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Hot damn I still love driving this car!
What have you done to your P5 today?
- Thread starter Tg5
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Me too! However this will likely be my last year daily driving it. Driveway is steep-ish with no run up at my new house and last week I got stuck trying to get out of my icy driveway. My wife's v6 rav4 went up like nothing was there on all season tires, but my p5 with new snow tires made it halfway, then gave up.
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- 2016 GT ST 47A
Hmmmm, seems like a good excuse to add a snail under the hood.
or 4 snails? there's a cringy video of some YouTube channel putting 4 turbos on a Protege DX Sedan.. When I get home I can post the link. It's hella derpy.
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- Mazda protege5
They use wd40 to live an too XD
Hmmmm, seems like a good excuse to add a snail under the hood.
That or four and an LSD diff so he's got two front wheels peeling up his driveway.
... Driveway is steep-ish with no run up at my new house and last week I got stuck trying to get out of my icy driveway..., but my p5 with new snow tires made it halfway, then gave up.
Seriously dude !!
Think about an LSD swap for your car.
They're great for winter driving !!
https://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123790482-LSD-on-a-P5-worth-it
Don't give up on your P5 !!!
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- Mazda protege5
Im finishing up my floorpans, it's not that bad you just need a weekend and a bunch of wire wheels and paint and it'll be good as new
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- Mazda protege5
Just did ran some errands and realized ole yeller is almost at the 200k mark, woohoo it still runs [emoji23]
Well Friday the studs on my pre-cat snapped and my J-pipe was rattling. So I ordered a header, didn*t come in til yesterday. Had the whole weekend of not being able to drive my car, so I put in a new parking brake cable and adjusted my calipers so my parking brake works. I also took apart my center counsel and shortened my shifter leaver 1-1/2 inches and when my header came in I installed it but the egr outlett was a little off managed to bend it just enough to thread the bolt on and today I will be welding my header to the rest of my exhaust. It*s been a fun weekend cannot wait to be able to drive my protege after almost four days.
the_glassman
Member
Ha, I call mine the same thing, although it's getting to be more and more brown than yellow. If I can make it 200k without having to scrap or Flinstone the car I'll be a happy camper. Only 40,000 miles to go!
You can make it! Im at 243k right now and really hoping for 250k, but it really only gets local driving
Sorry, somehow I missed seeing this earlier. I bought this kit: https://www.amazon.com/dp/ (commissions earned) No hog rings on the P5 seats, woohoo!! And 2 months in, I absolutely love it. Still need to do the passenger seat, but that's simply a matter of pulling it out of car now that the wiring is in place.
Was running touge earlier today with some local car people, and the two quickest cars in the corners were an NA Miata and my P5, which the Miata couldn*t really pull away from even in the hairpins. Given that I have no additional chassis bracing, old suspension bushings, and old swaybar endlinks, I*m really impressed that I could grip almost as well as the NA in front of the pack.
Riot_Polizei
Comp Engineering Student
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- 2002 Mazda Protege5
Sanctioned, or street race? That must've been loads of fun!
Did the car ever lose grip or plow?
Little bit of plow but I had it mostly under control.
