My 4wd Turbo Protege

[Mazda_Powered]

wow, looks like you had some fun with those trannies. It looks like the awd proteges have quiet the few extra parts lol.

JACK.

[TurboProto]

wow, looks like you had some fun with those trannies. It looks like the awd proteges have quiet the few extra parts lol.

JACK.

Uh yea the 4wd has just a couple of extra gagets!..lol!
and its like a junk yard here right now I have a total of 4 mazdas at my house right now. 3 are mine and one boosted mx3 is my buddys that we are about to slap in a new bottom end cause he killed cyl #3 on his GTX motor.

[red97lxscort]

is that sam's old gtx awd pro?It has to be the same one, his was from colorado and had a gtx.... I remeber he had it for sale days ago and offered it to me, It just didn't work out at the time. If it is his car, glad to see it went to someone good! It is a gem...
-Justin

[TurboProto]

is that sam's old gtx awd pro?It has to be the same one, his was from colorado and had a gtx.... I remeber he had it for sale days ago and offered it to me, It just didn't work out at the time. If it is his car, glad to see it went to someone good! It is a gem...
-Justin

Yea its Sam's old car that he bought from Dave. I originally did the GTX swap when it came here from Colorado. So yea its in very good hands now and she will recieve lots of attention from me.

[TurboProto]

Well yesterday I swapped the GTX trans into the 4wd but Im having a problem with this electric diff lock system. The US trans has a electric motor to change the locking, while the GTX trans has some what of the same shaft comming out of the trans. Do I need some sort of device on this shaft for the GTX trans? Cause if I do need it the trans didnt come with it.

I need help from our 4wd masters on this club cause this is only the 2nd time for me to do trans swap on this car.

Here's some picts to help thing out. The US trans is the one covered in grease.

[TurboProto]

I guess nothing goes on that area of the GTX trans. I was looking at ebay for gtx motors and I see that there isnt anything on the shaft. Im still going to do more research.

[jasoncsprotege]

yeah nothing goes there. If you want to lock the diff in you have to pull out that rod. If you felt like pulling both tranny's apart you could have put the electric diff lock motor on the GTX tranny but the only time you really need to lock the diff is if you plan on running it on a FWD dyno with the drive shaft unhooked. The GTX tranny has a viscous center diff where the usdm one has an open diff.
That should help,
Jason

[TurboProto]

Thanks Jason!

That info helped me out alot!
Does the trans have to take a lsd fluid or additive? I was just going to run royal purple or something like that.

[jay]

royal purple, redline mtl, any of that'll do just fine.

[Clean 4WD]

Thats the diff lock shaft as everyone else said.. You don't need it with the GTX trans, unless you do the rod swap on the trans.. I have been running mine for 6 mos now with out it...

[TurboProto]

Thats the diff lock shaft as everyone else said.. You don't need it with the GTX trans, unless you do the rod swap on the trans.. I have been running mine for 6 mos now with out it...

Nice what fluid are you running in your GTAE trans?
And do you have any parts for sale?

And thanks to everyone who responded to my question. Remember Im still a newbie when it comes to the 4wd cars.

[jasoncsprotege]

I'm running Red line 75w90 gear oil and Redline heavy shock proof.
And I will probably have a Viscous LS Diff for sell in a month or so

[tehstocker99]

what, that's awesome! nice stuff! keep those pictures coming

[jasoncsprotege]

well, they were my rims, cuz he sold them to me. then he said they were badly bent, so we did some trading of parts, and then ran them on his car(s) with no problems. so, i was just trying to track them down again, so i could try and buy them (again)

When I ever get around to GTR swapping my hubs and knuckles, I will have some fan blade escort gt wheel to get rid of, no tires attached. Maybe we can do some trading up when the time comes .
Sorry to hi-jack
quick question is what kind of clutch do you plan on running? Some one said it before but the 4wd doesn't like the puck clutch. I have a dual friction disc in my car and if I try to slip the clutch in launching it chatters like an SOB.
Jason

[StealthStyle]

is that sam's old gtx awd pro?It has to be the same one, his was from colorado and had a gtx.... I remeber he had it for sale days ago and offered it to me, It just didn't work out at the time. If it is his car, glad to see it went to someone good! It is a gem...
-Justin

Yea, its the one Justin. It sucked selling it too. But I realized that if I kept it I would have 2 unfinished project cars. Now I just concentrate on the escort.