome!!

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Nice!!!, I had a neon, my first car. It was a 95 2.0 dohc but auto.

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I dated a chic with a neon RT and that thing would haul ass! NICE.....dump like 2G's into it and you could make a decent profit on it.

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I hate you, I need a good eal like that :P
GL with it man, hook that ---- up HMT style

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i want a free car :'( you lucky bastard

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Thats so ------ tight. What motor is 9k, from dodge?

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damn that was a lucky steal. nice find

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My ex g/f Lindsey had a mid 90ish green 4 door neon 5 speed. That thing was a POS, I used to do so much work on it, like every single part fails by 60k miles.. A/C, thermostat, o2 sensor.. everything sucked on it. Good thing she wrecked that fucker out.

What's the motor in that thing? Something like a 420a? I forget, but they are very ------- common, I think you can swap over the RS/GS eclipse motors into those things.. maybe?

But ----, free is always a great word, you can make money just parting that bitch out.. for some reason rice boys love those cars as much as they love cavaliers, escorts/focus, and civics.

-ryan

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I saw a rice boy in a red neon today, white stripes, had an "SRT-10" emblem on the side.. on the highway it merged from two lanes to one, I killed him..

in a 1994 Dodge Caravan. ;)

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Is that the 2.2 SOHC in the caravan? Those are some of the strongest chrylser motors, that in the 2.5 (which is the stroked version). Check out any of the crappy T3 turbocharged lebarons and daytonas, those things can haul some ass. ------- K cars, ugly as hell but fast as ----.

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Really? We just got rid of an Acclaim with a 2.2, maybe I should go steal it back, it needed to much for inspection.. I was going to use it as my guinea-pig turbo project.

Wanna talk about ugly? My neighbor is buying a Dodge Rampage and sticking an old Turbo Daytona engine in it. ;D

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It's those factory turbo'd 2.2L dodge motors that can handle a beating, check out www.thedodgegarage.com they have some insane projects going on there.

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Yea, that looks like the ole 420A motor. Wonder why it threw a rod... ???

-Tim

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my friend has one of those neons with the gst motor into from what he said its pretty simple to swap in and his car is a total sleeper look into that.

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4g63 nope no swap - it would be a major deal - 420a engine is in the gs eclipse, talon, sebring, and avenger. and has the exhaust in the front on the engine. Neon engine is called something else can't remember right now. to swap a 4g63 you would need to fabricate everything from scratch and have the computer and harness etc. Oh yeah and a sledge hammer. most people swap a 2.4 dodge engine.

there are people getting 280whp with stock internals. I didn't get over 225whp before I spun a bearing. I have done 3 neons if you need any tips. I am N/A for now at 160whp man what a difference! :'(

I also have any neon flanges you would need. Header exhaust etc. and lots of pics of how piping is run. You don't have to move the battery but it makes it easier. you just cut a hole in the front of the battery tray for the piping from the intercooler to the TB. And run the other one under the Tranny.

I sew this link a couple of days ago..it is a 10sec streetable SOHC ATX neon.

http://neons.org/forums/viewtopic.ph...r=asc&start=30

http://neons.org/forums/viewtopic.ph...15c2e26178a383

http://neons.org/forums/viewtopic.ph...15c2e26178a383

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Good luck with selling it on ebay, put some racing stripes and mesh grille on it and it will sell faster, I guarantee it.

Also, be sure to post the address when you do, I'll help you out and bid a couple times.

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yikes, they blow headgaskets stock-n/a all the time... so keep a few around, youll need them when running boost

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stock headgaskets were graphite type single layer - once you change to the new mls type no problem. They didn't start making the new type until late 99 dodge fixes them for the price of a coolant flush and oil change even out of warranty.

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Aha! S4RE (SOHC, 4-valve, Rear-Exhaust). Some say the blocks are identical and Mistubishi just turned the head 180-degrees, but wtf do I know :P

-Tim

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my buddy has an original dodge caravan 2.2L turbo model. it's ------- sick.

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Those were pretty pimp. Those were made around 1989, right?

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D4RE

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Damn, go Typert. It's nice to have a dodge/dsm man among the board. I've worked on enought to hate them.. you've worked on enought to know everything about them :)

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"I've worked on enough to hate them" - yup. It's just the only car I have to work on right now :-\ with the engine in good condition (stock DOHC 5sp) I ran 15.9 in the quarter mile with no mods. I think they are a good sleeper for the little money you pay. 160WHP now and a little faster than 15.9 ;)

But...then you still just have a neon ;D

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THeres actually a guy on the srt forums who got the srt4 engine{sorry not up on my mopar engine codes :(} into the older gen neon.

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bahaha...that's pimp! some 16 year old will buy it and pick up his 14 year old girl friends with it. you'll be helping the premarital sex and bastard baby rates go up. congrats! ;) hahaha j/p

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Bahhh! how quickly ye all forget my car >:(

does no one remember here my 96 neon turbo, i posted plenty of pictures, ah well i guess it is easy to forget a peon.... :'(

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Damn POS neons! heh
I do love the misinformation here though. It's good stuff!

Good kill on the freeon!

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Please enlighten us to the discrepancys in the info in this thread ::)

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No need, it's been corrected already.
I just think it's funny.

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Hey man when you start the project - start a thread in the Foriced Induction section. That way this thread won't be pushed out by all the stupid bullshit posts be the teenagers and people saying "I just learned how to tie my shoe, everybody give me props".

Not to mention I'll make sure you don't get the ---- bashed in FI.

-ryan