[Mustang_Racing]

I have a friend that has a problem about his engine (his car is a 93 probe) and he is wondring what would be the best way to tune the engine...he wanna just trash the engine and just buy a KLZE engine....so please help me anyone..befor my friend does anything stupid...

[Fordgazm]

Whats a klze engine ?

[wilit]

Unfortunately there's not much in the way of aftermarket support for the Probe, regardless of what engine he has. As far as adjusting the A/F, his best bet would be an S-AFC by Apex. But, unless his car has been modified internally, i.e. cams, head work, higher compression, etc., he probably won't need to mess with it.

[Mustang_Racing]

okay...thanx...but now he have read that you can put in a 3.8l V6....is that possible?

[1998GT]

Originally posted by Mustang_Racing
okay...thanx...but now he have read that you can put in a 3.8l V6....is that possible?

yeah i heard my friend taklign about that.. my friend's got a probe, you can swap in a mazda v6

[wilit]

Okay, first off, the V6 that comes in the the later probes is the same 2.5 Litre V6 that Mazda uses in the MX-6 (no gain there). Next, I'm fairly certain you can't swap a 3.8 in as it's a 90° V for a RWD application, and the 2.5 used in the Probe currently is a 60° V for a FWD application. It won't fit, and won't work. He'd probably have better luck swapping in a 3.4 Litre SHO V8 than the 3.8 in there (I'm sure that won't work either).

[Mustang_Racing]

But is it a different between the Mazda V6 that is in some of the probes and the Ford V6 that is in the rest of the probes? cause I have seen that some of the engine that the probe have it has the Mazda name on it,and some have the Ford name.

[wilit]

Originally posted by Mustang_Racing
But is it a different between the Mazda V6 that is in some of the probes and the Ford V6 that is in the rest of the probes? cause I have seen that some of the engine that the probe have it has the Mazda name on it,and some have the Ford name.

http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/5335/klze.htm

Not to be rude, but it's not that hard to do a search in Google for stuff like this.

[jjxusaf]

Unfortunately there's not much in the way of aftermarket support for the Probe

You know, it's a shame too, because in my opinion, the last body style of the probe was a fairly good looking car. It would have been great if they did with the probe what they're doing with the Focus. Either that, or offer it with a 302 option.

[wilit]

Originally posted by jjxusaf
You know, it's a shame too, because in my opinion, the last body style of the probe was a fairly good looking car. It would have been great if they did with the probe what they're doing with the Focus. Either that, or offer it with a 302 option.

Yeah, my buddy had a '98 Probe GTS. It was a pretty cool car. Just too underpowered for the fast looks.

Here's a tidbit of Probe history some of you youngings might not know. The Probe was almost the "All New Mustang." When people caught wind of it being a FWD 4-banger, that's when the letters started to roll into Ford. Needless to say, the Mustang stayed a V8 RWD, and the Probe, well, we know what happened to that.