'01 Sebring Convertible with dead 2.7L

The Later Stratus R/T (coupe) was available with a 2.7 and the T-850 Manual out of the SRT

Not exactly. The r/t coupe was a mitsu car with a mitsu 6g72 sohc 3.0L and mitsu trans. The r/t SEDAN was a chrysler car with a chrysler 2.7L dohc and t850, but the bellhousing is not the same as a 2.4L so the entire transmission case is different from an srt-4 and they do not swap. You could interchange parts between them, like putting an SRT4 quaife in a stratus t850.

They actually sold the 2.7 Sebring convertible with the 5spd too. It was called the GTC and noone bought it.

You're right. I explained in one of my earlier posts that the Coupe was a Mitsu vs the Sedan/Convertible being a Chrysler product.

There is a guy who put a 3.3 in his Neon using the 2.7 T-850. Bellhousing bolt patterns are the same. The 2.7 will Physically fit. It's a matter of junkyard engineering to get it all together. IIRC he used the back half of a SRT T-850, and a mix of SRT/Caravan/K-Car axles and a SRT extension housing to get the correct axles and VSS. Not impossible.

Funnily enough, i was one of the first people to figure out the 3.3 > t850 connection (first and only 5spd found to be compatible with the 3.3/3.8) but decided against doing the swap. I might have been the first but it's impossible to say since there are so few 3.3 enthusiasts that we don't even really talk to each other, especially back in.. 2003. The guy you're talking about is only the 2nd person i know for a fact to have hooked that trans up to a 3.3 in the 12 years i've been paying attention to these motors.

The 2.7 i think is a super under-appreciated performance engine. The heads are very similar to the dohc 2.0/2.4 neon/stratus stuff and we all know they flow enough for massive power with only 4 cyls (srt4). Unfortunately it's even worse off to a potential enthusiast than the 3.3 because of the VERY few who know anything about it, noone does anything with it. Anyone who looks up mods will quickly become discouraged unless they are very confident/knowledgeable from the get-go. I even owned a 2.7 car for 40k miles and did exactly 0 mods to it in that time.

Personally, I thought the idea of him building up the 3.3 through mixing/matching different engine components was pretty damn cool. Had me doing a lot of searching for Shelby Can-Am engine parts on more than a few rainy Saturdays.

I've heard good things about the engineering behind the 2.7 from a few people I've talked to. However, you're 110% correct in regards to people not doing much with them. In my case, it doesn't fit in the Neon and therefore wasn't something I devoted much time researching past the write-ups on Allpar and the like.