Just another yellow P5 build...

[Jackie chan]

No sound clip yet, but here is a picture of my awesome wrap-job. Its not as easy as it seems.

And I picked this up last night from the guy I got the other stuff from.

 

[iracemine]

damn nice engine bay! Just need to get rid of that battery. But what is that red thing down on the pass side?

 

[Jackie chan]

I know, the battery needs to go, or at least get smaller. And the red thing is a cheap ebay torque damper off a 240sx. Got it for free. Back when I only had one polyurethane mm it made a bit of difference. I just haven't taken it off because I kinda like it. Don't buy one though, it's garbage.

 

[Protege5 Smoke]

Nice! your grille, is it one piece or is that an adp on top?

 

[Jackie chan]

So here's what i've been working on. Shaving and p&ping my spare manifold. So far so good.

From this:

To this:

Here is where I cut off the mounting points for the vtcs stuff. This'll make tucking wires though the manifold much easier.

And these came in today, Which I am pretty excited about. Shipped from the uk to here for a total of $13 I think it was.

 

[MrGiggles]

Looking good. (cool)

 

[Jackie chan]

Nice! your grille, is it one piece or is that an adp on top?

It's just a sheet of plastic I cut out. It actually isn't even attached by anything. The hood seal keeps it in place.

 

[Jackie chan]

For the last few days I've just been sanding and grinding whenever I had time. I'm still not fully done yet, but I'm getting there.

Opened up the throttle body about 2mm and radiused the the inlet for better flow. Still needs more sanding and polishing.

Here is the mostly done top of the manifold, Still needs more work in various places. Especially down between the middle runners. And I dont know what color I want to paint it yet either.

Here is a close up of my patch-job on cyl #3 where a vac port was deleted. jb welded a shortened screw into the hole, then ground the screw head flat and used more jb weld as filler.

And here is a pic of one of the intake runners. Still needs to be polished, but so far so good.

 

[Brian_K]

I love how clean your engine bay is. And that intake mani is looking great! what are you using to grind down the casting marks?

 

[Jackie chan]

Thanks. Flap disk on an angle grinder for the big stuff, carbide cutters and sanding drums on the dremel, an assortment of files, and sand paper.

 

[Jackie chan]

Took some pictures today. I have a certain goal in mind for next month. Still wish I had a better camera though...

 

[Protege5 Smoke]

Still looks beautiful

Front fender, passenger side, behind the headlight..is that a dent I see?

 

[Jackie chan]

Yup, I've had that dent since I got the car.

 

[reut1]

hey ben! What part of seattle are you in? I could show you my super rusty from new england protege 5 . Im in Ballard

 

[Jackie chan]

I'd love to see it, but sadly I'm not actually in Seattle. I'm across the water in Port Orchard.

 

[reut1]

darn, well if I ever come over that way then we will have to have our own two car mini meet

 

[TheSwapnessMonster]

It looks really good that low. You're not rubbing?


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[Jackie chan]

darn, well if I ever come over that way then we will have to have our own two car mini meet

Yeah, and I'll let you know if I'm ever coming over toward you.

 

[Jackie chan]

It looks really good that low. You're not rubbing?


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Thanks. Surprisingly, I actually don't rub at all. I can corner as hard as I want. I used to rub with bigger spacers though.

 

[Jackie chan]

Here are some updates. First off, This came in a few days ago. It's a Corbeau fx1 pro in the regular black cloth. I haven't installed it yet because my base brackets have not arrived yet, but hopefully some time in the next few days they will. I love it so far. I've spent every sitting moment i've had over the last three days in it. In fact, i'm sitting in it right now as I type this. The sizing is perfect for me, quality seems great, and its very light. I'm going to be side mounting it, but I'm not quite sure if i am going to run sliders or not. I guess it'll depend on how low the seat sits without them. Eventually I will pick up another for the passenger side, I wanted to be sure I liked it before I went and bought another one.

And I have been working on my manifold and throttle body a little more.

I filled the areas between runners 1-2 and 3-4 behind where the bolts go. Should give a little smoother look when done. Still needs a little more blending.

Completely smoothed the iac housing and deleted the water inlet. Needs a little more sanding. I also deleted the water outlet on the throttle body and filled and sanded it flush.