For trade: 2003.5 Mazdaspeed Protege
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From: San Jose, Ca
Car Info: Stage 2 '13 WRX hatch
For trade: 2003.5 Mazdaspeed Protege
Contact Info:
E-mail - heysup(at)gmail.com
I'm interested in trading my Mazdaspeed for something else because I lost my job and car payments are difficult right now. I am looking for either someone who will trade me their car and take over payments (nearly paid off, only $929.51 left on the loan), or I can sell the car outright for $3500 obo. My car is in good condition, so yours must be too. No beater civics with primer paint jobs and fart cans, guys. I'm being realistic though, I'm not expecting people to trade me their WRX's for this or anything it would be cool to trade for a decent Impreza/Miata/MR2/Civic/whatever. Also, no vans or suv's.
This car is pretty rare. Only 4750 of them were built worldwide.
Laser Blue 2003.5 Mazdaspeed Protege #2478/4750
::Stock Features::
- Turbocharged
- Power Everything
- 4 Wheel Disc Brakes with ABS
- 5 Speed with Factory LSD
- Clean Title
- 150,xxx Miles
- 450 Watt 7 Speaker Kenwood Sound System (sounds awesome
)
- Racing Beat Sway Bars, Tokico Struts, Racing Beat Springs, and a Racing Beat Front Strut Bar (all factory and it handles amazing for a front-wheel drive car)
- Stock Racing Heart 17" Wheels with BF Goodridge G-force sport tired 215/40r17 (with lifetime warranty on the tires)
- Factory Alarm System with Keyless Entry
- Fold down 60/40 Rear Seats
::Mods::
- Turbosmart manual boost controller (set to stock psi)
- Prosport Boost Gauge
- Split-Second Air/Fuel Controller
- EBC Green Stuff Brake Pads
- Goodridge SS Brake Lines
- Corksport SS Clutch Line
- Forge Motorsport Wastegate Actuator
- Injen Cold Air Intake w/ Real Carb Sticker
:The Good:
- No Leaks
- Clean Title
- Passed Smog November 30th 2011
- NEW TIMING BELT (November 2011)
- NEW BATTERY W/ 3 YEAR WARRANTY (November 2011)
- Transmission service just performed (September 2011)
- Current registration, good till next November
-New primary O2 sensor
-New valve cover gasket
-New exhaust manifold gasket
-New exhaust manifold to turbo gasket
-New downpipe to midpipe gasket
-Stock midpipe already has a bung for a wideband O2 sensor
:The not so good:
These cars came with a bad tune from the factory. Luckily since I have the a/f controller on there it runs much better but it still needs some tweeks. Shouldn't be too hard, all you need is a serial cable and a laptop. I will include the software that it came with. Still drives fine though. I just drove to Reno and back in September and I drive to Santa Cruz at least once a month.
It gets decent gas mileage for a turbo car. I've achieved 33mpg before while coming back from Oregon but I usually average around 26 combined. You will get worse mileage if you boost a lot though.
E-mail - heysup(at)gmail.com
I'm interested in trading my Mazdaspeed for something else because I lost my job and car payments are difficult right now. I am looking for either someone who will trade me their car and take over payments (nearly paid off, only $929.51 left on the loan), or I can sell the car outright for $3500 obo. My car is in good condition, so yours must be too. No beater civics with primer paint jobs and fart cans, guys. I'm being realistic though, I'm not expecting people to trade me their WRX's for this or anything it would be cool to trade for a decent Impreza/Miata/MR2/Civic/whatever. Also, no vans or suv's.
This car is pretty rare. Only 4750 of them were built worldwide.
Laser Blue 2003.5 Mazdaspeed Protege #2478/4750
::Stock Features::
- Turbocharged
- Power Everything
- 4 Wheel Disc Brakes with ABS
- 5 Speed with Factory LSD
- Clean Title
- 150,xxx Miles
- 450 Watt 7 Speaker Kenwood Sound System (sounds awesome
)- Racing Beat Sway Bars, Tokico Struts, Racing Beat Springs, and a Racing Beat Front Strut Bar (all factory and it handles amazing for a front-wheel drive car)
- Stock Racing Heart 17" Wheels with BF Goodridge G-force sport tired 215/40r17 (with lifetime warranty on the tires)
- Factory Alarm System with Keyless Entry
- Fold down 60/40 Rear Seats
::Mods::
- Turbosmart manual boost controller (set to stock psi)
- Prosport Boost Gauge
- Split-Second Air/Fuel Controller
- EBC Green Stuff Brake Pads
- Goodridge SS Brake Lines
- Corksport SS Clutch Line
- Forge Motorsport Wastegate Actuator
- Injen Cold Air Intake w/ Real Carb Sticker
:The Good:
- No Leaks
- Clean Title
- Passed Smog November 30th 2011
- NEW TIMING BELT (November 2011)
- NEW BATTERY W/ 3 YEAR WARRANTY (November 2011)
- Transmission service just performed (September 2011)
- Current registration, good till next November
-New primary O2 sensor
-New valve cover gasket
-New exhaust manifold gasket
-New exhaust manifold to turbo gasket
-New downpipe to midpipe gasket
-Stock midpipe already has a bung for a wideband O2 sensor
:The not so good:
These cars came with a bad tune from the factory. Luckily since I have the a/f controller on there it runs much better but it still needs some tweeks. Shouldn't be too hard, all you need is a serial cable and a laptop. I will include the software that it came with. Still drives fine though. I just drove to Reno and back in September and I drive to Santa Cruz at least once a month.
It gets decent gas mileage for a turbo car. I've achieved 33mpg before while coming back from Oregon but I usually average around 26 combined. You will get worse mileage if you boost a lot though.
Last edited by Sasco; Sep 29, 2013 at 04:18 PM.
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Car Info: Stage 2 '13 WRX hatch
Yeah, I realized that right after I bumped it but I didn't have the time to type up a new ad. It's in the first post now 
Yes, clean title and it will include all of the mods and stock parts except for the stock exhaust manifold because it had a couple cracks and 2 of the studs broke off so I tossed it out.

Yes, clean title and it will include all of the mods and stock parts except for the stock exhaust manifold because it had a couple cracks and 2 of the studs broke off so I tossed it out.
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Posts: 687
From: San Jose, Ca
Car Info: Stage 2 '13 WRX hatch
Bumping with new pictures taken just a couple weeks ago. Car is still up for sale/trade.
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