1997 neon acr coupe 2012 challenge/DD build

Did you ever figure out what the little turtle bumps were for? They look like they are there on purpose...

yes. theyre to create a tumbling effect to help slow down air enough to gewt them into the first two runners. i just reshaped them, shortened the first one a bit. figured the taller first one would be starving the second one.

smoothed the rest put best i could. ill get pics when i can get to that shelf again. too much stuff in my shop;....

coming soon: new engine. i done killed it.

Ouch.

2.4L swap?

nope. fresh 2.0 dohc with ported head, intake, bumped compression, and a little balancing/blueprinting done. hp engines in norwood is currently building it. probably wont be cheap....

What Pistons did you use?

I got two sets of NPR Pistons/Ring/Wrist Pins in the garage to go in the SOHC when I feel like lugging it to the machine shop. They seem to be of pretty decent quality, and weighed out pretty similar.

honestly, i dont know. leaving that all up to hollis. i dont get inside engines much, and would not want to tell the builder his job. it will be delivered as a long block.

as un-grm and un-manly as it sounds, i have no interest getting inside engines.

chassis, suspension, brakes, electrical, resto, etc is where my skillset lies. so i stay with it. ive tried doing my own engines before, and just dont like it.

the motor has been burning oil. today, its pretty much lost #3. shes just along for the ride.

would it be wrong to take it autocrossing next weekend and see if it goes searching for daylight?

or should i take the bench seat, seatbeltless elcamino with stopleak/mud for coolant?

Yes that would be wrong because then a bunch of volunteers would have to clean up your oil spill while the guys in grid lose 1 or 2 of their runs to cleanup time. Not to be too nasty about it but yeah, that would be wrong.

Love the car, im about to start the 'real mods' on my 95 sedan so this helps get me hyped up a little.

that's what I kinda figured too after sleeping on it.

if I get the elky back together, ill run that. if not, ill not run.

previous total: 2097.93

parts in this update:

core engine: 75

header: 69

new total: 2241.93

so as most of you know, I hurt the engine in this a while back. she's not getting any healthier....

as in I'm currently daily driving my 64 el Camino while Hollis is finishing my engine build.

I didn’t ant to have the engine out for a long time to have this one rebuilt, so I picked up a supposedly low mileage engine off of craigslist (with trans) for 75 bucks. figured what the hell, at least it'll be a good core. stripped it down and dropped it off at the machine shop.

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a month later he's finally started on it. I happened to drop it off without prior notification during his busy season. so I knew id have to wait. I'm ok with that.

while I was waiting, I started porting my spare head. got the intake and exhaust all ported and polished. gasket matched the head on the exhaust side to the gasket matched header. also gasket matched the intake side. ran out of time to clean up the bowls before Hollis needed my head, so he'll be doing that. also, I didn’t take pictures after polishing, so these are all cutter work. I opened up the exhaust side by shaving down some large humps in the hopes of increasing exhaust velocity to help suck more intake charge in during overlap. well see how that actually works. sorry for the horrible pictures. it was awfully late every time I worked on it.

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a picture of the ebay stainless midlength header I ordered:

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and finally, a picture of here my engine was last Friday.

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engine is on the stand. ill grab pics tomorrow and post up.

hollis finished my porting/polishing, punched it 20 over, turned the crank 10/10, balanced, blueprinted, and dialed in everything else.

it gives me wood.

alost makes me want to finish this thing just to see how the new motor runs out. but I popped my knee again, and it makes me cry to drive it.

Michael

Sounds exciting. What's up with your knee? My patellas pop out from time to time. Something like that?

no cartelege left in my left knee, which means that the kneecap gets to cut grooves in the upper and lower bones. also means that when the knee is loaded and twisted in just the right way, the kneecap moves out of its groove and tears stuff.

that happened on sunday when i was playing mermaids on the floor with my daughter. she tripped over my leg and twisted it wrong.

i may have a buyer lined up for the acr and all the pieces, in which case im going to pickup an auto equipped protege5.

previous total: 2241.93

parts for this update

engine from HP engines 1079.78

oil pan from pull-a-part: 26.78

heater hard lines: 4.52

thermostat housing: 5.57

sachs clutch and NTK upstream 02 sensor, rock auto: 216.83

new total: 3575.41

pics of new parts:

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aaaaannnnnnd.......

its been sold. all for the best I guess. was having a hard time driving it ith my knee. got cash and a 99 neon dohc coupe with an atx and 80k on it. if I like the new neon, it'll get its own build thread. if not, I already have a buyer for it.

Dusterbd13 wrote: got cash and a 99 neon dohc coupe with an atx and 80k on it. if I like the new neon, it'll get its own build thread. if not, I already have a buyer for it.

Dusterbd13 wrote: i may have a buyer lined up for the acr and all the pieces, in which case im going to pickup an auto equipped protege5.

Huh?

yup. sold the little ACR for quite a bit. also got a 99 neon sport in partial trade on it, which my brother in law is in love with. ive been wanting another protege5 for a few years now, and have the cash on hand to buy one. so the plan is to drive the trade in for a week or so, see what I think, and then make the decision. if I like it enough, the cash that I got will just sit there and collect interest. if I don't, well, ill buy another protege5.

that explain it a bit better?

Cool beans. More money, more happy, sounds like a good trade. Glad to hear it!

I have been meaning to get the thread back up and going. I bought the car from mike, it is kind of a long story but anyways. I found this car well over a year and a half ago while I was stationed in Korea. Mike had it on craigslist, he was only 20 mins from where i grew up. As i didn't have a chance to get it i honestly figured i would never see it again. Two months ago i call mike about a mtx for my 99 sport atx. (not knowing he was the one who owned the ACR) We get to talking and i find out it was his, once i learned this i pretty much told him i would be coming by and would be very interested in buying it. needless to say it is now mine and i love driving this car everyday.

I will be posting pics of some of the work i have done to it so far.

SRT4 ACR bucket seats w/ cutout 2nd gen center console w/ ebrake Koseis K-1 wheels 15x7 with yokohama s-drives, 205 50R 15

I also got the built 2.0 mike had built and it will be going in soon as well as the new clutch.

that is it for now, i will hopefully be getting coilovers after my deployment... but we will see.

Building this and my SRT-4 is quite a challenge lol. I didn't mention it above but I am Nate and I am in the United States Air Force, I am currently stationed in Goldsboro N.C.

im glad to see you keeping the thread alive, nate.

and still want to drive that motor i built. if my knee is up to it.....

michael

an ACR, in my favorite shade of Smurf blue...

I had an identical Coupe...mine a Plymouth. I'm looking frantically for another just like wink wink, care to sell yours? lol

Fun project, I had an ACR road race car a few years ago. I still miss it, so easy to work on and dead reliable. Mine was the sedan.

:insert goofy FWD comment:

wait...this Lapis ACR Sold??? awwww. Why do I always miss the good ones?