Recent content by evilpanda

Yeah the guy at the garage cut a small piece of the heat shield around the shifter so that it doesn't hit it. I've heard people completely remove the heat shield or just bend it. I also think that the heat from the exhaust pipe is doing the damage, I can feel the heat coming out of the shifter...

Since I've installed my B&M short shifter on my 2001 protege ES, when I've been driving for around 20 minutes in hot temperatures like 20 degres celcius and more the shifter becomes sticky and slugish. The gears seem to be engaging as usual but the stick movement is more slugish and sticky. In...

lol funny! if that guy made a tv show I'd watch it.

Normal 87. Why do you pay more for higher octane? It's freakin gas! just noticed that im in msp forum. I own a ES 2.0...

I shift between 3500 and 4000 in normal driving but when I want to give it a burst of acceleration I go to 5000 maybe 5500. When there's traffic or cars in front of me that don't accelerate much I shift at 3000.

I have an old head unit (Sony CDLX 5500 or something like that) that was bought in 2001 for my Corolla 1991! Now that I have a protege ES 2001 I want to reuse this Sony HU but I'm missing some parts like the metal casing that goes around the radio and some clips and screws. The only things left...