What have you done to your P5 today?
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just some $25 ebay one. works great. easy install.
How many hours? How hard is it to drop the A-frame up front and the control arms?
For the most part, I just followed the how-to on here. I found some of the steps needless, however. I can recap the process that I followed as such:
- Remove four-point brace. This is 4 bolts
- Remove the rear-most nut from the front-to-back brace that the front engine mount attaches to- 1 nut
- Remove the 2 nuts that hold the front engine mount in place. This allows you to flex the brace downward outta the way. 2 nuts
- Remove endlinks (hopefuly by this time you've upgraded to the DIY endlinks, AWR endlinks, or some non-stock ones that make this step *not* a pain in the ass)
- Remove 3 bolts on either side of the main sub-assembly. Check out the P5 manual and get under there and look. It's pretty obvious which three of the five you need to take out.
- Support the passenger side of the sub assembly and remove the main nut on the top-most mount point (this is in the wheel well)
- Pry the assembly down and wedge a 2x4 block between the car body and the lowered sub-assembly
- Move to the other side of the car and remove the main nut on that side. The sub-assembly is not going to just fall out- no worries
- The HARD part- remove the front-most bolts holding the swaybar horseshoe brackets in place. You only need to loosen the rear bolt (Again, see the P5 manual).
- Pull the bar out from the driver's side...
The swaybar bracket bolts gave me hell. No joke- I probably spent an hour trying to get the passenger side out. Overall, it probably took me about 4 hours to do the job. It wasn't difficult at all, just time consuming.
...I will add- I had the bar in my garage for over a year uninstalled because of all the people on this forum crying "understeer foul!" with the FSB. But I have to tell you, the front coupled with the AXR Clunk Fix (or a DIY option in my case) and the RB rear sway yields an incredibly balanced car. I could imagine that without the clunk fix brackets- there'd be an increase in understeer, but with the brackets- the car is quite neutral and corners on rails. I can't find the chart, but a while back someone posted a chart about rear swaybar effectiveness, and the RB plus clunk-fix brackets were the most effective by far. I actually found the car pretty rear end happy with the only the clunk-fix + RB rear, and stock front.
YMMV. Good luck!
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almost got rear ended today on the way to work... i pass a van it it puts on it's brights (plenty of room for me to pass him) and gets right on my ass so i brake check him and hear him lock up the brakes.
at a stop sign not too far down the road he gets on my ass again so i put the car in reverse and back up slowly to the point where if we weren't touching we were damn close (stop sign on a hill) and then took off when it was my turn.
i hate when people tailgate me and i don't care if im seen at fault or not, you act like a dick around me, i'll make you test your driving skill
at a stop sign not too far down the road he gets on my ass again so i put the car in reverse and back up slowly to the point where if we weren't touching we were damn close (stop sign on a hill) and then took off when it was my turn.
i hate when people tailgate me and i don't care if im seen at fault or not, you act like a dick around me, i'll make you test your driving skill
Last night took it downtown after the Windsor Spitfires won the Memorial cup for the second time in a row.. had some fun with the airhorns until they broke 
it was too dark to check what was wrong with them but the compressor was really hot so i figured they overheated or something. this morning went and looked at them and thankfully it was just a hose that popped right off.
So today, fix the horns, wash, polish, wax, detail the inside, fix the connections on the speakers, take it to the driving range, and then going to what is supposed to be a pretty big car meet/cruise.
it was too dark to check what was wrong with them but the compressor was really hot so i figured they overheated or something. this morning went and looked at them and thankfully it was just a hose that popped right off. So today, fix the horns, wash, polish, wax, detail the inside, fix the connections on the speakers, take it to the driving range, and then going to what is supposed to be a pretty big car meet/cruise.
im looking for semi sound... heard it on a scion xB years ago and since then ive been looking for something compact enough to be plausible in a car (and since the stock intake is taken out there is more than enough room to fit a compressor large enough to run air tools off of under the hood for a ninja install)
Rockin03mp5
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brake checking is bad
you have way better brakes than him.
i had someone brake check me around a month ago. they checked me so hard i heard their tires squeal. i was waiting for it though.
(story is, he was flying up behind me, tried to pass on the left, got stuck, so then he got back in the middle lane with me and rode my ass like crazy with his big ass trailblazer. (3 lane interstate) then, the right lane was open, so i took it and got around everyone. he blew by me eventually just to get in front of me and slow down. so i rode his ass, so he brake checked me)
The older I get the more I realize that getting into it with the other drivers on the road is pretty much always a lose lose scenario. You're not going to 'teach them a lesson', and you are pretty much always risking someone does something stupid and causing an accident which could be as minor as a fender bender or could involve a helicopter ride and injure others. It's just not worth it. As American industrialist William G. McAdoo said, "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." It's the unwinnable fight. So, all's I'm sayin' is: Just let it go. Because it's all risk with exactly zero gain.
Just sayin.
Just sayin.
im just trying to get my agression out now before the kid is born, because i just know that if i have my child in the car with me and someone does something dumb, i may end up in a hospital, or in jail for killing someone for endangering my child's life
and lawrenceville, nice, i know a few people in that area (my brother lives in dacula)
and lawrenceville, nice, i know a few people in that area (my brother lives in dacula)
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "that's not really how that works..."
Cool, me too!
hahahaYeah, Dacula's not far out from here.
Rockin03mp5
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exactly...
i dont ride people anymore. not even for a second to "teach them a lesson."
not worth it.
and just that day... somebody was shot because of road rage.
ahhh... detroit.
i dont ride people anymore. not even for a second to "teach them a lesson."
not worth it.
and just that day... somebody was shot because of road rage.
ahhh... detroit.
Any time I want to teach someone a lesson, I just ease on to the gas pedal in the MSM. Volume of the exhaust, fumes coming off the exhaust, and the fact that I just pulled ahead rather quickly usually cause them to stay away.
Rockin03mp5
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yeah.
just play it safe out there.
the p5 seems to get hit quite often for whatever reason.
just play it safe out there.
the p5 seems to get hit quite often for whatever reason.
