What have you done to your P5 today?

[whitemp5seattle]

I'm gonna change this thread to "What didn't you do to your P5 today??"

Here was today's schedule:

8am Woke up, ate breakfast
9am Cleaned the engine bay
10am Ran errands, picked up my new used DGM grill at the post office
11am Picked up a new PCV valve at Modern Mazda (stealership)
noon Bought new spark plugs, lunch
1pm Installed aforementioned PCV valve and spark plugs
2pm Met up with the eBay buyer of my MS3 rims to give him the rims
3pm Took car to Valvoline for coolant flush (too lazy to do it myself)
4pm Washed car, detailed interior, did wheels
5pm Used touchup paint on my hood and front bumper, took pics of clean car
6pm sigh of relief, wipe sweat from forehead

(alright)


(Pics: 1. dirty engine bay, 2. clean engine bay, 3. new ZFG5F-11 spark plugs, 4. clean shot of the rear, 5. clean shot of the front)

 

[mazdaspeed777]

I fixed the curb rash on my rims and painted them:

I also did a how to on all of this:

http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123668132

 

[Bala]

I'm gonna change this thread to "What didn't you do to your P5 today??"

Here was today's schedule:

8am Woke up, ate breakfast
9am Cleaned the engine bay
10am Ran errands, picked up my new used DGM grill at the post office
11am Picked up a new PCV valve at Modern Mazda (stealership)
noon Bought new spark plugs, lunch
1pm Installed aforementioned PCV valve and spark plugs
2pm Met up with the eBay buyer of my MS3 rims to give him the rims
3pm Took car to Valvoline for coolant flush (too lazy to do it myself)
4pm Washed car, detailed interior, did wheels
5pm Used touchup paint on my hood and front bumper, took pics of clean car
6pm sigh of relief, wipe sweat from forehead

(alright)


(Pics: 1. dirty engine bay, 2. clean engine bay, 3. new ZFG5F-11 spark plugs, 4. clean shot of the rear, 5. clean shot of the front)

Dude - I broke out in a sweat just reading that

Looks great - I need to mount up my painted MSP lip thats been hanging on my garage wall and pop off some shots ...

 

[PimpSmurf]

test drove a 350z and g35 the 350z might be replacing the p5.....

wait for the g37... u'll thank me later... motor trend loved it and it's supposed to have 330 hp and 270 lb-ft... coming 2008... i think you can wait, what do you think?... hahaha... and isn't the 350z supposed to be slower than the g35?... i heard that with same engine that the better tranny in the g35 makes it faster

 

[whitemp5seattle]

Looks great - I need to mount up my painted MSP lip thats been hanging on my garage wall and pop off some shots ...

do it! your MSP and P5 are gonna look like twin brothers (except one's a little longer)

 

[PimpSmurf]

I fixed the curb rash on my rims and painted them:

I also did a how to on all of this:

http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123668132

that looks clean... how long did it take you, how much was it, and are you still going to be stuck using stock dunlops?

 

[silverpro5]

I'm gonna change this thread to "What didn't you do to your P5 today??"

Here was today's schedule:

8am Woke up, ate breakfast
9am Cleaned the engine bay
10am Ran errands, picked up my new used DGM grill at the post office
11am Picked up a new PCV valve at Modern Mazda (stealership)
noon Bought new spark plugs, lunch
1pm Installed aforementioned PCV valve and spark plugs
2pm Met up with the eBay buyer of my MS3 rims to give him the rims
3pm Took car to Valvoline for coolant flush (too lazy to do it myself)
4pm Washed car, detailed interior, did wheels
5pm Used touchup paint on my hood and front bumper, took pics of clean car
6pm sigh of relief, wipe sweat from forehead

(alright)


(Pics: 1. dirty engine bay, 2. clean engine bay, 3. new ZFG5F-11 spark plugs, 4. clean shot of the rear, 5. clean shot of the front)

hey man, why the stock intake box w/ your CAI?

 

[PimpSmurf]

wow, just realized something i have been meaning to ask for a while... does anyone know the stock horse power, torque, 0-60, and 1/4 for a P5?... i tried to do a search but i could not find it

EDIT: it should be basic knowledge, but i don't even have that... hahaha

 

[mazdaspeed777]

that looks clean... how long did it take you, how much was it, and are you still going to be stuck using stock dunlops?

probably around a couple hours of actual work, the rest of it was a lot of waiting. And those tires are not stock Dunlops, They are performance Nexen's

 

[Shasta]

I'm gonna change this thread to "What didn't you do to your P5 today??"

Here was today's schedule:

8am Woke up, ate breakfast
9am Cleaned the engine bay
10am Ran errands, picked up my new used DGM grill at the post office
11am Picked up a new PCV valve at Modern Mazda (stealership)
noon Bought new spark plugs, lunch
1pm Installed aforementioned PCV valve and spark plugs
2pm Met up with the eBay buyer of my MS3 rims to give him the rims
3pm Took car to Valvoline for coolant flush (too lazy to do it myself)
4pm Washed car, detailed interior, did wheels
5pm Used touchup paint on my hood and front bumper, took pics of clean car
6pm sigh of relief, wipe sweat from forehead

(alright)


(Pics: 1. dirty engine bay, 2. clean engine bay, 3. new ZFG5F-11 spark plugs, 4. clean shot of the rear, 5. clean shot of the front)

Good luck at the car show, car looks fantastic. Did some P5's not have foglights too or did you rmove them?

 

[Bala]

wow, just realized something i have been meaning to ask for a while... does anyone know the stock horse power, torque, 0-60, and 1/4 for a P5?... i tried to do a search but i could not find it

EDIT: it should be basic knowledge, but i don't even have that... hahaha

Stock HP to the wheels for the P5 is 95-100 (ughdance)

 

[whitemp5seattle]

hey man, why the stock intake box w/ your CAI?

Originally I kept it on when I installed my CAI so my parents wouldn't notice that I was modding my car (when the title was under their name). I've had it on ever since. (shrug) Once I get my AWR headers installed it'll definitely be the first thing to go (and hopefully be replaced by a nice air diverter plate)

 

[whitemp5seattle]

Good luck at the car show, car looks fantastic. Did some P5's not have foglights too or did you rmove them?

Car show? what car show? (scratch)

All p5's came standard with foglights. I lost my fogs when I put the 2003.5 msp lip on my p5 - the msp lip makes the fog holes a little smaller, and thus I had to ditch my fogs.

 

[mazdaspeed777]

Converted the P5 into a huvver car today!

 

[StealthWyvern]

Converted the P5 into a huvver car today!

ah.. man you did a half ass job! You no longer need rotors, calipers and all that junk!

 

[mazdaspeed777]

lol yah, workin on some fiberglass wheel well deletes. lol

 

[Kansei]

my car has been in "hover car" mode since about 7pm yesterday

so I just got back from sears *wipes sweat from brow*

pipe wrench.. no dice. It worked, sorta.. those washers with the "D" shape to them.. well the flat part must have rounded out, because it does nothin now. I was able to loosen the nut maybe a turn or two.. (ughdance)

What are the chances that it's a standard enough part that I can buy one at advance auto parts? I may have to dremel the bastard off to get the car back together.

 

[whitemp5seattle]

did you grab the washer thing with the wrench REALLY REALLY hard so it doesn't move?

 

[meinp5]

I have the same problem with my front pass. side strut. I need to replace it too.

my car has been in "hover car" mode since about 7pm yesterday

so I just got back from sears *wipes sweat from brow*

pipe wrench.. no dice. It worked, sorta.. those washers with the "D" shape to them.. well the flat part must have rounded out, because it does nothin now. I was able to loosen the nut maybe a turn or two.. (ughdance)

What are the chances that it's a standard enough part that I can buy one at advance auto parts? I may have to dremel the bastard off to get the car back together.

 

[Kansei]

did you grab the washer thing with the wrench REALLY REALLY hard so it doesn't move?

yep. the washer is still.. yet the shaft spins freely.

I think at almost 82k miles, with three rochester winters, and this being the fourth time I've had my suspension apart like this, they've just given up on life. Luckily on the other side, the washer gave up when I was tightening it back down, and I managed to get it pretty tight.