Last spring this was the project car that me and a friend built. We took a low end 1988 Mazda Familia and made it a 1.6L turbo AWD low budget racer! The wiring harness swap was to say the least a PITA. However the car turned out to be really fun to drive and smoked alot of cars. So hey take on as weird a project car as you can find cause anything is possible.
http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/Project323/project.html

 

happended here?

 

Would you believe all of that was behind one dash? Scared the hell out of me when I saw all of that. Luckily we had plenty of digital pics to refer to in putting it back in. We needed the whole harness cause the car orignally was a carburated setup which blew and we were going to a turbo motor and tranny. But the car did turn out nice. http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/Project323/
It was a nice car for ranking people at the races. If you lost to the Familia your car was a POS and if you won then you had a decent car. We beat everything from Skylines to Civic Type-R's with that thing.

 

So its called the Mazda 323 GTX over here(read from website), cause I heard those cars around here are awesome autocrossers.

 

The ones available here had a rounded over here hatch and not the squared off or blocky looking unti like the US but they were nice cars. The model we used was light enough to take drag racing. It ironically had electric windows but no A/C. When we got done it had no heater either since we were only going to use it for one summer. That car was one fun project even if it wasn't the most attractive thing in the world or the best performance. It kept the Honda crowd inline.

 

Well, personally, I like the look of the car, it looks real nice, and very clean.

 

very clean?

 

...from the outside(look at the website).

 

if he installs the headlights.......it'll be taight

 

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