Car: '96 Mazda Protege DX, Unknown DOHC motor, 5 speed
It's my (ex)girlfriends car (see the stupid post I made last week about taking my car to it's upper limits because this girl cheated on me, without going into detail about all of that)
I made her a deal this morning, I gave her my 98 Accord EX for the day (she loves this car) and I got her junker Mazda (it's got 239,XXX miles on it
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My only real problem was going from a start (especially in reverse) and not going into 2nd when I wanted 4th and not going into 5th when I wanted 3rd
I burnt the clutch a few good times (don't tell her that! she did break my heart, so it's all right) and I think I popped it out of 5th once because I held my hand on the shifter.
It's really fun, even though that car has like zero get up and go (my automatic Accord smokes her everytime, and she's a decent MT driver), and without a tach it's pretty hard to have a lot of fun because I don't know if she's got a fuel cutoff limit or what. Hearing that chirp when you enter 2nd is bliss though.
Plan on selling my automatic Accord this summer. I wanted an GS-R or a Prelude VTEC but they're slow. I kinda want something that makes 200whp+ stock and few Hondas do that. I thought about the RSX Type-S with boltons + Hondata = 200whp, but that's another $2g on top of what I'd pay for the RSX. I don't really know what I'm thinking about getting now, as I was also thinking about getting a 96+ Civic and dropping in a B18C, but that doesn't make more than about 150whp. I want something fun, but around $8-10K.