What have you done to your P5 today?

Had the taken the morning off from work, and notice my speakers had arrived :D. Installed Pioneers to replace my front blown out crappy stock ones. Went pretty smooth, got real quick at taking apart that door panel, since I had to do it an extra time because I forgot to reconnect the door lock switch.


They sound great!
 
zverg said:
That's a 2 inch drop? I seriously think the rear of my car is 1.5 inches lower than that, with 215/40/17 on 17x7 wheels with +45mm.

Front maybe an inch lower. o_O

i know my car sits lower than that and I have a 1.5" F&R drop
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stayed up all night last night installing headers. no pics yet sorry...hopefully by the end of the week...and maybe get my muffler changed too.
 
quicksilvermp5 said:
stayed up all night last night installing headers. no pics yet sorry...hopefully by the end of the week...and maybe get my muffler changed too.

OBX, Ractive, or other? pics pics pics (poke)

I love this thread. If it wasn't so on-topic (about proteges) it would definitely be moved to the off-topic forum.
 
bazooka joe said:
what's up with the heat shield? give blood....play hockey!

short shifter hitting against it. The short shifter hangs down lower below the point of rotation so it hits the heat shield above the cat (or resonator, I don't remember) that is there. You can lower the heat shield (TWM sends out spacers with their shifter) but that didn't work for me, maybe it's a difference between the P5 and the sedan but there's a big canister on the exhaust right there. I ended up just cutting a rectangular hole in my heat shield where the shifter moves around.
 
zverg said:
OBX, Ractive, or other? pics pics pics (poke)

I love this thread. If it wasn't so on-topic (about proteges) it would definitely be moved to the off-topic forum.

sorry mang...girlfriend has my digicam during the install... header by the way is Thunder headers, difference from the pics attached (guinea pig header) is that it came wit a built in cel/mil fix so there is no need for non fouler trick, here is the best pics i could find for now care of Protephile's gb thread...i hope he doesn't mind me posting it...
 

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bazooka joe said:
what's up with the heat shield? give blood....play hockey!

my kartboy hits it when in 1'st 3'rd and 5'th gear. have to get out my tin-snips again........

-R
 
zverg said:
WOW I like the look of that a lot better than my Ractive >_<

=) thanks man...i made sure too that i cleaned it up wit mild hand soap before firing it up...dont want the nasty purplish blot handprint look on it..but yea mang, ill post up some pics hopefully by the end of the week... ohhh did i tell you i love your car? (thumb)
 
quicksilvermp5 said:
ohhh did i tell you i love your car? (thumb)

It's just the lighting. the front end is sprayed with rock chips (well just on the bumper, none on the hood). I need to get some painting done.

Edit: oh and the pic is reminiscent of my first sig on these forums, when my car was relatively stock. I think I had just done the fog light mod at the time.

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I took the place in the same location (end of my parent's driveway) at the same time of day (7ish AM). I wanna retake the picture to get a bit of the side in on it so that my car doesn't look completely stock to the untrained eye, but I won't be back there for three months (cryhard)
 
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zverg said:
It's just the lighting. the front end is sprayed with rock chips (well just on the bumper, none on the hood). I need to get some painting done.

yep, i saw your car a while back, sunlight silver official thread or so i think and it looks good from different angles... i likes...
 
Nothing major....took the dealer decal off the hatch...no more free advertising for them. Next nice day I need to give her a good wash 'n' wax.
 
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