Hi peeps! you may remember me? as i haven't had my sport for over a year, i'm starting to get withdrawal symptoms. Due to the milege i do, i have eventually ended up with a SEAT ibiza cupra diesel. (i work at a SEAT dealership). I have seen the difference in petrol and diesel and figured why not get a 323 tdi!? i have seen a white one with LOW miles and looks very clean.

i want to make it into how mine looked before it got beaten up and continue with my plans.

has anyone fitted newer bumpers and headlights to the pre facelift?

is this possible without too much hassle? or does anyone know if they did a facelift in white?
i only ask as i think a sport would look awesome in white,
thanks in advance.

andrewcampbell2003 fitted a facelift front bumper to his white pre-facelift 1.5 but kept the old headlights.
Mazda UK didn't do the sport in white, but Madza Japan did.

Here's the link to his car.
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=11400
Bottom of page 2 for the first pictures of the bumper.

There was also a member that owned the dev how added sport bits.... look bloody nice too.

You'll have to source. front bumper, headlights and wings.

Won't you need a bonnet and grille too?

yes you will

I guess nobody ever knew or saw what my car looked like before it was facelifted

Well this is it:


(photoshopped ATH lower grille)


buh bye


The rest you've seen.
How it's looking now without the lip:


Anyhow, there's a large list of parts and I wouldn't recommend facelifting. Its labour intensive.
Parts are not so rare now so thats your luck but still...I would put on a sport20 pfl front like John or merge the facelift sport onto a pfl bumper like Craig or Andrew. If you want to see the list, you'll have to look for it somewhere on protege323-forum, I posted it somewhere.