Crazycanadian
Greenie Member
Rather then cluttering up my Speed6 build thread I figured I would start a new one.
A little history. This 1993 Mazda 323 was owned by a close friend of mine (Rob). We met off a forum similar to this one after he got in over his head trying to rebuild the transmission for the car. We hit it off became friends and spent the next 8 years building our cars together and autocross racing. Unfortunately he passed away from complications during heart surgery in 2018. Life's thrown me a bunch of curve balls since 2018 so Princess has spent a lot of time in storage, but over the last couple of years I've been finding the time to enjoy her and carry on with some of the things Rob wanted to achieve with the car.
Princess in all her Glory.
For those Curious about the build details.
Styling department
JDM Protege GTX front bumper
Euro clear head lights and markers
GT-ae upper spoiler ( 1 of 200 made)
Familia grill
paint matched door handles and mirrors
Vintage Momo steering wheel
Current Engine/Transmission setup
1.8L DOHC BP swap (motor was rebuilt during swap)
Kia BP transmission case with closer ratio Mx3 gear set and 4.38 final drive. KAAZ LSD
Long since forgotten what brand of header. (Most likely Pacesetter), hand made stainless 2.5" exhaust with Magnaflow muffler
AWR Polly mounts all around
Custom made brass shifter bushings
Walbro fuel pump with Holley Hydromat used to combat the horrible fuel starvation issues these cars suffer from with the stock fuel tank. ( with 3/4 of a tank of gas it would fuel starve on long right hand corners)
Suspension/Brakes
K-Sport GT-Pro coil overs with custom spring rates
Polly front control arm bushings
Ford Escort Zx2 Front Sway bar
Big Addco rear sway bar
Ford Escort Zx2 lateral links with polly bushings
Custom made delrin subframe bushings
Pierce Motorsports tubular rear control arms
Pierce Motorsports Rear subframe brace
Pierce Motorsports Front 4 point subframe brace
Pierce Motorsports front and rear upper strut tower braces. The rear has optional upper pillar and seat bracing
Protege GT rear disc brakes, right now sporting some old school dimpled/slotted rotors and Hawk HP+ Pads
Goodridge braided brake lines
Wheels and Tires
True Version 1 Kosei K1's 15x7's
On order for this season are some 225/40/15 Vitour P1 (X-01R)
No details were spared when this car was being built. All the subframe, suspension, brackets, mounts everything got cleaned up, powder coated and restored.
Originally built within old school FSP Autocross rules, the car used to be pretty competitive with out running on slicks. These days it's moved into XB where it's out gunned going up against light weight Miata's.
Last Summer my son and I enjoyed Autocross racing in it. We took it down the Packwood Washington for the National Tour event. We took it Canadian Nationals and most of the local events. I managed to run a couple of Time Trials events and took it to some car shows. It won a Judges choice award at one of them.
With my Sons Protege build finished it's been time for me to start working on Princess again. Maybe, just maybe I'll get this motor built and in the car before the Packwood National Tour event this July. Rob started this motor build 14 years ago. This is where I am going to geek out a little bit and unless you know, it wont make sense why.
I haven't seen my shop bench look this clean in a long time. Don't mind this mess over in the corner. It's just a pile of 2 other BPT motors for a different project.
This is how Rob left things. 1 cylinder had been put together. Everything had been wrapped up and well protected.
The motor build started out life as a BPD series 2 from Japan (This is a rare 323 GTR only motor). It was torn apart, the crank and block were sent off to the machine shop to get prepped for some ACL bearings, Eagle Rods and Weisco Pistions. A Boundary Bay Racing oil pump, and ARP hardware round out the bottom end.
It was a late night after work and I should have gone home. But I didn't and unforunatly broke while installing it. Thankfully I could get a replacement set direct from Weisco.
The BPD engine is special for a few reasons. One of them is cylinder head. It got a little extra love with the addition of sodium filled exhuast valves. As you can see I've got a collection of these motors so it took a little bit to go through all the casting numbers to find the correct one. While I was going through my collection I found a BP05 cylinder head from a Miata that had been rebuilt. Despite getting a little extra love the BPD head doesn't flow as well as the Miata cylinder head. So the BPD head got put away in favour of the BP05 head. It didn't take much to clean up, check over and reassemble the BP05 head since it didn't have many miles on it since it had been rebuilt.
Most of the parts Rob had collected for this build have been scattered between 6 or 7 different bins. He was quite a detail orientated person, but at some point started getting overwhelmed by this project and knocking some things off his list before going in his surgery. So some stuff has been really well labled, and other stuff no so much. It's taking quite a big of time to find all the hardware and little bits and pieces. But I have found some fun goodies and managed to mock a few things up.
Rob was future proofing this build. I found a collection of adapters that will let me mount a T25 or T3 turbo on the stock manifold later on down the road. For now I'll be running the stock V23 turbo that was rebuilt back in 2012/13..
A little history. This 1993 Mazda 323 was owned by a close friend of mine (Rob). We met off a forum similar to this one after he got in over his head trying to rebuild the transmission for the car. We hit it off became friends and spent the next 8 years building our cars together and autocross racing. Unfortunately he passed away from complications during heart surgery in 2018. Life's thrown me a bunch of curve balls since 2018 so Princess has spent a lot of time in storage, but over the last couple of years I've been finding the time to enjoy her and carry on with some of the things Rob wanted to achieve with the car.
Princess in all her Glory.
For those Curious about the build details.
Styling department
JDM Protege GTX front bumper
Euro clear head lights and markers
GT-ae upper spoiler ( 1 of 200 made)
Familia grill
paint matched door handles and mirrors
Vintage Momo steering wheel
Current Engine/Transmission setup
1.8L DOHC BP swap (motor was rebuilt during swap)
Kia BP transmission case with closer ratio Mx3 gear set and 4.38 final drive. KAAZ LSD
Long since forgotten what brand of header. (Most likely Pacesetter), hand made stainless 2.5" exhaust with Magnaflow muffler
AWR Polly mounts all around
Custom made brass shifter bushings
Walbro fuel pump with Holley Hydromat used to combat the horrible fuel starvation issues these cars suffer from with the stock fuel tank. ( with 3/4 of a tank of gas it would fuel starve on long right hand corners)
Suspension/Brakes
K-Sport GT-Pro coil overs with custom spring rates
Polly front control arm bushings
Ford Escort Zx2 Front Sway bar
Big Addco rear sway bar
Ford Escort Zx2 lateral links with polly bushings
Custom made delrin subframe bushings
Pierce Motorsports tubular rear control arms
Pierce Motorsports Rear subframe brace
Pierce Motorsports Front 4 point subframe brace
Pierce Motorsports front and rear upper strut tower braces. The rear has optional upper pillar and seat bracing
Protege GT rear disc brakes, right now sporting some old school dimpled/slotted rotors and Hawk HP+ Pads
Goodridge braided brake lines
Wheels and Tires
True Version 1 Kosei K1's 15x7's
On order for this season are some 225/40/15 Vitour P1 (X-01R)
No details were spared when this car was being built. All the subframe, suspension, brackets, mounts everything got cleaned up, powder coated and restored.
Originally built within old school FSP Autocross rules, the car used to be pretty competitive with out running on slicks. These days it's moved into XB where it's out gunned going up against light weight Miata's.
Last Summer my son and I enjoyed Autocross racing in it. We took it down the Packwood Washington for the National Tour event. We took it Canadian Nationals and most of the local events. I managed to run a couple of Time Trials events and took it to some car shows. It won a Judges choice award at one of them.
With my Sons Protege build finished it's been time for me to start working on Princess again. Maybe, just maybe I'll get this motor built and in the car before the Packwood National Tour event this July. Rob started this motor build 14 years ago. This is where I am going to geek out a little bit and unless you know, it wont make sense why.
I haven't seen my shop bench look this clean in a long time. Don't mind this mess over in the corner. It's just a pile of 2 other BPT motors for a different project.
This is how Rob left things. 1 cylinder had been put together. Everything had been wrapped up and well protected.
The motor build started out life as a BPD series 2 from Japan (This is a rare 323 GTR only motor). It was torn apart, the crank and block were sent off to the machine shop to get prepped for some ACL bearings, Eagle Rods and Weisco Pistions. A Boundary Bay Racing oil pump, and ARP hardware round out the bottom end.
It was a late night after work and I should have gone home. But I didn't and unforunatly broke while installing it. Thankfully I could get a replacement set direct from Weisco.
The BPD engine is special for a few reasons. One of them is cylinder head. It got a little extra love with the addition of sodium filled exhuast valves. As you can see I've got a collection of these motors so it took a little bit to go through all the casting numbers to find the correct one. While I was going through my collection I found a BP05 cylinder head from a Miata that had been rebuilt. Despite getting a little extra love the BPD head doesn't flow as well as the Miata cylinder head. So the BPD head got put away in favour of the BP05 head. It didn't take much to clean up, check over and reassemble the BP05 head since it didn't have many miles on it since it had been rebuilt.
Most of the parts Rob had collected for this build have been scattered between 6 or 7 different bins. He was quite a detail orientated person, but at some point started getting overwhelmed by this project and knocking some things off his list before going in his surgery. So some stuff has been really well labled, and other stuff no so much. It's taking quite a big of time to find all the hardware and little bits and pieces. But I have found some fun goodies and managed to mock a few things up.
Rob was future proofing this build. I found a collection of adapters that will let me mount a T25 or T3 turbo on the stock manifold later on down the road. For now I'll be running the stock V23 turbo that was rebuilt back in 2012/13..
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