Freekenstein's 323 Fastbreak a.k.a. Protege5

[Freekenstein]

Hello y'all!!

Now that I've got a new car it might be time to introduce myself and my car.

I'm Freekenstein, 24 years of age and I live in the Netherlands. I've had a '91 Mazda 323 hatchback for 3 years but the time came to say goodbye to this car. Browsing the internet I found this car:

The car is now 5 years old and has done just under 110.000 km (about 68k miles). Since it has a diesel engine, that's not much!

I went to the company that sold the car and I almost immediately fell in love with the car. So I bought the car.

The interior is very nice

Engine is clean

But I'm a bit allergic to standard cars, so it didn't last long before a KW coilover-kit was installed

In this picture the car is a bit to low at the rear, but that's solved already.

Right now I've put 17" Barracuda VR5 rims under because I have a club-meeting on Sunday, but they will be replaced with M+S tires again on Monday because the weatherforecast predicts bad weather next week.

Pictures with installed 17's will follow

 

[sanblaster]

Diesel?

 

[mazdaspeed777]

Sweet! Congats on the new ride and welcome to the forums. Excellent choice BTW. I didn't know that they made diesel engine Protege 5's. Engine bay has quite a different setup. Well would love to see some more pics so post away.

 

[Javo]

send me your transmition mount.....BTW looks clean

 

[Freekenstein]

Yes diesel!!

Here in the Netherlands and in some other countries in Europe dieseloil is up to 30% cheaper than normal fuel. A second reason is that I drive more than 30.000 km's (about 20k miles) per year and a diesel engine is because of higher taxes only cheaper to drive when your yearly milage exeeds a certain point. On the highway this engine does about 20 km's on one liter of diesel (that's about 75 mpg!!!)

 

[sanblaster]

Damn dude that is awesome. Pretty loud though?

 

[Freekenstein]

No it's rather quiet! On my previous car i installed an open exhaust, that was loud!!

@Javo: Why do you want my transmission mount?? Is yours broken??

 

[Javo]

no.. lol... your transition mount has an extension that makes the car engage smother, to the opposite of ours. Just a complement

 

[Foolish]

What is the car badged as, a 323F, or is there actually a "Fastbreak" badge?

 

[stdntDrvr]

i want that car.

 

[Javo]

And I like the shorter rear bumpers and the OEM lip available.

 

[Hy8us]

square foglights FTL, clean though

 

[CTt3P5]

Congrats on the new car...very clean....and welcome to the forum.

 

[MyZmZm]

diesel?!?!?!?!?!?!?! i hate you!! lol if i'd had the option to buy diesel i would have, hands down! dammit all... hopefully we'll start getting more diesel vehicles with the new ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel that is now becoming the standard (before, the diesel that was the norm here in north america would destroy the diesel engines from europe)

i prefer the round fogs to the square ones from the regular pro, but over all very nice car the rear bumper is a bit interesting... i'd have to see it from all angles in person to decide if i liked it better or not. out of curiousity, what size are the wheels stock? they look smallish.

 

[i12drivemyMP5]

Really cool stuff. Welcome to the forum. Awaiting more pics. Steering wheel on correct side for America. Let's trade.............

 

[Speed_Racer]

I wouldn't mind have a diesel mazda daily driver. Welcome

 

[Foolish]

Is it a turbo diesel?

 

[nealric]

Why does europe get all the nice stuff?

Only reason I didnt buy a golf TDI is because they were $8k over the gas model at the time (and impossible to find). A deisel P5 that gets 75mpg would be orgasmic.

 

[Freekenstein]

Thanks for all the positive comments.
To answer your questions, yes it's a turbo diesel.
Stock wheels are 14" with hubcaps :$
The car is labeled 323F not Fastbreak.

square foglights FTL

What does FTL mean?? I have to learn those abbreviations of yours, but I'm planning on putting a frontbumper from the 2.0 Sportive on, that's the same as the MP5 has. With the addition of the 2003.5 MP3 bumper-add-on it would become a one-of-a-kind car on this side of the ocean I think

Tomorrow I'll post some pics with the 17's fitted, the weather right now is a bit too misrable to shoot some pictures

 

[Demoniam]

FTL= For the Loss, bad...
FTW=For the Win, good..