well I am back to being a regular poster here on msprotege.com. not sure if any of you guys remember me here
a few years ago a couple guys here really ticked me off so I stopped coming by this site unless I needed to sell something.
well its been long enough so I am back.
many of you have may have already seen this thread on one of the other forums I am on (feoa.net, toprotege.com, clubprotege.com)
For those of you who dont remember what I was up to before, all I cared about was max performance from the stock FS motor. I went through a couple engines over the years and made several threads about building the fastest stock motor MSP.
Well nothing materialized. I bought a house instead and then got a great deal out of the blue on a genuine Mazda 1.8 GTR engine.
I decided to sell my FSDET engine and trans as it was getting lame swapping out FS motors and transmissions and used the money to buy a daily driver (chevy malibu).
Then I started building the GTR drivetrain. 1st things 1st, the strongest trans I could source. Toyota's E153 with adaptor to BP motor. Then Lex's Plug and Play ECU and a MKII vvt Miata cylinder head.
A few months into collecting parts I realized I really had no experience tuning with MegaSquirt or tuning ITBs and rather than risk the GTR engine to stupidity, I decided to pick up an escort GT parts car and do a trial run with a run of the Mill bp-05 motor and EGT trans.
That way if something goes boom when it is not supposed too I wont be crying about my dead motor, I will be laughing and swapping in the GTR
I built a few ITB intake manifolds (the one for the EGT testing motor is done, the sexy one for the GTR is still under construction)
here are some pics of the FSDET when I first pulled it out. Never in my life have I pulled out a perfectly good drivetrain lol
Here is the most recent pics. In the next post I will cut/paste some pics and info from my other build threads so you guys can see what i have been up to.
here we are with the axles put in, still fandangling for room around the engine bay. Trying to mount the engine as low and far back as possible.
here is a pic of the first mazdaspeed protege to ever have individual throttle bodies Feel free to correct me on this but I sure have never seen ITBs in a MSP !
this pic shows the rad clearance. Ive cleaned it up quite a bit since I took these pics and also cut out the stock rad supports and welded in new ones lower and the proper width for the EGT rad.
a few years ago a couple guys here really ticked me off so I stopped coming by this site unless I needed to sell something.
well its been long enough so I am back.
many of you have may have already seen this thread on one of the other forums I am on (feoa.net, toprotege.com, clubprotege.com)
For those of you who dont remember what I was up to before, all I cared about was max performance from the stock FS motor. I went through a couple engines over the years and made several threads about building the fastest stock motor MSP.
Well nothing materialized. I bought a house instead and then got a great deal out of the blue on a genuine Mazda 1.8 GTR engine.
I decided to sell my FSDET engine and trans as it was getting lame swapping out FS motors and transmissions and used the money to buy a daily driver (chevy malibu).
Then I started building the GTR drivetrain. 1st things 1st, the strongest trans I could source. Toyota's E153 with adaptor to BP motor. Then Lex's Plug and Play ECU and a MKII vvt Miata cylinder head.
A few months into collecting parts I realized I really had no experience tuning with MegaSquirt or tuning ITBs and rather than risk the GTR engine to stupidity, I decided to pick up an escort GT parts car and do a trial run with a run of the Mill bp-05 motor and EGT trans.
That way if something goes boom when it is not supposed too I wont be crying about my dead motor, I will be laughing and swapping in the GTR
I built a few ITB intake manifolds (the one for the EGT testing motor is done, the sexy one for the GTR is still under construction)
here are some pics of the FSDET when I first pulled it out. Never in my life have I pulled out a perfectly good drivetrain lol
Here is the most recent pics. In the next post I will cut/paste some pics and info from my other build threads so you guys can see what i have been up to.
here we are with the axles put in, still fandangling for room around the engine bay. Trying to mount the engine as low and far back as possible.
here is a pic of the first mazdaspeed protege to ever have individual throttle bodies
Feel free to correct me on this but I sure have never seen ITBs in a MSP !
this pic shows the rad clearance. Ive cleaned it up quite a bit since I took these pics and also cut out the stock rad supports and welded in new ones lower and the proper width for the EGT rad.
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