Hello fellow P5'ers, glad I found this site. I look to learn as much as I can from everyone here about my new(ish) car. I hope to be able to contribute in terms of car audio. Glad to see there is a dedicated place for this little car. I can get into the story later, but I had a tragic end to a very rare 1993 (MB) Brabus 300ce, and I was in a tight spot with money, time and resources. So I did a little research over the span of a few days and found an awesome deal on a 2003 Protege5 5-speed in New Jersey. I had been wanting a 3 for a little while now as a project car, but this was more feasible money wise and was all most too good to pass up. Nice to not have a car payment.
This car will also be a Sound Quality demo vehicle for my car audio company: SSAudio. Anyway, I am looking to only do minor performance modifications to this car. I have to keep my self in check as I have gone over board on past vehicles and just destroyed the ride quality or the engine reliability. So far, my little Mazda has been great on gas (averaging 32.3mpg over 6 tanks I believe), and much much cheaper to fill up. My commute is long so I need to retain nice and high mpg.
I hope to get some solid ideas on respectably priced performance modifications. I have already been peaking at the likes of Corksport and such. The two issues I had with the car was road noise/sound transfer and horsepower. I have taken care of the first part, now on to the power!
So far I have done a full SoundDeadenerShowdown install and I will post up the build log here soon.
Here some photo's of the exterior of the car as it stands:
And here is a picture of my wonderful, but sadly gone, Brabus 300ce:
This car will also be a Sound Quality demo vehicle for my car audio company: SSAudio. Anyway, I am looking to only do minor performance modifications to this car. I have to keep my self in check as I have gone over board on past vehicles and just destroyed the ride quality or the engine reliability. So far, my little Mazda has been great on gas (averaging 32.3mpg over 6 tanks I believe), and much much cheaper to fill up. My commute is long so I need to retain nice and high mpg.
I hope to get some solid ideas on respectably priced performance modifications. I have already been peaking at the likes of Corksport and such. The two issues I had with the car was road noise/sound transfer and horsepower. I have taken care of the first part, now on to the power!
So far I have done a full SoundDeadenerShowdown install and I will post up the build log here soon.
Here some photo's of the exterior of the car as it stands:
And here is a picture of my wonderful, but sadly gone, Brabus 300ce: