awd conversion
#11
Its a sweet idea, but like others have pointed out unless you have all the parts around, are very mechanically inclined, and have a lot of cash then its definitely not worth it. I think on one of the other neon sites I remember seeing someone swapping a impreza engine and drivetrain into a neon. I don't know whatever happened to that. I don't visit that site hardly at all, and I remember seeing this years ago. I would take a RWD or AWD neon in a heartbeat, but I don't have the time, space, tools, and more importantly the CASH to do something like that.
#12
Well people like me can do all this work themselves instead of sending it out to have someone else do it. You don't have to be the best metal worker or fabricator. You will respect and love your vehicle more with all the hard work you did and take pride in making it unique. Some people will like it and of course there will be nay sayers there always are but as long as your happy with your vehicle thats what matters most. Not how much you dropped in it. That means nothing as far as i'm concernded. If a neon pulled up with the 4 cylinder all built and completely modified done by a shop i'd walk away from it, then a neon pulled up with a V8 and looked ****ty and ran ****ty i wouldn't care the person was putting there all into the car doing it all himself it would be a better vehicle than the show neon..
#13
I like the idea of using the 3.0 RT/TT setup, but it would take a lot of fabrication under the car to get it even close to right. You really would want to do it just to do it, or to have or something, because the time and cost that would go into it would not pay itself back IMO.
I saw a guy/group in Michigan that did a RWD mod to an '04 with a new Hemi in it... the fabrication involved had to be beyond belief.
I saw a guy/group in Michigan that did a RWD mod to an '04 with a new Hemi in it... the fabrication involved had to be beyond belief.
#14