Rednecks_wife
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- 1966 Mustang (gone-but only down the street) 1950 Chevy Truck
we picked up our foglight, lower grille and MSP front bumper. Soon rednecks_r_us will have the black & blue Prote back on the road.
What have you done to your P5 today?
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So very smooth now..gottacatchup
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- 2003 MP5
Just finished driving from Houston, Tx to Dayton, Oh. 1200 miles in two days with the P5 running smooth the whole way. Now it just needs a wash to get the bugs off.
kudakev615
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^never heard of this snake oil concaction
rednecks_r_us
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- 2003 Laser Blue Protege5
Lisakay said:
It reduces hard water spots. I have washed many of my cars with vinegar mixed into the bucket.
Ran her off the road.
Was in cheyenne canyon approaching a hairpin. Ive done the turn many times. Usually I just redline second gear and brake hard once I hit redline. This time, for some reason, I hit the 5k in 2nd and shifted to 3rd. It was too much. Right after I put my foot down on the accelerator after the shift I knew I had made a mistake. I ended up hitting the brakes about 10ft later and 5mph faster than I usually do on that turn. Locked up the brakes and skidded off the road and into a gravel patch. A better driver could have pulled it off, but I couldnt. I stopped just in time to avoid slamming into the hilside. I would have been stuck in the gravel pit, but my buddy in the car being the burly guy that he is was able to push us out. Nice 100 foot long skidmarks were left
No real impact, but my bumper now has some war wounds- Just some scraches.
Was in cheyenne canyon approaching a hairpin. Ive done the turn many times. Usually I just redline second gear and brake hard once I hit redline. This time, for some reason, I hit the 5k in 2nd and shifted to 3rd. It was too much. Right after I put my foot down on the accelerator after the shift I knew I had made a mistake. I ended up hitting the brakes about 10ft later and 5mph faster than I usually do on that turn. Locked up the brakes and skidded off the road and into a gravel patch. A better driver could have pulled it off, but I couldnt. I stopped just in time to avoid slamming into the hilside. I would have been stuck in the gravel pit, but my buddy in the car being the burly guy that he is was able to push us out. Nice 100 foot long skidmarks were left
No real impact, but my bumper now has some war wounds- Just some scraches.
kudakev615
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^off to test the theory now.
a223818 said:
i did that yesterday minus the pcv. i also switched my typhoon into the short ram just to see if there was any difference. so far i can't really tell.
today i took her to the local sjr auto-x. she performed well. i was matched very well against a supposed to be much quicker se-r spec v in my class( i think i might have beaten him...have to wait for final times to be posted). if only this car had some balls it'd be a smoker on the course. what a great day though for racing.
Yeah like it was said the vinegar helps with hard water spots.. My p5 has some serious spots too, i've been using scratch-x off and on and now vinegar with no real success. Both help, but neither make it all go away. 
I might have to break down and just buy a random orbital buffer and some polish.. : /
I might have to break down and just buy a random orbital buffer and some polish.. : /
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- 2006 Infiniti M
i dreefted it
autocrossed it and drove a lot of highway miles. it was a blast... video later. here is a video from last event though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ_eBonaL5w
My CAI *may* have sucked up some water.. either that or during the extreme downpours when I was on the Mass Pike going back to Rochester from Boston (Zoom Zoom Live) got something wet through my hood vent that wasn't happy about getting wet 
car bogged down, CEL started flashing, car made fun rumbly sound like a boxer engine but I'm sure it wasn't a good thing to be driving with. I went to the nearest rest stop to figure things out.
Either I sucked up water, something got wet through the vent, or the full service gas station I went to screwed up and put 87 in even though I said to put 93 in. I'm thinking it isn't the latter because I heard the MP3 ECU copes just fine with 87, it just retards the timing back to basically the P5 ECU specs. I put a bottle of octane boost in just in case.. ran the car in the parking lot, was still sputtering, gurgling, backfiring, etc. The I put some "dry gas" (basically just isopropyl from what I can tell) into the tank and kept running it, revving occassionally to see if it got any better. Eventually it got to the point where it almost completely sounded normal, though with the CEL one, and I continued driving. I stopped atj the next rest stop and let the car sit for a while off. That did the trick, no more CEL and it was normal for the rest of the trip.
This has happened with my car before a few times, but always in the winter. I'm beginning to think my CAI is managing to suck water up :'(
car bogged down, CEL started flashing, car made fun rumbly sound like a boxer engine but I'm sure it wasn't a good thing to be driving with. I went to the nearest rest stop to figure things out.
Either I sucked up water, something got wet through the vent, or the full service gas station I went to screwed up and put 87 in even though I said to put 93 in. I'm thinking it isn't the latter because I heard the MP3 ECU copes just fine with 87, it just retards the timing back to basically the P5 ECU specs. I put a bottle of octane boost in just in case.. ran the car in the parking lot, was still sputtering, gurgling, backfiring, etc. The I put some "dry gas" (basically just isopropyl from what I can tell) into the tank and kept running it, revving occassionally to see if it got any better. Eventually it got to the point where it almost completely sounded normal, though with the CEL one, and I continued driving. I stopped atj the next rest stop and let the car sit for a while off. That did the trick, no more CEL and it was normal for the rest of the trip.
This has happened with my car before a few times, but always in the winter. I'm beginning to think my CAI is managing to suck water up :'(
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