What have you done to your P5 today?
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Kansei said:Patrick.. selling the MSP? Why doesn't anyone seem to like the MSP, and yet I'm putting basically an MSP turbo kit on my car
I've had to choose between the two (for various reasons ... besides it's tough keeping up with two builds) The P5 has alway been my favorite; leather, sunroof, more stealth
The MSP is loads of fun, I'm just going to inject this MSPness into the Wagon.HaHA - I made you say penis.
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my new instrument cluster came today
http://picasaweb.google.com/clauretano/NewGaugeCluster
weird though. It came out of a 2001 Protege, so it has the red backlighting and all.. I thought it would be identical to my original cluster. As you can almost sorta see from my blurry indoors at night photos, instead of the metallic silver faces that the Protege5 gauges have, it has gauges that look to be white.. but not quite white, almost a creamy off-white. They also don't have the heavy texturing that the gauge face of the P5 gauges has, they're just smooth.
kinda sucks, because I rather like the silver gauge faces.. the white is a bit bright. Maybe I'll totally change my opinion once I get my polished DaveB rings over to this cluster. I'm also swapping the board from mine so that I retain my odometer reading
my new instrument cluster came today
http://picasaweb.google.com/clauretano/NewGaugeCluster
weird though. It came out of a 2001 Protege, so it has the red backlighting and all.. I thought it would be identical to my original cluster. As you can almost sorta see from my blurry indoors at night photos, instead of the metallic silver faces that the Protege5 gauges have, it has gauges that look to be white.. but not quite white, almost a creamy off-white. They also don't have the heavy texturing that the gauge face of the P5 gauges has, they're just smooth.
kinda sucks, because I rather like the silver gauge faces.. the white is a bit bright. Maybe I'll totally change my opinion once I get my polished DaveB rings over to this cluster. I'm also swapping the board from mine so that I retain my odometer reading
changed to silver for 2002.5 then
is there anything the 2002.5 didn't get? No intake manifold recall, got all the visual upgrades of the 2003, retained the roof rack (which I appreciate for the 4-5 times a year I put it on to use it.
weird.
I now have my stock cluster totally disassembled. The speedo and tach needle were easily removeable, but it looks like the temp and fuel gauge needle rods broke when being removed.. no biggie, I'm just using my stock board so I retain the ODO reading.
very interesting too.. I always assumed all of the instrument cluster lighting was incandescent with the little mini-bulbs. Nope.. most, but not all, of the stuff that lights up red is done with LEDs. The battery light, the "you have a door open" light, and also the amber low fuel light.
I wish there was a removeable module I could swap from this board ono the new one though, as I'm wondering what the buzzer (ding sound thing) on the 2001 cluster sounds like. I know it sounds pretty different on my friend's Protege MP3, so I'm guessing this 01 buzzer is the same.
actually screw it.. I'm desoldering the buzzer from mine haha
is there anything the 2002.5 didn't get? No intake manifold recall, got all the visual upgrades of the 2003, retained the roof rack (which I appreciate for the 4-5 times a year I put it on to use it.
weird.
I now have my stock cluster totally disassembled. The speedo and tach needle were easily removeable, but it looks like the temp and fuel gauge needle rods broke when being removed.. no biggie, I'm just using my stock board so I retain the ODO reading.
very interesting too.. I always assumed all of the instrument cluster lighting was incandescent with the little mini-bulbs. Nope.. most, but not all, of the stuff that lights up red is done with LEDs. The battery light, the "you have a door open" light, and also the amber low fuel light.
I wish there was a removeable module I could swap from this board ono the new one though, as I'm wondering what the buzzer (ding sound thing) on the 2001 cluster sounds like. I know it sounds pretty different on my friend's Protege MP3, so I'm guessing this 01 buzzer is the same.
actually screw it.. I'm desoldering the buzzer from mine haha
My stock board actually has LED 1-6 which would be the auto tranny shift lever position lights I believe. Then LED7 is the low fuel light, LED9 is the door ajar light, and LED10 is the battery light. Still searching for LED8
Edit: LED8, just to the right of the 140 mark on the speedo..wonder what that one is for.
I swapped the speaker from the 01 cluster onto my 02.5 cluster, just a quick desolder/solder operation. I'll post pics showing the difference.. they're totally different speakers, the 01 being much larger and actually attaching to different contacts on the board (which were present and pre-drilled on the 02.5 cluster.
Edit: LED8, just to the right of the 140 mark on the speedo..wonder what that one is for.
I swapped the speaker from the 01 cluster onto my 02.5 cluster, just a quick desolder/solder operation. I'll post pics showing the difference.. they're totally different speakers, the 01 being much larger and actually attaching to different contacts on the board (which were present and pre-drilled on the 02.5 cluster.
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iLisa said:
yay!my new instrument cluster buzzer doesn't work.. looking at the circuitboard on the 01 board, the traces for where the bigger (2001) speaker plugs in don't go to exactly the same location as where the 2002.5+ speaker plugs in. bah I'll have to take it out and look around, maybe run some of my own traces so that it's wired exactly where my stock one was.
Edit: oh and interestingly enough, there is a polarized filter over the little odometer LCD on this 2001 cluster board.
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Kansei said:I freakin hate soldering wire <--> wire. circuitboard stuff I like. I just didn't want to hack up the beautiful NGK wiring harness
Haha, just use some of those helping hands or whatever. And get automatic wire strippers.
Today I inspected my new found bad noise. It was coming from the front driver's suspension, usually when the wheel was turned left. I figured it was the coilover spring perch, which happened before. I cleaned it and re-tightened it, it seems good now. Also did misc. stuff for winter prep: torqued lugs, checked air pressures on tires, swapped my nice Apex'i air filter with the old Injen one, and siliconed the camber plates up front to keep salt and junk out of the engine bay.
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That & some fresh oil/filter........
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Yaggie1 said:Going on day 10 without driving mine............that'll all change today though. Back on the road for home in like 20 min.
They'll look hot on your ride
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