Goodbye P5, you will be missed.

[Protege99]

Goodbye P5, you will be missed. The P5 was the best car I have ever owned. Handling was superb. This is the second P5 I've owned.

Finally sold the P5, she was running strong for 180,000 miles. She has a new home in NC now. I took one final drive to Charlotte to enjoy the P5 one last time. When I got home I started clicking around cars.com and almost brought another one.



New car is a 2011 Mazda 6 Grand Touring S. Already purchases a factory spoiler for it, and looking to buy KSport coil overs. Being that it is a much heavier car it doesn't handle like the P5, but due to limited mods for this car I will find what I can, try to customize the rest. The 3.7 hauls ass.

 

[dragosurf88]

Sick!!! Congrats and bummer...P5 seem be really cheap lately, for some reason.. Maybe get another someday? What kind of mods did you do to your P5?

 

[Protege99]

Thanks! Here is my old build thread below,

http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/show...ge99’s-Extremely-Slow-Build-Thread&highlight=

The P5 had these mods,

Custom Projectors
Yellow Speed Coilovers
Progress rear sway bar
Megan Racing trailing arms
AAC Wilwood SL6 BBK
Enkei PF01’s in silver - 16.6lbs with Continental ExtremeContact DWS tires
20% tint
Kenwood double din screen cd/dvd player

I ended up putting these on the P5 before selling it.

http://www.tirerack.com/wheels/Whee...utoModel=Protege+5&autoYear=2002&autoModClar=

I removed some mods and currently selling them in the for sale section. I seen a silver P5 that only had 40k miles recently. I was so very close to buying. I was debating between the G37X, LS2 GTO (Couldn't find one that wasn't abused.) Infiniti M35, and the Mazda 6. The Mazda 6 won.

 

[Balls]

I am soon to be in the same boat, selling my p5 in the next few weeks. On the plus side, I bought a GTI and couldn't be happier!

 

[Protege99]

Congratulations for the GTI! (nana)

 

[Balls]

Thank you very much, getting ready to take the cover off of it and pull it out of hibernation soon. How are you liking the 6? I just installed heated seats in one today, seems like a pretty nice car.

 

[Protege99]

Thank you very much, getting ready to take the cover off of it and pull it out of hibernation soon. How are you liking the 6? I just installed heated seats in one today, seems like a pretty nice car.

So far the 6 has been an amazing car. It took some time to adjust because I miss my P5. I went for a long drive recently and the car performs well. I have been putting together a list of mods for the 6.

I have a factory spoiler so far, going to get a Injen CAI. There is a local shop that can do a custom exhaust setup. I want something with a nice tone, but not too loud. 19inch wheels, coilovers, front big brake kit. Maybe tint.

I want to put 3000k hid bulbs in the fog lights but I don't know if that will look good or not. My main focus will be the cars handling first.

If I come across some money, I will try to attempt a custom supercharger setup. Since the Ford Cyclone V6 engines have aftermarket kits, I would research a way to get one to work on the 6. But that is a farfetched dream at this point.