What have you done to your P5 today?

[Kansei]

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.

duuuuuude you have a 24 hour auto parts store????

(fu) (fu) (fu) (fu) (fu) (fu)

I would kill for that. As long as it was within like 5 miles, it would save me so much stress while working on my car. I know all the auto parts stores aroudn here are open 8a-9m, and usually on sundays close at 5 or 6. ftl

 

[silverpro5]

duuuuuude you have a 24 hour auto parts store????

(fu) (fu) (fu) (fu) (fu) (fu)

I would kill for that. As long as it was within like 5 miles, it would save me so much stress while working on my car. I know all the auto parts stores aroudn here are open 8a-9m, and usually on sundays close at 5 or 6. ftl

i know, sweet huh. at around 1am i was looking online at different locations in my area, and one said its hours were "24." I was like NO WAY, so I called and the guys laughed and said "yeah we're open"

 

[reynoldsrobbie]

duuuuuude you have a 24 hour auto parts store????

(fu) (fu) (fu) (fu) (fu) (fu)

I would kill for that. As long as it was within like 5 miles, it would save me so much stress while working on my car. I know all the auto parts stores aroudn here are open 8a-9m, and usually on sundays close at 5 or 6. ftl

I have 2 24hr Autozones within 10 miles of me. FTW!

 

[reynoldsrobbie]

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.

The shifter bushings shouldnt cause any kind of sound like that. Ive had my B&M with kartboy bushings for around 5 months now and havent had a problem.

 

[amsgator]

mine kinda grinds when i shift sometimes...idk if it's the bushings or what doin it. its like if i am pushing to go into gear but it's not in gear it kinda grinds. idk weird sound

 

[silverpro5]

is it maybe the heatshield rattling against the linkage? I definitely noticed it after installing my B&M and Kartboy bushings, no noise at all before. perhaps I should change my tranny fluid as well...

 

[Rednecks_wife]

We took the P5 to Phoenix International Raceway to watch the NASCAR race last night. Then in the traffic jam getting out Bill thought we just had to watch CARS the movie on all 3 screens in the car.

 

[Kansei]

is it maybe the heatshield rattling against the linkage? I definitely noticed it after installing my B&M and Kartboy bushings, no noise at all before. perhaps I should change my tranny fluid as well...

You'll get a little whine through the shift lever with the kartboy bushings, that's normal. If it's loud (like other people in the car notice it) then yeah that's probably the heat shield. I had to remove the heat shield and cut a region off so that the shift lever wouldn't hit it (I have the TWM).

 

[whitemp5seattle]

I have a B&M ss and the kartboy bushings...I notice that when I rest my hand on the shifter (the weight of my hand kinda pulls it one way or another) it makes a tiny whirring noise. When I take my hand off it it's fine. So now I just drive without resting my hand on the shifter all the time

 

[reynoldsrobbie]

I have a B&M ss and the kartboy bushings...I notice that when I rest my hand on the shifter (the weight of my hand kinda pulls it one way or another) it makes a tiny whirring noise. When I take my hand off it it's fine. So now I just drive without resting my hand on the shifter all the time

Thats wierd, mine doesnt make a sound. I did ditch my heatshield completely though.

 

[PimpSmurf]

r there any engines that r easy ta do an engine swap with a P5?... cuz this 1.6 is not the honda 1.6 i had in my si and i'm a little disappointed... i wanna know if there r optionz ta go bigger

 

[GMalatrasi]

is it maybe the heatshield rattling against the linkage? I definitely noticed it after installing my B&M and Kartboy bushings, no noise at all before. perhaps I should change my tranny fluid as well...

Hey are you still looking for a P5 mani?
Is it just the mani or the cat as well?

 

[mazda_pro5_2nr]

Thanks to Topher, got my CAI in....anyone know where I can find the brace for a CP Racing Strut bar? I got the bar, but no brace to relocate the Cruise Control...?

 

[redpr5]

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

oh. lol maybe that was it, idk, i dont remember if i had it on or not, my ADD kicks in a lot in the morning before i go to school lol. so i didnt really pay attention, but that was probably it. cuz it dinged yesterday.

 

[JoshP5]

r there any engines that r easy ta do an engine swap with a P5?... cuz this 1.6 is not the honda 1.6 i had in my si and i'm a little disappointed... i wanna know if there r optionz ta go bigger

There's a shop in Canada that swaps in the 200hp 2.5L JDM Mazda KL-ZE V6 for like $5K. Search for details.

 

[silverpro5]

Hey are you still looking for a P5 mani?
Is it just the mani or the cat as well?

well mostly just the j-pipe below the first cat actually

 

[GMalatrasi]

Oh well I need that one myself... Alrighty good luck then.

 

[CTt3P5]

woot woot!!(2thumbs)

....how did you do in the car show (other than attracting the girls)?

 

[jfoust31]

r there any engines that r easy ta do an engine swap with a P5?... cuz this 1.6 is not the honda 1.6 i had in my si and i'm a little disappointed... i wanna know if there r optionz ta go bigger

reading your post makes my eyes bleed. just because you are on the internet doesn't mean you're not allowed to use real english. wtf is with those "z"s, "r"s, "cuz"s and "ta"s?

 

[mazda_pro5_2nr]

reading your post makes my eyes bleed. just because you are on the internet doesn't mean you're not allowed to use real english. wtf is with those "z"s, "r"s, "cuz"s and "ta"s?

And your not Mazdas247's spell checker. (poke)