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2003 pt cruiser gt diablosport tuner8/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Whether you’ve got a 3.6L V6 or a 6.2L supercharged Hellcat, the T2 is the best performance accessory you can get for your ride, without exception. However, the performance tuning that has made DiabloSport a MOPAR household name is still fully ingrained in the T2. Available for 2003-2005 Chrysler PT Cruiser GT 2.4L Turbo. The inTune i3 series tuner is an easy to use system that plugs directly into your vehicles OBDII port that can increase performance as well as efficiency. Now, the T2 takes that to a new level with unprecedented monitoring and data logging capabilities on its impressive display. The handheld device comes with a color touch screen and has free automatic online updates. DiabloSport has been leading the way with performance tuning for these powerful rides with tuning that is designed to thrill. Chrysler 300C and the Magnum are also high performance cars and part of the American car performance story. The Challenger and Charger exemplify true American MOPAR power. Hey, just another reason to get one.Dodge has done an incredible job reigniting the idea of the American muscle car. So, for an anticipated $3000 premium over the base version, you can now look cool and kick butt, too. The PT Turbo feels good, with a firm ride and taut steering responses. Our short drive revealed something other than just profoundly increased thrust. (The anti-roll bars are unchanged.) For improved grip and handling, the wheels will be shod with Goodyear Eagle RS-A P205/50HR-17 all-season performance tires, slowed by four-wheel disc brakes with ABS. The aforementioned power and torque increases put the PT Cruiser in a different league, and to apply this newfound urge to the pavement properly, the PT Turbo has stiffer springs and retuned shocks. Naturally, the famous PT Cruiser seating and cargo-carrying versatility (30 seat-position configurations) remains intact. Inside the car there is a new slate-gray interior, unique seats with longer cushions and pronounced side bolsters, a dot-matrix instrument-panel surround, and a silver shift ball. The four-speed Getrag automatic transmission is the same as in the turbo-diesel. The PT Turbo's five-speed manual transaxle is a Getrag unit like that found in the European-market turbo-diesel PT Cruiser, but it has ratios unique to this model. Chrysler adopts equal-length driveshafts on PT Turbos, using outrigger bearings, and we can report negligible torque steer during our short test drive at the desert proving ground. The compression ratio has dropped to a low 8.1:1, and the exhaust-pipe diameter was widened by a half-inch. Under the skin, there's a new iron engine block, new rods and crankshaft, and new pistons. The bumpers-otherwise unchanged-are body color, too. It also gets 17-inch wheels, which look pretty bitchin' on the Cruiser, if we may be allowed to say so. The PT Turbo gets new front and rear fascias in body color, the front modification being necessary to package the turbo intercooler, which is under the engine radiator. ![]() But there are several visible detail changes-some essential, some cosmetic. Perhaps they're vacillating because one of the best features of the GT Cruiser show car was its revised styling, and we get almost nothing of that on this new turbo Cruiser. Just let us know when you've made up your minds, okay? But company spokespersons now say the car should be called the PT Turbo. The invitation to the unveiling called it the 2003 PT Cruiser GT, and sure enough, there were little GT badges on the first-level prototypes we drove. Now DaimlerChrysler just needs to figure out what it plans to call the car. That autobox, incidentally, will feature the corporation's AutoStick manumatic for the first time in the PT Cruiser model range. ![]() Larry Lyons, V-P of small-vehicle engineering, says the stick-shift PT Turbo will reach 60 mph in about 7.5 seconds (a second quicker than its unblown sibling) and in about eight seconds in automatic-transmission form. When launched from a standing start, the PT Turbo spun its front wheels eagerly, even in automatic-transmission form, and it rushed off with an intensity not seen in normal Cruisers. And that's 78 extra pounding little feet.įrom what we've seen of the new car at Chrysler's desert proving ground in Wittman, Arizona, nearly all that torque arrives early for the party. The forced induction also adds torque-up to 240 pound-feet, if the engineers meet their targets. That's 55 more nags than the stock Cruiser has in the traces. Using a Mitsubishi turbocharger to blow 14 pounds of boost down the 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine's throat, the bruiser Cruiser makes 205 horsepower at 5200 rpm. This vehicle, the PT turbo, transfuses the PT Cruiser with more power. After teasing us with a cool concept version of the PT Cruiser-called the GT Cruiser-complete with a high-output engine and much sleeker styling, Chrysler has decided to take production Cruisers to a higher level. ![]()
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