I'd like to get some Phenolic Spacers specifically made for our I-4 2.0L Probes and I'd like to know who else is interested in this. The guy who developed and made them for the 2.5L Probes is Sean Morgan. Sean is a Probe owner himself here in Southern California and has spent much time and research to develop the spacers. Many of the 2.5L Probe owners who got these phenolic spacers and installed them in their cars have been giving very favorable reports. Overall they say that their intakes stay MUCH cooler now with the spacers installed. I'm currently talking with Sean Morgan to see if he can also manufacture some for our 2.0L Probes as well. -Lino Sacman, SCPOC '93 Rio-Red PSE, 5-spd Manager-2LiterProbes List For those of you who don't know what phenolic spacers are: Phenolic Spacers go between your intake manifold and the engine block/heads. They are made out of a material (plastic or something like that) that doesn't conduct heat very well. The purpose of them is to keep the intake manifold cooler so as to keep the air coming in cooler (and denser). The cooler air helps create more horsepower. For more info go here: http://home.san.rr.com/scmorgan/spacers

i'm in if you can get them made. chris >

I'm getting some made by a guy named Jose in California.  They are $55.  His email is:
fernely@bellsouth.net

More info about this can be found in the bulk buy section and/or 2.0 Performance section of Probetalk.com

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Multi,   I followed that same thread on Probetalk.com also. Jose finally gave you a price???  That's great!    I contacted  Jose also last week about phenolic spacers but he didn't give me a price. He only said that he would make them out of better material than Sean and charge us less than Sean.  But then gave me the URL to Sean Morgan's webpage for all the full explanation and writeup of phenolic spacers.  I thought that was a strange and lazy thing for Jose to do.   However, I personally spoke to Sean Morgan yesterday. He came out to our autocross in San Diego, California and spent some time looking at my engine and other 2.0L Probe engines. He told me that a lot more thought goes into making these phenolic spacers, You can't just cut the material in the shape of the head gaskets and expect it to work. He even showed me how the pattern and thickness of the material was considerred as to not interfere or change the effectiveness of the fuel mixture jets located near the edge of the intake manifold. Sean's other considerations were clearance to the hood and firewall once the spacers were installed.   I think it's great that there are now 2 sources for these phenolic spacers (Sean & Jose)  I know many of the 2.5L Probe owners who now have Sean's spacers installed  can attest to his quality. But the *new* spacers for the 2.0L Probe (regardless who made them) should be scrutinized a little bit. At this point Jose's price looks good but I just feel a lot more comfortable using those from Sean. However I'll recontact Jose and see what information he is willing to provide.  I hope he can provide me with a less "lazy" answer.        -Lino Sacman, SCPOC       '93 Rio-Red PSE, 5-spd       Manager-2LiterProbes List     

  I'm getting some made by a guy named Jose in California.  They are $55.  His email is:

What is a Phenolic Spacer??? sorry for the dumb question.

They are already made. One guy on here is selling em for like $50-$60. Jose Gonzalez <fernely@...> There hope that helps. Jer '96 PSE

me too kevin

OK again what the heck is a Phenolic Spacer.

i would like to know what exactly these spacers do. thanks todd ferguson

Hey look at the bottom of the e-mail you sent me and you'll see the link that says for more info go here. I think it would be a good idea to go there since you need more info. I think it will explaine everything. It did for me. Jer '96 PSE

Hey, if you get him to manufacture those spacers, e-mail me and let me know when and how much would you?