What have you done to your P5 today?
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MyZmZm said:reflections of morrigan....
spent nearly 8 hours today washing, drying, and polishing followed by aio and wolfgang deep gloss sealant on the car, with clearkote vanilla moose on all windows and rims
after the sealant cures overnight, i'll apply the wax tomorrow and hopefully work on the interior a bit. i hope we don't get the rain they're calling for
I HURT ALL OVER lol
anyhow, on to the pics
Clean.
General Exclaim UHP, WOW!
I,ve read some great reveiws on this tire(General Exclaim UHP), but the've all been on other cars. anyone have any experience with these tires on an 03' mp5. I'm going from the old factory 195/50-16 dunlop sp 5000 to 205/45-16 generals, I think? any feed back?
altspace said:
I,ve read some great reveiws on this tire(General Exclaim UHP), but the've all been on other cars. anyone have any experience with these tires on an 03' mp5. I'm going from the old factory 195/50-16 dunlop sp 5000 to 205/45-16 generals, I think? any feed back?
MyZmZm said:reflections of morrigan....
spent nearly 8 hours today washing, drying, and polishing followed by aio and wolfgang deep gloss sealant on the car, with clearkote vanilla moose on all windows and rims
after the sealant cures overnight, i'll apply the wax tomorrow and hopefully work on the interior a bit. i hope we don't get the rain they're calling for
I HURT ALL OVER lol
anyhow, on to the pics
nice lookin' ride. what size tires you got there?
MyZmZm said:reflections of morrigan....
spent nearly 8 hours today washing, drying, and polishing followed by aio and wolfgang deep gloss sealant on the car, with clearkote vanilla moose on all windows and rims
after the sealant cures overnight, i'll apply the wax tomorrow and hopefully work on the interior a bit. i hope we don't get the rain they're calling for
I HURT ALL OVER lol
anyhow, on to the pics
also, what kind of exhaust is that, I'm looking for a quite, powerhouse, yours looks pretty sweet. is it very loud?
thanks for all the compliments guys 
you're making us blush, lol the only problem i have with her so clean is it REALLY shows all the rock chips 
tonight is waxing with natty's blue (if i can keep my nose out of the jar
), the interior and dressing the tires (which i forgot last night, oops). hopefully the light will be nice enough that i can go for a quick drive and photoshoot afterwards.
leebee - the tires are falken fk-451 (replaced recently with the fk-452's, iirc) in 215/45r17, which is the stock size on the mazdaspeed rims that are on the car my exhaust is cat-back magnaflow; with the header it's a bit louder, but not obnoxious, and has a nice deep tone (with the 2nd cat and resonator still on the car); i highly recommend it. i'm getting mark's (bazooka joe) old mid-pipe w/highflow cat shortly, so i'm interested to see if that changes the tone/volume at all.
you're making us blush, lol the only problem i have with her so clean is it REALLY shows all the rock chips tonight is waxing with natty's blue (if i can keep my nose out of the jar
), the interior and dressing the tires (which i forgot last night, oops). hopefully the light will be nice enough that i can go for a quick drive and photoshoot afterwards.leebee - the tires are falken fk-451 (replaced recently with the fk-452's, iirc) in 215/45r17, which is the stock size on the mazdaspeed rims that are on the car
my exhaust is cat-back magnaflow; with the header it's a bit louder, but not obnoxious, and has a nice deep tone (with the 2nd cat and resonator still on the car); i highly recommend it. i'm getting mark's (bazooka joe) old mid-pipe w/highflow cat shortly, so i'm interested to see if that changes the tone/volume at all.
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MyZmZm said:thanks for all the compliments guys
tonight is waxing with natty's blue (if i can keep my nose out of the jar
leebee - the tires are falken fk-451 (replaced recently with the fk-452's, iirc) in 215/45r17, which is the stock size on the mazdaspeed rims that are on the car
Is it a 2.5" midpipe with high flow cat, like the MAM ones? It will be loud... heh. I like it though. Except now I have an exhaust leak, so it is ridiculously loud and annoying. It is super loud at idle comparatively speaking
MyZmZm said:thanks for all the compliments guys
tonight is waxing with natty's blue (if i can keep my nose out of the jar
leebee - the tires are falken fk-451 (replaced recently with the fk-452's, iirc) in 215/45r17, which is the stock size on the mazdaspeed rims that are on the car
Hey Andrea,... is it? (sorry if I'm getting it wrong, I'm new to this forum and I'm still trying to figure out who's who.)
thanks you for the info on the tires and exhaust, I'm getting new tires here pretty quick so I've been researching a little. I've had a couple of
"tire place" guys tell me that the 215's were too wide for the p5 and that they might scrape on the inside wheel well. Funny what those guys think they know.
The exhaust is a little further up the road. Thanks again.
PS> BEAUTEOUS mountain pix, we don't to many of those down here in florida!
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khaosman said:Is it a 2.5" midpipe with high flow cat, like the MAM ones? It will be loud... heh. I like it though. Except now I have an exhaust leak, so it is ridiculously loud and annoying. It is super loud at idle comparatively speaking
What would you look for in an exhaust that has to do with the noise level, or volume. does the length have something to do with it ,or are there silencers of some sort? I like em fast n' quiet.(drive2)
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I put some 215/35/18's on my Hiboosted P5 about 2 weeks ago and I love them. I read where the sidewalls are a little soft but in a 35 profile not a problem. Dry and wet traction are better than my old Proxes 4's and a higher treadwear I believe. $237 out the door and I'm very impressed and
can no longer get a chirp out of 4th gear.
can no longer get a chirp out of 4th gear.
leebee said:
That would be the onekhaosman said:Is it a 2.5" midpipe with high flow cat, like the MAM ones? It will be loud... heh. I like it though. Except now I have an exhaust leak, so it is ridiculously loud and annoying. It is super loud at idle comparatively speaking
I'll likely put it on shortly after I get it; if it's too loud for my liking, I'll store it until I've gone turbo - just another item in my 'car corner' lolYep, it's Andrea (see sig)leebee said:
I did a lot of research too before settling on these. I know they're high performance which means they will wear faster, but I'm hoping they will last me 2-3 summers. I've had them on the car for just over a month now and LOVE them: great grip (I have a hard time trying to break them loose, even on cold wet pavement), awesome handling and they look damn good too.
The width you can go all depends on the offset of your rims. I can get away with this size because the mazdaspeed rims have an offset of either 50 or 55 (can never remember) and this is the stock tire size for the rim. If you haven't already, check out Rishie's Fitment Guide in the Tires/Rims section - that should give you all the info you need to know.
Yeah, and we have some nice twisties in the mountains too.
leebee said:
Not exactly sure. A header and catback isn't too loud. Even with the midpipe, it isn't terribly loud. It is subjective though. Try searching for opinions on what is louder or quieter. You could watch my autocross videos here to get an idea of what it sounds like: http://www.khaosman.com/gallery/waterloo0409?page=2
That was pre-exhaust leak
Andrea, my guess is you'll like it. But yes... a turbo would make it sound oh so much nicer!
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