2.4 sounds good

 

a .20 over bore is the standard bore for a high milage engine rebuild.....there wont be alot of added power, but there will be a liitle....just probally not enough to make a huge difference....
now if you bored the block to .20 over, put in some good rods and pistons, then added a turbo....you will notice alot of difference..

here are some options....
stock dohc hahn stage 2 turbo
or
dohc bored .40 over, 10.5:1 comp., mild crane cams, je pistons, eagle rods, performance valve springs.......that NA engine is gonna waste the turbo but cost the same amount of money.....

i wanted to go the all-out NA route......but i wanted the BOV

 

i agree with you on the BOV

 

Well if you want power, as its been said go the SRT turbo route, with all the same hardware everyone else is using..... OR, do something unique, maybe like a supercharger or something. You can still make a mad amount of power with a good blower and tuning, but I dont know much about neon chargers, but in general, im sure you could pull a steady 240whp out of that car with a good blower, itll have some good torque, esp if you are using a 2.4 block. As you said you had a show car before, so I dont know if you want to be a lemming neon tuner (doing what everyone else does, or what "seems" most practical ie srt turbo setup), which theres nothing wrong with, youll probably spend less and go faster. To me its the uniqueness, not a whole lot of people have a carputer, so thats what I went with (thread is coming btw, just got my line driver today, the last piece of the setup)

 

the turbo setup is more common and practical on the neons because no one makes a supercharger....or blower for that matter....for a neon...
if you want forced induction then the turbo is the only way to go.....unless you have lots of time and lots of money

 

supercharger = blower

If there are no supercharger kits available then if your going for turbo, do something unique. We all know how fast an srt4 is, no disrespect to those actually do the whole swap, but thats like swapping a b or h series motor into a civic, everyone does it, and its always guaranteed for power with a turbo.... I dunno, just sayin

 

not in all cases....are you telling me that a blower/supercharger for a big block v8 is the same as the supercharger thats on a GTP??

 

Well to me those terms mean the same thing.

Altough, there is different styles of superchargers.

 

A roots style charger? yes it is the same as you would put on a big block chevy or something. The air inlet is on a different spot and doesnt stick out of the hood. Is a t3 a turbo because its not a t65 used on a big block chevy? Its still crank driven and it still increases manifold pressure. So yes, blower/supercharger are pretty much the same thing and the terms are interchangable