Saturday, November 19, 2011

Can a different motor work in my mazda protege?

I have a 1998 Mazda Protege ES (I believe) and I was wondering if there was a better motor that would make it faster and/or more fuel efficient. And where should I look to find that?|||It would be very difficult to recoup the money spent on an engine swap by getting better gas mileage.


Nevermind the fact that you'd be spending this money on a 12 year old Mazda econobox that's worth barely a few thousand. Just drive it.|||skys the limit when you have money. you can put pretty much any motor you want in it but it would be alot of fabrication, you would need the motor, motor mounts, trans fits the motor, trans mounts, drive shaft, possibly rear end, ecu that works with the motor, wireing harness...and all the cutting and relocating needed to complete the swap, it can be done, but it takes time and money.|||If you do have the ES model, there is no easy swap for more power. This uses the biggest B engine made. More a fuel efficient engine can be had by down sizing to a 1.6 or smaller B engine.


Because this is the same engine that is in the Miata (1.8) you can stroke the engine using a stroker kit (http://www.flyinmiata.com/index.php?dept鈥?/a> But at almost 5000 dollars and still needing engine machine shop work done, it might be better to just buy a second car that is more fun to drive.

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