What have you done to your MSP today?

[Valk]

Moved the msp around yeterday to its final spot the winter. Runs fine but smokes even when warm. Haven't unplugged the battery to test yet but it smells excessively rich. Prob from the vac leak last time I plugged it back in.
Also seems to have done through $5 in gas just idling in the driveway heh.

Forgot how hard that clutch was. P5 is sooo plush. Ill prob start pulling parts off for the p5 as ill have it for a while. Painted the headlights so they ready to swap to the msp later.

Almost almost tempted to pull all the turbo shyte and boost the p5 heh. Wonder if it would run stock boost no ems.

 

[Preferio]

Turbo arrived today, but haven't been home to check it out. Still waiting on the gaskets and hardware. After getting a parts list together to forge her EJ205 totaling $2850 in parts and machine work, but not including my labor of ~40 hours, she decided against forging, against OE rebuilding, but rather replacement with a low-mileage used engine. I still got a turbo, hardware, gaskets and tires out of it by simply R&R'ing the engine. Still not a bad deal for either of us. I can have it out and running in ~8 hours I'd say, so if you look at it that way, $550 cost to her is less than $70 per hour which is well below the average shop rate locally. Plus she's got my car to use until the engine get's here and I get a change to swap it out. The used engine I found for her is complete including turbo and all accessories, so I told her to sell some of the extras she has to recoup some of the money. I've worked on Subaru's performing head gasket replacements and timing belts, but I've never R&R'd an engine. Book time is 6.1 hours, but I'm doing it in a garage without a lift or air! GASP!

So, how is everyone else and their MSP doing?

 

[323]

its just sitting around

 

[Cleverfrog]

same here. sitting and waiting for the snow to go away.

 

[IllaNoizeTV]

Just ordered my sideskirt extensions. Gonna drive her to work for now.

 

[Valk]

Wth is that?

 

[323]

its like a wheel spacer man! get with it!

actually i have no clue.

 

[Preferio]

Wth is that?

x2

 

[IllaNoizeTV]

It's the black urethane side skirts sometimes added to evos. I'll post a pic once installed

 

[Valk]

So your making a bumper car? Gotcha.

 

[Preferio]

Oh, so like adding the Subaru lip to the lip of the Protg so you have a lip-lip.... So, now you have a side-side skirt... I should mount my 03.5 wing on my 03 wing so I can have a wing-wing! An 03.25 wing-wing!!!!

 

[IllaNoizeTV]

Yep, exactly... As for as the wing, not even close. Unlike all the rest of the msps who focus on power I happily accept my 170hp on a good day and focus on looks. I don't push my MSP, I baby it, Nd keep it clean. I focus on breaking necks not engines... Just a personal decision.

 

[323]

hehe. that's cool. here's a tip tho, dont ride in someones fast protege lol. might change ur mind

 

[IllaNoizeTV]

Lol. So I've heard. I will soon. My boy has a forged engine in the works with some extra pep to it, I'm just waiting til its all done. well see how I feel afterwards. Lol.

 

[Preferio]

Yep, exactly... As for as the wing, not even close. Unlike all the rest of the msps who focus on power I happily accept my 170hp on a good day and focus on looks. I don't push my MSP, I baby it, Nd keep it clean. I focus on breaking necks not engines... Just a personal decision.

HATER!

It's ******* cold today. And I think it's going to be cold this weekend. And I've got to put my new turbo on. Today, I'll be going to have a custom oil feed line made or get an adapter.

 

[Cleverfrog]

hehe. that's cool. here's a tip tho, dont ride in someones fast protege lol. might change ur mind

Lol. "fast" protege. Lol

Also, LOL @ breaking necks with ricerish side skirt extensions (no hate). If you want to break necks you should put some huge gaudy vinyl designs on it. Fast and Furious like. (burnout)

 

[Preferio]

And some 3D fists and feet.

 

[Cleverfrog]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[Preferio]

Lol. "fast" protege. Lol

At least I can say I have the fastest Protg in Knoxville, Tennessee. Yes, people (and myself) laugh at that, but it's true. LOL I mean considering that 98% of them are owned and driven by women in their 60's or a 19-year-old in a slammed P5, it's pretty easy to claim that title.

 

[IllaNoizeTV]

I'll leave the vinyls for you Cleverfrog. As far as ricerish goes. So ur claiming Evo sideskirts are ricer? I'm sure all the Evo owners will disagree. Your car will never look half as good as mine. You can go faster all day and be broke from all the tickets. I'll stick with my sideskirts