Kev's '98 Protege Thread

[3ni_tricksta]

Kev you should see some roads i have to take my car on. At some point my frame became a bit polished. May sound stupid but i love the height and stance. I'm actually planning on going lower in a few weeeks.

I was just like you when i lowered my car..and the wheel weld gap bugged the hell out of me.. till i kept going lower. now i just believe i'm not tucking enough tire.

[irishkev90]

I say you just put in an air ride system and be done with it, hahaha.

Next paycheck I'll prbably order the projector stuff just to get that project rolling. Any tips or advice with the projector retrofit process would be greatly appreciated.

[labeo]

Some pictures of retrofit install you can find in this thread - it is in russian, but try
http://translate.google.com/#

[irishkev90]

Thanks. I didn't translate it, just looked at the pics. As far as I know he used the same company I'm going to order from, haha.

And rusty, I just realized that my friend's grandma lives on the same street you do now. I live in Queensbury, but usually in the Hudson Falls/Fort Edward area on weekends.

[Ace]

I say you just put in an air ride system and be done with it, hahaha.

Next paycheck I'll prbably order the projector stuff just to get that project rolling. Any tips or advice with the projector retrofit process would be greatly appreciated.

Check out the BG projector retrofit, I'm sure you can find some useful information there.

[3ni_tricksta]

Make sure you bolt it in a way that you can still use your stock adjusters. output is key

[Henchman]

http://www.imazda.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2936

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[irishkev90]

Check out the BG projector retrofit, I'm sure you can find some useful information there.

Checked out the BG retrofit. Glad he used the same projectors. Let's me know exactly what I'm getting. The look huge in the headlight, but I'm thinking the BG lights are a bit smaller than BH? I hope so, because I don't want to have to cut that much.

[rusty]

i pretty much do not go anywhere on the weekends, trying to get things situated, just built a 16x10x10 storage shed, this saturday i am going to take a civil service test in albany and hopefully going to empty my storage at lamplighter so i can get my tools in my garage where they belong

[irishkev90]

This has nothing to do with my build, but....

I feel like I need to tell everyone how dumb my brother is.
First off, his car: 1995(?) Acura Integra.
The main problem was that it would just die for no reason. Brought it to the shop, couldn't find a problem, said it might be a short somewhere. Brought it home to look for the short. Took apart the front end. Fenders, bumper, hood, everything off. Then he took out the radiator, hoses, fuel rail, injectors, plugs, battery, I don't even remember what else. I walked in the garage the other day and saw an engine stand, I'm like, "Really?" One problem, no engine hoist, is he really that dumb? Tonight I walked out to turn the air compressor off and found his header on the floor with the O2 sensor in it.... and the wires cut. I guess he is that dumb. So my dad told him not to touch the car anymore. I hope we get rid of that POS.

[Turpro]

Tell him to replace the distributor. My civics one died 2 times because of the ****ty internals

[irishkev90]

Hmm, I'll let him know. I know he got the coil replaced, I don't know if he touched anything else though. The sad part is I don't think he can put it all back together and have it run with no problems. He replaced one of the calipers like three times because he thought there was a problem. Turned out that he put the long bolt in the short bolt hole and the short bolt in the long bolt hole. I don't know how it reached, but I guess he just crammed it in there, thus causing his problems.

[rusty]

all i can say is LOL, can't imagine why he just didn't unplug the o2 sensor but oh well, also can't imagine why he would strip that much of the front end down. I wish i had some time to take alook at it for him, but probably won't have my garage set up for another 2 weeks.

[irishkev90]

Haha, I know. He's had so many problems with that piece of crap, mostly his fault. He couldn't even figure out how to wire up his amp. I told him he had to run the remote turn-on lead to his auto antenna, but he's like "No I don't need to do that." He think she knows everything, but obviously doesn't.

Anyway, I get to deposit my paycheck tomorrow so I'll be ordering the projector kit either tomorrow night or Saturday. Can't wait to do more work for the car.

[irishkev90]

I keep finding myself reading through the KL engine swaps and it makes me want to do it with this thing. My mind goes crazy with ideas for this little Protege sometimes