What have you done to your P5 today?

[Salmon_Rob]

get an aem bypass valve

 

[iLisa]

I found a picture on my cell yesterday.. my car when it hit 33,333 taken Sept 05... yesterday I hit 44,444..
only 11,111 miles in 1 year.

 

[Salmon_Rob]

awwe

 

[altspace]

don't you just hate it when your wipers mysteriously go on and it isn't even raining. lol

Um...yea. Then the whole car shuts down and turns into Christine!

On topic...drove to Zoom Zoom Live. NEPOC representing with it's own tent right out front and my car in full view. Woot!

 

[Hy8us]

your car looks sooo sleepy

 

[socommatthews]

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 :'(

thats why i got rid of mine and got the HKS intake.i like it alot better anyways it runs alot smoother than the injen.

 

[bazooka joe]

I found a picture on my cell yesterday.. my car when it hit 33,333 taken Sept 05... yesterday I hit 44,444..
only 11,111 miles in 1 year.

(cryhard) i'm doing about 20K a yr.....

 

[iLisa]

(cryhard) i'm doing about 20K a yr.....

i'm doing like 200 miles over the weekends to make up for the lack of driving I do during the week... it is too expensive to park in DC.. so I take the metro to work everyday.. saves lots of headaches sitting in traffic..

 

[Salmon_Rob]

the metro is ftw

 

[bazooka joe]

your car looks sooo sleepy

haha....i got that comment when i had those lids on my car!

 

[altspace]

It's ragging mad!

 

[Salmon_Rob]

ragging mad? that time of month?

 

[altspace]

No, it's pissed off at birds!

 

[Kansei]

thats why i got rid of mine and got the HKS intake.i like it alot better anyways it runs alot smoother than the injen.

I think I have all the parts to make mine into a short ram intake but I don't want the heat soak :'(

I wish there was a premade heat shield offered for our cars (I just looked around quickly and didn't find one).

 

[Kansei]

No, it's pissed off at birds!

I didn't even get a chance to check the damage. damn that sucks.

I need like a portable garage tent to put over my car at all times

 

[Thieu]

Also autocrossed yesterday. Ran very close to a mini cooper in HS.

Course was amazingly long at 1:30. The Z06's were hitting upwards of 75mph and everyone was getting air on a couple of bumps.

Managed to be a 1.5 seconds faster than my friend in a RSX-S who was running in GS.

P5 doesn't plow nearly as much as I thought it would. But still... time for a few "upgrades"...

I'll post pictures from the event soon.

 

[NJP5Guy]

Um...yea. Then the whole car shuts down and turns into Christine!

On topic...drove to Zoom Zoom Live. NEPOC representing with it's own tent right out front and my car in full view. Woot!

in case you were wondering i was poking fun at one of kaosmans videos of his auto-x

 

[NJP5Guy]

Also autocrossed yesterday. Ran very close to a mini cooper in HS.

Course was amazingly long at 1:30. The Z06's were hitting upwards of 75mph and everyone was getting air on a couple of bumps.

Managed to be a 1.5 seconds faster than my friend in a RSX-S who was running in GS.

P5 doesn't plow nearly as much as I thought it would. But still... time for a few "upgrades"...

I'll post pictures from the event soon.

thats cool. i'm still waiting for our times to be posted so i can see who i beat. are you running in HS or was the mini?

 

[Thieu]

thats cool. i'm still waiting for our times to be posted so i can see who i beat. are you running in HS or was the mini?

Both the Mini and I were running HS.

Getting my tech inspection, I found out that a ground kit puts you in STS. Guy was cool and said it didn't really matter, but just thought I should know.

 

[cable43]

I found a picture on my cell yesterday.. my car when it hit 33,333 taken Sept 05... yesterday I hit 44,444..
only 11,111 miles in 1 year.

it's also 44,444 in 4 years!