What have you done to your MSP today?

[Valk]

I will also add not to do too many wet coats. Any more than two will prob lift. Of course too much dry thickness will chip super easy Its. Balance act that takes practice.
With the clear I use I have my gun setup to drop a pretty even wet coat in one pass. A secobd pass or dustup would definitely run.
I do it twice and leave for the day.

 

[OThree.5]

decoration? cool. haha

Ha! not quite.

 

[ZealoustheEnder]

I got all the way to priming the engine and Florida weather just let loose. Hopefully it just passes by and I'll be running and test driving.

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[IllaNoizeTV]

So I got the msp checked out and there were some leaks in the fmic piping. They tightened it and checked everything else. The problem persists. Do you think it can be bad gas? That's the only thing we can think of.

 

[OThree.5]

New lower control arms, rear end links, cross drilled / slotted rotors and brake pads showed up this week. Calipers are already painted, so this should be an easy weekend working on the car.

Went to a meet last night with a bunch of MS3's and finally found a niche / crew that actually gives this car some props. The honda people that dominate a different meet are either ignorant about it, jealous, or just plain dismissive of it.

 

[00RS03MSP]

Lol guys called the mazda dealer about what kind of oil goes in the trans, and the guy asked if it was a freaking auto! Lmao.

 

[OThree.5]

Lol guys called the mazda dealer about what kind of oil goes in the trans, and the guy asked if it was a freaking auto! Lmao.

The guy at the autozone still thinks I have a 2004 Protege. lmfao..

Even when I told him its a 2003.5, he INSISTED its a 2004.. People are funny

 

[jerseymods]

Installed tein s tech lowering springs.

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[IllaNoizeTV]

Installed tein s tech lowering springs.

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Pics!!

 

[ZealoustheEnder]

The guy at the autozone still thinks I have a 2004 Protege. lmfao..

Even when I told him its a 2003.5, he INSISTED its a 2004.. People are funny

He would be right except with our car the second half of the year is technically the 2004 model. In our case the 2003.5 was the second run of mazdaspeed with the update to the Mazda 3 in 2004

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[jerseymods]

Pics!!

 

[IllaNoizeTV]

Haven't done anything to my msp but here's a super rough concept to a 2017 mazdaspeed3 sedan (which in theory wud be the new msp) lol.

 

[OThree.5]

Installed tein s tech lowering springs.

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Pics man! lets see the stance..

 

[googoo1oo]

Drove out to a friends house earlier this evening and I took this pic from my iPhone.


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[hornsfan10609]

He would be right except with our car the second half of the year is technically the 2004 model. In our case the 2003.5 was the second run of mazdaspeed with the update to the Mazda 3 in 2004

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What? 03.5 is 03.5 not 04. The 03 MSPs were introduced and sold in fall 2002 and the 03.5s in early 2003, the 3 wasn't sold until summer 03.

 

[ZealoustheEnder]

What? 03.5 is 03.5 not 04. The 03 MSPs were introduced and sold in fall 2002 and the 03.5s in early 2003, the 3 wasn't sold until summer 03.

Sure with the MSP. But it's not the case in with most cars.

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[OThree.5]

What? 03.5 is 03.5 not 04. The 03 MSPs were introduced and sold in fall 2002 and the 03.5s in early 2003, the 3 wasn't sold until summer 03.

Sure with the MSP. But it's not the case in with most cars.

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Its my understanding there was no US market 2004 Protege..

 

[hornsfan10609]

Technically proteges are still being built in China...

Heading to the JY later because they have 9 01-03 Proteges right now and I am always looking to waste money on crap I don't need. I finally wired my glowshift boost gauge to light up so I can read it at night now. It's actually pretty cool for $40, it lights up 7 colors and has two different modes that cycle through the colors.

 

[livelyjay]

Bought OEM replacement headlights, OEM grill, and a touch up paint kit. Never buy car parts off of eBay. The grill didn't fit like OEM so I couldn't install my fancy aluminum CR3 radiator plate. The headlight plastic yellowed and got scratched to hell in two years. I'll be refinishing the two OEM lights, clearing coating them, swapping my HID kit into one and selling it, and throwing the other back on the car. Trying to clean up all the little things before it goes up for sale.

 

[hornsfan10609]

Did you get a grille for a sedan? The p5/msp grille should fit perfectly.


Anyone have a pair of 03.5 lip inserts/fog deletes? #1574 is missing them and it's starting to bug me.