Kev's '98 Protege Thread

[irishkev90]

Cleaned up the front knuckles and brake dust shields. No pics, but 95% of the rust is gone, some paint as well. Going to paint them tomorrow hopefully, if the weather is nice again. Also got my calipers and rear sway bar :D





Going to get new calipers and I also need the rear end links. Does anyone know if the front calipers for the ES are the same as the LX just mounted farther from the hub? That would save me time and money if they are the same since I replaced my front calipers not too long ago.

[3ni_tricksta]

since u have calipers off take that opportunity to clean em well and paint em with caliper paint. even get em powdercoated.

i don't know about the states but usually here it's about 100$ to powdercoat all 4

[irishkev90]

When I replaced my front ones I painted them with caliper paint. That was about a year ago, and they still look brand new. I'll have to check to see if I can still use the LX calipers with the ES rotors, that way I would only need to do the rears.

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[Turpro]

Why not run the calipers I sent? That guy kept that car maintained well. Only reason he sold it has a popped motor

[irishkev90]

I think just mostly to have everything new.

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[irishkev90]

Got this email from Patrick at MFactory...

"Hi Kevin,

I have some unfortunate news regarding the G28 LSD that you have ordered. We were in the process of relocating the office and in that time, the moving company dropped a 2ton capacity pallet jack off the back of the truck's tailgate onto some of our boxes. Upon inspection we discovered that in those boxes, several of our LSDs were damaged.

This accident occurred a few days ago and we were scrambling to see if we could convince other dealers who ordered G28s to forward one of their LSDs to you instead. Unfortunately, they have all been either installed or in the process of installing them.

Due to the popularity of the G28, we're backordered until the 15th of May. Our sincerest apologies for the inconvenience this has caused."

Just my luck, hahaha.

[Mazda_Powered]

If the caliper bracket (that holds the pads in) has 22-13 or 22-14 stamped on it, the caliper itself is the same, just the pad bracket is different. the 22-14 hold the larger rotor/pad combo for the LX

sorry about the LSD news .

[irishkev90]

Thanks Jack, just checked the calipers Chris sent me, and the ones on the car. The ES calipers have a 14 bracket, and the LX (and assuming DX) have the 13 bracket. Guess I can't reuse my already painted one, oh well. Anyone want a set of painted calipers? Hahaha.

[irishkev90]

Painted the front knuckles and rear sway bar brackets.

Passenger side. Cleaned, no paint.




Driver side. Painted.




Just used some Duplicolor caliper paint since I had a can of it laying around. They're both painted now. No pics of the sway bar brackets, but whatever, you all know what they look like.

[FE3-323]

crappy luck with the Mfactory incident. they will sort it out tho. you'll be happy once it arrives

[irishkev90]

Replaced the upstream O2 sensor. Hoping it fixes my crappy idle/random stalling.

[irishkev90]

New O2 sensor didn't change a thing. Going to try to clean the EGR and change the fuel filter and spark plugs. This is getting annoying.

[irishkev90]

Just ordered a bunch of stuff from Rockauto. Suspension bushings, ball joints and such. No progress with the misfiring crap either

edit: Just got my pedal assembly along with some extras

Pedal assembly, shift boot, shift knob and BP10 ECU. The boot, knob and ECU were freebies.

Just waiting for the linkage to get here now. Then I think I'll have most everything I need for the swap. Then the engine and transmission will be pulled and the engine and the 5-speed will be sent to the machine shop to get freshened up while I work on the brake swap. Things are coming together nicely. Slowly, but nicely.

[FE3-323]

put some compression into the BP. it certainly likes it min..9.5:1

[irishkev90]

If I had a BP, sure. But I don't.

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