Who's left?
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Notorious_V.I.C
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- 2003.5 MSP
No! MAM is still here! ANd well, BEGi Still is making FMICs for the MSPs.....DOn't know about wanger or Spool
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- 2002 BJFW, 2007 BK3P, 1979 SA22C, 2005 BK3P
i had been offered the gearing and jigs for the BEGi turbo kit by Corky Bell a few weeks back but the costs in assuming production are simply too high to justify in what is pretty much a dwindling market.
Notorious_V.I.C
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- 2003.5 MSP
A Turbo Kit From Bell engineerring?? For the MSP or Proteges?? Dang! I'd like to see a picture of that Set-up...
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- 2002 BJFW, 2007 BK3P, 1979 SA22C, 2005 BK3P
Notorious_V.I.C said:
spool and begi were the first turbo kits to hit the scene for this car. the talk on this forum used to be much hyped "begi VS spool" which is better, lol. begi eventually turned over all marketing to Flyin Miata, who in turn formed "Flyin Protege" as a brand name to sell protege parts and turbo kits. the idea never really took off and arguably hiboost stole alot of that thunder. Flyin Protege was around for about a year until they decided to go back to strictly focusing on Miatas. terry (spool) ran into some financial woes and despite his best efforts to save the shop, it went under and was sold to a group of tuners who dropped the protege support as soon as the ink dried. the widely known "spool ITS mp3" is now owned by none other than turfburn.
wagner was never really a key player in my opinion, not on this forum. there was always talk of a wide variety of cams, exhaust components, engine parts, etc coming from them that never seemed to materialize or when they did were never backed up by any real claims. wagner had teamed up with perfworks (whom at that time was from MPI) to develop a full AEM standalone for the protege. the partnership ended with perfworks making off with many customers' money and reportedly being hauled off to jail on an unrelated charge. wagner was also participating on the WOMP supercharger project, with the results being fairly poor. very recently wagner had planned a full slate of product (mazda6 twin turbo kit, etc) and botched up a shorty header group buy before the company mysteriously shuttered its doors late last year.
the other turbo kit that came and went without so much as a flash was the Tripoint kit. the kit used an aerodyne turbocharger and was under perpetual redesign after aerodyne went bankrupt.
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- 2002 BJFW, 2007 BK3P, 1979 SA22C, 2005 BK3P
this community has seen its fair share of vendors come and go, with all the associated drama that accompanies it
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- 2002 BJFW, 2007 BK3P, 1979 SA22C, 2005 BK3P
viVid said:
mental addiction will be making thier future production plans public very soon. right now i can't really comment on whatever direction they might be taking.
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- 2002 BJFW, 2007 BK3P, 1979 SA22C, 2005 BK3P
sandspeed said:
bell intercoolers is a different branch than bell engineering. they have no intentions of not making the FMIC kit, just not the complete protege turbo kit.
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- 03 Protege ES 5spd
its seems to me, for the most part, that hi-boost has their s*** together. they offer products for more than just the protege. i think they'll be around for a while.
anarchistchiken
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- 03 Silver Protege5
Yup I think that HiBoost and MAM are both going to be sticking around in the Protege/3/6/5/whateverothernumberMazdadecidestouse markets for a while.
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- 2002 BJFW, 2007 BK3P, 1979 SA22C, 2005 BK3P
wicked said:
yes, as long as i keep buying them
