What have you done to your P5 today?

Anybody ever hear of soundcoat.com ? We had a bunch of their sound deading sheets at the jobsite I was just at. We were used it to deaden the sound on some sheetmetal chutes. I brought back a bunch of scrap pieces. I was thinking of using it in the P5. Works really well for the chute application we have. Seems like it would be OK in the car......
make sure its ok for closed areas and doesnt need ventilation. some of those commercial sound deadeners are for well ventilated areas and have noxious fumes in their glues
 
Didn't think of that. I'll have to do some recon and try to dig up some info on the stuff.

Thanks man

make sure its ok for closed areas and doesnt need ventilation. some of those commercial sound deadeners are for well ventilated areas and have noxious fumes in their glues
 
Amsgator, When I start and stop.
AMaff, as Mark says, already done the bearings.
Josh, Yup that's what I'm thinking, but I would replace the halfshaft though, 65 bucks at Autozone.

So anyone ever change one? I can't be the 1st?
if you wanna use my garage let me know! i'll help...
 
i checked autozone online and it didnt show up in the search...do i guess i'll keep looking. if i can't find it local i probably wont do it because i'm not gonna pay to have it shipped. i'll check their stores though

Not going to find it there. Call a 'performance shop' in your area...the kind of place that sells aftermarket wheels, does tint etc. That is where I got mine...they did have to order it as a lot of places don't stock it.
 
I got bored

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OMG YOU CUT A HOLE IN THE HOOD!? Did you put some kinda plastic sheet or lexan over it? daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn

I got an oil change and glued my shifter boot to my shifter
 
Picture would look nicer if the brightness and contrast of the motor was brought up a little. Cool though.
 
i just took the two pictures and overlapped them. didnt mess w/ anything else.

i changed my oil and attempted to change plugs but advanced was out of the ngk v power.....so another day for that
 
I finally got my windows tinted. I also got motivated and blacked out my side markers.
 

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Yeah it is vht. I looked at autozone and they did not have it. They guy told me to go to WESTBAY. I dont know if you have them where you live. The guy said go and look in the autobody section.
 
Yeah it is vht. I looked at autozone and they did not have it. They guy told me to go to WESTBAY. I dont know if you have them where you live. The guy said go and look in the autobody section.

what kinda place is westbay? we dont have it but i can check a similar place
 
I will scan and post up some time slips so you guys can make fun of me. I fell short of my goals. Let's just say that. 17.2 in the 1/4th was my best time. I know of 2 ways to improve my time though and I am going to check them out another time. One is not shifting into 4th and just redlining it all the way to 82mph in 3rd gear. The other is to launch at 5,600 RPM instead of the 5,000 that I did with my best time.
 
Ok some one is telling me that since it's the middle of summer in Florida that I would actually be around the 15/16 range in the winter. Going to have to prove that to myself. In the mean time I will be practicing launches at the 1/8th track.
 
my protege will be done tomorrow!! yay!
rebuilt tranny, new torque convertor, alternator, serpentine & ac belts, right side CV axle, front & rear brake pads, and both lower control arms. (a cool ~$2200 getting a hell of a discount cause i work at the shop, should be ~$3600)
:D itll be a fun day at work tomorrow.
then my yellow fog lights should be here hopefully tomorrow so those will go in as well.
then hopefully on saturday i can polish the calipers
 
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I will scan and post up some time slips so you guys can make fun of me. I fell short of my goals. Let's just say that. 17.2 in the 1/4th was my best time. I know of 2 ways to improve my time though and I am going to check them out another time. One is not shifting into 4th and just redlining it all the way to 82mph in 3rd gear. The other is to launch at 5,600 RPM instead of the 5,000 that I did with my best time.

better than my slotege5. But mostly because I've never launched, also because K&N filters don't increase track time much.

Today my wife was checking out KBB for the trade-in value on my car, and pricing out the Speed3. It would be sooooo freeking cool to get a 08 MS3, I'm teetering on the edge right now, the only thing holding me back is that I am so close to not having any car payments... It would be nice not to have to fork ove $362 on my car every month.

Seriously though, if I fail to resist the test drive it'll be all over. She is trying to set that up too. Dammit! Women are such a tool of the devil! The (wo)Man+Vagina Power is holding me down. (gtfo)
 
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