Howdy,
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Brian Priebe wrote:
> WE both agreed on the fact of we would rather give up a 1/2 inch of rim
> to not have the hateful ABS. Now the 96 Sport without the ABS stills
> seems like the hot ticket, but good luck finding one. There were only
> two that i know of, 1 is in a junkyard and the other is ready for the
> junkyard.
I was recently perusing www.neons.org's faq section and I also happened to
see the stats on the '96 and '97 (I think) Sport. I was pretty surprised
to find that apparently you could get a SOHC with the 16:1 steering, front
& rear bars, & ACR springs. I.e. identical to my SOHC sedan except for
the hub thickness (doesn't matter for autox) and struts (doesn't matter
since you can change the struts and run crash bolts).
According to the new rule that all SOHC except the ACR are in ES, that
seems like it'd be a pretty damn good car to have for ES. I know I'm
jealous anyway :-)
How much effort is it to legally update a proper year car to the Sport
SOHC specs? Given that all the neons have basically been the same, and
parts seem to swap pretty easily, I would think it wouldn't be that hard
to do from a building it standpoint, but what would have to be done to
prove it was legal?
Just curious as I plan to continue in DS, though perhaps with a DOHC...
:-)
Mark
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