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Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: leijae on July 24, 2005, 02:23:00 PM

I have a 2001 Mazda Protege(4-banger). First Project.
PRETTYFICATION

1) Put in a good sound system: 1600w Bass Amp with 12in Kicker 5 Quality door and hatch speakers.

2) Make it look cool: 17in Koing rims and West Wing spoiler. Vinyl hood and side stripes.
Pics below(taken with cell phone, sorry)

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Next car Project(the one i'm currently working on)
BADASSINIZATION

1) 2 black and white seat covers with 7in cutout in the headrest or back for lcd

2) 2 modded xbox's and 1 slim ps2(already owned)

3) 3 7in LCDs(vga or with universal audio/video(red/yellow/white) hook ups
*need to know how i can split the video of 1 xbox to 2 lcds

4) car computer with VGA touch screen in-dash(from mp3car.com) with cd/dvd/mp3/wifi integration running windows xp pro as OS(still need about $240 for it)

Please give me all websites with good quality and inexpensive items for this project. Links to tutorials would also help. If you think somthing else would look cool, then tell me and I may add it to this project or the next.
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Last project in about a 1 year
KICKURASSINIZATION

1) full body kit(side skirts, bumer,fender)

2) lowering suspension

3) level 2 or 1(depends on cash) turbo

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Rylinkus on July 24, 2005, 03:43:00 PM

I know the MS Protege has an engine thats VERY similar to that of the 1st gen Probe GTs and Mazda MX6 GTs. May be worth looking into whether or not the turbo exhaust manifold from one of those would bolt onto that car. It may allow you to build a turbo setup pretty cheap if you can get away using some parts from those.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Hercules Q Einstein on July 24, 2005, 03:46:00 PM

UUhhhggg.

God i hate ricers. Why put a spoiler that severly hurts your preformace? Seat covers look kinda tacky IMO also.

Not to mention thats alot of money going into that car, maybe it would be better to save it and maybe buy something else down the line?

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: leijae on July 24, 2005, 06:20:00 PM

wtf is a ricer? and i can spend my money when i want.... hell i've got enough.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Rylinkus on July 24, 2005, 06:45:00 PM

QUOTE(leijae @ Jul 25 2005, 02:31 AM)

wtf is a ricer? and i can spend my money when i want.... hell i've got enough.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: thesideinguy on July 24, 2005, 06:52:00 PM

QUOTE(leijae @ Jul 24 2005, 05:31 PM)

wtf is a ricer? and i can spend my money when i want.... hell i've got enough.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: leijae on July 24, 2005, 07:14:00 PM

thanks, for the enlightenment guys...on the ricer thing... anyway, i like my car. and i am the one to drive it everyday. but if you guys flame my car, its not cool. but if you're telling me out of concern, then thanks(for real).

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Rylinkus on July 24, 2005, 07:20:00 PM

As I said, I don'tmind any of it.

Make sure you paint any body kit that ends up on the car. Nothing looks worse then an unpainted kit. Get it installed properly so theres no gaps. I don't like decals, whether it be stripes or otherwise. Again, personal opinion, nothing more. And I hate seat covers. If you want your seats to look different buy new seats. Thats just my opinion. And my style is ALWAYS performance over looks, so were it me I'd be doing engine stuff. But thats what I'd do with MY car.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: thesideinguy on July 24, 2005, 07:26:00 PM

i'm a american car man myself, but to tell you the truth. i joke about it alot but i actualy like ricers. if i had one i would rice that thing righr on up. they look cool imo. the only thing i cannot stand is that fart in a can sound from those coffe-can sized mufler tips comming off a 2 inch pipe. thats just plain stupid.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: leijae on July 24, 2005, 09:39:00 PM

lol understandable guys. i bought the car with the flow master on it. he said he bought it for performance, which is fine. as for my engine, i can't afford the super, or turbo, charger right now, so i'm thinking of putting on the turbonator, www.turbonator.com it got some good ratings in the mags. give me your opinion, and if you have one, how is it?

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: leijae on July 24, 2005, 10:07:00 PM

sorry for double post, but i forgot to post a couple of pics

i found these, like i said at mp3car.com

MP3Car Custom Car Computer $399.00
This system includes a M10000, 60gig HD, 256MB RAM, and 3688 Case.(will add wifi card)
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Xenarc 700IDT In Dash 7" Touch Screen VGA $599.00
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[700IDT]

(want 2)
Lilliput 7" VGA TFT Monitor $259.99
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guys if you can find these for cheaper please give me the links

btw i'm not advertising.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: thesideinguy on July 25, 2005, 12:32:00 AM

you could save yourself some money and have a whole lot more like gps and others stuff with a carputer.
go to mp3car.com and read up.
that 60gb thing isnt worth that much, i'd rather have a 200 with tons of dvix movies and mp3s vs 60 gbs or mp3s
but thats just me

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: leijae on July 25, 2005, 07:23:00 AM

yea thats where those pics are from, is mp3car.com

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: th3rdeye420 on July 25, 2005, 10:46:00 AM

just my 2 cents which is worthles, but why buy

QUOTE

MP3Car Custom Car Computer $399.00
This system includes a M10000, 60gig HD, 256MB RAM, and 3688 Case.(will add wifi card)

when an xbox would be cheaper slash have more features and work with the screen display??

just a question.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Rylinkus on July 25, 2005, 04:51:00 PM

QUOTE(leijae @ Jul 25 2005, 05:50 AM)

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Rylinkus on July 25, 2005, 07:28:00 PM

QUOTE(the black box @ Jul 26 2005, 02:58 AM)

YES! You got a new sig Rylinkus! Nice burnout by the way too.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: thesideinguy on July 25, 2005, 08:15:00 PM

QUOTE(th3rdeye420 @ Jul 25 2005, 09:57 AM)

just my 2 cents which is worthles, but why buy

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: th3rdeye420 on July 26, 2005, 05:58:00 AM

QUOTE(thesideinguy @ Jul 25 2005, 10:26 PM)

more fetures?

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: leijae on July 26, 2005, 10:37:00 AM

i agree, i do need a larger hdd.

as for you guys arguing over the carputer vs xbox... gah! i have 3 modded boxes and getting the carputer. maybe i didn't explain myself very well earlier. i'm installing 2 modded boxes under the car seats connected to the 2 vga lcds in the head rests. they both have 80gb hdds which is ok, i only need halo 2, some movies, and some a couple more multiplayer games. the 2 boxes will be lan'd in the back as for the touchscreen vga in front, i'll install xp pro, movies, pc games, and some other stuff. the touchscreen has 2 inputs for video.
input 1) carputer
input 2) slim ps2

i hope this clears some stuff up.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: th3rdeye420 on July 26, 2005, 12:52:00 PM

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: leijae on July 26, 2005, 02:27:00 PM

as long as you can sleep at night....

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Psykomantis00 on July 26, 2005, 07:14:00 PM

Dude you drive a FWD Mazda. Sell that and stop with the ricification. I hope you do add a turbo, I cant wait to see a topic in a few months after the install saying "doood I just launched a rod through my block, should I sell my wing and stickers to buy a bigger turbo?". That car is NOTHING BUT RICE. A project car would be a nissan 240sx and do an sr20 det swap. Or keep it KA and turbo it. build up the stock block and then put a nice turbo on it. Maybe get a 2nd gen RX7 MKIII and build it up. Why buy some cheap FWD low power car and put TV's and a wing on it? Get something that people would consider a project car that you need to tune and work on. A project car isnt one you slap stickers on and screw on a wing then say ohh im done!!!!.

You didnt even know what a ricer is. That just proves you know NOTHING about cars.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Rylinkus on July 26, 2005, 09:53:00 PM

QUOTE(Psykomantis00 @ Jul 27 2005, 03:25 AM)

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: th3rdeye420 on July 27, 2005, 06:46:00 AM

you thought I had beef, this guy owns a meat farm!

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Psykomantis00 on July 27, 2005, 09:23:00 AM

What do I drive? Right now Im in the process of buying a car because I blew my precious cars up. They happen to be an 89 civic EF with GSR swap and it was turboed. My first car was a 94 mitsubishi mirage with a 4g63t swap and would have been awd if I wouldnt have totaled it. What do you drive? Ohh wait... camaro. Another bolt on GM.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: leijae on July 27, 2005, 07:13:00 PM

Psykomantis00, why don't you quit quoting what you read out of magazines?

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: thesideinguy on July 27, 2005, 07:19:00 PM

i figured as much, but lets keep this clean. this is one of the smaller forums here and has needed very litle moderating. for good reason., MOST of us here in this section are adults. lets keep it that way.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: leijae on July 27, 2005, 07:46:00 PM

friends?? BFF???

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Psykomantis00 on July 28, 2005, 06:22:00 AM

QUOTE(leijae @ Jul 28 2005, 03:24 AM)

Psykomantis00, why don't you quit quoting what you read out of magazines?

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: leijae on July 28, 2005, 12:07:00 PM

go fuck yourself

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Rylinkus on July 28, 2005, 02:45:00 PM

QUOTE(Psykomantis00 @ Jul 27 2005, 05:34 PM)

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: EverestX on July 28, 2005, 03:00:00 PM

QUOTE(Psykomantis00 @ Jul 27 2005, 11:34 AM)

Right now Im in the process of buying a car because I blew my precious cars up. They happen to be an 89 civic EF with GSR swap and it was turboed. My first car was a 94 mitsubishi mirage with a 4g63t swap and would have been awd if I wouldnt have totaled it. What do you drive? Ohh wait... camaro. Another bolt on GM.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Psykomantis00 on July 28, 2005, 09:37:00 PM

First of all, the only thing I would use FWD for is a winter car or a rally car and even then it wouldnt be that great, AWD would be ideal. The civic, yea that was stupid. FWD cars are not made for performance. The only reason it blew was because the guy I had helping me tune my car changed the rev limiter and went for a test drive, came back and a hole was in the block the size of a rod... hmm wonder what happened. Also when he launched at a redlight the transmission shredded itself. Byw bye civic project.

The Mirage was AWD btw. It started as FWD, but was in the process of AWD and I had transmission issues so I parked it untill I could figure out the problem. While trying to fix the problem the engine started knocking and smoking because of a guy lying about shit he had done to the engine so I labled it as done, and was going to sell it. Before I could sell it, the car was parked across the street of my house and my drunk ass neighbor in his old shitty nissan truck always parks on my property, so while trying to keep him from doing so I parked my car on the property line so he couldnt cross it. Well he was drunk and ended up not seing the car and just plowed into it. It was soo awesome, the insurance I had was liability so I got nothing for the car. Not even for the parts and work I put into it. BTW my car was rated number 2 in the most deadliest cars on the road, so I took that as a sign from God and moved on. Now Im working on buying an accord that the guy has already riced up with 4 tv's ps2, xbox, dvd player, sound system, body kit, paint, lowered with bags, and I plan on doing a 6g72tt swap in it. Yes that is sacryligeous (cant spell) by putting a mitsu engine in a honda. But on top of that, Im going to make the car even more of a sleeper and looking into converting it to RWD. I had a shop do most of my AWD shit, but Im doing this on my own because I just had my uncle teach me how to weld some, and plus I want to say I did all the mechanical mods.

when you get your ass handed to you in what looks like a riced out honda, but is really the ultimate sleeper with a twin turbo 6 cylinder RWD hybrid car, people will start to rethink the way they mod civics. hopefully anyway. Thats what Im aiming for.

Idk about the rest of you, but Im sick of these bastards in civics that are completely stock except for an axle back and an intake that weave in and out of traffic and do the ricer fly by just because they have an unpainted body kit and shitty crome rims and on top of all that, the car is an auto. I want to be able to get up next to a mustang thats blown or turbo'd and be able to not only kill his time, but also have him wondering how a honda could do that.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Psykomantis00 on July 28, 2005, 09:40:00 PM

QUOTE(EverestX @ Jul 28 2005, 11:11 PM)

HAHAHAHA.. Where to start. Dude you sir are a jack ass.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: thesideinguy on July 28, 2005, 10:01:00 PM

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: EverestX on July 29, 2005, 07:31:00 AM

QUOTE(Psykomantis00 @ Jul 28 2005, 11:48 PM)

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Psykomantis00 on July 29, 2005, 08:54:00 AM

The stealth and the talon are both american made auto's, it doesnt matter what they look like. The talon looks alright but the stealth is a bad ass machine. AWD Twin turbo v6, electronic suspension, and lots of other features.

The only cloud of smoke I ever see in front of me is from a rod being thrown in a stock cobra or f body and its black smoke.

An ls1 is a powerfull motor. A friend of mine has a 93 RX7 with an ls1 in it. he has had a ton of problems with doing that swap. Come to think of it I dont think it runs right now. He has to buy a new water pump and alternator and other random parts and he said parts for this engine are expensive. When he did have it running he said the IRS in his rx7 was weak. I think hes going to try and find a rear axel or something to get rid ofe the IRS.

the reason I wouldnt do an ls1 swap is I plan on driving my car daily. This wouldnt be good on gas at all and would probably break down faster than what Im used to. Now if I was doing a track only car or a weekend cruiser car I would consider doing an ls1... I might not, but you never know. If I was going to go as far as getting an LS1 why not go the extra mile and get a corvette shell and either put it all back to stock, or even convert it to AWD for better launches.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Rylinkus on July 29, 2005, 09:22:00 AM

The problem with what you say is that Chevy 350s are pretty reliable engines...

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Psykomantis00 on July 29, 2005, 09:33:00 AM

QUOTE(Rylinkus @ Jul 29 2005, 05:33 PM)

The problem with what you say is that Chevy 350s are pretty reliable engines...

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Rylinkus on July 29, 2005, 01:34:00 PM

You can make the same about every rice rocket Honda and most DSMs. They get abused just as much. Frankly Ive seen more abuse dished out to imports then most Vette owners do to theirs.

And remember, MOST Stealths are FWD V6s. With NO turbos or any other means of being fast.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Psykomantis00 on July 29, 2005, 02:26:00 PM

Im also not looking into getting anything other than a twin turbo v6 awd stealth or 3kgt.

If I would blow the ls1 I would be out a pretty penny. I would blow the dsm engine or a civic engine Im out 500-2k depending on what I want. Much cheaper.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Rylinkus on July 29, 2005, 03:54:00 PM

QUOTE(Psykomantis00 @ Jul 29 2005, 10:37 PM)

Im also not looking into getting anything other than a twin turbo v6 awd stealth or 3kgt.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: thesideinguy on July 29, 2005, 05:23:00 PM

QUOTE(Psykomantis00 @ Jul 29 2005, 08:05 AM)

. A friend of mine has a 93 RX7 with an ls1 in it. he has had a ton of problems with doing that swap.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: leijae on July 29, 2005, 05:27:00 PM

i've been working with a guy who does a lot of car projects, and i've learned a lot about cars in the last 2 days.... jk...

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Rylinkus on July 29, 2005, 05:29:00 PM

This is an actual engine swap. And apparently its not TOO hard tho Ive never done much research on it. BUT, it's the STUPIDEST thing you can do. STUPID. God damn it, the last gen RX7 is gorgeous AND one of the best handling cars you can buy. Now you dump a V8 under the hood and frig up it's weight distrobution. And ruin the handling of such a drivers dream.

But it is doable. Here's an FC with said swap....
http://v8rx7.com/bob.htm

FDs
http://members.tripo...tructions1.html
http://www.hinsonsupercars.com/

Maybe if I did a 3 rotor swap into my Z28 it'd make it handle better......

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: thesideinguy on July 29, 2005, 05:46:00 PM

ok, i'll admit i was wrong. but holy shit that thing is cramped for space!

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Hercules Q Einstein on July 29, 2005, 06:05:00 PM

QUOTE(Rylinkus @ Jul 30 2005, 01:40 AM)

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: thewickedjester on July 29, 2005, 06:13:00 PM

QUOTE(Rylinkus @ Jul 29 2005, 07:40 PM)

Maybe if I did a 3 rotor swap into my Z28 it'd make it handle better......

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: leijae on July 31, 2005, 07:59:00 AM

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Psykomantis00 on July 31, 2005, 08:29:00 AM

QUOTE(thesideinguy @ Jul 30 2005, 01:34 AM)

so your tellin me that you know someone who managed to fit a chevy small block V8 into a Mazda RX7?

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Rylinkus on July 31, 2005, 05:22:00 PM

QUOTE(Psykomantis00 @ Jul 31 2005, 04:40 PM)

Ill try to get pics for you. Ive also seen a guy online put an LS1 in a 1st gen DSM. It can be done with alot of cars. There are also Miata's with big ass V8's in them.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Psykomantis00 on July 31, 2005, 07:01:00 PM

I was just using that as a reference, one of the smallest cars with a very big engine. I would say the LS1 is the common engine for a swap. Ive seen probe's, cavalier's, rx7's, 1st gen DSM's 2nd gen DSM's, and some others.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Rylinkus on July 31, 2005, 07:28:00 PM

QUOTE(Psykomantis00 @ Aug 1 2005, 03:12 AM)

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: thesideinguy on July 31, 2005, 07:43:00 PM

id say th chevy 3.8 v6 is a common engein swap for those cars.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Psykomantis00 on July 31, 2005, 07:44:00 PM

It was one of the first model probes, the ones that look like 1g dsm's. Im pretty sure it was an ls1. could have been something else tho idk.

Ohh and there was a civic hatch that had a big engine in it, maybe an ls1, and the stock motor in it. I cant remember where I saw it but it was on tv somewhere. He had the stock engine under the hood and the other engine behind the front seats and everything was completely stripped. It might of actually been in a car and driver magazine. he could drive it to the track and then flips a switch or something and it would run the other engine.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: Rylinkus on July 31, 2005, 07:55:00 PM

I've seen a few Hondas with multiple engines. Ive yet to see a 1st gen or 2nd gen Probe with any Chevy engine. If anyone has proof of one, give links, pics, etc. I'd love to see it.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: thesideinguy on July 31, 2005, 08:37:00 PM

QUOTE(Psykomantis00 @ Jul 31 2005, 06:55 PM)

flips a switch or something and it would run the other engine.

Title: My Next Car Project
Post by: leijae on August 01, 2005, 03:18:00 PM

i dont even know what to say

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