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  1. BenjiHoggi

    What have you done to your P5 today?

    55k?? That's insanely low mileage for an MSP these days!
  2. BenjiHoggi

    There was an AWD P5 in Japan. How hard would it be to obtain the drivetrain?

    Somewhere I have a YouTube video bookmarked of a non USDM market P5 (Astina?, SP20?) doing legit AWD donuts in the snow. It's a great video.
  3. BenjiHoggi

    What have you done to your P5 today?

    Gotcha. There's a guy local to me who's doing a turbo swap on his yellow P5. Maybe him, maybe not. His P5 has a cool history though and he's doing some pretty cool stuff with it.
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  5. BenjiHoggi

    What have you done to your P5 today?

    Replaced my front struts this last weekend. I had previously asked on here about what brand to go with, and ended up purchasing some ACDelco pre-assembled struts. They went in real quick, maybe 30 minutes per side. I think mostly because I had the knuckles already off the car this summer...
  6. BenjiHoggi

    What have you done to your P5 today?

    Airsofthawaii, those are some real good looking P5s! I am a little jealous. Hmm, not sure how big the turbo P5 community is these days, but I'm in Oregon and I know at least one person locally who is currently building a turbo P5...wonder if one was on your delivery list. I have to agree with...
  7. BenjiHoggi

    What have you done to your P5 today?

    Dang it you're making me want to spend more money on my P5 now...
  8. BenjiHoggi

    Protege5 manual swap or map swap?

    I usually make a fuss of people modifying their automatic cars, but yours looks absolutely sick 😍 I will say though, my brother has an 03 Sedan with the Tiptronic transmission and driving that back to back with my manual 03 P5 is an experience. From a dead stop, the Tiptronic has a ton of...
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  10. BenjiHoggi

    What have you done to your P5 today?

    I see. His bumper looks aftermarket but wasn't sure about the fog light deletes. Man, if I could get a hold of some of the factory ones, I'd love to make a CAD model and try 3D printing some of my own. Haha yes, I always remember your P5 as being the lowered silver one with the Tiptronic...
  11. BenjiHoggi

    What have you done to your P5 today?

    Aw this feels like the end of a small era on this forum. What are we gonna do without PCB always coming to the rescue with the shop manual diagrams??? Okay but actually does your parts car have an MSP bumper and the rare fog light deletes??
  12. BenjiHoggi

    What have you done to your P5 today?

    I checked RockAuto briefly and for front QuickStruts and individual struts, the part numbers for all that I saw looked the same between the MSP and P5. It's hard to find a definitively separated MP3 vehicle in RockAuto but for a 2001 Sedan, it's the same too. Kind of disappointing if you have...
  13. BenjiHoggi

    What have you done to your P5 today?

    Will do. The ones I've considered most are the Tein H-Tech Protege5's. You can still find them for ~$230 on eBay and they have a pretty mild drop and (comparatively) a mild spring rate, if the numbers are to be believed. Yes, those are the ones that come to mind. But I wouldn't consider...
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  15. BenjiHoggi

    What have you done to your P5 today?

    Thats odd, I haven't heard much other than good about KYBs. Regardless, I grabbed a set of ACDelco quickstruts. I couldn't imagine having reliability issues with springs. I would guess that the failure mode for them is all or nothing. Just going off intuition though, I could (and very well...
  16. BenjiHoggi

    Protege5 Motor Mounts - Time to do them

    Sweet! Nicely done.
  17. BenjiHoggi

    Turbo with an automatic?

    I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that your best guess for getting an answer will either be to use the search and read old posts, or to join a more active "tuner" group like some of the ones on Facebook. I think the majority of people on here own P5s are daily drivers, and aren't going to...
  18. BenjiHoggi

    What have you done to your P5 today?

    Okay. All very good information, thank you PCB. I will go ahead and pick up a set of strut assemblies for the front - I don't mind spending the extra money since they probably need to be replaced anyways, and I gosh darn hope that clunk goes away. I'll grab some camber bolts as well, but...
  19. BenjiHoggi

    What have you done to your P5 today?

    I'm only seeing Monroe QuickStruts for the rear, and I'm doing the front's. Am I just blind or do they not make QuickStruts for the front's? The only Monroe branded ones are the "Roadmatic."
  20. BenjiHoggi

    What have you done to your P5 today?

    I see. I think I was getting the KYBs mixed up with Monroe. I will take a look at the Monroes. I do hope that the Monroes hold up as well as the OEM struts have. I'm pretty hard on my car and the OEM struts are still good at 180k (unless someone replaced them with new OEM ones, which seems...
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