You have three options, as I see it.

1) Keep doing what you're doing and nothing good will come.

2) Sell it and move the fuck on with your life.

3) Keep it, and fix it. It could take days, weeks, or years... but you will have fixed it, and you'll have a rally car.


Has anyone actually came and LOOKED at the car? Like, anyone who actually knows WTF they're talking about? If you just give up.... you give up. Who want's to do that?

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Not sure what you've got there from the pics. Both look to have the locking center diff (though one is missing the actual locking unit), which would rule out one of them being the BPT transmission...I think.

Dave

Get all that shizz off the damn island, catalog it (take pictures, get part numbers, post stuff online), and sell it. Your biggest obstacle is that you can't get to the stuff without an expensive ferry ride. Somehow limp that bent shell and pile of parts off the island. The second issue is that you just don't quite know the market enough or have the wrenching experience to maximize your return. Not a criticism or slam, just the reality of the situation. If your goal is to get a little liquid funds to pay your Samoan attorney, having the parts on the I-5 corridor is going to be waaaaaaaaay more conducive to reaching that goal.

If you could simply arrange transport to the mainland, you'd probably have an Anarchista or two who would show up with a wad of $20s. If I was 3000 miles closer, I would be.

Or call San Juan Island's Sanford and Son and have them smoosh the whole pile and give you $300 scrap value.

Good luck! I really mean that. You've had enough fecal matter impact the spinning blades.

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Andrew Steere
Lyndeborough, NH
KB1PJY

The one without the difflock motor is a bpt (or possibly a gtr but unlikely. Rare, those are) trans with (theoretically, depending on how it's been abused) a viscous centerdiff. You can tell it's not a standard b6t box by comparing the bellhousings. The bpt boxes still have the locking shaft, they just don't put a difflock motor on them. I should prolly buy it as a spare for my street car.

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Jay Woodward
Snohomish, WA
'90 Mazdog Frankenprotege
Chronologically, 46...

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I'm trying to remember that through all of this, but ive gotten so many phone calls from guys that sound like they are totally desperate for parts. especially those transmissions. ive already got one practically sold for 600+ shipping, which is almost as much as what i was going to sell it all for. it just seems like id be throwing away alot of hypothetical cash if i just went along and sold it all for the original asking price of 700.

Is practically sold like a little bit pregnant?

yeah, the top one is BPT of some sort, the bottom one is B6T or N/A Protege 4WD.

Top axle is the intermediate/jackshaft and passenger axle, possibly for the BPT. I don't know if the 1.6 setup ever had an intermediate shaft, or if it just had one long passenger-side axle.

bottom axle looks like a rear axle, as there were stubs coming out of the rear diff that it bolts to.

I'd be interested in the trans, but I already have some.

I'm sure some Mazdog dude with a hard-on for the BF will pick it up sooner or later....


--sarge

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Jorden R. Kleier
Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA
1990 Mazdog Protege 4WD
1973

Gene meant to post this here but had one of those señor moment.

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Even if you had to rent a small storage unit to store parts and some parking lot space , you'd recoup way more than the small expense by getting it mainland. Or get it listed in Canadia as it is actually closer for them than most of us... Reply Quote Report"

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From one señor to another, even if I'm the wrong Juan.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
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Remember! Pacific Standard Time
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You're the awesomeness JV !!

Yeah, what he said I said.

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You're the awesomeness JV !!

Yeah, what he said I said.

Naw, no way, just a happy Dad.

But van bogart said the right thing way back:
cut the damaged shit out and zap in a panel and sell the gawddam car as a gawddam rally car.
1 second search and look at the potential donors (who'da thunk it?)

Pick-n-Pull - Lynnwood [More Information]

18306 Highway 99
Lynnwood, WA 98037 US 425-778-3147

Store Layout Map | Part Pricing
Make Model Year Row Date On Yard
Mazda 323 92 0017 04/02/2012
Mazda 323 88 0044 03/19/2012
Approx Distance: 47 miles
Pick-n-Pull - Arlington [More Information]

6323 172nd Street NE
Arlington, WA 98223 US 360-403-9505

Store Layout Map | Part Pricing
Make Model Year Row Date On Yard
Mazda 323 92 0004 03/14/2012
Mazda 323 90 0008 03/26/2012
Mazda 323 90 0017 02/21/2012
Mazda 323 89 0008 03/26/2012
Mazda 323 89 0014 02/21/2012
Mazda 323 88 0003 03/09/2012
Mazda 323 86 0012 02/21/2012

Fer fawks sake the sheet metal is there, go get and as i tell all you fools "If you play with sidewaysness, you must become one with the spot weld drill"
It ain't rocket science, we all know bodyshop guys pull it off and lord knows a couple of years in that trade and the chemical vapors eat the brain into swiss cheese....

And above all its a rally beater--

DO IT.

(ferfawkssake)

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Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

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Spot weld drill? Looks to me with damage like that you could just glue the new panel right over the old one. Seems like a good Lemons type fix. Then he could advertize it as a "rare double skinned" car.

Dave

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Spot weld drill? Looks to me with damage like that you could just glue the new panel right over the old one. Seems like a good Lemons type fix. Then he could advertize it as a "rare double skinned" car.

Dave

and just think what sort of stuff you could smuggle in the dent-gap!

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ive got some new information on the J-spec tranny if anyone knows that it means

stamped into the bell housing: fap921036
on a paper sticker: g5f3
below that: be004?8?...

so it looks like its to a protoge?

well i did it, i went up to the island, pulled the engine and tranny, sold the tranny, and now ive got a good b6t engine to put up for sale, as well as the other 2 trannies.

hey guys, Ive found out the transmission ive got is either a G25MX-R or a G5MX-R, but i have no idea of telling which one. all ive got is the G5F3 which is stamped into the case. any pointers on figuring out for sure what i have?