Originally Posted by visa_broke

Looks quality, great work.

Out of interest what brands the exhaust? It's rare to find a decent oval exhaust

Originally Posted by fury556

Nice looking Probe! Certainly not very many of them around.

This may have been asked before but are there any major differences between the UK and Jap spec V6? Is the Mazda unit basically the same just modified internals and management?

Originally Posted by deanflowers

Hi i now a lot of people dislike these but here is my Ford probe 2.5. Apparently there are very few left on the road (less than 500 24Vs anyways so thought it would be worthwhile buying.

I sold this car 8 years ago but recently bought it back (it was far from as good as when it was sold). It is looking sorry for itself, the engine bay was like a salty corroded mess rather than mirror polished from being in scotland and it had no mot or tax on it).

It has a japanese import KLZE engine (200bhp) rather than the UK KLDE engine (165bhp) and was dynoed at 193 bhp at the wheels with UK ecu when i had it but i dont think the VRIS system was working right.

ive just bought some RX8 wheels for it as i want to run some mazda 6 brakes and the the 16" wheels wont fit over these. Also bought an ECU that will change the VRIS inlet switching points so that they are correct for this engine so that should give me a little more.

Cambelt was done last week, got to change a rear brake caliper and then it should be road legal.

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current Setup:

lowered 30mm
KLZE MX6 Engine
Uprated fuel pressure reg (not the one shown).
stainless system
6 branch manifold
Induction kit
black samco hoses
magnecor leads
Grey Leather interior
Amber driving lamps (the lower ones that look like fog lights)
mesh grills

Ive got some EU rear lights (symmetrical reverse lamps - no fog)


The first thing to do was restore the engine bay so i have lots of powder coatings to fit:



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vapour blasted fuel rails:

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crinkle black rocker covers and inlet:

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will probably polish the mazda writing i think.

Got some of it back together but still all the little brackets left to fit:

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Redoing all the vacuum system and fitting this back together wasn't the easiest of jobs but definately worthwhile.

It really needs some paint to make it look right again so this is the next plan and i know of some coilovers so they would be good.

I bought another black one for parts with black leather and a boot spoiler but not sure what to do with it yet. I fancy a cossie floor pan and RWD on that one but that will be a long term project i guess and i have too many other projects to do first.

Originally Posted by deanflowers

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