Justanothermp5's Build Thread

[ScratchNSniff]

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[Flav]

i hate you so much, your car is everything i ever wanted! haha
the hood is dope man.

Edit: except your rims.... LOL

 

[TWISFM]

..pics of your rims....... ??? ,.....

 

[azuelke]

^

 

[justanothermp5]

^think he ment a better pic lol

there not all the same color ill get some good pics and post them up
its been really bad weather over here so ill prob do it today or tomorrow when its not raining

 

[justanothermp5]

and turns out that my turbo is starting to seep oil, my car will smoke out of the exhaust at idle when warm and will smoke when i take off
so i need a new turbo, and i dont have money...awesome

so im going to try to work out something with my rich dad lol hopefully he will up front the money and then i get a job and sell the old stuff to pay him back

 

[justanothermp5]

k here are some pics, painted my valve cover again today
old to new

these pics came out alot blurrier (more blurry? idk) then i thought they would

 

[Brian_K]

it's plank!

 

[NocturnalSpeed]

Pretty sick valve cover. Whats up with the wheels dude?

 

[justanothermp5]

thanks!
and the wheels are temporary lol I was experimenting with colors to see which ones i liked, im painting them a different color tomm. to see if i like that,
the orange and pink arent doing it for me

 

[EVADE]

nice! bed liner spray?

 

[justanothermp5]

nope lol wrinkle black paint, i was thinking of using rubberized undercoating but i didnt think it would hold up to the heat very well

and an update for the thread, i hopefully fixed my exhaust leak yesterday, i dont have any gaskets in my exhaust (cant find any locally) so i just used high temp silicone, ill let you guys know how well it works/doesnt work

 

[Lewis7789]

I've been using high-temp silicone between my gaskets for a year or so on two different exhausts and it holds up suprisingly well. Corksport and Summit Racing have gaskets (though I know they aren't local for ya).

 

[justanothermp5]

worked great, but i still have a leak somewhere...i get a wiff of exhaust while sitting at a light
argggg, i hate that smell so much, the leak that i used silicone is gone though, car is a bit quieter under accell. and when it shuts off it doesnt make this weird noise anymore lol

andddd..i touched up the valve cover, still had some pink showing around the letters, and now it looks wierd where i touched it up..damit, not sure what im gonna do about that

OH and btw...not sure whats up with my car/oil pressure, but at idle the oil pressure will almost be all the way at 0, like barely above it, i dont really trust the gauge though, it wasnt working for a while and then it just started working again on its own lol
while driving its like 40psi and under accell above 3-4k rpm its like at 60psi

 

[justanothermp5]

well got the gauge sorted, turned out it was just a bad connection, and changed the oil to 10w-30, fixed the turbo smoking problem,
so everything seems to be okay now...hopefully lol
alsoooo, today i worked on my brothers broken AWR side engine mount, here some picsss

im aware the welds look bad, im grinding them down anyways so i wasnt concerned with looks lol

notice the stack o dimes lol i made it pretty there cuz thats really the only part you'll see directly

oh..and i welded a triangle of metal on there to help support the mount, that part broke off twice so the triangle support should help
not sure why the AWR didnt come like this to begin with, so now there is a triangle that the mount came with, then one in between the bolt holes

 

[justanothermp5]

wow...havent updated this thread in a while, well after painting the rims those ugly bright colors, i took them off, scuffed them up and painted them purple
that looked like ass too so i just put my 17's back on for a while,
then i came upon an amazing deal on some MX-5 wheels, and now im rockin those
im just gonna post random pics of the progress

so that all i have really, the pictures arent too great, there from my phone, but i got a camera for christmas (my gf is terrible at keeping a secret) so ill be sure to take alot more pics once I get it
also have some pics of my UDP removal, I was getting a terrible belt squeel sort of noise on take off and i couldnt figure out what it was, turned out a bolt came out of the back of the UDP and was letting the teeth just slap around on the pulley
Ill put those pics up as soon as i figure how to get them off my moms camera....

 

[justanothermp5]

alright well here we go, got the pics up

stock pulley back in place

UDP and belts off (its for sale if anyone is interested, just missing one bolt)

you can see the bolt that was missing...my timing cover was pretty ****** up, might have to order a new one

rats nest....as soon as I get some time, im tucking the harness under the IM, and taking the IM off and grinding it smooth
should look pretty good, thinking about silver paint instead of black this time, might port it a little too
also gonna strip tht trans mount....painted it to match my OG valve cover, but i changed color so i may wrinkle black the mount too

 

[HKPRO5]

Damn so that UDP was making some noise. lol

 

[justanothermp5]

yea lol it was pretty bad, car runs better with the stock pulley, no more noise outside the car
the only thing im trying to figure out now, is why I have such a low idle...its ******* bumpy

Ill take videos of the idle and the car tomm with my new camera so you guys can see and let me know if im being paranoid or it is actually low

 

[CheeseHelmet]

Still looks great, love the horn placement