what does $275 get you?
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Attachment 24211 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../9-5-07007.jpg Attachment 24212 Rats nest in air box.... Attachment 24213 IC piping blown on the way home Attachment 24214 Old Intercooler Attachment 24215 Oily.... Attachment 24216 Attachment 24217 Attachment 24218 Cleaning, ready to be put back together Attachment 24219 Installed a differnt oem intercooler in good shape and runs awesome. My goals for this car: 200 whp 250 wtq 13.99 on slicks w/o spending more than 1000 including the price of the car. I plan on making my own exhaust, IC piping(already have an intercooler), o2 housing, downpipe and upgrading the fuel pump. In the mail: VAF adapter and cone filter, eprom chip(eliminates 12psi boost limiter and speed limiter) and manual boost controller. |
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I could see a 13 out of that with little investment.Those are torquey little motors just reef the boost Im sure it will run out of turbo before it blows >:D
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i like it, may be ugly but whatever it has potential.
keep us posted ;D |
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Aren't the turbos on those tiny? Maybee get a little bigger one as you turn up the boost. Nice rig. There are alot of cars like that around that are that age--all oily and in need of some cleaning. At least a dealer did'nt spray it down and sell for 800.... :y
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Originally Posted by 00d16y8
i like it, may be ugly but whatever it has potential.
keep us posted ;D |
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i remember getting spanked by one of those back in the day, back when my Malibu was still stock(even the dirt was stock) & running mid 16s, i thought it was some random dude with a stock Probe ( & thinking this should be a close race), & when we went down the track & he yanked on me hard, i said to myself..."i forgot they made turbo probes" lol, he ran a 14.41 IIRC to my 16.65, haha, finally saw the BFI in the front bumper after the race :o
def a cool project |
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Originally Posted by Dive_Miguel
Aren't the turbos on those tiny? Maybee get a little bigger one as you turn up the boost. Nice rig. There are alot of cars like that around that are that age--all oily and in need of some cleaning. At least a dealer did'nt spray it down and sell for 800.... :y
hacking off the exhaust(or building a new exhaust with a bigger 02 housing and DP) will net another 1k of powerband supposedly. There isn't any real easy way to do an upgrade turbo on these things. The only thing I hear of is using a thunderbird compressor on this. But it requires some fuel mods... Because of the VAF type air- monitoring system rather than a MAF or MAP, these things are GHEY to tune! I plan on rebuilding the stock turbo, using a johnny racecar double backdoor FMIC I bought on here a while ago for my hatch, 2 1/4" hard piping, and a recirced 1g DSM BOV. Fortunatly I have the most knowledgable 1g probe expert living in the same town... Holder for record of worlds fastest FWD probe, worlds fastest F2t, and now the holder of the worlds fastest 6 cyliner probe, and fastest stock bottom end n/a 2jZ!(all in the same car) |
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those turbos on the might d is fun
Ya new dp and exhaust will help mucho |
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What car does a proctologist drive?
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thats a solid deal for $275! should make a fun project
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Originally Posted by klyph
What car does a proctologist drive?
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---- probe, that's awesome.
I mean the badge, not getting an ---- probe, which would not be awesome. Cuz I don't like things in my ass. Beer, and boobs, uh, yeah :l |
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Weight reduction will be easy on that pig...
good luck |
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I had an 88 mx-6 with the thunderbird hybred turbo. It made a difference for sure especially as I turned up the boost. But the exhaust set up on the cars is anemic. There's alot of improvement left in just that area.
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I already have a bmc turbine outlet flage coming(for some reason sam actually makes them for a probe)
I am doing a 2.5" dp and 2.5" exhaust. That should give me about 30 hp right there... and a much wider power band. |
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Great deal and looks to be a great start to the project.
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looks like a good project.
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Looks good for it's age and price.
Should be all kinds of fun with the normal upgrades for turbo car's: Big exshaust & D/P, a BOV that is'nt plastic and leaky and a MBC. My vote is for a big turbo and intercooler, ss long as your making a new down pipe might as well replace that little IHI to. Maybe since it's a square flange mani, you could just redrill the mani holes and bolt up a 14b/16g? |
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Definately get a bigger turbo, something like a t3/t4 :1
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Upgrading the turbo will be the last thing i do....
I plan on running 18psi on this one at the track on sept 16th... I have a type S and a eGay VAF adapter and cone filter on it now. just gotta add a nipple since i have a vaccuum hose needing a home :l boost controller should be here soon. and Sam said the flange will be here tuesday. |
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Just find a IHI on a thunderbird and swap everything over except the exhaust housing as the flange is different. Nice little upgrade.
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take that ugly as bra off the front !
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bra looks better than the Nasty rust and cracked paint under it, trust me, that was the first thing I was gonna do. aesthetics isnt my main concern with this car...
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One of my friends had one of those and it was the biggest piece of ----. When he got it the oil lines to the turbo were hacked, the air filter was plugged so bad it wouldn't even start, and when we finally did get it running decently it blew out ridiculous amounts of smoke.
However once it was running half assed-ly it was a fun car for what it was. |
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looks like fun Joel...bring it to the track this weekend and we'll have a race
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There was a feature article in SCC SEVERRRAL years ago an a MX-6 turbo(same gen as your Probe)...That guy had supposedly upgraded his turbo with the compressor wheel from an RX-7 turbocharger. Sorry, I'm not sure what specific RX-7 it was from. Might be something worth looking into. I agree with the previous poster who said you might as well look into another blower if you're gonna fab up a new dp. I don't understand why the MOST of the automobile manufacturer's instisted on putting such small turbo's on relatively high displacement 4-cylinder engine's back in the 80's. Guess it had alot to do with emissions and gas mileage standards :-\
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Originally Posted by CspecRun
I don't understand why the MOST of the automobile manufacturer's instisted on putting such small turbo's on relatively high displacement 4-cylinder engine's back in the 80's. Guess it had alot to do with emissions and gas mileage standards :-\
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