Bigger Motor for PT Cruiser?

Hi folks,
Can/does/will Chrysler make anything but a 4 cyl. for the PT cruiser? I
would like to stuff a firebreather into one, but has it been done already?
Help appreciated!
HotRodder

 

they don't make a bigger motor but do offer the turbo charged version now
at 220HP, they also offer mopar stage 1 kit for the turbo to bring the car
to 235hp.

also a many companies sell superchargers and turbo upgrades for the non
turbo charged engine's.

A few peeps have stuffed the hemi into the cruiser but thats a complete
rebuild, and big $$$$, the srt-4 which uses the same engine as the turbo pt
cruiser, has been upgraded by many to over 500hp.

Punch
2003 PT GT owner 240est HP

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They have a turbo motor. You can just turn up the boost and dial in some
substantial HP.

 

little more to it then that!

 

I have a standard production 01. It should either produce a lot more power
for the amount of fuel it uses, or provide much better fuel economy
considering its modest power output. My friends V8 Jag gets about the same
fuel economy. (17 city 22 highway). That and its wide turning radius are its
two weakest selling points; IMO.

Richard.

 

I have a standard production 01. It should either produce a lot more power

he didn't ask for that opinion, he asked about bigger motors..

Richard the PT is shaped like a brick, weighs alot, thus uses alot of fuel
to get moving.

 

01 = 4 year old car. How much mileage? Have you changed the spark plugs?
Changed the iginition wires, or had them tested? Changed the air filter?
Had the tranny fluid & filter changed?

17 city and 22 highway are low, I get 19 to 20 city and 27 highway (24 with
ac on) on my 2002 PT. Not great, but for its shape (a brick) and it's
weight, that can be expected. If you're having all the maintenance kept up,
maybe the intake manifold and fuel injectors need cleaning.

SRG

 

The early '01s had a service bulletin issued to address poor gas mileage; it
required a flash change for the computer. When I had it done, I saw about a
10% improvement.


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That flash was to cause the a/c to disengage when the accelerator was
mashed.

There would be no way to show a definite 10% increase in mileage unless you
drove the same roads, same way, same conditions before and after the flash
and had the whole thing monitored.

S
www.cruisethefalls.com

 

Since 95% of its use was to drive to and from work, it was driven on the
same roads, by the same driver (thus likely the same way), in pretty much
the same conditions. All I know for sure is, for the way I used the car -
before the flash change I averaged 20 mpg, after flash avg was 22. The only
other change I know occurred was the fuel line recall - but I don't recall
it being a leak, it was a more obscure situation.

 

The biggest change you would notice would be better acceleration
whenever the compressor would otherwise be on. I wouldn't expect any
real change in mpg, since the compressor will just have to run that much
longer after the period of acceleration to maintain the same cabin
temperature - unless the effect were so great that it couldn't maintain
the desired/set temperature, in which case you might as well turn the
temp. knob down (for the same mpg increse (and be warmer).

Bottom line, the by-far major motivation in a.c. compressor cutouts
during acceleration is to give the effect of more power (a "bigger"
engine) when the a.c. is running.

Bill Putney
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just so you know pt any fuel injected d.c vehicle with the pedal mashed drops
the ac operation period

 

Hmm, no W.O.T. switch anymore?

 

Almost nothing is done with "dumb" discrete device control anymore. All
sensors feed into a computer of some sorts, and more sophisticated
decisions can be programmed in to effect the desired control outputs.

No doubt one of the sensors feeding into the computer and which
determines to some degree if the compressor gets cut off is the throttle
position sensor, which serves other purposes as well. If the info. is
correct, they did not include WOT compressor turn off in the original
firmware algorithms.

Bill Putney
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