STOPTECH BRAKES, new ROH wheels, DG carbon airdam

[Wheels.ca]

a huge thanks to Kevin at Dave Wood MAzda for sourcing and installing all these new bits in time for the Montreal autoshow.

when the car gets back the turbo goes on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[Protege5 Kid]

Holly Lord..that car's coming along!

[midnightblue97lx]

Those rims are syck.

[rowan]

yeah niiiice.
Roadster seats, eh?

[Mike_Moss]

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[MP5Navy]

Lookin good! I think it looked better with the HUGE Wheels.ca sticker though - JUST KIDDING! The car is looking really sweet nearly as nice as a few of the members rides in the TPC... lol.

May I offer a suggestion - you realy ought to clean the door jams better - tsk tsk tsk.

I'm just being a bitch. Hope I win that sucka soon!

[cruisinblackp5]

How are the brakes. You are gonna be happy that they are on there when you get that turbo on and pound it at the track. They look great.

[Silvermp5]

Don't worry guys, that car will be mine soon.

[KingKong]

How do I sign up for the draw???

[midnightblue97lx]

Click the dude's signature.

[Wheels.ca]

hope we don't blow it up before giving it away.

haven't actually driven it with the brakes yet. as soon as the turbo is in we are going back to the track to see what a $50K protege can do.

to enter go to wheels.ca and fill in the online form or go buy a copy of the magazine at chapters ya cheap bastard and fill in the enclosed ballot http://msg.toprotege.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

the contest closes dec 1, 2002 and we will annonce the winner jan 1, 2003. a little late for x-mas but i don't anyone will be complaining.

[ChopstickHero]

Looks great Mike! I love the brakes! they're friggin huge! good luck with the turbo! maybe i should drop by Dave Wood and talk to Kevin and he can show me the progress on the car.

[cruisinblackp5]

Try the brakes before you put it all together. I just wanna know if they are truely worth it. Some kits promise stoppimg power and some deliver. How is the Stoptech kit on a stock a stock car and how well do they handle with increased hp and speed. You really should try it at the track beforw adding the boost.


What kind of boost are we talking about here?

Why isn't everyone else curiuos?

[Wheels.ca]

cruisinblack: we will definitely be track testing the brakes but i doubt we will get a chance before the turbo goes on. i would wager that the brakes would in fact severely hurt lap times without a power increase - think of the mass you need to accelerate out of slow corners. we had a set of performance pads on before the brake upgrade and i couldn't even make them fade. the project car carries a tremendous amount of speed through corners but doesn't have a lot of power so you never really need to slow down much.

with a turbo however i'm hoping we can crank up the speed enough that we can actually test these suckers.

we are looking at the FM Protege turbo kit that uses a Garrett T25 turbo to produce 167 hp and 191 lb.ft. at the flywheel. we are switching the paradas to bridgestone s0-3s.

[Wheels.ca]

www.fmprotege.com

[lizard]

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak..... that looks so good, compared to my stock bitch.
Anyway... you know what will happen someone who is either 50 or married and has 3 cars will win it and it will be in the trader before you know it...it just hurts..

Or you can swing by my place to see it in person.... wink wink nudge nudge know whatay mean.. http://msg.toprotege.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://msg.toprotege.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[MP5Navy]

Why go with the T-25? Since our cars like to rev between 5000 and 6000 wouldn't it be better to opt for a slightly larger turbo like a T3? The T-25 doesn't like to boost higher pressures above 5000rpm, am I not right?

[lizard]

Isn't that the way the kit from flyin mazda comes. I am sure they tested a few different setups.
Could be the price too. (but don't quote me on that)

I want one (turbo) but don't really wanna put it into an auto.

Has anyone heard anything about the 2004 225hp turbo protege?

[lizard]

Hey Dave, good call, just looked at the specs on the website and it seems they are using the T3!

[Wheels.ca]

article in modified said t25 - i haven't been to the site yet.