i have to admit, for 50bucks i have to question the quality of the detail
What were the products he gave you?
What have you done to your P5 today?
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i have to admit, for 50bucks i have to question the quality of the detail
What were the products he gave you?
And she's down again... I noticed the AFRs going really lean but the car was still driving and idling just fine. I get home only to find I have a massive exhaust leak at the turbo flange. It appears as if one of the studs has completely sheared off. Kind of sucks as it was only installed for 2 days! To make matters worse the stud is a weird adaptor as it has two different thread sizes. Where the hell am I supposed to find a new one and one that's going to be strong enough!
duh(freak) i knew that too. im an idiot
but i noticed it is not on the one sent to me. its just an empty hole.fishdonotbounce
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He uses jaxwax products. They're based right here by our airport so it's easy for him to get the stuff too. I checked the detail over and the paint looks about 7 and a half million times better. He didn't do like a three step process or anything since the paint wasn't that bad. He just used a cleaner polish/wax to remove the s*** that was on top. Kid honestly knows what he's doing and yea the price is cheap but he knows it.
Well everything is removed again 
At least I'm getting good at the disassembly process. Now I just have to find some new studs. Does anyone know where I could find some adaptor studs? I'm not sure of the sizes but I think one side is SAE and the other is metric. I think the metric side is M6x1.5 or something similar and I have no idea what the other side is; perhaps 1/4x20?
At least I'm getting good at the disassembly process. Now I just have to find some new studs. Does anyone know where I could find some adaptor studs? I'm not sure of the sizes but I think one side is SAE and the other is metric. I think the metric side is M6x1.5 or something similar and I have no idea what the other side is; perhaps 1/4x20?fishdonotbounce
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Damn I told you you wouldn't last long. Sorry to hear bud.
You wouldn't believe it - three of the four studs holding the turbo to the exhaust manifold were sheared right off! The forth one sheared off when I was removing the only remaining nut. I'm not sure if I just over-torqued them or if they just weren't cut out for the heat/stress of that location. The reassembly process shouldn't be that bad. The biggest problem is going to be finding four new studs and bolts that aren't going to break and installing them without over-torquing them. Even after all that I now run the risk of having another exhaust leak that I didn't have last time. I really don't want to buy new gaskets after the old ones have only been on there for three days. Another good note was that I was able to remove all the broken studs so no drilling required! The really bad news is that I won't be able to really work on the car until next weekend because my fiance is visiting this weekend. I really wanted to impress her with the work I've done (LOL, yeah, right) but now it doesn't look like that is going to happen.
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Damn man sorry to hear that. Just no luck for you lately huh? I'm sure someone will be able to point you in the direction of some new studs that'll work just fine for you. Get it fixed before the 14th and then come to the Mohican Fun Run with us!
Yeah, check out Pirana's old how to. For some reason MAM drilled and tapped a different thread in the exhaust manifold. I have no idea why but it's making my life difficult right now because I can't find anything!
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Maybe you can get it retapped? just so you don't have to deal with it anymore?
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lol great minds think alike
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Pics or it didn't happen 
Screw that....Pics or Ban.Pics or it didn't happen
That would be ideal as those things are indestructible (hell, even I could only manage to strip the allen key but that's nothing). I really don't want to risk drilling out the manifold because then I run the risk of getting too large a stud to fit through the turbo. I actually just had an epiphany - why not just use a regular SAE stud? I mean, since I have to get new nuts as well and I know this thread size will fit through the turbo, why not just stick with a SAE stud and just get matching nuts? Sure it'll be kind of annoying having to use an SAE wrench but it should save me some headaches. Now I just have to find some high-quality SAE threaded studs.
My new goal is to have the car up and running before late Friday night. Might be possible.
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LOL
So you think you'll be able to make it out to the fun run? There should be at least 20 Mazdas there I believe and I heard it's just a blastety blast (yes that was a Dane Cook reference)
That Mohican thing Perro del Sol posted? If so, that's next weekend so I should theoretically be able to go. Cleveland is just a hell of a distance away. That's the reason I didn't make it to Satimko's party-thing (that and I didn't finish the car until 3 PM).
