What have you done to your P5 today?
- Thread starter Tg5
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ya i did cut the tip shorter. it looks pretty good. maybe i have the names for the parts wrong but i got the cats, the long pipe that goes from the cats to the axle back and the muffler. All that for $20. but i have only put the muffler on so far.
Ive got a Spooled^ header. I had the same header, catless midpipe and my GReddy and liked it. It was really low tone and never raspy. The Corksport has a small resonator and is so bloody loud and raspy I honestly don't even like driving my car anymore. Don't get me wrong, the construction of the exhaust is great and their customer service is amazing, I love their company. But this exhaust with a header sounds terrible. And I just sold my pre-cat last week, dang it.
And I followed the VTCS removal HOW TO to the tee. Had I known it was going to give me so much grief I would've just left it alone. My car ran flawlessly before the removal. Now she's mad at me. Ugh- just stressful when my car isn't running right.
roy obanion
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- 02 p5, 95 miata
Second car fTMFw.
racerx43269
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- 2002 mazda protege 5
im sure we could do 3 pulls for 40 bucks. and yeah you would be getting A/f ratios with that....
justanothermp5
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well i was just sayin, without a cat. the corksport is going to sound super bad lol
and trust me, i know how you feel, i had so much trouble trying to get everything to run right when i went turbo
takes a while to get everything sorted out, but now it runs super smooth, no leaks or weird noises or anything
A res would help but instant sexy would be the stock header with it, thats up to you though.
His sound bad for the exact reason I told you about, hes now running no cats on a NA so its very high pitch and loud. Most of the corksport vids on utube have the stock header, which has the cat so its not catless, therefore it sounds great!
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- 2002 Protege5
Figures - the same day I join the forum, I notice that my rear passenger caliper has seized to the slide pin. The caliper no longer slid, so it wore the inner pad (already kinda low) down to the steel backing and carved up the rotor pretty well. So now it's in pieces in the garage until I can hunt down a new caliper/bracket; I think the local O'Reilly's has a loaded caliper. I'll post pieces of the damage when I get a chance; it's pretty impressive to see a rotor grooved on one side and actually rusted on the other.
Until then, I'm in the spare family '94 Protege. Quite a different little car.
Until then, I'm in the spare family '94 Protege. Quite a different little car.
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- 2002 Protege5
That's one of the solutions that I considered and then discarded before even trying it because I assumed that pin was super-hardened steel. I guess I will give it a shot before I go out and buy a $$$ loaded caliper.
marcs_sp20
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- 02 Mazda 323 Astina SP20 (P5)
sold the CX7 rims, they'll be going on a MS3 sometime soon 
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Actually it was much easier than I thought....took about 5 minutes. Before you cut, remove the rubber 'bushing' from the caliper so you can get a better look at the pin...and make sure to cut closer to the caliper side so you will have 'just enough' pin leftover to back out with a pair of pliers.
LOL....you just love those BFH's. We had to use vice grips to get the top pin out and then had to remove the entire assembly due to the bottom pin being seized in the caliper.
Hell yeah dude. The BFH has gotten me out of many a pickle when working on a car. If it doesn't get the part loose the way I'm hoping, I just go in the back yard and smash something with it to blow off some steam.
