719prottege build thread

[justanothermp5]

ebay headlights, 100 shipped lol I bought the same ones to swap lenses with my P5 headlights.
Made a huge difference in the front end appearance

 

[719prottege]

ok, so new wheel bearing is on, lip is all the way on, i think i am going to put the lower grill back in, but here is what its looking like now.

thanks man. yea ill look into those turn signal lights

 

[hornsfan10609]

ebay headlights, 100 shipped lol I bought the same ones to swap lenses with my P5 headlights.
Made a huge difference in the front end appearance

I have a headlight 'restoration' kit i've just been to busy/lazy to do it.

I'm trying to find a decent pic of my headlights head on, the Silverstar turns are blue when they are off and amber when on, very minor detail but that's what makes all the difference. I also have LEDs for the corner bulb.

 

[719prottege]

oh thats cool.

going to an autox event on saturday. i will try to post pics and vids. CANT WAIT!..

oh, and im off to go get my car more tuned now.

kthnxbai.

 

[719prottege]

got the car tuned some more last night. pulls like a mofo. so ready for autox.

 

[719prottege]

so this weekend was awesome. went snowboarding at Wolf Creek, the only resort open in the US and had over 36" of poweder! than woke up this morning to go to auto cross. i did really well, i finished 1 second better than a mazdaspeed 3 on slicks muahaha.

 

[hornsfan10609]

Nice man good job. MS3s are quite a bit heavier, I ran in straight line against two MS3s (gen 1 and gen 2) before I had my FMIC so pretty much stock and they didn't catch me until they hit 3rd gear, on all 3 runs. And I was the only car with a passenger.

 

[719prottege]

thanks man. yea they are pretty heavy. i walk ms3's all day lol, i just thought it was funny because he had slicks

 

[719prottege]

also, today i got a little more work done on the quarter panel. almost done. picked up some satin black paint, should paint it soon. looks like ill be getting some Fortune Auto coilovers soon as well...
ALSO.... finally started tearing down my builder motor. looking to be low, built, and stanced by summer.

 

[719prottege]

car is finally coming along where i want. almost done getting all the dings out. paint, than low, than stanced, than built block.

 

[95blkprobe]

Are you fully tuned on e85 now?

 

[719prottege]

no, finishing up me gas tune. we have had a hell of a time scheduling tune time. im thinking of just running the gas tune till i finish building my other block, than doing e85 with haltech or something. i have all the stuff to do it, just hard schedueling i work full time he works full time.

 

[justanothermp5]

Dude, in all honesty, those wheels look pretty good right now. I would just throw some coils on there and you'd be set IMO

 

[719prottege]

thanks, i really like the wheels right now, i just want it to be a little more stanced. they are sitting at 17x7.5 +38 because of my 8mm spacers, but i think i might take those off and get like 15mm bolt on spacers and be 17x7.5 +30. but they are still super narrow lol. oh well, i paid 275 for the wheels with tires

 

[hornsfan10609]

Car is looking damn good man. Only think I can suggest appearance wise is a black front emblem (Evil M FTW), smoked headlight overlays and smoke the side marker lights. I'm not the biggest fan of 'murdered out' but I think it would look really good. Glad to see it wingless too.

 

[719prottege]

thanks man, i was thinking that, but im not a big murdered out fan either. might do the side markers, but i want to get a cf dgm grill

 

[719prottege]

Long time no update..
Finished the body work tonight, paintin is weekend. Also, no more CEL... put in new plugs todsy and gapped them smaller, no it isnt blowing out the spark and it runs splendidly. Was going to drop the 440s in and tune but my tuners computer went down. Oh well,... oh, and i finished tearing the motor apart and dropped it off at te machine shop. Busy day

 

[719prottege]

 

[SCMP3]

Nice carnage shoots lol

 

[719prottege]

Damn those pictures came out good for a phone!