whats the best "bang for your buck" cold air intake/ throttle body spacer/etc....out there 04 neon r/t's?? and any other performance parts? i recently got the car and i wanted to add intake and exhaust to it, but not sure what else i should do. im 17 have a part time job and am living with my girlfriend and still going to school, so im on a tight budget lol.

 

Living with your girl friend and still in school ?? Leave it stock and save your money for school and living expenses !!!!

 

Now what would be the fun in that? Lol

 

may not be fun ! but the smart thing to do

 

I'm with TVLynn on this one.

If you NEED to have one (want isn't a good enough reason - Broken is the only reason you should be replacing it), then any with a smooth tube will work. As far as filters go, there are a bunch out there. I personally think K&N are over priced. There are others out there that will perform as good f not better for much cheaper.

 

This is my last semester and I go to full time working road crew at the R.M. Of Marriot running the grader and the mower. I've mowed 2 summers there and now I'm going on for a year full time and back off to Saskatoon for a mechanic course at siast. Car will defiantly be getting intake and exhaust this summer

 

Intake and exhaust will be nice upgrade. Most stock tunes are rich and can handle the added air in / air out at WOT. But there are tradeoffs.

However here is something to think about before you spend a nickle:

The PCM is NOT truly self learning. It will run the tops and bottoms of supplied parameter in the tune map but cant go over or under those standards.

If I load the stock tune into my current car it wont even idle. If you do get it rolling it will back fire like crazy and is un-driveable. It needed a huge reduction in fuel and added timing at idle and a HUGE increase in fuel at WOT.

So TUNER and Data Logger should be first order of business. Tune what you have. There is power in there. Then add parts..

 

so i was looking under my car today just to check out the exhaust system it has on it to see how it all layed out. a while back i posted a question to see iff my car had a resonator and i belive i was told that it didnt. so i was looking and it has a 2 foot long resonator smack dab in the middle of the car. so off to the farm i go tonight and im replacing it with a peice of tubing, drop some weight (minor lol) gain some noise ( effing rights!!) and performance? lol likely not noticeable though :P

 

just looked on that post i made about the resonator and i was wrong i was told it might

 

I know it's been a few months since you asked the question, but I'm sure this would be helpful for anyone else checking out this thread. I was looking at the differences between R/T and regular neons, and here's a thread I came across earlier on this forum:

https://moparforums.com/forums/f50/neon-r-t-2944/

If you don't have time to read through the whole thing, here's one of the main differences between our R/Ts and regular (SE, SXT, etc...):

The point I'm trying to make is that we already have quite a few basic mods that are actually designed into the R/T version, so do your research before you replace your nice Mopar designed 2.25 exhaust with an inferior eBay exhaust, which would probably be an improvement for a regular neon, but might be a downgrade from the R/T exhaust. I was surprised when I popped the intake open and saw a cyllindrical short ram air intake stock from the factory hooked up to a nice improved Mopar intake header... Hope this helps.

P.S. I also happen to drive a 2004 Yellow R/T, just got it as a daily driver and was pleasantly surprised by all the extras it already had.