^Agreed, not to mention, how cool would that be :)
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I still have my kit and I thought about selling it but I don't need the money and I want to finish tweaking it to the point where I can make some serious numbers and be the only one...then maybe I'll sell it.
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ahh.. the WOMP, now THAT was/is cool, got to see it IRL ;)
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Originally Posted by Roddimus Prime
(Post 394778)
I still have my kit and I thought about selling it but I don't need the money and I want to finish tweaking it to the point where I can make some serious numbers and be the only one...then maybe I'll sell it.
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If I were going to do a twincharged car internals are important but no'one really has a fuel system that can support those types of power levels. Juan is probably the best at it now but it's a unique tuning system for both poweradders.
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Why not give the WOMP another shot Matty? If you could find trustworthy shops to take care of all your custom work, the kit would definitely sell like crazy.
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"Like Crazy" is a tough bet with Protege owners. These are quite a few owners, but most are either really cheap, or don't have that kind of plan for the car.
It's hard to convince someone to spend 3-4k on a kit, when the car is worth 4-5k, and is 5 years old. |
Originally Posted by TheDirtyGoatee
(Post 394498)
Dude, I love that quote, "Only 16 yr old girls require an auto..." can I use that?! Classic!
Actually I have to attribute that to my wife - she was having work done on her 300ZX and the mech needed HER to move the car, 'i can't drive a manual' he whined. So she laid the 16yr old girl bit on him! :pfanndina |
Originally Posted by J-Protege
(Post 394803)
"Like Crazy" is a tough bet with Protege owners. These are quite a few owners, but most are either really cheap, or don't have that kind of plan for the car.
It's hard to convince someone to spend 3-4k on a kit, when the car is worth 4-5k, and is 5 years old. |
Originally Posted by Da P-Funk!
(Post 394819)
Actually I have to attribute that to my wife - she was having work done on her 300ZX and the mech needed HER to move the car, 'i can't drive a manual' he whined. So she laid the 16yr old girl bit on him! :pfanndina
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Originally Posted by J-Protege
(Post 394803)
"Like Crazy" is a tough bet with Protege owners. These are quite a few owners, but most are either really cheap, or don't have that kind of plan for the car.
It's hard to convince someone to spend 3-4k on a kit, when the car is worth 4-5k, and is 5 years old. |
Originally Posted by KrayzieFox
(Post 394828)
I agree with that but you still see a lot of owners spending just as much if not more on turbo kits. I'm positive that at least 40%-50% of those purchases could easily be replaced by a reliable supercharger, because it's a much better alternative for our cars. Just a thought .. that's all.
Plus the power delivery is nice (though turbo power delivery is more 'fun' because it comes as a big lump of power :) ) I bet 30% of the poeple who turbo their P5 would rather have supercharged it.. but well --what kind of numbers are we talking about.. maybe 50-75 people that I am in any way aware of have turboed a non-turbo 3rd gen Protege. The numbers are probably drastically less, I can only count 15 or so by name myself. Maybe three years ago womp could have been something awesome, but it's probably too late at this point :( |
Yup, too little too late. Besides last I counted i lost about $7k on the process so I'm not real excited about doing much else.
fwiw, I've started collecting parts to do a complete NA package like I had hinted at a few months ago in another thread. I've also started looking into finding a local MX3 GS for playing with but that's not on the forefront right now. |
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