November 2012 ROTM nominations

[FE3-323]

November 2012 ROTM Nominations

Its been a while since we've had nominations up lets get back at it!
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Think your car is worthy of being ride of the month? Think someone else on this board has a well put together car? Toss up a nomination in this thread if they fit the following details...

Nominating
1. You can nominate anyone you'd like - including yourself. The catch is, you're only allowed one nomination PER MONTH. Doesn't matter if you own one car, fifty cars, no cars, or a Mr. Potato head with wheels. Nominate anyone you think deserves the win (including yourself) and post them (or yourself) in this thread, if they(or you) qualify for the above rules.

2. When you post a nomination you must include at least 2 or 3 pictures of said car with a brief explanation of why you think the car deserves to be ROTM. The member/car you nominate must have a VB Pic Gallery set up or a Worklog. If they don't have one their nomination will be deleted. If you nominate yourself, feel free to post your mod list with your photos so users can see your "total package" easier

3. Previous winners cannot have their same car win ROTM twice unless it has been 2 years since winning ROTM.

4. Winners of the ROTM will receive their car and bio in a dedicated ROTM thread. Winner is eligible for (2) Clubprotege decals of any color- PM me (FE3-323) for more info

ALL NOMINEE'S MUST HAVE A vB Picture Gallery or Worklog
If you don't have one, your nomination will be deleted.

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Time Details
1. Nominations will be taken for a period of exactly 1 week (7 days) from the date posted or when 10 cars are nominated.

2. Nominations will only be open to currently active members only (the member should have at least 5 posts in the last month prior to the nomination post. This way we can make sure the right kind of person gets voted in - a contributing member of CP.)

The following people have won within the past 2years and CANNOT be nominated;
Rayman, 323 GT-R, analytical, Mr GoD, Lex, therieldeal, Mazdagirl/IvarR, Dan [Sac], DeeAOne, Jinx, cee1481, scortadict, and CaymentEGT91

[bogaut]

i nomiate 323permin! Cleanest example of a 323 around. We all know tons of work went in to it, and it really shows. Not only is it a good lookin car, it also performs as good as it looks, and is only going to get better with the motor swap.

[underclassman]

I'm going to nominate Bogaut and his AWD Protege. I've really enjoyed the progress on this car and I think it's a very unique vehicle. From the bug eye grille, GTR swap, Infini parts, to the GTR seats, badass wheels, and several other parts that I cannot even begin to name (lol), I think this car definitely qualifies for COTM.

[CODY004WD]

A couple of very nice nominations. Maybe next year my 95 will be of that caliber. Subbin' to see who else is nominated!

[FE3-323]

nominate someone cody

[CODY004WD]

Okay. After seeing that Video of Matt's Wagon... I'll nominate that.

For those who aren't familiar:

AtomicEGT's Escort wagon, has been GTR swapped, but the madness did not stop there. The dinky GTR turbo (LOL, not really dinky, but in comparison) was ditched in favor of a Holset HY35 I believe. Maybe HX35, Idunno. Either way, this car regularly see's 1.8 to as much as 2.5 bars of boost, and is such a sleeper. I love Wagons, and the overall look and performance of this particular one, does it for me. Ksport coilovers have calmed the massive torque steer, but it's still a handful. To top it off, although many countless JDM doohickeys adorn this vehicle, from the outside you'd never know how BAD (good) it really is.




Good luck to all nominees, I love each of the cars nominated for different reasons.

[jay]

Kinda happy to see this resurrected.

[93BlkOnGreenPro]

Kinda happy to see this resurrected.

Same here. I was wondering how long it was going to go before it just disappeared. Now let me go find someone to nominate.

[Turpro]

I'll nominate cody's wagon. I'm a sucker for wagons and cody's is an example of a well built one. From the k sports to the kl swap it just screams "here I am, love me"

[323Permin]

Not to blow my own horn .. beep beep .. :0)

This is what you can accomplish when you are not working for a good 8 - 12 months and spend to many countless hours
in the garage , spend to much money , and search the web for deals on parts ... its very calming and meditative LOL

I call it the " Princess " but I like it to look pretty and go fast too.

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I Took one 1993 323 1.6L Sohc w/auto box and gutted all the suspension , motor , trans , engine bay harness.

I Took 1990 Canadain Protege GT 1.8 DOHC , 5 spd box and gutted all the suspension , motor, trans and engine bay harness.

I fully restored and upgraded all the suspension of the 1990 Protege and installed into the 323.

The motor was fully torn down and rebuilt. A Kia transmission was sourced and it was torn down and rebuild.

As you will see by the build thread its along list of what went into the car to this date and it still continues.

Here is a list of what is on the car :

- Engine/ Transmission :

- 1.8 BP DOHC , re-ringed, ACL race rod and main bearings fully rebuilt and detailed with custom touch of
a one off CNC'd " MazdaSpeed " on the intake.
- Transmission Stock Kia with Exedy stock replacment clutch
- GTR Clutch Slave w/ stainlees steel braided clutch line
- All four engine mounts AWR 95 Durometer bushings
- larger aluminum radiator
- HKS replica Mushroom Air cleaner
- Cork Sport Bronze Oilite shifter bushings
- B&M Short Shifter
- Stainless Steel Steel Header, High flow Cat, 2.25 exhaust from to back to front, Magna Flow Muffler.
- Cork Sport urethane exhaust hangers

( Still to come and in the process of buliding a full GTR / VJ23 turbo motor swap, with LSD and Heavier clutch )

Suspension & Brakes :

- K-Sport GT Pro coilovers with Camber / Caster Top Plates
- EBC Slotted and Dimpled rotors , EBC Green Stuff Pads
- Stainless Steel Braided Brake lines
- Factory Front GTX /GTR Strut bar
- Ultra Racing rear Strut Bar
- Pierce Motor Sports 4 point front tie bar
- Pierce 2 point rear tie bar
- Super Pro Polyurathane front arm bushings
- Pierce Motor Sports Rear Lateral Links
- Larger Rear Sway Bar
- Stock GT front Sway Bar
- New ( not Reman ) Rear Calipers
- New ( Not Reman ) Front Calipers

Body / Interior / Exterior

- Interplay two hole front bumper
- TYC head lights and clear corners
- Familia Center grill
- Color Matching door handles
- Power mirrors
- Duck bill upper Rear spolier
- Custom one off center caps for American Racing wheels with MazdaSpeed logo
- Momo Steering wheel
- GT front bucket seats ( similar to GTX model )

( Still to come and in the process of refinishing a lower GTR Spoiler , GTR Rear bumper with lip, GTR Hood Vents )


This list could go on for every and there are a lot of small items which were restored or replaced with new OEM parts ...

I have a large stack of receipts I stopped adding up and even looking at LOL

If you want to see more details here is my work thread ... Cheers

http://www.wihandyman.com/forum/showthread.php?41931-323Permin-s-323-SE-transformation-into-a-GT

[mx3firstcar]

I nominate 323permin, love what he has done to his car!!

[M323GTR]

I nominate 323permin, love what he has done to his car!!

I got to agree car is very sexy and well put together every detail and nothing outta place

[deadly_sleeper]

I nominate 323permin, love what he has done to his car!!

I got to agree car is very sexy and well put together every detail and nothing outta place

It's already been nominate. Only nominate one person a month. Wait till the voting to start before you say who should win.

We need more nominations!

[CODY004WD]

Okay I guess I should put the wagon's details up as well... I don't believe I really have a shot at this one, there are some great cars here, and my wagon is not for the purists... but it's worth a shot.










I've owned this wagon, off and on for roughly 5 years now. I sold it to my dad when I started building my 4wd Protege, and ended up buying it back when I supercharged the Escort GT. It's been through 3 engines and a few transmissions in the last five years. Dropped a valve seat in the stock 1.9, so I did the 2.0 SPI swap for simplicity as I needed it running again soon. Then that spun a rod bearing when I hit a corner waaaay too fast and starved it of oil. So I let it sit for a while, as I had too many other projects at the time. Then I finally bought a house last July, and as soon as my garage was set up, I got to work on the KL swap. It was rough at points, I had a few small issues along the way. But I finally finished it.

As luck would have it, on my way home from the Race Shop where I had just purchased a weld on pan fitting, a few t-bolt clamps, and an oil feed fitting, the last few parts I needed to turbocharge the wagon, My miata was struck by an explorer and totaled. This really screwed up plans for the wagon. It went from a project that I had all the time in the world to build correct, to daily driver status overnight. So, I put the Turbo plans on hold and focused on just making it drivable, and reliable.

The first KL was garbage, and lasted roughly a week before the thing spun a rod bearing. I believe it was from a 93 Probe GT... So I went to the yard and pulled a fresh Low mileage 02 Millenia motor, and threw that in. It's what still powers the car. I daily drove this wagon all summer, and even took it on a few 500mile trips. It's great fun. Here's the modifications I can remember:

Motor:
..02 Millenia 2.5L V6 swap
..Ebay Headers
..Custom F350 3" IC piping CAI
..2.5" Stainless Exhaust, 2 spiral core Resonators, and ZX2 Borla S/R Muffler
..K8 Ecu and Wiring Harness
..KL VAF and Injectors
..All 4 Motor Mounts Filled with Windo-weld
..9LB Fidanza Flywheel
..A/C and P/S deleted
..Stock MX3 GS Trans
..626 V6 Radiator

On Hold:
..AVC Boostwerx Turbo Hotpipes
..Ebay T3/T4 60-1
..FMIC
..Megasquirt PNP
..550cc injectors
..Autometer Boost guage

Suspension/Brakes: (I traded my Ksports to Bogaut, Chris. I did have them on this car at one point though)
..Tokico Blues, all 4 with cut perches
..Ground Control Coilover sleeves and springs
..MX3 LCA's and TTLs
..FE3-323 Spherical LCA bushings
..Various Poly bushings all over
..Josh_LX Delrin Endlinks
..ZX2 Front swaybar
..ZX2 Trailing Arms
..Mx3 Rear disk swap, tiebar and swaybar (complete subframe transplant)
..Properly Depowered MX3 GS steering Rack
..Braided Stainless Brake lines all around

Exterior:
..Custom Hood (for BG slant nose front end and Bugeye Foglight grille)
..Rare E36 Projector Individual Headlight Housings with 3000k HID
..Bugeye Foglight Grille
..Escort GT front and Rear bumpers, and side skirts
..2nd Gen Legacy Front Lip
..Manual Protege Mirrors
..EG Civic hatch spoiler
..Various Roof Rack attachments
..Usually Gold Rota SVN wheels 16x7 +35
..Big Ugly Mudflaps

Interior:
..Blacked out using as many oem parts as possible
..4 door Canadian Manual Belts
..Black Double Deep MX3 Armrest
..Charcoal Protege LX Lower Dash swap
..Black Early MX3 Upper Dash swap
..Black MX3 Recaros
..Black MX3 Door Moulding trim, (Around pinch-weld in each door frame)
..Black Canadian Lower B-pillar trim
..Black Dyed rear seats
..Black Dyed Door Panels
..Power windows and locks
..Black ZX2 Carpet
..Corksport Short shifter with bronzeoil bushings
..AEM UEGO wideband O2

I am sure there is a lot I've left out, but this is the majority though. The next step is boost, and something different for the front bumper! I am working on it now, it's super secret shhhhhh. (More BMW parts)

[bogaut]

guess i should post my mods too

engine/drivetrain

full gtr swap (motor, tranny, turbo, intake, blah blah blah.)
fidanza ajustable cam gears
corksport "power series" downpipe
modified corksport exhaust
dyno'd at ~250hp

suspension:

mazdaspeed front strut bar
infini rear strut bar
ksport coilovers

wheels/tires

racing hart cp-035 15x16.5 +45
hankook ventus v12 tires

exterior:

3-hole front bumper with oem optional bosch foglights
jdm series 2 rear bumper
jdm option foglight grill, with clear ipf fogs
jdm gtr wheel arches
oem option sideskirts
oem option rain guards
oem option power folding mirrors for sedan
tyc clear headlights
infini clear corner
jdm "thick" side mouldings
oem option rear deck spoiler
jdm familia rear garnish with rear fogs
jdm facelift tail lights
323 fenders/hood
jdm gtr hood vents
zx2 cf wiper cowl

interior:

black interior swap
mazdaspeed leather steering wheel
jdm gtx/r gauge cluster with usdm speedometer
edm closing vents
jdm gtr seats
jdm gtr center console with gtr leather shift boot
oem option arm rest
canadian manual seatbelts
option "familia" floor mats complete set
mx3 black carpet
edm under dash tray with storage pocket
clock that doesnt work


future plans

full respray in the original 1S grey, along with light body work and hybrid fenders
gtr 5 lug setup, with some good wheel (volk, desmond, work... somethin haha)
rear bumper lip of some sort maybe (subaru gc8 perhaps?)
sunroof ( a guy can dream)
holset, and gt4 box eventually