There have been a few, here and there, but I've yet to see it for real (a good youtube vid or something). the 2.4 is the same engine as they used in the calibur srt4. So if you could pick up a kit, mechanically, it wouldn't be very difficult at all. the problem come with maping it. The SRT4 only came as a manual FWD vehicle, so you cannot use the ECU from that, unless you have a FWD patriot/manual patriot. Also the ECU is locked down, so you can't access the programing to tune it, so you would have to have somebody who knew how to tune cars....

Basically it comes down to this:$

Cost of patriot avg. $21,000 new.
Cost of turbo kit installed, about 3500 bucks. might find it cheaper if pulling from a wrecked srt4.
Cost of getting that programmed? $10-15,000...

So by the time you've put in the kit and gotten it programed, you've almost bought yourself a new patriot.

If somebody were to break the code and program it, I would GLADLY pay 500-900 bucks for a reprogramed mod, on my saabs (I have had 4 of them) I had at least a stage 2, one of them I had a stage 4 tune on it. and I would find a turbo kit, and hook that sucker up.

Some people worry about the cvt and 4wd systems, the cvt is in 6cyl cars putting out about the amount of horsepower i would want out of the patriot (240ish) and the 4wd system seems pretty robust, so I don't doubt it would hold up. I just don't think there is enough demand for somebody to invest the time required to get a tune programed for the patriot.

and if you go to the dealer for a software update for your transmission? BOOM they just whiped out your programing...

 

http://www.jeeppatriot.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80592

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Ty



Ty, this article was very helpful and gave me a good idea to stay away from the turbo/super charge idea for now. The only reason I was asking about it was because I was curious to see if anyone had done it.

 

The cvt in the Patriot was designed to handle a maximum of 185 ft/lbs of torque. The 2.4 puts out about 165 ft/lbs of torque so the cvt is almost maxed out already. :doh:

 

Where do you read that? In the nissan have it mated to a 3.5 v6, in the Elgrand as well as in the Murano, that engine puts out a lot more tha 185ft/lbs of torque, 240ft/lbs, actually (which is where I got my # from). From that alone, this should be able to handle at least the 240ft/lbs those engines put out, otherwise they wouldn't have used it for that application.