What have you done to your P5 today?

[THE Phen]

My P5 is going to miss her older twin...

For old times sake; our P5's together... (sadbanana)

Both at stock ride height too. *sigh*

At least yours is continuing to look better and better, and I've replaced mine with something kinda fun.

 

[ScratchNSniff]

Planning on selling those MSP brakes?? lol

It really sucks that it broke, but at least it was running the dragon and not putting around town.

Nah...brakes aren't going anywhere...I must say though...they did quite a good job...are they bigger than the P5 brakes or what...I never did have front brakes to compare when I put the on so I couldn't see them side by side...

Hopefully you can get all that resolved. There is absolutely NO reason that motor should have crapped out on you if it was in the condition he said it was in. Especially after all the work you had to do to it the first time it broke. Best of luck and keep us updated.

As far as my P5 goes, I just bought 10 qts of transmission fluid and the filter kit as well as 2 gals of premixed coolant. Complete transmission and coolant flush to be done tomorrow considering neither has been changed for at least 50,000 miles (boom08). Total of everything came to 87 dollars which I was very very pleased with.

Thanks man...I will definitely keep everyone updated...I am going to look at another motor on Friday...hopefully better luck this time...

god i wish i could find a set of msp calipers at a good price...or at least the rears.....i would just get the 626 fronts and buy new blank rotors....i'm gonna have to redo my brakes here in the next month or 2......and i'ld rather do them right....just in case i do go the 'fast' route lata on.....i wanna be able to stop even faster

and yes i know all the other things to do.....but i would still like the bigger brakes

I got these with brand new pads/rotors off of zeemazdafarum for $200...great freaking deal...I actually needed them bad as mine were siezed up from sitting so long...

Just put mine up on Craigslist.

Good luck trying to sell it man...

 

[Hy8us]

Selling my p5, got some hoodies for sale and i have the carbon fiber dash kit pieces up for sale also.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170346114337

 

[i12drivemyMP5]

Selling my p5, got some hoodies for sale and i have the carbon fiber dash kit pieces up for sale also.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170346114337

Only see hoodies on ebay, Are dash pieces in FS? looking now...................

 

[Hy8us]

not yet, i have to go pull um off the p5 tomorrow. Its only 2 pieces btw (the radio trim one and the one for around the shifter)(cool)

 

[Lewis7789]

^^^ Are you parting with your OBX header? If you're going back to stock, I'll trade you my stock header/precat+cash.

 

[TWISFM]

ok soo.. got another new exhaust kinda... insatlled the new tpv turbo muffler from vibrant a vibrant resonator and a magnaflow resonator from the obx header back.... loading a video and pics now

 

[SpeedToBleed]

Put in the Simota about a week ago. And just put in the TWM shifter, boot, bushings and M1 Abrams shift knob a couple days ago.

 

[Lewis7789]

Looks good, man. But is that an electrical outlet box on the passenger side of your motor???

How do you like the shift knob that low on the lever?

 

[Demo]

Received my new set of enkei FLC-01s!!(breakn)

I swear waiting only three days felt like two weeks!

 

[SpeedToBleed]

Thanks!
Yes that is an electrical box (lol) The original owner had the car up in Alaska for some time and installed it due to the bellow freezing temps. There were 3 cords plugged into it, haven't traced them all out yet but one I know for sure is for a heater pad on the oil pan. Apparently he would plug it into DC at night and the pad and whatever else would keep the car safe from those temps.

I love the height, actually I specifically got the M1 Abrams knob so that I could keep it as low as possible.

 

[TWISFM]

Mad an exhaust video but i reallly dont like it.. ive come to realzie.. doesnt give the full sound... its also only has about 30 miles on it.. so it prob needs to break in...but its not that bad at all!!

2002 mazda protege5
injen CAI to 2.5 inch catless mandrel bends with a flowmaster resonator to a vibrant resonator to a vibrant tpv turbo muffler
NO CAT"S!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC6JMgdQQs8

 

[mx-p5]

just posting pics for comparison

stock headlights with HID plug and play

and new Acura TL's

I wanted to see a comparison so i used this post to do so

 

[Hy8us]

Only see hoodies on ebay, Are dash pieces in FS? looking now...................

here ya go http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4648912#post4648912

 

[HKPRO5]

I sent you a message on ebay. Im Interested.

 

[fishdonotbounce]

Well my dumbass broke a fitting on the radiator last night. The one that comes out for the transmission "cooler". Since I installed a seperate cooler I could have just bypassed it and called it a day but I didn't think of that before I punctured a hole in the radiator trying to retrieve the rest of the fitting. I JB welded the two fittings to stop the leaking and let it cure overnight. Drove it home from my uncle's garage and parked to see that the coolant started leaking through one of the places where I JB welded it. Called advance this morning and they have one that'll be here Sunday morning. I am officially an idiot.

EDIT: I will see how the new radiator holds up but if it springs a leak, I will try to get my money back and just buy a corksport. I would've done it right away but I need the car by Monday since I go back to school for summer quarter.

 

[ScratchNSniff]

Ok...question time...again...

03 Automatic P5 motor...no tranny...will swap into my 03 5-Speed P5 correct or no...

The motor I went and looked at today is out of an automatic and has a 90 day guarantee to run...just want to make sure that the Auto motor will mate up to the tranny I have...

Please let me know guys...trying to get this thing fixed again...

 

[01bluemp3]

should work.

 

[fishdonotbounce]

I think I remember something about there not being some hole for where the tranny hooks up to the motor. Like the auto has 2 and the manual has 3. I also think I remember someone said they just drilled a new hole but I could be completely wrong.

 

[ScratchNSniff]

Sounds about right...I forgot that the bad motor we just put in came from an auto...and we had to drill that extra hole...not sure what I was thinking when I posted...now I just have to arrange picking it up...