What have you done to your P5 today?

[mx-p5]

Alright, pic time from my weekend of fun

First off, pic request of my hose clamp holding the old exhaust hangers in place

Next up is the new corksport hangers doing their thing

Also, the rattling I was experiencing was due to the drop brackets that came with the TWM. The cat visible in the third pic was vibrating against the heatshield. Took a hammer to it to bend it up just enough to be out of the way. No more vibes

Then we have a tailend shot of the new mazda6 wiper, which made its way over to my wife's car right after this pic was taken. Also, the exhaust sits tighter up under the bumper now

Here we have my new previously polished, now brushed daveb rings! If anyone can tell me how to get rid of the streaks in the plastic on the gauge face, I'd appreciate it!! windex, simple green, nothing I've used that isn't too abrassive will get it off.

Also, last pic is of the Celica Markers now installed

 

[mx-p5]

Oops. 5 pics is the limit. Here's the last pic of the rear of the car

 

[whitemp5seattle]

(yippy) my p5 lives on!

 

[mx-p5]

(yippy) my p5 lives on!

On both our cars!!

 

[whitemp5seattle]

On both our cars!!

(cool)

 

[Schnitzelsemmel]

bought her new wipers (bosch twin) today and dropped them on.

 

[Chicoloco]

Tylor, gauges looks great, but i must ask how did the streaks happen? Are they like scrapes? You can try PlastX from Meguiar's. Royal Satin has a abrassive effect. I would try that too, but first try the PlastX.

If you had Royal Satin, i would try it first then the PlastX for the finish.

 

[mx-p5]

the streaks were there when I bought the car. They REALLY REALLY detract from the gauge rings!! I am almost tempted to just order a new plastic cover

It's on the outisde. It almost looks like they tried to wipe it off with acetone or something ridiculous

I'll try the plastix though first

 

[MTV]

Drove the car for the first time in 10 days. Went on vacation and it feels good to drive her again!

 

[joneb4evr]

Nice Pics!

 

[mazda_pro5_2nr]

Turned her over to the insurance company so they coud give her a burial and looking to get my new car...

 

[magnumP5]

Threw P0171 Bank 1 too Lean again. I have no idea why this code comes on intermittantly but I know for a fact my car is not running lean (wideband says perfect 14.7:1). This is getting aggravating...

EDIT: Oh yeah, the P5 has also burned through about a half-qt or so of oil just in the trip to and from OH this past weekend. I don't get it, even the exhaust has that oil-burning smell to it again after it was fine for so long... Why is my car falling apart?!

 

[DubbyDoo]

i put my 626 manifold and spacer in last night runs ok i need to retune some and wait till its dry out

 

[Crazee D]

Threw P0171 Bank 1 too Lean again. I have no idea why this code comes on intermittantly but I know for a fact my car is not running lean (wideband says perfect 14.7:1). This is getting aggravating...

Why is my car falling apart?!

Tell me about it, I know the feeling!

A clogged injector could lean out an individual cylinder I imagine.
Unless you have a bung in each exhaust manifold runner, the AFR reading is only an aggregate (total).

 

[magnumP5]

i put my 626 manifold and spacer in last night runs ok i need to retune some and wait till its dry out

So how did you eventually get rid of P0171 (I was reading your post from another thread)?

Tell me about it, I know the feeling!

A clogged injector could lean out an individual cylinder I imagine.
Unless you have a bung in each exhaust manifold runner, the AFR reading is only an aggregate (total).

That is true. Over the past month I have run a complete bottle of Seafoam through the injectors (not all at once) so I would hope they would be clean. I suppose when I have the time and it isn't raining I'll go out there and check them out. Is there any way to tell if an injector is clogged? Aside from that I was told to check the coilpacks and spark plugs. I do know that recently my coilpacks have been shocking me if I touch them while the car is running. Could this be an indication that they are going bad?

 

[Circuit]

Took off my "JDM" liscense plate angle bracket since it was bent to s*** from people hitting it when parallel parking at school. Used a vice to bend the top of the plate and just screwed it to the bumper so it follows the indent of the lower grill.

 

[magnumP5]

So I pulled the sparkplugs to inspect them, the wires and the coils based on a suggestion one of th MSP guys gave me (regarding P0171) and everything looked good. Put everything back together nice and tightly and poof - no CEL anymore! Didn't realize removing the sparkplugs and disconnecting the wires could clear a CEL; unless there were the cause that is. Drove around a little to see if it would come back on immediately but not yet. I'll have to give it a while.

 

[DubbyDoo]

just kinda went away i cleaned my o2's but i still get it and then it went away few days later

 

[mazda_pro5_2nr]

Just took a drive in the new ride.... no p5 though....

 

[NCZ13]

i guess i missed it... what happened?