We finally had some decent weather here in kingport, TN so i took the RS out tonight and found some decent street racing. I pulled off a red light and i saw a probe that runs around town here, its a 94 or so with the V6 dual over head cam. The car has a reputation for being pretty fast. Anyways i just took off down the road to see if he wanted to play, i looked up and he was right on my tail, The right lane cleared and he got over as we were running at about 60, he was able to pull on me and got a little less than half a car ahead, he raced up to about 120 and i was able to very slowly real him in, by the time we shut down we were almost dead even, he was just barely ahead of me, maybe by about a half a fender. It was an awesome race. I stopped and talked to him and he said he had minor mods like cold air and exhaust and a chip. I was surprised i was able to hang with him as well as i did. but it was an exciting race.

We have so many of those "Butt" Probes running around here with "coffee can/fart pipe" exhausts, it's sick. Watchout for front mounted intercoolers and nitrous oxide purging.

Yeah you guys, I was ridin with Dustin when this race went down, man oh man, what a great race, this ranks up there with some of the best street racing that i have ever been in!!!:lala: :lala: :lala: :lala: :rockon: :rockon: :rockon: :rockon: :yourock:

so you guys were in the same car during the race???

if that's the case you could just consider it a win, every 100 pounds is making the car slower by somthing like 1 / 10th in the 1/4. so if you were catching up to him and just reeling it in, you could of gotten in front if it was just you driving. That's one thing that sucks when u get into a race when you have a car load of friends. Funny thing was i beat a civic on the high way one day, me and my buddy, and 4 girls in the back seat. It was funny cause the girls were all sitting on each others laps and when everyone got out it was like a clown car .

I am not trying to flame anyone but I could never race with someone in the car. I would not want to put their life at risk.

Cool race none the less.

I was thinking the same thing. I always raced alone....never with someone else in the car, but 5 others with you No way is that worth the risk....

now don't you guys get me wrong when i say this, dustin does love to race too, but that's what me and him go out and do every now and then, is just cruise around looking for street racing action, so it's not like i didn't want to be there, just thought i'd clarify that issue

Probes are slow. its funny how people think theyre fast cuz they put on a fart cannon and a body kit. So it looks *****. Its still a ford probe!. I smoked one from a hole. I didnt even know he wanted to race. He took off then I realized and blew past him.

Nate

The 6-cylinders and turbos are halfway decent.

I blew the doors off the standard one with just gears, exhaust and a K&N.

Yea, i had one other person in my car and he was by hisself, he had to slow down because he was comming up on another car, i think if we had kept going i would have eventually pulled ahead.

ya ive heard the v6 turbos are decent but iwas wondering, my friend has an old probe and he always tells me its a turbo v8 and he hasnt done an engine swap. ive never heard of a v8 turbo probe. do you think he is giving me b.s.

Yes. And AFAIK, there is 3 engines.

4 Cylinder NA
4 Cylinder Turbo
6 Cylinder NA

I had a 95 probe I sold for this Camaro it had a 116 hp 2.0 l4 5 speed all I did to it was an open air element a chip and a hood scoup it ran low 15's That 2.5 you raced be aware they rev higher than you think and dave they had a turbo V6 the GTS model
the packages went like this standard l4 na sport l4 turbo GT V6 na GTS V6 turbo

oh and I did NOT have a coffee can exhoust that is more of a honda thing I left mine alone

oh and you want to here some thing gay it was purple

I've never heard of a 2.0L Probe with a intake and a chip running low 15s. The car puts out 117 hp and may only have a weight of 2700 lbs and is capable of running low with 2 boltons while an SVT Focus with 170 HP and 2600 lbs runs high 15s ?

I've heard of V6 Probes that are supposed to run low 15s with simple boltons but I dont think that an I4 that is n/a is going to run low 15s? I mean a 1.0L 3 cylinder Metro puts out 55 or so HP and trq and only weighs 1600 lbs. That doesnt add up to a 15 sec car. The fact of the matter remains that 117 HP is still a low amount of power and short of being in a CRX or some other 1900 lbs car is not going to run 15s.

I've also never heard of a turbo V6 model. If they added a turbo ontop of the 2.5L V6 that was already in the Probe(at least 2nd gen Probe) they would be running low 14s I'm sure. Because hte 1st gen turbos are supposed to run 14s with intake, exhaust and a boost controller. I'm not all too familiar with engines that were produced by Ford during the 90s but I'm quite sure that they never released a turbo V6. I dont think that Ford released that many turbo engines through the 80s and 90s. The only turbo engines that I can think of that Ford released during this time was the turbo 4s in the SVO Mustang and in the Probe. Any input, info or corrections on this would be appreciated.

well if it was a v6 hes was racing they make 167 hp and decent torque.. however there was no such thing as a v6 turbo! look at the engine bay of one... theres no room... the GTS was a GT that had stripes on it. and as for fords engines... this isnt a ford engine... straight out of a mazda its a kl03 howver the japan verisoin that u might have raced would be a klze and thoose are fast engines... somewhere around 210 na hp and torque to scoot however theese cars are heavy considering only a v6 weighing in just under 3100 lbs

I raced a probe and a tiburon down in toms river last summer, and while they were fast, neither of them caught up to me. I think the worst thing was that it was on a wide one lane road with construction on either side. This was like 3 am so there wasn't a damn person around.

I just checked my alldata software. I stand by my statement.

I wouldnt consider a 3100 lbs car really heavy, I would consider a 3500 or so lbs car heavy.

I'm sorry that I implied Ford built the engine, I meant the engines Ford used.

i diddnt mean it in an offensive way, i was just staing what i knew cus my mom used to own a probe GT with 16" chrome wheels. man that hting was sweet, supposed to be a hand me down to me but no she sold it and got a mailbu. all well so i ended up with a camaro now

o yea by the way how much you think my 85 berlinetta weighs?

good call man i was just goin to say the same thing. i love how these guys try to rewrite automotive history...like this kid i know that insisted that this 84 toyota celica supra was the same thing as a toyota supra, "but it says supra at the bottom of my doors" lol well a mustang SVT and a focus SVT both say SVT sooo...lol anyway
LMAO theres this club i saw on a ford probe page called FPOC (female probe owners club) which would basically account for all probe owners lol

what was mazda thinking makin a v-6 with the same displacement of say THE IRON DUKE! if u wanna race a real DOHC v-6 go against my lumina Z34,215/215 hp/tq, made in 1991 and came stock with 4 wheels disc ,16" wheels, dual exhaust, forged bottom end, aluminum top end, and 4 tunable camshafts. even has gfx ,wing and vented hood. now thats a car thatll give u a run for your money. gm was on top of the "tuner" thing b4 it even began:hail:

You would imagine they might want to boost up the displacement of the engine since it is a v6. But GM did use a 2.8 v6, but it wasnt DOHC.

I was under the impression that the 3.4 DOHC engine was one of the biggest PITA engines to work. The fact that they have a very limited aftermarket and I believe the fastest 3.4 DOHC W-body I have heard of was in the high 13s I think with a few bolt-ons and spray.

the 3.4 is just a bored and stroked 2.8 with a dohc setup,
ya supposedly u hafta drop the engine to change the alternator, but then again u hafta take out the engine in a third gen to change the oil pan. the other commom problem with the 3.4 dohc is the timing belt, they can get worn out and break then u might have some valves through the pistons, but then again the dohc DSM motors have the same problem. u just gotta maintain the belts. if its starting to look warn then replace it. no problems with mine yet. ya its very true that theres a limited aftermarket. but i was talking about my Z34 stock, being a good car. first american dohc v-6, GM's first electronically shifted automatic transmission (getrag 5 speed was also an option), the exhaust manifolds have a good flow rate, so i just got the rest of it larger than stock and mandrel bent with aftermarket mufflers, i also have a cold air intake. besides forced induction or porting and polishing the heads/intake/tb theres nothing u would really need for it anyway. like i said b4 the heads and intake manifold are aluminum.

Ford probes are really slow. I saw a race between one with suspension mods, a fart pipe and a wing get owned by a stock Cadillac STS.

this one wasnt slow, it was the V6 dohc 24 valve. the 4 cylinders are slow though.

I would just like to add that I bought a 1989 Ford Probe GT new and drove it for five years. While it wasn't that fast by today's standards, it was a very quick car for the time. I ran 15.1's at about 90-91mph in the quarter on the one occasion I took it to a track. It was a great handling car that got great gas mileage, and it was fantastic on snow. I put over 100,000 miles on that sucker in just over five years before third gear disappeared and I traded it in...

the newer GTs arent that bad. My friend had one with an auto, and it was decent. With a 5spd they are pretty decent.
I seen one at the strip running very low 15s, quiet exhaust. I think all it had was CAI but i could be wrong

I have an 89GT for my daily driver. Stock it ran about 7psi of boost but mine runs 14psi now. I can't floor it in first otherwise the tires just spin but once I hit second hang on. With similar mods as mine other Probes have gotten in the 14sec range.

I have a '97 5 speed Probe GT. It's stock. The GT would have raped my '89 GTA when it was stock. Stock, they typically run in the 15's with the occasional car running in the 14's. The auto cars are slower.

They make headers for the lq1 now they sell them on www.mymonte.com along with a few other things

The lq1, when designed had 280 horse power but there wasn’t an fwd Trans that could hold it at the time so gm did something to lower the horse power

the fasts lq1 that I know of is in the 12's it is turboed