# crazy .... V8 swap into a ford probe
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [April 12, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654 "2006-04-12T02:42:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@HotRodKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/HotRodKid)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/1 "2006-04-12T02:42:22Z")
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> I’m starting to get a little tired of the low power/high wheel spin thing with the KL so I started a V8 project. It’s a lot easier than I thought, I don’t know what all the bitching in the Performance forum is all about.
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> Today I got the V8 mounted in, all I have left to do is find a matching gearbox and probably a Painless wiring kit for the stuff. I like it, it’s all-aluminum, compact (look at that elbow room!), and should be a lot of fun.
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> Enough teasing, on to the pics:
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> Mount installed:
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> V8 installed, closeup:
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> As it sits in the bay:
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> Artsy shot:
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> I would do a writeup but then a bunch of copycats will copy it and I want to keep my originality. In da hood where I’m from, it’s all about originality and respect - you have to earn it, it is not given. I’ll see YOU at a track near you. Look for my new license plate KILLAV8PGT to rock the street races as well. Don’t be sayin’ I didn’t warn y’all about losing your money.
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### Author:  [@AlbinoMonkeyRat](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AlbinoMonkeyRat)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/2 "2006-04-12T02:57:43Z")
:lol:
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### Author:  [@Jagermeister](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jagermeister)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 5:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/3 "2006-04-12T05:31:02Z")
:lol: :2fingers:
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### Author:  [@JaysGreenLX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JaysGreenLX)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 5:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/4 "2006-04-12T05:40:34Z")
Numbers??
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### Author:  [@zwarbyt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/zwarbyt)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 5:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/5 "2006-04-12T05:47:47Z")
why not 2 v8’s?
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### Author:  [@L8APEX1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/L8APEX1)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 7:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/6 "2006-04-12T07:54:10Z")
twin v8’s FTW
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### Author:  [@SilencingMachine](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SilencingMachine)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 8:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/7 "2006-04-12T08:30:53Z")
wow nice clean install lol
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### Author:  [@tnick24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tnick24)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/8 "2006-04-12T08:48:22Z")
looks good!
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### Author:  [@mindless](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mindless)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/9 "2006-04-12T09:01:17Z")
when i was in school for auto my teacher had a probe with a bb ford in it so i was actually ganna compare this one to that. yea this one was done way better haha super clean
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### Author:  [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 9:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/10 "2006-04-12T09:16:51Z")
Damn first gen probe for thie win! V-8 Powa!!111
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### Author:  [@articzap](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/articzap)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 10:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/11 "2006-04-12T10:41:19Z")
needs nos behind it lol
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### Author:  [@focusinprogress](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/focusinprogress)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 11:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/12 "2006-04-12T11:21:17Z")
^ hahaha yeah another moutn with the “NOS” energy drink can in it lol, with a straw connecting them
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### Author:  [@Minglor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Minglor)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/13 "2006-04-12T14:33:24Z")
He should have made it a mid engine.
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### Author:  [@9ONA3OOZX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9ONA3OOZX)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/14 "2006-04-12T14:35:00Z")
damn looks like he did a lot of weight reduction too…
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### Author:  [@BLKGSR](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BLKGSR)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/15 "2006-04-12T14:41:31Z")
He needs to twin turbo that v8
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### Author:  [@9ONA3OOZX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9ONA3OOZX)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/16 "2006-04-12T14:48:17Z")
F40 TT V8 \> prove v8TT
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### Author:  [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/17 "2006-04-13T16:41:35Z")
> [@FuzzyFish](#):
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> Damn first gen probe for thie win! V-8 Powa!!111
Um, that’s not a first gen probe.
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### Author:  [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/18 "2006-04-13T17:17:41Z")
so what you expect on the Dyno?
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### Author:  [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-v8-swap-into-a-ford-probe/10654/19 "2006-04-13T19:13:06Z")
> [@walter](#):
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> Um, that’s not a first gen probe.
Meant second, I should have know better seeing as I owned a 1st gen gt. \>\_\<