{"id":16650,"date":"2017-06-15T21:08:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T02:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=16650"},"modified":"2020-01-17T00:27:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T06:27:37","slug":"for-sale-plymouth-reliant-wagon-with-a-turbo-i4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=16650","title":{"rendered":"For Sale: Plymouth Reliant Wagon with a Turbo Inline-Four"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This 1987 Plymouth Reliant wagon is for sale in Los Angles with an asking price of $5,500. The factory 2.5 L inline-four which produced 85 horsepower was replaced with a turbocharged 2.2 L inline-four that produces 175 horsepower from a 1988 LeBaron GTS. Also carried over from the GTS was the stronger automatic transmission, disc brakes with 11.5″ drilled\/slotted rotors, Shelby Daytona wiring harness and computer. The car also comes with a custom exhaust, LeBaron knuckles, Montroe front struts, and rear Koni shocks. <\/p>\n

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Source: Craigslist<\/a> (click here<\/a> if ad disappears) and eBay<\/a> (previous listing) via BangShift<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This 1987 Plymouth Reliant wagon is for sale in Los Angles with an asking price of $5,500. The factory 2.5 L inline-four which produced 85 horsepower was replaced with a turbocharged 2.2 L inline-four that produces 175 horsepower from a 1988 LeBaron GTS. Also carried over from the GTS was the stronger automatic transmission, disc… Read More »For Sale: Plymouth Reliant Wagon with a Turbo Inline-Four<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reliant"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":121983,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=121983","url_meta":{"origin":16650,"position":0},"title":"BMW E36 Wagon with a S54 Inline-Six","author":"swaptastic","date":"October 15, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"BMW never built an E36 M3 wagon so Marvin Fonacier built his own. 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