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At around 70 mph, my left front wheel well makes a very loud rubbing sound and increases with speed until around 80 mph. When I take the car out of gear or press in the clutch at those speeds, the obnoxious rubbing sound goes away! Ive found some information on sway bar links failing and that...

Bump. My driver side sway bar link has play to it when you move it by hand underneath the car and the left does not. This explains the rubbing noise while driving i assume. Looking to replace both of the links. So the 2002 links and bushings fit on the 2003 protege speed's stock suspension and...

To begin, I just installed an exhaust that deleted one of the cats and my check engine light has been on for a long time. Also, Ive had a cold air intake on for 6 months. Driving down the highway at 70, the rpms shoot up, speed falls, exhaust "poofs" from the tailpipe separate severely and the...

This may be in other threads but I couldn't find the answers I've been looking for. I just installed a corksport power series exhaust with 1 cat deleted. What causes exhaust soot? too much fuel burnt and not enough oxegen? bad o2 sensor? some say protege 2003.5 will always burn rich but how...

So it makes sense that a bigger inlet outlet for bpv would work bc of more air being able to be released. And even though the ball bearing turbo doesn't get damaged as fast, wouldn't it slow the initial turbo spool you would normally get after changing gears? So in other words, boost comes much...

youve done this? So the bpv stays in the same location? Where is the bov located? also, does the bov need to be atmospheric or can it recirculate?(so i dont have to relocate the maf) Lots of Qs I know.

Every forum I've been to has a hundred different explanations of what causes the turkey sound. I need some solid information on what it is. The only modification I've made is a corksport CAI so far. I have a small leak in my stock smic inlet hose leading to the stock bpv. For clarification...

So at what point do I need to worry about boost levels? Would an intake, exhaust, front mount not be enough to worry about anything?

No Boost gauge as of yet, Ive just started adding performance parts this month. It will be coming with my next wave of purchases. Once I have the boost gauge installed I'll need to figure out how to monitor and adjust it accordingly.

Right. Im not looking to do any hard zoom zoomin if thats what you mean. I just hear everywhere that once you start replacing stock parts with better parts, your boost can get out of control and cause damage. I think the owner before me had some sort of electronic boost controller setup. Theres...

I'm looking to install a manual boost controller. Is a waste gate actuator a secondary purchase or do these come stock on turbocharged vehicular transit devices?

Find out how to install it? what brand of gauge pod did you buy, im looking for one. with gauges to fill it too.

I'm not too familiar with liquid/air intercoolers. I see the reservoir and the core but why the fans? looks like theres a smic and a fmic also? super cold O2 combo i suppose? could you ditch the fmic and smic and just have the liquid/air?

I tried ordering the power series a couple of weeks ago but I was told it was on back order. So I wait.