Hey i'm alex and just joined the forum a couple of days ago and i was wondering what would be a better spend for me

i currently own a sohc 99 neon

i want to go boost and i've read that you can do a 2.0 dohc swap or a 2.4 srt/stratus with srt internals swap.

now which one would be worth my time i don't want crazy h/p shooting 250-300 tops and i've seen sohc civic doing that so yeah thanks for the input and ur personal opinion

 

....2.4

 

If your gonna do an engine swap and go turbo midas well go with srt-4 swap or if theres nothing wrong with your sohc there are some good turbo kits out with all u need.

 

alot of this depends on time, money, and know how

 

as Spud said, if you got the know how (aka can fab and such) and got the time and money, I'd go with the 2.4L swap.

 

thanks for the input guys as far as money goes i have a decent job i guess idon't have any bills to pay as off now and i can save some money so 700 a month could go torward the swap i didn't know if boosting the sohc would be a good idea right now it's slugish and it needs a new belts etc at 115xxx miles i'd thik it's a bad idea to go boost unless i can buy internals n Sh** for it theni would consider it really overall i guess i want a try srt4 but i guess i am just going to buy one in may so how about that 2.0 swap or a sohc turbo the h.p was a little 2 high as far as my wants are i guess 200 would be a little more in the area of the 2.0 on boost

 

Turbo has nothing to do with boost. I do not see why you can't make 250whp with the motor in your car right now for less than a grand.

 

you would be Very luck to make that much out a 2.4 (NA) much less a 2.0.

 

Turbo has nothing to do with boost??? ok.....

Anyways, even after doing a performance build from say Modernperformance (bottom end and top end), for around $2000-$2400. the 2.0L will only make close to 200-230HP i would say (depending on if its a SOHC or DOHC, SOHC closer to 200)

 

I was being dyslexic. Your swap has nothing to do with boost. Are you joking when you say you need a 3000$ engine build to make 200whp? You must not work with turbo systems very often. ****ty honda d-series can rap out 250whp no problem on their 1.5l's with pencil thick rods, so can these.