My second Mazda was an 88 323 GT. It's one of my most favorite cars that I've ever owned. I was just wondering if there were any 323 GT owners here. Mazda only shipped just under 1200 of them to the USA.

 

Im in Canada and I owned one if only temporarily. I stripped it for my 84 glc project.

 

How did that project come out?

 

Still a work in progress, I'm building what I can when I can. Winter doesn't help. I'll be working on it more come springtime.

I just finished my custom coilovers so I'll be test fitting those Monday.

As for the 323gt it had major major rust from someone driving it as a daily for it's lifetime so Canadian salt and winters ate it up.

 

Are you moving the engine or turbo over to the glc?

 

I moved all of the suspension including subframes, all the wiring, the engine and trans to the glc, I've built my own fully adjustable coilovers with dampening and thinking about building chromoly control arms, I'm putting the fuel cell in the trunk and also installing a bulkhead to protect me Incase some dick rear ends me.
it's been a slow build but I've never lost interest.

I kept all the body panels from the gt in the loft of my garage in the off chance I come by a regular 323 sedan or on the way off chance a street going gt.

I'm going to be at it alot more this summer and I'll be posting my progress when I can, I don't see much love for the glc sedan. It's overshadowed by what preceded it and succeeded it.

 

Looking forward to the updates!

 

Good news!!
I happened to Google search 1988 Mazda 323 gt blue and I came across the parts car I purchased! I bought it from an add insaw on kijiji but he did me the service of posting it on Montrealracing.com so we have photos of what it looked like complete!!

https://www.montrealracing.com/forum...8-Mazda-323-GT

 

Wow! That looks pretty nice, until you get to the floor board pictures. Those pictures bring back a lot of memories. Mine had the LCD instrument cluster. I wish I had some pictures or it.