JDM_Pro5's Build Thread

[ScratchNSniff]

Where you going???

 

[JDM_Pro5]

Greensboro. Maybe....Just realized my shows next weekend are Friday and Saturday. Friday's show is in Winston. I don't know when load in is or when practice starts. I may not have time to head to Greensboro. We'll see

 

[reut1]

i was planning on heading out to wiston to meet up with ya. we will make it work and have a small photoshoot! hah

 

[JDM_Pro5]

Sweet! That works perfect. I'll see if I can snag my wife's camera

 

[reut1]

I've got a nice one I'll be bringing going with me

 

[JDM_Pro5]

Okay cool. She just got a Nikon D7000, but we don't have any awesome lenses for it yet.

In other news

 

[azuelke]

Do you plan on using the high beam with the new projector, or using the stock high beam?

 

[JDM_Pro5]

Do you plan on using the high beam with the new projector, or using the stock high beam?

I plan on using the bi-xenon function of the projector as well as the stock high beam. It gets pretty dark where I am so the more the merrier

In other news, went to a Carolina Mazdas meet over the weekend. Lots of speed 3s, 2 speed 6's, and a few MSP's. I asked SCMP3 if I could have a part of his MSP as a keep sake and he sure enough brought me one. (His MS6 is super sexy BTW)

I didn't realize the mileage was saved in the gauge cluster so I gained about 96,800 miles last night

 

[JDM_Pro5]

Retrofit is done and waterproof. About to go wetsand my headlight lenses now

 

[reut1]

i sure do like that hood! i cant wait to have some fun plastidipping my hood and roof this summer

 

[Installshield 2]

I didn't realize the mileage was saved in the gauge cluster so I gained about 96,800 miles last night

haha yeah...my neighbor had a completely dead p5 a just before winter...auto transaxle bit it, rear window had been bashed in from a tree limb, among other things, and he sold it as a parts car in October...but for whatever reason he had bought a brand new cluster for it just a few weeks before that online...so he didn't have to go through the dealership adjusting the new cluster with proper mileage...kind of funny seeing a car that old, and in that condition, with 700 miles on it...

also, fwiw there was a thread years ago where someone found the battery or a circuit that stored that number in the cluster itself...and he used a little jumper wire or something to reset it...so if you're ever really annoyed by it, it can be reset from what i remember...but its to the point with these cars; i'd say the higher the number...the 'cooler'...

 

[JDM_Pro5]

^ I appreciate the help, but I disassembled the cluster and put the faces on my cluster giving me the proper mileage. I wet sanded both my headlights and the headlights on the Mazda3 today. Mine look a bit better, the 3's headlights looks brand new. I'll post some pics tomorrow from work

i sure do like that hood! i cant wait to have some fun plastidipping my hood and roof this summer

Thanks! I actually started removing the plastidip from the roof and spoiler today. It's quite the endeavor. I plan on painting all of that black semigloss soon.

 

[theevilm]

I feel dumb for asking this, but what are those red circles behind your grille? I see them on a ton of subarus.

 

[Circuit]

I feel dumb for asking this, but what are those red circles behind your grille? I see them on a ton of subarus.

Hella Supertone horns

 

[Bastian]

Hella Supertone horns

not quite... he has sickspeed horns. but close enough (2thumbs)

 

[Circuit]

not quite... he has sickspeed horns. but close enough (2thumbs)

More like the sickspeeds are not quite Hellas LOL

 

[Bastian]

More like the sickspeeds are not quite Hellas LOL

oh I didn't meant to suggest that either one was better than the other...

HOWEVER I do have sickspeeds as well and I swear by them... so tread carefully hahaha

 

[theevilm]

Where would I go to buy said horns?

 

[theevilm]

Never mind haha, found it.

 

[JDM_Pro5]

More like the sickspeeds are not quite Hellas LOL

I've come to learn Sickspeed products are lesser ripoffs of popular products, with their name on it. My friend just got a stubby antenna that is exactly the same as mine, but with a different logo. He got his for the same price but also got a lanyard with it. The Sickspeed horns are similar to the Hellatones, except Hellas come with relay wiring and have a high and low pitch, Sickspeeds are just high.