Mazda Protege Owner Photos

[L8R]

Nope.

 

[Sk8ter05]

Is their difference between the msp side skirts and the p5 side skirts

are you planning on getting msp side skirts?

 

[bens515]

im trying to sell parts off of my old car to fund the lip.

 

[jomoyo069]

are you planning on getting msp side skirts?

yeah.. msp or p5 side skirts

 

[jomoyo069]

im trying to sell parts off of my old car to fund the lip.

do it.. whats ur old car?

 

[bens515]

well the parts are for an 04 focus zx3. my old car is an 02 focus svt though.

 

[Shift2xlr8]

I'm gonna go out on a limb when I ask this but.....are any of the parts off the Focus interchangeable with our 2.0's? I thought I read somewhere that they are not, but thought I would get a 2nd opinion.

Chris

 

[jomoyo069]

i heard that some of the transmission is the same or something like that.. but prolly the answer is no

 

[njaremka]

nope - totally different designs

 

[Shift2xlr8]

Damn, why couldn't Ford/Mazda do something useful for the 4cyl crowd and put the SVT motor/tranny in the MP3 or MSP (turbo'd of course) or something and call it a day. I mean honestly, if you think about it the SVT 2.0L has I think roughly 160hp..? something like that. If you put a T25 on that you'd be boosting more or less 200-215hp, which would have moved the MSP up in the class, making it not the lowest man on the totem pole for its class. It would have maybe had a snowballs chance in hell against the SRT4 or the WRX, as it sits now, I think that the MSP barely hangs with the 175hp Sentra SpecV 6spd which is N/A. I love my car, but the engineers at Ford/Mazda are not the brightest crayons in the box.

Chris

 

[D-rock240]

Yeah somone already tried the SVT 6 speed mate up (unsuccessfully I believe)

 

[red95_240sx]

small brains=small engines

 

[mazdaspeedemon2]

well i talked to the guy that was trying to do the svt 6spd swap he said that the trans bolted up and mounted into his 02 pro but the axles were going to have to be custum made to fit the trans and the hubs he said that the reason he stop was he was working on too many things at the time

 

[bens515]

I can tell you all this, i never had a single issue with my ZX3 but when i get my SVT i had the car in the shop 7 times 3 of them in the last month. I do not suggest to anyone they purchase one of those. It was quite a bit faster than my protege and the 6 speed was nice but for realiabilty i give it a big thumbs down (gtfo)

 

[Jester236]

My new rims:

And yeah I know I need to lower it really bad.

 

[jeg0024]

Lookin good man, you gotta get that thing dropped now!

 

[jomoyo069]

it looks nice, but it also looks like its on stilts..

 

[red95_240sx]

i c some stock proteges that look slamed and some pretty high... maybe you have good struts

 

[jomoyo069]

i c some stock proteges that look slamed and some pretty high... maybe you have good struts

i dont think struts would do that.. it's because of the size of the rims/tires

 

[red95_240sx]

i see some with oem 14s high and low...the struts could alter ride height