Back in the day, a lot of people–us included–took the Dodge and Plymouth Neons racing. The factory offered generous contingency money, technical assistance and the track-ready ACR models. enginenerd is going to make good on a lifelong goal of going racing, so a 1995 Neon ACR has been added to the fleet.
When I joined the staff in 1994, we had just received our new project car--one of them new-fangled Neon ACRs. It was actually a development prototype or something, so while it had all of the ACR bits, it also had some extras like a fold-down rear seat. Sadly that car is no more.
My 97 acr had the fold down seat. And apparently no protocol for actually checking the cat efficiency. It didnt have one when i got it. Had a rear o2 and a chunk of pipe. But no cat codes, ever.
That's funny. I remember the later cars having the fold-down rear seat, but I thought that the first-year ACR package was only available as an option on the base car. JG or someone else here can correct me. The TL;DR is that technically our car wasn't SSC-legal even though it carried some extra equipment. I think the fact that ours had a/c was also technically not kosher. Still, we had fun with it.
Dusterbd13 wrote: My 97 acr had the fold down seat. And apparently no protocol for actually checking the cat efficiency. It didnt have one when i got it. Had a rear o2 and a chunk of pipe. But no cat codes, ever.
You had a race ECU. That's why :)
Standard ACR computers were identical other than the speed limiter being removed.
I drove from Michigan to Alaska to Southern California and back to Michigan in a base Neon with my sister and a friend. A fold down sat would have made gear storage for three so much easier. And AC would have been nice. Or a working radio. That was a great car.
There weren't technically any 1995 m/y base model Neon coupes, so the first batch of ACR coupes were actually built on a Highline chassis. That's why it had the fold-down seat. By '97 the true base model was mostly gone.
Yeah, a/c was nice. I think ours might have had cruise, too--maybe. It was fairly loaded by Neon standards. But then it had all of the ACR bits.
Ours was a sedan, for what it's worth. I might have missed mentioning that part.
The ACR sedan did was not available with a fold down rear seat from the dealer, they did come with AC if you wanted it though. My dad bought one new in 1995, a 1 of 15 (as far as I know) nitro yellow green Plymouth sedan.
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