new mazda owner

andyqbui

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2003 Mazda Protege 5
wassup peoples...just wanted to say wassup

i am a new mazda owner and dont know shiet about it.

i just bought the white 2003 protege 5 last night and loving it...so much fun to drive even when its stock

this is my other car...go easy on me guys

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AHHHH!!!! Honda!!! WTF were you thinking.

Just kidding. That's a pretty sweet Honda.

Welcome!
 
Welcome Andy .. I dont know if you remember be but I am friends with James Howard. I spoke to you a few months ago about possibly joining ISS_Elite and to see if you were going to the Nopi Nationals.

Pe@ce
 
Protege5Gurly:

yeah i remember you...havent heard from you in a while. hows your car doing. maybe you can help me and let me know whats hot and whats not for the mp5.

nate0123:

farifax
 
Check out the VA and MD sections for meets, if that's your thing :)
 
pro5man said:
AHHHH!!!! Honda!!! WTF were you thinking.

Just kidding. That's a pretty sweet Honda.

Welcome!

just wondering...im a big jdm head

is there a such thing as a jdm mp5?
 
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I havent seen you on AIM lately so I havent been in touch. Plus with the 2004 show season coming soon Ive been a bit busy. I just helped out DG Motorsports with their new carbon fiber front grill and it looks like ill be sending them my AutoEXE wing next. The MintBlue body kit that you saw pics of has now been completely installed since I finally managed to get my hands on a real (stock) JDM rear bumper. My next project is some forced induction -- ive been working on a sponsorship for that and it will be a few more weeks before I hear back on it.

Hit me up on AIM -- sn RUDEF2 -- if u wanna chat and ill help ya out with locating some of the parts you are after. but im sure with your hookups you can help me out as well

Maybe ISS can have 2 p5's in the club? ;)

Pe@ce
 
There are some JDM parts out for the P5 ... nothin too drastic. Alot of the members, including myself, already have almost every JDM part we can find.

Pe@ce
 
andyqbui said:
just wondering...im a big jdm head

is there a such thing as a jdm mp5?

Yeah you can find some stuff. I had some stuff when I had my 5. Check out corksport.com. They have alot of stuff.
 
Thats basically the only part I still want to get. I know the new tails in japan are exactly like ours, but I still like the look of the older ones better.

Pe@ce
 
Welcome and nice civic. I was thinking about trading my 99 civic coupe for a hatch but they are rather hard to find and in good shape. Out of curiosity what made you buy the protege when you already have the civic. With us it was having three kids and a dog. Kinda hard to set the civic up for race and show when you have to drag kids around. The mp5 is an excellent car, enjoy.
 
loccusst said:
Welcome and nice civic. I was thinking about trading my 99 civic coupe for a hatch but they are rather hard to find and in good shape. Out of curiosity what made you buy the protege when you already have the civic. With us it was having three kids and a dog. Kinda hard to set the civic up for race and show when you have to drag kids around. The mp5 is an excellent car, enjoy.

im doing so much to my civic now that it can not be daily driven. the civic is going through a total makeover. the reason for the mp5 is becuz i originaly wanted the mazda 3 but couldnt afford it :(

but im really happy with the mp5
 
andyqbui said:
what are jdm parts for the mp5?

any pics of a jdm mp5 i can look at?

The tails in my sig are JDM. Also you can get an autoexe grill for the top grill in the front. There's alot of decent replicas of the grill floating around. If you want the real thing just say and I'll post the link. Also there is a autoexe lip for the front bumper. And of course badging. The most extreme JDM thing IMO would be the mintblue kit like Gurly has.

I'm gonna try to find you some pics.
 
pro5man said:
The tails in my sig are JDM. Also you can get an autoexe grill for the top grill in the front. There's alot of decent replicas of the grill floating around. If you want the real thing just say and I'll post the link. Also there is a autoexe lip for the front bumper. And of course badging. The most extreme JDM thing IMO would be the mintblue kit like Gurly has.

I'm gonna try to find you some pics.

yeah please hook me up with some links please :D
 
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Here's a pic of both on DaveB's car. Dave's the man.

Like I said a couple of company's in the US make replicas of this stuff.(eg. www.dgmotorsports.com) But if you want the real thing, which is better because it's urethane and not fiberglass, you need to contact a company in Japan.(eg. www.takakaira.co.jp) This is where I got my grill and it was a hassle free transaction. Any other questions let me know. Also as I said before www.corksport.com has some good stuff.
 
andyqbui said:
thanks bro

man thats a sexy ass grill and lip

what kinda head lights are these?
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That looks like either a Canadian model 5 or a US one that someone cracked and painted the inside of the lights on. Also those look like mintblue eyelids. The Canadian ones come stock with black headlights. That's another thing that is JDM, the black headlights. There's a really good how-to on here of how to crack open the US lights and paint the insides. I used it and my car looked good. Is so easy.

*edit* And now that I look at the mAZdasports logo I know it's US cause mAZdasports is Arizona.
 
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