Recent content by vipergtsxz

I do like the protege5. My wife, though thinks they look like a station wagon. They are NOT a station wagon! Lol. I am keeping my eye open for one, they're even harder to find with low miles. Since there are so many around here with high mileage and super cheap, I've been contemplating...

Yeah, I didnt realize that until after I posted the first post. I got to looking at other msp noticed that it was aftermarket. The guy told me that it has a cold air intake, turbo and bov installed. I assumed that since this car is a msp maybe he just thought I didn't know a msp had a turbo...

This is why this is such a hard decision for me, as it should be easy. I really like the look of the msp, plus its like my old protege with a little more pep. If I were to get one, I most likely would not mod it all. It would stay stock. Probably won't have any spending money, lol. With that...

All of you make good points. Maybe I should just stick to a standard protege. I'm pretty much stuck on a protege because they're cheap, good on gas and I have an emotional attachment to them, lol. I always wanted a msp, but maybe right now isn't the best time since we have a baby on the way...

Thanks. I've never done a compression test, but I should be able to find a few videos on YouTube and probably a few posts on here explaining it.

The entire engine was replaced. That's a good idea of looking at the mounts, never thought of that.

No, its pretty much completely stock from what I gather.

So, my wife got pregnant .. somehow.. and I had to sell my 2000 miata.. I used to own a 99 protege and loved it. Now I'm looking at them again. I found a 2003 msp about 2.5 hours from where I live. He's asking $5000. It has 105,000 miles on body with 63,000 on new engine. I asked why the engine...

Hey, this might take a while to explain my problem... I've got a '99 1.8l Protege ES. I have Bosch Platinum +4 spark plugs. A while back my catylatic converter stopped up so I just replaced it and the manifold with aftermarket headers that just got rid of the cat. I also took off all the...