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    Nerd Racing's 93 MX-3 RS

    Lets see I bought her back in May of 08 for $500 because the kid it was purchased for was caught selling pot at school.

    She looked like this:






    2011 BMW 128i 6 Speed Manual -- dd
    1990 Protege 4WD 5 Speed

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    First things first I needed to get some body work taken care of:

    Chrome wheel well "trim" removed, and the rust I needed to cut out:



    Oh and I had to change a badly broken strut mount too:


    Then the 5th gear was pretty much shot. I swapped out the gear for now, I will be changing the transmission soon hopefull (it won't be even close to stock )










    She leaks a little out the CV shaft seals, I will be changing those when I do a BP swap sometime in December probably.
    2011 BMW 128i 6 Speed Manual -- dd
    1990 Protege 4WD 5 Speed

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      #3
      I decided to jump right into the body work:

      Cut that old rust right out!



      Grabbed some sheet metal and my trusty roller pipe:



      Setting it up to make the cuts:


      Skip ahead a month or so:
      All in primer!




      Found a rare RS factory spoiler! For some reason everytime I buy a spoiler its always red!!



      Gotta love pnp's!

      Temporary paint job to keep the rust away:






      I will be having it professionally coated probably in the spring.

      Coming soon: Interior work, BP swap, and some other goodies!
      2011 BMW 128i 6 Speed Manual -- dd
      1990 Protege 4WD 5 Speed

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        #4
        well done!!! looks like you did awesome on the rust
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        1992- project FE3..... 313 WHP @ 9.3psi




        I pet my dash when I get into the car..."good car"
        he actually has a mazda tree, parts grow on it

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          #5
          we'll see about the rust once winter hits. Hopefully when the car goes in for the winter I may go for some drivetrain tweaks that will help it with the lack of acceleration, and possibly go a long way with acceleration too.
          2011 BMW 128i 6 Speed Manual -- dd
          1990 Protege 4WD 5 Speed

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            #6
            That looks sweet, good job on the body work

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              #7
              woah, cool paint theme! Have you thought about tinting your tailights? My buddy tinted his lights on his silver MX6, looked nice, rememinded me of the FD RX7 tail lights.

              1993 Mazda Familia GTR - work log

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                #8
                cars gone, threads old...lol....
                92 protege lx-

                94 protege lx-

                95 escort gt-ms2e/ms2extra pre3.3alpha5 gslender v2.8-e85-vj23@12lbs----dead--

                are you a thinker, or a believer?

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