Here she is

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Mazdaspeed Protege
Number 2023

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Sorry, it's a rainy day today (doh)

I have big plans for this one, I'm just trying to save up the $$, and I don't know where to start first! Hahaha (wiggle)
 
Haha yeah, I'm a female...my husband (Silver Nitrate) bought me the car for my bday :) how sweet..he even sold his clean ass civic for it :) I used to have a 99 protege DX..when we went car shopping he swore he'd never get a protege...muahahahaha...well needless to say, he fell in love
 
AtrociousMazda said:
Haha yeah, I'm a female...my husband (Silver Nitrate) bought me the car for my bday :) how sweet..he even sold his clean ass civic for it :) I used to have a 99 protege DX..when we went car shopping he swore he'd never get a protege...muahahahaha...well needless to say, he fell in love

Very cool. What are your plans for the car?
 
I think the intercooler and CAI are first, I'm debating on painting it black, I want to throw some bronze wheels on it and I can get my windows tinted high quality for $10. I want the guages. That's the most of it for appearance, maybe a few things here and there and a lot of interior work...As for more performance, I'm still debating on what EXACTLY I want to do, there's a s*** load that i have on my mind, but I'm going to work on looks first. I've been studying, so I don't mess s*** up ya know?
 
first thing ya gotta do is take that #@$#@ing wing off. With a silver msp, it's an absolute MUST!! just look at mx3's and tell me you disagree.

as far as spending thousands to have it painted black goes... lol come on! you could have just bought a freakin black msp!!! seriously, that's just insane. maybe I read that wrong.... who knows?

anyway... enjoy your new ride!
 
CHICO2003 said:
first thing ya gotta do is take that #@$#@ing wing off. With a silver msp, it's an absolute MUST!! just look at mx3's and tell me you disagree.

as far as spending thousands to have it painted black goes... lol come on! you could have just bought a freakin black msp!!! seriously, that's just insane. maybe I read that wrong.... who knows?

anyway... enjoy your new ride!


nah, not thousands of $$... I have connections...and anyway, when we were at the dealer the MSP was an impulse buy...its not like i had planned it...and I like my wing :) So...oh well...thats why its my car and my money..not yours...right?
 
Awsome welcome! Keep the wing. It makes our cars unique. Also don't paint it black. I think the Sunlight silver msp are the rarest.
 
RenzoMSP said:
Awsome welcome! Keep the wing. It makes our cars unique. Also don't paint it black. I think the Sunlight silver msp are the rarest.

It's still a contemplation...I really like how the black paint and black tint look with the bronze wheels...Like I said, the only for sure thing right now is the tint, CAI, intercooler and BOV... (yes)
 
not thousands huh? those must be some connections you've got there! a high quality paint job (minus any connections) will go for at least 3-4k. Even if you're able to knock that down by 75%, that's still 1k that you could have thrown into an FMIC or exhaust. I'm not trying to be a hardass here.... I guess i just like silver too much to see someone change it. Also, knowing how many black msps that are available to buy, it just seems rather foolish to have not bought one of those if black was your thing. but as you said... impulse buy.

as far as leaving the wing on... of cousre you can do whatever the hell you want with your money and your car. but it seemed like you were looking for mod suggestions so I threw it out there. someone mentioned keeping the wing soley because it's what makes our cars unique. in reality, not having a wing would make an msp far more unique (not to mention, far better looking... at least on silver) besides, there are enough things on the car already (you know what they are so I'm not gonna list em) to more than make up for any loss in the unique dept losing the wing would provide.

having an orange msp (defintely one of the colors the wing looks good on) up here in CT sort've bums me out. the combination of the tires and color sort've make it a fair weather friend. it pains me to garage it up during the winter and drive around my slow, gas guzzlin, lumberin suv. if I had waited and gotten the silver... I'd essentially have (what I see as) a mini late gen Audi A4. Slap on some high perf all seasons and i wouldn't need that stupid suv. so... yeah, I guess i'm jealous! lol ironically, my car would fit in perfectly in the crazy hot houston climate. so let's trade ! lol j/k unless you want to! hahaha
 
CHICO2003 said:
not thousands huh? those must be some connections you've got there! a high quality paint job (minus any connections) will go for at least 3-4k. Even if you're able to knock that down by 75%, that's still 1k that you could have thrown into an FMIC or exhaust. I'm not trying to be a hardass here.... I guess i just like silver too much to see someone change it. Also, knowing how many black msps that are available to buy, it just seems rather foolish to have not bought one of those if black was your thing. but as you said... impulse buy.

as far as leaving the wing on... of cousre you can do whatever the hell you want with your money and your car. but it seemed like you were looking for mod suggestions so I threw it out there. someone mentioned keeping the wing soley because it's what makes our cars unique. in reality, not having a wing would make an msp far more unique (not to mention, far better looking... at least on silver) besides, there are enough things on the car already (you know what they are so I'm not gonna list em) to more than make up for any loss in the unique dept losing the wing would provide.

having an orange msp (defintely one of the colors the wing looks good on) up here in CT sort've bums me out. the combination of the tires and color sort've make it a fair weather friend. it pains me to garage it up during the winter and drive around my slow, gas guzzlin, lumberin suv. if I had waited and gotten the silver... I'd essentially have (what I see as) a mini late gen Audi A4. Slap on some high perf all seasons and i wouldn't need that stupid suv. so... yeah, I guess i'm jealous! lol ironically, my car would fit in perfectly in the crazy hot houston climate. so let's trade ! lol j/k unless you want to! hahaha

I didn't mean any disrespect...And I understand your opinions...But you have my husband on your side, he's not all for painting it black either. But like I said, the car was an impulse buy, if I had known i was getting a MSP I would have looked around. Not only that, it was a birthday present, I couldn't be like "hey babe I don't like this color take it back and get me a black one" I never used to like silver colors, black is more mysterious to me...it has grown on me, i'm just undecided right now, I have only seen 2 black MSPs here in htown. Anyway, I don't know what i'm going to do, I'm doing my research still.. and I know the bronze wheels are probably ending up on the car whether black or silver...Thank you though, seriously for your input, it gives me more to think about...
 
I think the intercooler and CAI are first, I'm debating on painting it black, I want to throw some bronze wheels on it and I can get my windows tinted high quality for $10.

$10 for high quality tint?? Where in Houston, do you go and can I get the same price?? Nice car BTW...silver is the best color!
 
msp102 said:
$10 for high quality tint?? Where in Houston, do you go and can I get the same price?? Nice car BTW...silver is the best color!

nah, not in htown...

Mexico...my husbands dad got his truck tinted there like 6 years ago, still no bubble and hasn't been replaced...
 
Hi Atrocious, nice looking car !@#$%
Nice to see you are jumping on the bandwagon like me. Anyways, I love bronze wheels and if my car was any other color besides silver, I would have got some. Unfortunately, bronze and gold clashes heavily with silver, IMO.
 
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