Blah blah "when new" blah blah "spend money on you, not the car" blah blah..
I drove a 93 GT... Nice car, extremely nice handling car.. For Solo1 I liked
the Ford GT handling package, for Solo2 the Mx6 V6 handling package was the
better of the 2... (GT with the MX6 front sway bar was very common).
Tockico Adjustable in the rear and Koni S/A front's worked for the 93 GT in
Solo2 and the 16" wheels were a little too big and very heavy for the brakes
in Solo1 (torque on the brakes from the large diameter wheels) and the car
worked better or just as well on the 15's that came on the MX6 anyway... You
can get a 245-45 on that car!
Get excellent brakes pads and be nice to the brakes, Danielle Engstrom
(nee:Dvorak) pointed out to me that the reason I went through brakes on that
car so much was my braking style - she was right, you have to be gentle,
they are under-sized.
If you rotate (spin the top) the front struts you can get up to 2 degrees of
negative camber from the factory and this is the biggest "speed secret".
So, if he wants to go Solo1 with MCSCC then find a dead Probe GT and steal
all the suspension parts from it and replace the sway bar endlinks, and the
shocks they wear very fast.. I bet Dave Knaack could help him with finding a
dead 93 Probe GT.
Other wise: Blah blah "when new" blah blah "spend money on you, not the car"
blah blah..
Kieran
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Schmiechen" <aschmiechen@discovercolor.com>
To: "team.net" <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 7:27 AM
Subject: Ford Probe & Autocross
> I've got a new member to our club who's son is looking to drive a 4
cylinder
> Probe in autocross. He's rather unfamiliar with proper setup on a Probe
and
> was looking for advice. Unfortunately for him, I don't know of anything
for
> Probes, so I thought I'd turn to Team.Net for some info. Can anyone point
> me to some online resources for setting up a Probe for autocross? Thanks!
>
> -A.
>
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