92 ITA Mazda Protege vs 91 ITA CRX Daytona during a ECR SCCA

Me in my 1992 ITA Mazda Portege chasing around Scott Seck in Mike Dunn's 1991 Honda CRX at Daytona International Raceway. This was either 2000 or 2001.
I think the CRX broke during the race and I finished 4th in class. (36 cars in class, 94 cars overall)

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Autos & Vehicles

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• mazda
• protege
• ITA
• honda
• crx
• scottisha69
• daytona
• scca
• ecr

[RCkid8]

did you work on the maxda from stock up to rac car? if you did. can you tell me the stock hp on the mazda? im thinking of getting one my self.

[scottisha69]

I don't own the car anymore....But, I bought it new in 1992, then made it a racecar in 1998. 140hp stock...probably around 160hp in this video. No engine work, just intake, exhaust, air/fuel mixture adjustments. (header too). Great little car for racing, except limited performance stuff. I had to have a lot of "one-off" items made for the suspension.

[rainmaster24]

nice vid.. used to have the very same car back in the day.. what suspension set-up wer u runnin at the time?

[scottisha69]

No one really had anything for that car back then, so pretty much everything was custom. Ground Control made a set of custom shocks and struts to match the coil-over spring rate, I had a set of custom adjustable camber plates made for all four corners and then a Tokico rear sway bar. Car handled awesome and with a little longer wheel base, it was not twitchy under braking, like the Honda CRX.

[Boltz87]

You would of passed him a few times if you did over rev in the redline coming out of the turns

[scottisha69]

I had my shift light set 500rpms before my fuel cut off. You could hear him bouncing off his limiter quite a few times...His car just had more pull in 3rd and 4th than mine did. I was just exiting a little better than he was, so it seemed like I had more power. His CRX was one of the fastest in Florida, at the time.

[romeomike76]

Very good race. Crx pulls hard on top ends.



[dj3hac]

you are the better driver



[sheshavingababy]

Nice driving.....!~



[Cali12kool]

you should have kept it,90s mazda's are the best

[DracoSilverscar]

Is it just me or did you rub him a couple times? Good run was great to watch that little battle! I have a 92 Protege myself now just bought it.

[pitbull113]

love the video of the pro. it's still out there running daytona and sebring but will be up for sale soon. you built a great car scott!

[madmax2069]

vollgas83, aparently you dont understand power vs weight ratio unless you was joking around. the 92 Protege stock had a 2400 lbs curb weight vs the CRX's 1000 maybe 1700 tops.

so if honda was all that he would be leaving the Protege in the dust, but it wasnt. his mirrors was full of Protege.

you bet your butt that both cars had weight reductions as well. but the Protege still weighed about 2x more

Hondas are ok. but Mazdas is better by far

[rainmaster24]

great... i only had eibachs on my ride back then... yah performance parts for that car was scarce..