Originally Posted by Mike-in-Orange

Just a little FYI: with a big turbo swap and proper fuel feed, that engine is easily good for a very reliable and streetable 500WHP, on stock internals. Plenty of guys on the SRT forums are doing this and a few guys at PTCrew.com are doing the same thing with this engine in the PT GT. Two of them recently turned 12.0 1/4 miles in PT Cruisers with this setup (well, one of them actually went 11.96) without nitrous. That engine is incredibly stout and more than a little overbuilt.