So now it runs.....

[J_Mob]

2000 ZX2-169,700 miles, ATX went out 5 days after purchase. Rebuild did not fix trans.....must have been a bad housing or something. Put an ATX out of a 4-door 99 Escort in it, sort of fit....now it runs. Only twenty more things to fix....:biggrin:

[scort2498]

o... now u have a slower than slow atx escort...

[J_Mob]

Seems to do okay......got up to a hundred pretty quick on the freeway, then I realized that I really don't need another ticket since I drive for a living and cut it short.

Shifts pretty hard into second if i'm not nice to the throttle. Is that normal or due to being rebuilt????

[Connal]

o... now u have a slower than slow atx escort...

Wheels are wheels. As long as it gets from point A to point B.

[kln5014]

I had an auto 4 door scort that I put 30,000 miles on and it always shifted hard into 2nd

[J_Mob]

Wheels are wheels. As long as it gets from point A to point B.

Hear that. After sharing the Exploder with my wife for the last month or so I am exstatic to have this bastard running.

After I get all the repair issues dealt with I'm thinking maybe cold air intake, limo tint, black rims (it's a white car), and maybe a spoiler off of an SRT Neon if I can find a white one and make it fit (I think something in that size would help balance the pregnant roller skate look of the ZX2 without making it look like I am trying to lift off......). I got some blackout lens covers off ebay the other day. Still waiting for them but should be here shortly.......

[ZX2 Sleeper]

Glad to hear you got your zx2 running. Thats normal with the hard shifting... I have a white Z with black rims. Us white ZX2's seem to stick together! Oh and don't do the srt4 spoiler.

[J_Mob]

Oh and don't do the srt4 spoiler.

Why not? The little stock one doesn't flatter the shape of the vehicle IMO. Looks like a little bubble...something to fill in the ass end would make it more streamlined I think.