Job Spetter Jr has been tuning full tilt turbo and EFI engines for a long time. His name is very well known around drag racing circles and he’s both driven and tuned others to lot and lots of race wins. Job is shown in this video running an awesome 7-second Ford Probe drag car through its paces on the chassis dyno and boy, oh boy does he! The 2.3L turbo Ford engine in this car is built to the freaking hilt. Why do we think that? Did you miss the part about it running sevens a few seconds ago?
There are two pulls shown. As the first was being made we were lamenting the fact that we couldn’t see a tach to tell exactly how stratospheric the revs were but they sounded like five digit territory to us. Thankfully, for the second pull the camera operator sets himself up right next to Job and watches the tach. Note that the tach STARTS at 6,000 RPM. While it doesn’t quite nip the 10,000 RPM plateau, it comes damned close enough. Most engines we build survive one trip to that RPM zip code but this thing was obviously screwed together by people who knew what the hell they were doing. Power numbers are not given, but to go sevens in that Probe door slammer, it has to be knocking on the 1,000hp door. Oh, it is also packing a stick shift which rules the school as well.
If you dig the absolute hellacious wail of small engines being spun to the moon, this is porn for you.
CRANK THE SPEAKERS AND PRESS PLAY TO WATCH ONE OF THE BADDEST 2.3l FORDS IN THE COUNTRY GO TO WORK!
