What have you done to your P5 today?

[Kansei]

how's that last strut going?

Haven't touched it yet today but I did get the 2nd garage laptop set up nicely

I also finally adjusted my e-brake .. now it only takes like 4 clicks to be firm, it wasn't like that even when I first got the car

I also drilled the hole for the LED for the factory alarm.. I had it drilled before, but I replaced that piece with a new one and the LED has just been dangling. Also the little trim piece down by the accelerator pedal around the floor air vents is finally reinstalled.. probably hasn't been in the car in a year haha.

My gauge cluster beeps again too... but with an 01 or early 02 speaker, my 02.5 speaker was different so I decided to swap.. just a little soldering, and two wires and good to go.

 

[whitemp5seattle]

I didn't even know you could adjust the parking brake. mine clicks like a bajillion times (about 9 or 10 times actually)

 

[Kansei]

it's crazy simple to do. Just pull up that trim piece that surrounds the e-brake handle, and on the driver's side of the handle there's a 10mm nut. Just tighten it. I just used a long 10mm socket with a 3" extension, worked great.

 

[D-rock240]

picked up the car from mr. spoiler with the lip on and such. here are pics, 56 will s*** itself. the last one is my fav

Wow much better than the camerphone pic u sent me! Just get some nice springs and you're set, you don't need any aftermarket wheels. Those stock wheels look hot on a well dropped P5 w/the DG lip.

 

[bazooka joe]

went to the WPI show today...had a good time...nice weather here finally! the ladies appreciate mazda's too!

 

[Kansei]

Wow much better than the camerphone pic u sent me! Just get some nice springs and you're set, you don't need any aftermarket wheels. Those stock wheels look hot on a well dropped P5 w/the DG lip.

stock wheels with spacers look really nice. they are way too tucked in stock. I had project kics spacers front and rear and it really set off the look, even before I was lowered.

 

[gottacatchup]

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[reynoldsrobbie]

today I changed my alternator belt and got the front calipers repainted. No time for the rears today.

 

[whitemp5seattle]

what paint did you use? brush on or spray?

 

[PimpSmurf]

Factory says 130, but who cares what the car makes to the crank? The car won't go anywhere w/ just the crank. Knowing what it makes to the ground is a much more useful number.





And wutz isn't a word

wutz totally iz a word... hahaha... i just wanna know wut it lookz like on paper... gives me something to compare with my old car... u know about torque though?... itz honestly almost more important, i mean thatz where the car excells

 

[CTt3P5]

Took a drive thru the mountains in the Poconos to get to Fernwood Resorts for my daughters dance competition. She brought home two (first) and two (second) awards.

 

[bazooka joe]

Took a drive thru the mountains in the Poconos to get to Fernwood Resorts for my daughters dance competition. She brought home two (first) and two (second) awards.

woot woot!!(2thumbs)

 

[reynoldsrobbie]

what paint did you use? brush on or spray?

I used Dupli color yellow brake caliper spray paint. In the past Ive done it with the brush on version (red and yellow). So, far this looks to be a brighter yellow! The brush on color looked a lil mustardy. I like it so far. We'll see if it holds up better than the brush on. Ill have to do the rears later this week.

 

[Mr. 4500 RPM]

well i cleaned the interior and got all the winter crap on the floor and carpets out and then took it to a car wash and waxed it by hand. the wax made all the scratches come out and made me want to die

 

[JoshP5]

7:45am - completed thorough washing and drying of P5.
8:05am - Local bird applied improvement to vehicle's finish.

 

[BadKarma]

7:45am - completed thorough washing and drying of P5.
8:05am - Local bird applied improvement to vehicle's finish.

8:00pm - Josh has duck for dinner...

 

[redpr5]

My gauge cluster beeps again too... but with an 01 or early 02 speaker, my 02.5 speaker was different so I decided to swap.. just a little soldering, and two wires and good to go.

my car stopped beeping and dinging not too long ago dont know why either. the only time it dings is if the key is in the ignition and the door is open. but other than that it stopped dinging when i start the car.

 

[whitemp5seattle]

it dings when you start the car? my car doesn't do that...?

 

[silverpro5]

last night the car was running like HELL, i had to gun the thing and drop the clutch just to get it started and it was misfiring and lurching all over the place. it had brief fits of this behavior over the past few days, but last night was undrivable. finally a CEL came on, so at 1:30am I drove over to trusty autozone, and sure enough P0300 random misfire or some crap. it turns out one of my spark plug boots had come unseated and was arcing across my plug. from a potentially ugly CEL it was only a $1.25 fix for some grease stuff to put between my boots and plugs to help prevent arcing!

i had to laugh at myself at 2:30am in the parking lot of autozone removing my spark plugs. if i hadn't have been so tired i would have been really pissed. autozone FTW!

Also, does anyone else get a lot of transmission noise from their kartboy shifter bushings? Especially in 5th I can really hear the gears wizzing, kinda sounds like a diesel or something.

 

[Kansei]

it dings when you start the car? my car doesn't do that...?

I don't think it does at all if you have your seatbelt buckled before starting the car.

I finished installing my springs! wewt. I gotta order a couple nuts and washers from mazda to "complete" the job, until then I'm not putting the trunk back together and I'm gonna have some rattles.

What we (myself and an acquaintance from roclife.org) ended up needing to do was clamp onto the strut piston (!) with pipe pliers (not to be confused with a pipe wrench), padded with those blue disposable shop towels they sell at auto parts stores. The trick is that not only do the shop towels protect, they also give grip

time to start a thread in the onlinemazdaparts.com section to ask about the strut nuts and those washers with the "D" cutout in them. (spin)

As for the tein s-techs.. zomg they raised my car! Seriously by like a full inch in the rear, and maybe.. 0.25 inches up front. :'( at least she sits evenly now, I hope they settle a little lower. I have no way of testing out the springrates in Rochester because well.. a bunch of flat straight roads is no good way to test handling (bird) , but I did take her over some serious potholes and I gotta say, the ride quality is muuuuuch better now. Didn't feel bouncy at all.

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