What have you done to your P5 today?

Going to get a picture of the car with no motor in the bay. It's up on a stand waiting for the warranty peoeple to come look at it again and approve a further tear down.

Tylor

Holy crap, what did I miss?!?! since when is your motor out? did u blow it?
 
Well, if you remember or not, about a month ago, I broke the purge solenoid installing my SRI. Well, about that time, something smashed the spark plug shut and was only running on 3 cylidners. Took it to the mechanic and ordered a new solenoid from Jason at onlinemazdaparts.com. Mechanic swapped em and put a new plug in and i drove away fine, till I put gas in the tank. After everytime I put in gas, the motor would choke, sputter, misfire, then die. Let it set a second, start it again and keep the revs above 2000 and I was alright, till the third time I filled up with gas.

Filled up, started, it sputtered, popped, and died. Started again and I got a CEL flashing at me, and, it feels like it's on 3 cylinders again. I take it to autozone, 1/4 mile away and get the CEL checked. It was a misfire in cylinder 3 now, was 4 last time.

Take it to the mechanic from autozone. He starts it the next day and it starts knocking like a dog. So, now we're in the process of finding out if I get a new motor or not. It's gonna throw a rod within a week if I kept driving it. Mechanic only starts it to move it in and out of the bay and he's affraid to even do that.

So, now, we wait. The motor is pulled and he should have someone from the warranty company come check it out tomorrow. I hope I need a new motor
I was going to go forged, but, my wallet isn't going to let me, so, I'm hoping to pick up a new motor from Ken at Protege Garage, and a clutch and flywheel and tranny mount from AWR in the process.

Time will tell. I"ll post up a pic if he's got the motor aprt tomorrow.

Tylor
 
Injen CAI installed

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installed rear strut tower and floor bar. It really does make a big difference
 
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Dammit, somehow got SUS-1077 instead of SUS-1070 from ravspeconline which means they hooked me up with gtspec rear chassis bars for a sedan instead of the cool gtspec aluminum & blue front strut brace for the P5. Oh, well They're sending the correct part & a return slip for the other part so no harm no foul. (boobs2) What parts? The wife alert is going off. Excuse me while I go handle them it her..........................
 
floor bar? from where?

got from EVADE basically it goes across the rear floor and connects to the seat belt bolts. Now when climbing steep driveways side ways i got some three wheel acrion going. Made the car way stiffer on the turns. Now the back slides along with the front. Gots less understeer now.
 
Something is missing. I coulda swore something is supposed to go here

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Ahha! There it is!

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Tear down begins today

Also, side note, just bought an AWR rear motor mount to compliment my AWR front mount. Anybody got any side mounts? I am gonna order the transmission mount by AWR as well from Protege Garage. Anybody got experience with the trans mount? Worth the coin?


Tylor
 
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Something is missing. I coulda swore something is supposed to go here

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Ahha! There it is!

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Tear down begins today

Also, side note, just bought an AWR rear motor mount to compliment my AWR front mount. Anybody got any side mounts? I am gonna order the transmission mount by AWR as well from Protege Garage. Anybody got experience with the trans mount? Worth the coin?


Tylor

looks like mine! i had all 4 awr mounts- side inserts and the front /rear.. i just bought the full mount kit from STREET UNIT..they're pretty badass. and a full ACTUAL mount kit...
 
808MP5 send me a link to those pics when you get em. That bar sounds like fun!

Tylor- Any word on whether thats under warranty or not? For your sake I hope it is.
 
New 710s are in the mail and I got new magnets on Sunday. Last night I ripped out the Injen CAI and started to put in the stock airbox before realizing I was missing a few nuts....
 
808MP5 send me a link to those pics when you get em. That bar sounds like fun!

Tylor- Any word on whether thats under warranty or not? For your sake I hope it is.

Yeah, it's all going under warranty. That's why it taking so friggen long! Everytime the mechanic goes one step into the tear down, he's gotta have someone come look at it and approve a further tear down. I'll be calling the mechanic today. He should have the motor torn down by the time I leave work. Find out if I need a new motor, or, if the warranty people want him to try to "fix" the current one.

Tylor
 
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