Figured I'd post here to add some protege content, not that anyone really cares about the protege anymore. So I've had this car for what seams like forever. @Raider can confirm. I think I purchased this car on 7/11/2008 with about 36k miles on it and now has over 150k road hard and put up wet miles on it I can't really provide much of the build progress over the years but I can state what I have so far in no real order. I'll have to upload pictures later when I get time. Mazda 6 17's wheels 17x7 60offset 20mm spacers ksport coilovers Energy Suspension 9.8171R pivot style end links Good ridge stainless yellow rear brake and clutch lines (front blew), Stoptech SS front brake lines Drilled and slotted rotors EBC brake pads 626 intake manifold Perrin FMIC Perrin Adjustable Short Shifter Bronzeoil 3rd shifter link bushings Kart Boy shifter bushing weighted shift knob Fidanza flywheel Exedy Stage 1 clutch mfactory LSD Custom top mount turbo setup using a Kinugawa T2 Turbo Manifold Rear Sway bar lock collars 3inch turbo back exhaust with a magnaflow muffler Haltech Elite 15000 with a WB01 wide band and a boomslang PNP harness Coil On Plug conversion harness using Toyota 1FZZ Coil packs EGR Delete 66duro AWR motor and trans mounts custom dual cluster pod steering Colum pod prosport boost guage. Dave B guage rings (I think ) custom molded 12inch Punch P2 sub woofer in trunk powered by a 450watt jensen amp Alpine headunit. color matched projector headlights Turbo manifold test fit Turbo loosely sitting on top of the manifold tweaking the oil return line, and "trimming: of the manifold, and turbo exhaust flange. tight tolerances IN progress modification of the stock WGA bracket First time messing with the elcheapo welder not winning any sema awards with this job, but it will do DIY AN lines 3inch stainless vband exhaust 3inch magnaflow muffler one piece hot pipe, this thing is a bitch to get in and out. coil on plug conversion LED reverse and cluster lights. and i think last is the projector headlights. and one last one right after I just completed detailing it for my sons scout car show.
oh it is, but to be fair its faster than yours, and not to mention my kubota riding mower is faster than your car in its current state.
Awesome stuff! Can you run Audi R8 or LS D585 coils? I was running the same Toyota coils in my Miata but swapped to R8 coils and noticed a big difference. The R8 coils definitely pull power and need a high current driver in the ECU to use them. I still need to wire in a separate 12v relay for them so they aren't pulling off the main relay but so far have been good.
Loved my 99 Protege. Wish I had it today so I could do a KL-ZE swap. For 17 years it was the most dead nuts reliable car I have ever owned! Nice to see one still alive.
Tha ks everyone. It's far from nice but if definitely not the worst condition one out there I can't say that I have looked into the r8 coils. are they the same connector as the Toyota one and or same pin layout? I'm sure the haltech can run them, just need to know the proper dwell time etc to set them up
