What have you done to your P5 today?

[ScratchNSniff]

full polish?? that would still rust lol

Well, after stripping the paint and polishing one fin I think it may look good, then I can always go to rusting later...just keep polished for a while, I may take the easy way out though and just let it sit...lol...

yeah alex....zip tie pack job work amazingly well. sorry bout when you called i apparently forgot to save your number and you caught me off guard at work lol. like i said hope to have the cross bars out tuesday.

Lol...that was my 1st time trying that...it seemed like a great idea and held them together great when I was picking them up...can't wait for those bars...it will give me much more room for this long meet coming up with the bike on top...

Painted the rear valance, painted calipers black (take that brake dust!) and vacuumed.........FINALLY!

Sweetness...I must say, I absolutely love your car...

 

[oem plus]

^I can't wait to see your car at EECMM.

 

[ScratchNSniff]

You will be amazed how beat up the body is and how bad the paint matches...I hide it really well in pics...I am so glad to have more P5's this year...last year it was just 2, and mine blew up the 2nd day there...the last 5 days I was hitching rides...

 

[Matt V]

Ken does mp3 flashes?? or has them..pm me price he gave you please...

as for cheap upgrades.. did you remove the vtcs and port and polish your intake mani.. i just did this last week and its the best power mod ive done so far...which is alot of stuff...

edit-- 3000 posts!!

He charges $150, look in the FS section.

Also, I want to remove the VTCS but it looks like a lot of work. Do I just remove the intake manifold and then remove the flaps/butterflies and I'm done?

 

[TWISFM]

^^
ohh i was talking ken-protege garage.. did know that guys name was also ken

as for the intake mani... what i did was buy another intake mani remove vtcs and port and polish it... then just do a swap of intake manis.. so no down time... look in the how to on the port and polish and vtcs removal

 

[Matt V]

So would there be any gains if I just removed the VTCS and did no porting?

 

[TWISFM]

probably... but why not port it?

 

[Matt V]

I really can't afford any downtime if I run into any kinks. Is there a guide to just removing the manifold itself? I found the porting guide but it doesn't mention how to remove the manifold.

 

[Matt V]

Also, just to make sure: the ECU is located in the passenger side foot area right?

 

[HKPRO5]

Yep

 

[Lewis7789]

I've done mine and Fishy's VTCS removal and port/polish and it's really not hard at all, Matt. If you pulled the intake mani friday night you could have it back it saturday morning. Removing the butterflies takes and connecting rod take all of about 5 mins, the port and polish takes about an hour, but well worth it since you've already got your intake mani out and on your garage floor. It will cost you about $9 in rotory tool sanding drums and $4 for QuickSteel. The hardest and longest part is removing the intake mani and replacing it.

If you have any questions, feel free to PM me.

 

[MazdaSpeeder]

So would there be any gains if I just removed the VTCS and did no porting?

You're still planning to fill the holes, right? I think you get turbulence issues if you don't...

 

[StealthWyvern]

I really can't afford any downtime if I run into any kinks. Is there a guide to just removing the manifold itself? I found the porting guide but it doesn't mention how to remove the manifold.

you mean like the one in the how-to quick link found in my sig...?
http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123615890

Edit: look at the attachment on page2 post 16

 

[THE Phen]

keep in mind that too big of a port job can hurt you in the end, and polishing sometimes hurts gains as well. It increases the turbulence in the runners.

 

[turbine50]

well not trying to talk down just giving my opinon sorry if that came out wrong If it did I'am really sorry Mattv

Lol same here Scratch lol, and i give props for people that have the money to do that to a car. but i would just like to do simple bolt ons. and just simple stuff and not have to by oil allot ,
Damm mise well go down to florida and get allot of bottles and start storing that stuff for back up or just to top off lol j/k guys and gals

No body did but you have to have oil to keep it running and smoothly on top of that, just giving you a hard time MAtt you can do whatever you have will power to do and on top of that the Cash because money talks and bulls*** walks, and if you do anything dont do it cheap because if you do it make sure you get the top of the line, that my moto.

My brain hurts.

 

[CTt3P5]

Friday - washed her after dinner only to see it rain shorly after. It was a much needed wash though. The wheels were nasty.....I can't wait for thes organic pads to waste away to nothing so I can go back to ceramics...the dust is horrible.

Saturday - drove 203 miles round trip to York PA to meet with a fellow member who bought my wifes stock wheels. Left the house with just under a 1/2 tank and filled up when I got back into town.

Sunday - drove to Dunkin Donuts to get breakfast

Today - drove to work and will soon be loading the wife's new winter tires into the hatch. Now if I could only sell her old ones.....

 

[alexelie]

probably gonna repair the rust on my rear driver side quarter...damn that gonna be hard. my wheel well is pretty ******. Im alos looking for fd wheels +coilover.

 

[Lewis7789]

keep in mind that too big of a port job can hurt you in the end, and polishing sometimes hurts gains as well. It increases the turbulence in the runners.

Well I did a very very mild porting on the intake manifolds I did, I agree with ya there. But How can polishing increase turbulence? There are two pronounced ridges on the stock manifold, I assume from the mold, in the runners on the bottom and top. I smoothed those out and made the runners smooth like they should be. How can something smooth increase turbulence? I could see if you didn't fill the butterfly rods with QuickSteel afterwards...

 

[ucMP3]

Well I did a very very mild porting on the intake manifolds I did, I agree with ya there. But How can polishing increase turbulence? There are two pronounced ridges on the stock manifold, I assume from the mold, in the runners on the bottom and top. I smoothed those out and made the runners smooth like they should be. How can something smooth increase turbulence? I could see if you didn't fill the butterfly rods with QuickSteel afterwards...

It all depends on the curvature of the runners. The surface could be smooth, but if air is routed in a way that would result in "eddies" or other swirling patterns, that would be turbulence. Bottlenecks caused by over porting certain areas or uneven porting can cause this.

 

[imola.zhp]

Drove mine yesterday!

Took the SO and the pups to the SO's parents for the day (hour drive each way). New flooring was being up in the SO's house, so the garage needed to be used to store furniture. I drove the BMW all last week as I'd rather have it outside at work (closed facility) than outside over there (its summertime, kids are out playing). But now that the BMW can go back in the garage, I'm back in the slow P5...