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    Turbo question

    If I were you I would just go with the stock msp set up unless you got money to forge. Otherwise you'll zoom zoom boom that mofo Sent from my VS985 4G using Tapatalk
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    What have you done to your P5 today?

    Put the speed sensor from my old trans on the new one so the Speedo would work. Come to find out it was dummy plugged lol no wonder it didn't work. I can now know how fast I'm going. Might swap over the old valve cover from my old engine. And check the cam numbers to see if it really is a jdm...
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    MSP mods gotta go...Stupid CA Smog laws...

    still have parts for roof racks? i have the cross bars but need the mounting hardware and the plastics that cover everything up as mine are broken to pieces. pm if needed. thanks. oh and i read through all this mainly from curiosity about your reg woes. cali sucks lol anything under 12 years...
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    Parting out Protege5 FSDE Engine

    okay thanks anyways. good luck with selling. might be trying to sell stuff off my de since i just swapped mine as well
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    What have you done to your P5 today?

    Well today I finally got my spoiler back on after painting it black. The clear was looking pretty shatty so i just went black and it looks pretty good. I'm totally jealous of dudes wrapping skills. i would hang myself before it ever looked that good lol over the past 2 weeks i have(with the much...
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    Protege 5 engine swaps

    Okay. Thanks dude. You've been a lot of help. And reassured me lol there ha e been people that act like it's the end of the world so it got me scared. We'll see today ight for sure. I will refer to the link and/or protegefaq for the numbers. The car does seem to have a little more go than it did...
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    Mazda sport20 fs-ze ecu problems

    Lol all this wrong engine stuff. Totally checking my cams tomorrow yo see if I've hot a ze under my hood now. Just swapped in what was sold to me as a de but it has the infamous black box on the intake. I did see where the 99-01 mpv had the box on their de so that gives me hope
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    Protege 5 engine swaps

    I'm still not positive I got a de. The guy I bought it from swears it is but it has the infamous black box in the intake manifold. And I read that only the ze's are the only one's with that. Is it possible whoever had the engine before swapped the intake off a ze? I ask because I was under the...
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    Huge partout msp and protege5

    Okay thanks anyways
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    wtb motor mount

    I need a passenger side top motor mount. Engine side not trans side for an 02 protege 5 with sport suspension. Please help!
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    Protege 5 engine swaps

    I can atone to that! Fucker runs like a top after swapping over that pulley
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    Protege 5 engine swaps

    I can atone to that! Fucker runs like a top after swapping over that pulley
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    Parting out Protege5 FSDE Engine

    Do you have the right side engine mount? Engine side not trans side
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    Huge partout msp and protege5

    Do you have the front right(looking from inside car. Engine side not trans side) engine mount? Paid a crap load for one at O'Reillys and it wasn't the right one so I took it back and am using the broken one for now
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    Protege 5 engine swaps

    Yepp mechanic swapped the crank pulley and she fired right up. Waiting to hear from the shop owner to go pick it up. Now all that's left to figure out is figuring out a way to dummy plug the vtcs plug so it won't throw a cel. But really at this point idgaf if the check engine light stays on...
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