What have you done to your MSP today?
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Oh gosh don't try to remove spipe on the car x_x that was annoying enough on the bench with acessibility and a hammer lol.
I might have used a small adjustable wrench on the turbo oil feed and a light tap from a hammer to get it started Its not on very tight. The egr however can be a dirty wh0re.
I might have used a small adjustable wrench on the turbo oil feed and a light tap from a hammer to get it started Its not on very tight. The egr however can be a dirty wh0re.
The EGR nut is fused to the threaded pipe section, so when I back it out it pulls the threaded section out of the manifold. I wouldn't remove the S-Pipe from the turbo and would just be disconnecting the S and J bolts, which have already been loosened up. I do have offset 12 point wrenched and I could cut a slot in the 11mm to slide over the oil feed tube. Maybe that would help. I'll tough it out through the winter and take care of this when I change out the timing belt and water pump next spring when I have everything drained and tore apart.
Easiest thing assuming you get the egr and oil feed off is as you said to unbolt s pipe from jpipe then just pull manifold with turbo and s pipe attached.
I didn't have difficulties on this but the car only had 130km. My 315km manifold on the other hand....lots of hammering and swearing.
I didn't have difficulties on this but the car only had 130km. My 315km manifold on the other hand....lots of hammering and swearing.
Mine slid out of the way fine, but it's still not enough room to do any real work on the exhaust side of the head. It helps that I did all of this 30k miles ago so the bolts didn't have time to seize up. The skid plate helps a lot at keeping salt out of the engine bay.
My bad.. I tried to be as accurate as possible.. I drained mine.. didn't realize you didn't need to. I assumed you did.
hornsfan10609
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- 2003.5 Mazdaspeed Protege x2
Man I literally posted exactly how to do the oil feed in the post right above yours lmao
SpoofMastaFly
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Put another A/C compressor on my speed. The originals clutch froze up. Sucky when unboxing the used compressor I found the top rear mounting hole on the housing was broken off during shipping.. I had already recovered the freon and had my old compressor off so I just continued with the install. Placed the broken mount portion back on the compressor and rocked on. Pulled a vacuum and charged it.. less then 2lbs was recovered.. my machine at work may be a little off but is that correct? I put back in what I took out. Ran the car AC was nice and cool. GREAT to have p/s back! Before I got home the car was blowing not air out and the clutch wasn't engaging :/
Yeah no excuse other than I was a little drunk.
jerseymods
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- 2003.5 Titanium Grey MSP
Just installed a Ralco RZ Short Shifter. Install went fine, but the threaded end for the shift not does seem long enough to catch on the stock msp shift knob threads. is there some type of adapter I can get (without making the shifter super long) to allow the rod to catch the threads on the stock msp shift knob?
IllaNoizeTV
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Cousins spending some quality time together. With a Lil German in the mix.
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t_byron239
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- 2003.5 Mazdaspeed Protege
Just bought one this week!! Giving my black protege a rest after 226k and 8 years of ownership
Velocifero
Wham Bam thank you Ma'am
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Stock shifter? The threaded portion is longer to compensate for the longer stock shift knob. No fix that I know of other than buying a short throw with standard protg thread length.
Edit: I read this wrong, I thought you were talking about a new knob. But the principle is the same the STS you bought is probably the normal protg length so it's threads will not reach the end of a knob for the stock msp threads. Make sense?
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- 2003 Mazdaspeed Protege 1660, 2004 Winning Blue RX8, 2005 Mazda6
I had an 03 laser blue P5, but sold it in 2011 after 4 years. Bought it with 72k in 2007 for $500. Just bought the silver for $500, too. 210k miles, lowering springs, short shifter, DC sports muffler, but otherwise stock. The front bumper was replaced with an OEM Mazda bumper that was never painted... And only replaced it because the other was cracke. Runs and drives great other than those crappy M2 springs. Damn is it slow.
I got mine for less but didn't have an engine. It does look low lol.. I'm kinda glad I didn't go with the 16s I was gonna. I'd be scraping every speed bump with my lip.
I'd say you got a great deal. Silver is piss easy to paint too.
I'd say you got a great deal. Silver is piss easy to paint too.
