stage 1 price and best place to get

[neon95]

hey guys im sure some one has ask this question many times well im from the toronto area in canada and was woundering what i was looking at spending for a stage 1 kit for my 03 pt cruiser gt and whats the best place to pick one up thanks a bunch Bill

[wantaptcruiser]

Try Welcome to FWD Performance, Inc. they may be able to help as they do calibrated computers for a lot of the 80s and 90s turbo Mopar stuff.

[PT_Cuda]

Originally Posted by neon95

hey guys im sure some one has ask this question many times well im from the toronto area in canada and was woundering what i was looking at spending for a stage 1 kit for my 03 pt cruiser gt and whats the best place to pick one up thanks a bunch Bill

Keep an eye out on ptcrew.com guys are always selling and upgrading all the time you see them up for sale. Also ebay.

I was gonna give you the parts guy a lot of use, but he took some personal time dang it..

Just a few rules to remember..
S1 must be same year and trans.

Flight systems is who you want to contact to have your VIN and milage flashed on the new to you S1.

[ptragtop]

I ordered my Stage 1 in March from a Chrysler Dealer in Hamilton, Ontario...Due to Chrysler Motors LLC "problems" I have now been given a date of June 29th of it arriving! I will keep you posted!

[PT_Cuda]

Originally Posted by ptragtop

I ordered my Stage 1 in March from a Chrysler Dealer in Hamilton, Ontario...Due to Chrysler Motors LLC "problems" I have now been given a date of June 29th of it arriving! I will keep you posted!

Hang in there it will be worth it. Makes the PT another animal, I would have never bought a turbo if I had never driven an S1 car cause simply put the stock turbo isn't enough of a boost over the N/A to make it worth it to me.. But an S1 car - yeah baby now we are talking..

[neon95]

thats what im saying my pt is to slow for me for a turbo car and i had a 98 neon that i turboed and that was fast. so i cant wait to get the S1 for the PT

[03GTCruiser]

I just got my Stage 1 off of eBay from someone with high feed back for my 2003 PT Cruiser GT Auto. I paid $200 if I remember right. He sent it in for programming my VIN on, but it did not include injectors. so for under $300 I went stage 1. he had 2 03 a few 04 and some SRT8 ones too if I remember correctly.

[Mean Green]

Originally Posted by 03GTCruiser

I just got my Stage 1 off of eBay from someone with high feed back for my 2003 PT Cruiser GT Auto. I paid $200 if I remember right. He sent it in for programming my VIN on, but it did not include injectors. so for under $300 I went stage 1. he had 2 03 a few 04 and some SRT8 ones too if I remember correctly.

Did you get the larger injectors cause if you didn't you're looking at running lean and kaboom!

[03GTCruiser]

Originally Posted by Mean Green

Did you get the larger injectors cause if you didn't you're looking at running lean and kaboom!

Definitely. $200 for stage 1, $85 for injectors, Don't remember what the gasket cost me, but wasn't more than $15 if I remember correctly. So, $300 to get and install what was needed for stage 1. Took about 20 minutes start to finnish with the install.

Then drove it for about 10 miles without speedo or odo (*see foot note*) keeping it WAY out off boost till I got to the dealership to put the Pinion Factor in and since it was there for that, I had dealership do the transmission quick learn procedure while it was there. took them about 45 minutes but cost me $115 for the 1 hour "Diagnostic" fee that they had to charge me to connect it to the computer.



*guys and girls, Just remember when you install stage 1 that you might need to have the following done as well after installing the stage 1 if your speedometer or odometer do not work.

[PT_Cuda]

Originally Posted by 03GTCruiser

Definitely. $200 for stage 1, $85 for injectors, Don't remember what the gasket cost me, but wasn't more than $15 if I remember correctly. So, $300 to get and install what was needed for stage 1. Took about 20 minutes start to finnish with the install.

Then drove it for about 10 miles without speedo or odo (*see foot note*) keeping it WAY out off boost till I got to the dealership to put the Pinion Factor in and since it was there for that, I had dealership do the transmission quick learn procedure while it was there. took them about 45 minutes but cost me $115 for the 1 hour "Diagnostic" fee that they had to charge me to connect it to the computer.



*guys and girls, Just remember when you install stage 1 that you might need to have the following done as well after installing the stage 1 if your speedometer or odometer do not work.

You would have been charged either way, since they did the quick learn for the trans you get charged an hour of tranny tech time for them to do the programming.. So don't feel you got ripped or anything, it was really standard stuff. Just FYI



Just some general FYI for anyone thinking of a used S1 PCM. Call Flight Systems they do the programming for Mopar so they put the S1 data on the PCM and do transfer VIN#s to PCMs that are used. Yes they do charge for the service and it is COD only. But you can avoid some delay after you buy a used S1 if you have the seller drop ship to Flight Systems, they in turn ship to you COD only. The COD requirement is how I have always seen it done with them.

Call to confirm all information, since things may have changed since the bankruptcy.

Info is current as of Oct 7, 2008:

Flight Systems
33820 Riviera Dr
Fraser, MI 48026
586-888-0010