Yesterday a frend of mine gave me a ride in his 1991 1.6 16v carburated protege (323 sedan here). We met at the place where every saturday night Zagreb racers meet and have fun dragracing on a small road.
He added powersteering and a/c in his mazda, the whole dash has been taken out, except the speedometer and tachometer. He told me to try her out but i refused because that is the second time we met IRL and i dont have the license yet, so i didnt want to do something stupid . I asked him for a ride. We zoomed away from the parking lot where many spectators and "drivers" looked at his mazda with fear . I have never been driven in other protege than mine because they are rare here. He starts hard in first gear, im looking at the rpm... passing 5500, passing 6400, passing 7000 rpm, i cant belive what im seeing, the car is still pulling like mad, he still isnt shifting into second, the indicator needle has reached 8000 rpm and has nowhere to go, he shifts second gear, wheelspin. At that time some guy in opel astra is trying to catch up, but about him... he dissapeard in a mirror. Now we are at the main road, second gear to 7500rpm im freaked... this car and its driver are maaad. Its 8 pm so there is still quite a lot of traffic on the road. We are waving around, already at 160 km/h. After few lights there is a loop on a main road, i know that my friend with a 1996 civic cant drive trough it with more than 95km/h... we entered with 110 km/h. It was excelent, after few circles on the loop we are going out and headed back to the parking lot where we started our drive. There is an impreza back of us for a while, some older person is driving. When he saw that we are driving fast, he joined us and it was great, ofcourse... he was faster. We returned on the parking lot. Im saying goodbye to the friend and returing to other friends with wich i came there. While i was walking, i see the guy from opel astra coming to me and saying: "What the hell is that?" I proudly say: "Its a MAZDA!!! And, guess what, it has 90hp!" He almost cried
And really... its bone stock, except 14" alloys and powersteering installed... not even a exhaust, nothing! 1.6 16v carburated little mazda with 90hp. Now, i wonder... if this is so fast, how fast are your real american Protege`s LX
P.S. Im sorry for the spelling, i probably made some mistakes since english is not my mother language.
He added powersteering and a/c in his mazda, the whole dash has been taken out, except the speedometer and tachometer. He told me to try her out but i refused because that is the second time we met IRL and i dont have the license yet, so i didnt want to do something stupid . I asked him for a ride. We zoomed away from the parking lot where many spectators and "drivers" looked at his mazda with fear . I have never been driven in other protege than mine because they are rare here. He starts hard in first gear, im looking at the rpm... passing 5500, passing 6400, passing 7000 rpm, i cant belive what im seeing, the car is still pulling like mad, he still isnt shifting into second, the indicator needle has reached 8000 rpm and has nowhere to go, he shifts second gear, wheelspin. At that time some guy in opel astra is trying to catch up, but about him... he dissapeard in a mirror. Now we are at the main road, second gear to 7500rpm im freaked... this car and its driver are maaad. Its 8 pm so there is still quite a lot of traffic on the road. We are waving around, already at 160 km/h. After few lights there is a loop on a main road, i know that my friend with a 1996 civic cant drive trough it with more than 95km/h... we entered with 110 km/h. It was excelent, after few circles on the loop we are going out and headed back to the parking lot where we started our drive. There is an impreza back of us for a while, some older person is driving. When he saw that we are driving fast, he joined us and it was great, ofcourse... he was faster. We returned on the parking lot. Im saying goodbye to the friend and returing to other friends with wich i came there. While i was walking, i see the guy from opel astra coming to me and saying: "What the hell is that?" I proudly say: "Its a MAZDA!!! And, guess what, it has 90hp!" He almost cried
And really... its bone stock, except 14" alloys and powersteering installed... not even a exhaust, nothing! 1.6 16v carburated little mazda with 90hp. Now, i wonder... if this is so fast, how fast are your real american Protege`s LX
P.S. Im sorry for the spelling, i probably made some mistakes since english is not my mother language.
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