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    Start to finish of the 4WD pro (56K hahaha)

    Well this it. This is going to be long with lots of pictures, and probably multiple posts to get them all in.
    First I will start with how/why I ended up with the 4wd protege. I owned a 91 Escort GT that I picked up for $300.00 with a blown automatic. I swapped in the BPT with 5 speed and had fun with it. I had always had thoughts of wanting to make the escort 4wd but never had the time to do so. Well one day on my way to work a guy in a Toyato pickup decides he doesn't see me and pulls out right in front of me. He also doesn't have insurance. Anyway my insurance company covers under non insured motorist coverage and they proceed to total my car and give me $2080.00 after I buy it back. So here I am sitting with 2grand and would like to find an 4wd pro. I spent 1 month searching thru classifieds, craigslist, and where ever else I could think of. Finally Derrick, guy at my work, tells me we had an old customer of ours that lives out in New Hampshire that had 2 of these 4wd pro's at one point in time. So he gives me an e-mail address and I contact him to find out that he still has 2 of them and would sell them. One of them had some rear end damage and the other had a blown tranny and according to him was very clean of rust for an east coast car. I said well let me see some pics and how much for the car. He tells me he wants $1000.00 for the car and that he would get me pics. So I start looking for shipping companies to have the car shipped from New Hampshire to Vancouver, Washington and the cheapist I could find was like $1400.00. So I talk to the guy with the car and ask if there is any way the car might drive onto a trailer and he says he will check it out. If the car will drive on & off a trailer shipping would be like $1200.00 bucks. He tells me it possibly would so I schedule the car for pick up for a operating vehicle. This has taken about another month for all of this and I still haven't received any Pics. Finally I just got to a point that I said screw it cause I couldn't find another one that I bought it and talked him down to $800.00 for the car. So the weekend that the car is supposed to be picked up he calls me and tells me the car won't even roll on its own let alone drive, says the drive train is locked up. So I have to get ahold of the shipping company and tell them that the car isn't going to drive on to a trailer so they have to reschedule a new pick up time (which is another month away) to pick up the car. So the car would at least roll I had the seller cut the front and rear axles in half so it would roll. Anyway the accident happened at the first of Jan 2006 and my 4wd pro showed up finally in May 2006 sight unseen.
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    These next pics are whe the 4wd arrived (sorry most are taken with my camera phone). Also some prelimanary inspection of the vehicle.
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      #3
      These next ones are of when I started disassembly of the car and what I found in the process. These don't show all the rust damage that I incountered but you get the idea
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        #4
        Next we have my engine together with the GTX tranny as well as most of the pics as it started to come together (alot are camera phone pics)
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          #5
          The next is a lot of test fit pics as I started getting the body work done. By this time I was daily driving the car and doing body work to it on the weekends
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            #6
            and finally how she sets now
            The end
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              #7
              post some pics of the egt in you driveway?
              i love the car but i would have painted the window trim black, i personally think it would look alot better that way.
              thanks
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                #8
                very sexy... 4wd FTW!

                Im stoked to pick up jays!

                It will never be half of yours, yours is amazing!

                and isnt that chris's escort in the driveway? his old red one?

                and the body work is great, did you paint it yourself? i cannot wait to see it in person.
                There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by FazdaBoy4ever View Post
                  very sexy... 4wd FTW!

                  Im stoked to pick up jays!

                  It will never be half of yours, yours is amazing!

                  and isnt that chris's escort in the driveway? his old red one?

                  and the body work is great, did you paint it yourself? i cannot wait to see it in person.
                  well thanks for that. Yes the primer yellow escort in the driveway is Chris's (mysta316)old red one
                  Yes I did the body work and paint myself right in my garage
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                    #10
                    Looks very very nice; love it, but how is the condition of the rust?

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                      #11
                      very nice! haha, if you ever for some insane reason feel like getting rid of it give me a ring!
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                        #12
                        Best front end conversion ever!!!!! If you don't mind show some shots of the door/fender gaps before and after. Thanks.
                        1993 Protege LX-Midnight's shadow SOLD
                        1996 Honda CBR600-Wrecked. Damn Honda crippled me
                        2002 mazda MPV-family truckster SOLD
                        2010 VW routon

                        Originally posted by jay
                        .....they totally underestimated the number of gearheads such as myself that have families but refuse to grow the hell up and stop playing with cars, or that otherwise see the utility of having 4 doors. Obviously I ain't alone, as there are a helluva lotta sti and evo here. Bueler? Beuler? Mazda? Mazda?

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                          #13
                          Holy crap dude, you brought that one back from the DEAD. Fabulous, to see another Frankenprotege. Does the chassis still have rigidity, ie do the doors open and close when you lift one corner off the ground?
                          '90 AWD Protege, full GTR drivetrain swap, ~320 whp daily driver, RIP, and
                          '90 AWD Protege, yet another GTR swap, Open class rallycar with a Toyota GT4 gearbox swap, thus crossing the line between hobby and mental illness. And a Brabus E55 K8, removing all doubt.
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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Lex View Post
                            Looks very very nice; love it, but how is the condition of the rust?
                            Thanks. The rust condition is alot of what you saw under there, holes and such, I cut out and replaced with 1/8" steel plate and seam welded as well as spot welded. I went around with a small hammer and tapped all the sub frame. If the hammer went through I cut and replaced. I also replaced the rear diff carrier assemblt as well as all lateral and control arms.

                            Originally posted by Turpro View Post
                            Best front end conversion ever!!!!! If you don't mind show some shots of the door/fender gaps before and after. Thanks.
                            I will have to get some new pics of what iit is now but I do have some before pics already I will try to get them up sometime today

                            Originally posted by jay View Post
                            Holy crap dude, you brought that one back from the DEAD. Fabulous, to see another Frankenprotege. Does the chassis still have rigidity, ie do the doors open and close when you lift one corner off the ground?
                            Rigidity is fine I can open the doors just fine with one corner jacked up. However, my driverside front door needs new hinges (which I have) cause I have to lift it to shut it. Just have to take the time to replace
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                              #15
                              Here are pics of the door gaps before. I will have to get some today for what they are now
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