Hi all, I own a 2000 contour that I bought in NC (flat ground). It ran great there but now I live in PA where there are lots of hills and my car seems to have a whole lot of trouble. I heard about all these chips, mods, and cold air intakes to add horse power and gas mileage. Now I realise that I only have a 2.0 4 cyl, so obvioulsy I am not looking for racing performance, but I could definately use all the horse power I can get. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thankyou for your reply. I have found a cold air intake at www.supercoupeperformance.com. It is a new item. YOu have to cut off about 3" to 4" off the pipe. Looks like it might work. don't want to make a ram air. Just want to make my car run.

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What kind of Cold Air Intakes? Andre

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The two intakes most people use on the 2.0 are the RS Akimoto and the Weapon R. There are some difference in opinion as to which is better (I would opt for the Weapon R) but either does the job. There is also an Iceman CAI for the 2.0 Probe, but it is out of production most agree it was the best one ever made. Keep in mind all of these are made for the Manual Transmission and if you want to mount them in an ATX, it would take some modification. For more info visit http://www.probetalk.com and check out the 2.0 Performance section. Hope that helps. http://www.djmulti.com

What do you think would be better...A 3inch dryer hose running from the stock air box, with a K&N high flow air filter, going to the bottom of the car, which I've seen many people do, or the cold air intake from speedpeople.com? Gary [95 Probe GL]

Does anyone know where to get an intake for the A/T?  Or how to modify the
one for the manual?  

I havent seen a cold air intake on anything but a GT, but I did a ram air too. how did you do yours and how well does it work? I used PVC 3in. to 2in. from the square cut out under the bumper to the air box. Also if you haven't yet, advance your ignition timing a little. You will like it. Bill 95 SE (pic. soon)

How Do you advance your ignition timing, and what will that do for the car? I've never heard of doing that. Anyway, for my ram air I bought a 3" dryer hose, a rubber connector that has two openings, one of 3" and the other of 2 1/4 (around that size I guess) so it'll fit onto the air box perfectly. Since I don't have a base and it doesn't have the GT bumper, I had to run the hose down to the bottom of the car where there is an opening, I guess its the splash guard, and placed the hose there. I believe it works really well. My higher Rpm's work a little better. The only problem is that it affects my gas mileage. Before it I would have around 430 (max 461) a tank now its only around 400. I did a 0-60 test before and after it. ( they were on different days, one a few weeks after I bought the car, which was about a year ago), the first was pushing 13 sec's which really SUCKS, and the second with the ram air was around 12.5. A little better but still sucks. It all cost a little less than $10, so pretty good saying that the Cold Air Intake from speedpeople.com cost $65. And I don't believe it would work as well because the filter sits inside the hood and round the engine where all the air is hot, whereas mine takes it off the road which wont make it as hot, especially at night. Gary [95 Probe GL] [Laser Red]

On the front of your engine there is the distributer. Take a 12mm wrench, loosen the bolt on the left (only 1 bolt), and twist the dist. counter-clockwise. You will notice an immidiate diff. when you start it back up. You only need to go 1/8-1/4in., and don't do it with the engine running ofcourse. Tighten it down and your ready to role. Only 5min and free. Bill 95 SE P.S. you may be tempted to take it too far. If you get a popping sound when driving, back it off alittle. Have fun & drive hard.

It wont do any damage in the long run will it? And when you say "tighten it down," you mean tighten the bolt while the car is on right? And what is the 5 minutes and free mean? Sorry for not understanding. Gary [95 Probe GL] [Laser Red]

Oh okay, I got ya. nevermind that previous e-mail from me. Gary

its a mod that takes 5 mins to do and its free unless you dont have the wrench scott

No, it won't do any damage. Unless you go too far, and for a long amount of time. You will know instantly if you went too far, because the engine will not accelerate smothly, and you will hear a popping sound. This is caused by pre-ignition. Mine is, and has been for some time now, advanced almost all the way, and it runs a lot stronger without pre-ignition. I have had no problems. The factory has it set for the highest gas milege, do to EPA. The bad part is, in most cases, better gas milege = poor performance. This is a way to boost HP safely for free and it only takes a couple minutes to do it. Last but not least, don't do any work with the car running, and make sure eveything is tight befor you start the car. I hope this will help out better. Have fun with your new found power. Bill 95 SE