Nashua_Night_Hawk

Does it have the same engine/tubo of the neon Turbo?

It looks nice from the outside? Does it have balls to run?

Any Performance stats for this Retro?


Yes it has the same engine 215HP/245lbft.

with 3200lbs it is good for sub 15s runs! A minor Turbo tweak would put this in low 14s.

AK_MOBBER

dunno about the engines being the same.
It looks like fuck.
Even with the turbo I bet money it's shitless.

acuraman32cl

the engine seems to be pretty good but the car is ugly and hell and chrysler has HUGE quality of build problems.

Scrib

One tried to run with me the other day... I pulled on it every step of the way, and I left VSA on and did SS.

I dunno... My wife wanted a PT, so I took her over to the local dealer to drive one. The fockin' thing ran out of gas during the test drive, and the salesman wouldn't call for someone to pick us up. So we walked back to the dealer.

That'll leave a bad taste in my mouth forever.

acuraman32cl

the guy wouldent pick u up?? when he has lots of cars right at the dealership to drive himself to get u??? that guy must of been really bad, if that were me i would pick them up myself and deaply apologize. the guys are on commision.

devnull

HOLY CRAP!!!! I would've killed the bastard...

Scrib

Yeah, the problem was we left our cell phones in my car, so we were at his mercy. It was only a couple blocks, but still...

The funny part was, the whole way back the guy was bad-mouthing his boss and the dealership in general. Once we arrived back at the dealership, he wanted to deal, said he'd give "top dollar" for my wife's car.

I took one look at him, smiled and walked away. I think my wife was more pissed at the dude than I was. She told him to fuck off... I just kept my mouth shut.


Edit: There's more to this story, but I didn't want to hijack the thread.

Nashua_Night_Hawk

Ok I run the specs in the drag simulator (Drag Racing Analyzer)...

And Suprise... it's damn quick!

Weight of 180 driver and Curb weight of 3108:

Here's the Time Slip @ 3k drop:

Thu Mar 20 03 8:38 pm
Time Slip For: 2003 PT Crusier Turbo

RT .500
60 ft 2.33
330 ft
1/8 ET 9.51
1/8 MPH 78.8
1000 ft 12.28
1/4 ET 14.63
1/4 MPH 96.17

That is very quick!

Scrib

It's not that fast, trust me.

C&D had it in the low 7s with a mid 15 second 1/4 mile.

Again, I walked it hard.

Nashua_Night_Hawk

This is for th 5speed Manual... The Turbo does come also with a POS 4-speed Auto.

mrdeeno

what gear ratios did the simulator use?

Nashua_Night_Hawk

Gear Ratios
1st 3.92
2nd 2.21
3rd 1.46
4th 1.11
5th 0.88
Final Drive 3.29


All Specs are here:
http://www.new-cars.com/2003/chrysle...ser-specs.html

Nashua_Night_Hawk

Simulator Estimated 0-60 in 6.36s

Nashua_Night_Hawk

The esitmates are for 50F weather and 30.45" BP and DewP. of 20.2:

The Auto is not that far behind at 2400 rpm BT:

Thu Mar 20 03 9:48 pm
Time Slip For: 2003 PT Crusier Turbo Auto

RT .500
60 ft 2.33
330 ft 6.15
1/8 ET 9.37
1/8 MPH 77.1
1000 ft 12.16
1/4 ET 14.53
1/4 MPH 94.64

fuzzy02CLS

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I've driven the turbo, 5 speed. From experience with Chrysler cars. It has no low end, but great top end. ALL DC cars seem to be that way. It's fun from 40 up.

hughesne

Well, you might wanna rerun those figures, dodge gave a worst case scenario on the turbo neon, they heat soaked the intercooler right before dynoing. A friend of mine just got one, dyno'd at 224hp, 255 tq at the wheels. I wish acura advertised worst case dyno's....