Outlawstar98
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- 2003 MazdaSpeed Protege / 2013 BRZ
im in no rush since the motor wont be here for 2months + lol
What have you done to your MSP today?
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Ricktalife
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- 2012 Subaru WRX
So I looked on tirerack.com for some Hankook summer tires and found the Ventus V12 evo K110 but when my dad called a local tire company to see if we can get them cheaper they told him that model was an All Season tire. WTF?
blazinrola80
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- msp 03
try discount tire.. just got a set last week.. 101 each
Ricktalife
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- 2012 Subaru WRX
Well I actually found out later today that I can get them for about 80 a piece through my work but I just want to make sure that the place we called was mistaken and they are in fact a summer tire. I'm going to run some 17x7 MB weapons in the summer and the stock Racing Harts in the winter.
FlyinHawaiian
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- Mazdaspeed Protege #1460
Thanks guys (and eff you too Eric </3). Took a lot of work and I have all but the passenger-front completed and installed. Each piece probably took 10-ish man hours to complete, with sanding and all. No way am I going to do doors after dealing with measly little door handles... LOL.
I've got some parts in the works which I intend on selling, so stay tuned.
I've got some parts in the works which I intend on selling, so stay tuned.
Laser Blue
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- '03.5 Mazdaspeed Protege / Laser Blue Mica
fixed...
Talk about doggin on somethin forever.... are you the pot or the kettle?
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Wagonbacker9
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- 2004 'Hoe
what are you talking about? the stock WGAs have a well documented reputation of leaking. I'm really unclear on what your point in posting this was.
Laser Blue
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- '03.5 Mazdaspeed Protege / Laser Blue Mica
I've gone back through a great many threads referencing leaky stock wastegates. I did not find even one member that said his new stocker was leaking. I did find several from members who had over 100,000 miles on their cars, were bone stock and still running the original wga. Those threads that I found about leakers were wga's that were coming off cars with 60k, 70k, and 80k+ miles. And most the owners of those cars developed leaky wastegates (or became aware of them) after heavily modding and upping the boost. The wga is a wear and tear part; the diaphragm gets old. At some point they're gonna leak. To suggest that a new stock wga is a piece of crap because the old one leaked after five years and 70,000 miles is, in my humble opinion, kind of narrow-minded. I'd be more inclined to compare the ATP, Forge, and stock wastegates apples to apples after a number of people had used the ATP and Forge wga's for five years and 70,000 miles and then posted their experiences. Thats why it makes no more sense to me to rag on the stocker than it does to rag on the Forge.
Having said that, I do agree that the stocker is overpriced....
Having said that, I do agree that the stocker is overpriced....
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blazinrola80
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- msp 03
sounds good i picked up some 215-50-17 for my old mans camry.. 80 not bad.. good tire..
boostedprotege
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- 2003 mazda protege dx/2003 mazda protege5
so im having an issue. this morning while drivinig to work my boost gauge was being sporatic. if i get up to speed and let off the gas completly, it goes down to about 9inHg and stays there. now while cruising, it will be about 4 or 5 inHg and radomly drop down to 24 or 25 inHg the go back to 4 inHg and hold. now under exc i noticed it spike to about 10 psi. but most of the time it hols at about 6.5-7 psi. so i know its spikeing but i dont know why its dropping while cruising. at idle it bounces from aroung 18- 22inHg.
any help? im supposed to dyno tomorrow night so i wanna fix it. btw it has a new wga that i put on abt the most 35k miles ago
any help? im supposed to dyno tomorrow night so i wanna fix it. btw it has a new wga that i put on abt the most 35k miles ago
Wagonbacker9
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- 2004 'Hoe
so, over the last week my idle has gotten progressively worse. discovered yesterday that it will NOT idle with the AC on, and about half the time idle drops to near nothing and then it revs itself up to about 1100, and repeats this...
anybody know offhand which way the mesh on the MAF is supposed to be? this is the only thing I can think of that might be screwing with my idle, once it gets off idle it runs like a champ, no cels, nothing. I'm still on my snows, but I barked 3rd gear on an onramp yesterday.
anybody know offhand which way the mesh on the MAF is supposed to be? this is the only thing I can think of that might be screwing with my idle, once it gets off idle it runs like a champ, no cels, nothing. I'm still on my snows, but I barked 3rd gear on an onramp yesterday.
FlyinHawaiian
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- Mazdaspeed Protege #1460
AFAIK, the mesh goes TOWARDS the throttlebody (aka downstream). Have you cleaned it recently? Check coil packs, etc?
Wagonbacker9
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- 2004 'Hoe
damn, then I have it in right. if I had a coil pack problem, I think I'd have issues with more than my idle, but thats one of those things it wouldn't hurt to do around now anyway.
