Protege5 - Show us your rust!
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CheeseHelmet
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What's "stg"?
My P5 was pretty cheap when I bought it, so it's expected... I'd say there are more visibly rusty (hatch, wheel arches, hood) proteges in Quebec than non rusty ones, so finding a rust free one for sale is hard and expensive.
@alexelie you end up getting a VW?
CheeseHelmet
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Sorry guy's no picture's here. I have no rust
Want me to ship you some? Just pay for postage and I'll send you as much as you'd like.
CheeseHelmet, stg is something. And yeah im looking for a jetta 1.8t. ive seen one and i will have it inspected friday at lauzon vw in blainville. Its a 2004 stage1+(225hp, 265 tq), 100 000KM(not miles). The rad is leaking, at least one wheel bearing is bad(from the ride i had, it made a loud noise that sounded like wheel bearing, i might be wrong though) and im suspecting the shocks to be blown...its dropped 2" on neuspeed coils. Sooo lol im getting it inspected and probably try to drop the price loll. if he doesnt want i will pass to another one.There are a couple insteresting ones. When i tried it, we were 3 in the car and i floored it getting on the highway in second gear hehe, i must say im pretty pleased with the performance of the turbo. the thing pushed all teh ay to 5000rpm where i shifted to 3rd gear.
CheeseHelmet
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Hah, you were right near my house
They better offer you a good price because that's a lot to fix
CheeseHelmet
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Oh... silly "stages" trying to describe modification levels.
I assumed he meant it had a stage 1 clutch installed...
What are these modification levels you speak of? Can you point me to a handy chart/infographic?
stage 1+ is simpy a ecu reflash thta up the boost to around 20 psi and get you to 225 hp(from 180). no need for modifications(maybe a different bpv so its not leaking). stage 2 is minimum downpipe and you get around 235 hp. Thats juts the way they call their reflahs but it usually always work the same for any turbo car.
ex: stage sti means it has at least a downpipe and a reflash(with off the shelf map or dyno tuned with accessport or ecutek...
ex: stage sti means it has at least a downpipe and a reflash(with off the shelf map or dyno tuned with accessport or ecutek...
i bought my p5 last november... i'm just starting to love the car so i decided to try to fix the bubbling on my quarter panels but the bubbling is worse than i expected.. now my bumper waves at people when i drive by hahaha (unamused).
i think i'm going to sell the rusty pos ... so sad. i thought mazdas were better than this
i think i'm going to sell the rusty pos ... so sad. i thought mazdas were better than this
CheeseHelmet
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Don't forget behind the "Protege5" badge!
CheeseHelmet
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I've got that starting on my driver-side door ;_;
What saddens me is seeing 15 year old tercels running around without a spot of rust on them. Clearly it's possible to make a car that doesn't rust out in our bad climate, but Mazda chose not to.
My next car will be a tercel
CheeseHelmet
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No waaaaaaaay, you can't tell me that a black 97, four-door tercel isn't sexy!
I wonder how hard they are to boost :S
CheeseHelmet
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Welcome to the club. I got some self-tapping machine screws at the hardware store which work quite well.
