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I tore into the Probe GT transmission I picked up a few months back (well, just over 6 weeks) and am chuffed to report it's got the 4.388 final drive. This means the differential will be changed out for the MFactory unit, but I'll run the Probe GT final drive/ gear ratios which may be a bit...

New (pssh, junkyard) transmission acquired! I took at look at local junkyards on a whim Friday evening and found a Probe GT recently arrived at the yard local to me. It appears the timing belt likely let go, as the first photo is how I saw the car when I arrived. Sat on Eibach Springs, Tokico...

One of the reasons I'm stepping into this one. Went and looked at it with a mate who's had one since he started driving in one form or another, and he said it's the cleanest chassis he's seen. The car, with a substantial spares list, including 3L motor and second MTX-75, was had for $2250... The...

Bad news, but news nonetheless. I think that I may have cracked the transmission right in the area where the VSS plonks into. This may have all come about as a result of beating on the thing at the autocross almost a year ago, but I was chasing the issue thinking it was the shift shaft seal (it...

An update to pull this thread out of the depths of hibernation! I decided a month ago to dust the cobwebs off and start the Pro5 up after its winter slumber. It didn't like that one bit, and neither did I. Dead battery was to be expected (but hopefully whatever drain is on it is minimal). The...

A rather frustrating update: transmission is in BUT there's a noise, a new noise, that my mate reckons is the 5th gear rubbing on the case cap. On our friend's road-race car, this is a chore to remove the cap due to the stiff motor mounts from AWR, but since I'm running a Rockauto...

Fixes; tenatively. I'll put the lump in next weekend. Note: a pickle fork and force applied in a shear motion will pop out the shift-shaft seal. Accurate application of force? No, probably not. But it worked, and didn't damage anything beyond repair! I managed to get my mate to omit...

Update on the "do it" seal: New replacement in hand. Of course, further inspection reveals that, indeed the transmission must come apart to correctly R&R the seal. Older transmissions, by my observation, had provisions to remove the seal without taking the transmission apart. This however...

Note to self: When you think you should replace something "while you're in there," DO IT. Took the old girl out for a drive after parking her in July after the autocross and noticed a few drops on the driveway when I let the car sit for a little while. Turns out the shift shaft seal has given...

Well, it happened... I autocrossed it and, It didn't break! Much excite. Day before the event I decided to switch the power steering suction hose from the heater hose material to a 3/4" I.D. fuel rated hose. I don't have absurdly high hopes that this hose won't begin to ooze over time, but...

LOL My mate is considering that in his road race MSP. Granted he's also stepped down a few classes from STU(pid money nets great positions) to FProd (I think?) which means no more turbo, but more reliability and ease of servicing. I ran a leakdown test today, at 75# versus the target 100#...

Got UOA results back. After 1800 miles, the test suggested detonation or worn pistons/rings/cylinders. Not too shocked or upset. Just picked up a new daily, so this will be put on the backburner after a leakdown test and compression test can be done to pinpoint the issues. This certainly...

Good news: Harness passed the wiggle test. Car no longer dies with the ECU shaken like it owes me money. Double good news: A forum member on the sister forum sold me his old MX-6 RSB which came in while I was out of state for work. Happy to have had time to throw it in. I'm waiting to...

From a scrambled mess to something hopefully functional. Ashamed to say I caught a mis-positioned wire already. Here's to hoping that's the only one. I plan to chuck it in this Friday and see what happens. I have functionally changed nothing about this harness from the last one. Removed one...

Turned a junkyard harness into something respectable this evening. Working on an even simpler wiring diagram to go along with the new harness.

Adding insult to injury, I made it to KY and back to MI sans issues, but I noticed that the coolant temp gauge was reading higher than "centered" (though I know most gauges are dummy gauges at best) when at operating temperature after I finally installed the sensor to my wideband gauge (I needed...

Good news: I have news Bad news: valve stem seals (I replaced) may be no good. oil smell under deccel from high RPM and under WOT accel. I will try to throw together a catch can and see what to do next. Try to run a compression test and see how that turns out. Have not run a leakdown...

That was the goal, so I'm happy that, at least to one person it's been accomplished! The greatest bit, to me, is that it's all reversable. I haven't cut anything on the OEM body harness that would prevent me from taking an FSDE loom and slapping that bad boy back in. I need to get the frame...

Midday engine bay Because I'm bored as sin and can only focus on my OSHA30 training for so long.

I ended up reverting back to the OEM pressure-side power steering line, so now the only non-OEM aspect of the power steering system in terms of lines is where the suction line from the OEM reservoir transitions to a 3/4" I.D. heater hose... I fixed the leak at the pump on the PTFE AN setup, but...