1997 Chrysler Neon V6 Engine Swap & 4 Speed Auto

According to the courier the parcel containing the LPG kit should be here
from the 13th to 15th . So I wasn't feeling well and meds weren't working,
so I thought it would be okay to sleep in a little. Boy was I wrong!!

The parcel was half sticking out of one of the re-cycle bins, so if anyone
looked around the corner they could have seen this and possibly stolen
the parcel!!

If some delivery drivers had a brain cell it would surely die of loneliness!!



A bit of packing cardboard






Here is the vaporiser for the kit!! I swear that the Zavoli kit which I have
taken off the neon which was for the 4 cylinder engine was at least twice
the size of this thing!



And some of the details of the LPG management unit. I have emailed the
manufacturer with all the details to ask for a copy of the correct installation
manual saying
"it is original to the car I just purchased and it looks like someone has had
a go at it and I wish to reinstate it to full use!"

Yes I know it's not totally true but the kit was originally fitted to a BMW.

Well it wasn't the right type of day to be messing around outside
sorting out the bits on the lpg system to get it organised for
wiring or seeing what might need replacing.






Here is the socket after the remains of the circuit board has been
removed. No pins broken, but I got one which came a bit out of
the socket, and it is the exact same one which happened on the
previous one(didn't break this time)






I'm out shopping tomorrow so I can pick up some new wire to make
the adapter. After looking through the lpg manual, it appears that
this system connects to the obd on the car. And as the wires for the
injectors need to be cut into I can work this and other connections
into the adapter later saving m a lot of time and hassle.

Okay it was a little cold, so I did the tidying up ready for tomorrow.
The tube of stainless steel was flattened and put in the car as a tube
it was taking up too much space.



I might need a bigger sheet!



After a previous accident in the tool shed :blush: , I had to do a little
sorting out to even see the floor :shock: even if it is only in one spot.
This ment I could remove the winch from the tool shed to sort it out
prior to using it again, after chewing the rope/cable dragging the car
around previously.

I removed the wire rope/cable from the winch only to find the one I
bought to replace it, is a little too thick to fit in the fixing hole on the
drum. The joy of buying something without checking the correct size.

The trailer was something else that needed attention, one of the wheels
had seized solid with being stood on the garden for a long time. I was
hoping to use the winch to drag the trailer onto the drive to fix it!

The trailer has been stood on the garden for a shorter time period than
the neon has been stood in it's current spot. So it stands to reason the
neon will need to have it's wheels un-seized! As I tried moving the
neon and yes it seized solid so much for leaving the hand brake off
and not in gear.

Dad's Landrover Discovery ended up dragging the trailer around
towards the the drive. Using such a heavy peddled vehicle wrecked my
legs. So there is no way I use it on the public roads, so I'm not insured on
it. I have put the Discovery in front of the garage and the trailer behind it,
the Volvo managed to drag it there and will be used to take the trailers
wheels to garage as the tyres that are on there are well and truly shoot!

So as I have to pop down into town tomorrow with the wheels off the
trailer, #i will also pop to a place I've been told that deals with winches
to see what the correct size winch rope/cable is!

Just so you know how shoot the trailer tyres are, there is no way ou can
read the size or writing on the tyre walls as the rubber is cracked and
falling off the wall!

Sad is bring his boat back from the marina this weekend, and the family
needs the trailer to go to and from the skips to get rid of some of the stuff
we have sorted through from that relatives house clearance!

I can see the welder now, I just need to clear a bit more stuff before Dad
can get to it then weld my exhaust! :lol:

Nice work on the Neon

Just a thought on the Volvo, before stripping the engine down, it may not be the head gasket, the Volvo might have an oil cooler mounted inside the radiator, these are well know for cracking, then oil mixes with the water.

Does it overheat?

The T5 versions do have this oil cooler

Thanks for the comments guys.
Okay the volvo has had a new rad, water pump and header tank.
It has been throwing out steam not smoke from the exhaust for a while,
and as my little Christine is a work in progress, I use the volvo once a
week for my shopping and errands.

It had a hole in the rad for a while before it was replaced, and mother
had let it get too low and more than likely cooked the engine!

As for the Neon
The pivot point on the accelerator pedal has been adjusted and can be
done so again by altering the bracket which the throttle cable pulls
against at the throttle body.

The brakes are standard mk1 neon all round with abs, all I have done is
replace the whole pipework system and hoses when I replaced the fuel
lines as they were all shot to hell!.

As I am unemployed and disabled, and dropped out of university do to ill
health, putting this car back together has helped but myself back together
and keep those little gray cells exercised.

To quote a scene from CSI.
An abled bodied person will adapt to the world around them!
A disabled bodied person will adapt the world around them to them and
their needs!

Right first picture was last night the second was tonight as I ran out of cable too!
So that is 51 done 29 to go. I'll get some more cable in the morning,. Heaven help
me if I have created a short somewhere!

Potting compound will be fine in that ABS enclosure.

Slightly off topic, but you will understand when I say this is where I take the
cars to for a good test of the suspension, engine and gearbox among other
things.

Mothers Volvo after it had it's cylinder head gasket done without that garage
flushing the cooling system or oil when they did it a month or so ago. I have
flushed the cooling system a few times and and engine has had an oil change
so this was it's first real work out 1in1 gradient plus in plces :tongue:
Bonnet up just checking her vitals and to help cooling as only water in her
cooling system.

I can't wait to do this in the neon :wink:
Destination Lord of Stones Cafe Cleveland hills/North York Moors
www.lordstones.co.uk/
The road, Alum House Lane/Raisdale Road Carlton-in-Cleveland to Chop Gate
maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=Carlton-in-Cleveland&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x487ec0282c979197:0x8366ad432d64e628,Carlton-in-Cleveland,+North+Yorkshire&gl=uk&ei=RfGHUcL_O-WR0AWk0IDADw&ved=0CIkBELYD

















Okay back to the car!!
The rear wheel came off to give better access to the exhaust pipe.
And I will be tacking the brakes apart one by one to un=seize them so
I can move the car and then I will resurface the discs which have never
been used on the road :sad:



Dad has welded the ring for screwing the lambda sensor into the exhaust
pipe just after the cat.

Exhaust pipe made to connect it to the pipe from the front, it was a pain
as I was in no fit state after going to and from the Yorks Yanks club meet
via where the lord of stones cafe used to be the previous day.



A little trimming and smoothing with the grinder and a coat of Very High
Temperature silver spray paint read to go on tomorrow. (the paint may burn
off if it dos it will still have servd it's purpose by protecting the exhaust while
it is not being used)

The dremmel cutting disks arrived so I thought it best to get cracking on
the old girl and at least get something finished off before the weather
changes again.

So the Nissan 350Z exhaust back with modified inlet and out let pipes is
finally fitted on the car!













Hopefully the only thing left to fit on the exhaust is the lambda sensor
after the cat on the down pipe.

I have pushed myself getting the back box on, so tomorrow I will not do
anything on the car. Especially as there is a Hot rod and custom car show
and cruise on locally.

www.nsra.org.uk/newforum/showthread.php?58468-Hartlepool-Hot-Rod-Weekend-5

www.northeaststreetrodclub.co.uk/

So you will be getting those photos posted in a perpetrate thread
tomorrow night hopefully.