My new Daily Driver 1993 Protege GT ....

[Mazda_Powered]

i hate you for having 2 really clean really nice BGs lol, i just complimented on your 323...so i'm going to hate on your protege. she's lazy, her parents never liked her, and all the boys think she smells bad LOL!

[323Permin]

A small update for the DD ... I finally got off my butt and cleaned up and painted the JDM center grill I bought months and month ago .

So now the front end transformation is complete ( complete for now LOL )

New headlights and corners , 626 front lip and new JDM center grill .

Its pretty now ..ha ha .









Oh and I forgot about the New Exhaust . Twin Tip Muffler .. its a bit loud , but alot more flow . Looks stockish for the GT model .

[crazycanadian]

Looks good Rob.. not sure how much I am digging the 626 lip though.. never really been my tastes..

[me109]

Wow that's clean. Impressive. I like your tastefully subtle mods too.

[Ace]

Info on the headlights and corners? I really like those.

[Lex]

It's amazing how clean the car looks for its age and being black. Great job.

[323Permin]

Ace ... I got two sets of the Headlights and corners from a place in the Netherlands . Here is the link to their website....

http://www.showoffimports.nl/home.php?setregion=jp

Here is the specific link to the headlights and corners .

http://www.showoffimports.nl/home.php?cat=315

[Ace]

Thanks, a bit pricey. Although, if they take paypal I may buy them. I didn't see an option to ship to the states though. What are your opinions on them? You wanna do a little review on them, I'm sure I'm not the only one interested in them for sure.

[progt91]

man that car is very clean. gl with it

[323Permin]

I havent posted about the Daily Driver in awhile ... Its now at the 220,000Kms and keeps going.

Had to replace the Catalytic Converter and do some tuning so it would pass emission testing , but its now passed with really low measurments.

Had to replace the radiator to just before going to the testing facility , so that was a pain in the *** !!

Then I finally got to installing the PIAA driving lights I bought awhile ago. I wanted to try and install them as if it was an OEM option .

I Think it looks sort of like its OEM ... What do you think ???

[bogaut]

looks very good. that is one clean GT, just needs some JDM bumpers and maybe i little bit of a drop

[Mazda_Powered]

I'd say just a drop from those angles! hot damn it's sexy!

[IMACHU2]

Very clean and tasteful. Needs a mild set of lowering springs.

[bogaut]

I'd say just a drop from those angles! hot damn it's sexy!

Yeah looks good with those angles I agree, but I can't stand how far the bumpers stick out. Trimmed down USDM bumpers would look good too.

[323Permin]

Long over due for an update on the Daily Driver ..

Since I added the front driving lights I have lowered it with swapping in a Set of H&R springs with Tokico HP blues. ( this was actually done last summer )

The car was put away for most of the winter and only took it out and insured it to go to a big import meet down in Washington State.

And today I gave it some love ... washed it , oil change and a filter and some new goodies.

A freshly powder coated front strut bar ( bulit by Pierce Motor Sports ) , a set of Hood Dampners and a " Mazda GT " decal courtesty CP member of RcCarRacer1992

Planning on building a bracket for the master cylinder brace ..plus painting the valve cover ( due to a leaky valve cover gasket it needs to come off anyways.)

I thinks its going to be a high gloss black to match the exterior of the car .