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You can always tell when show season gets close, you always seem to run out of time to get your ride to the point you want it. It seems like by the time you get home from work, eat and spend time with the family, it's dark or time for bed and you didn't get any thing accomplished you had planned for that day. Then before you know it, it's time for the first show. That's exactly what I did a couple weeks ago. Planned out exactly what I wanted done and wound up not having half of it done in time to show, but wound up showing anyway. I've been planning things out since I bought the car and it seems the less time I have, the more I have to get done. I'm sure most of you have been at the same point I'm at. I've learned that you take it the way it happens. If you get a certain project done in time for a show, then great. If not, then just take it to the show anyway. It's not all about getting best of show or any trophy for that matter. Just making it to the show and showing off what you did get done and meeting everyone you can is all its about. No one and I stress, NO ONE is ever done with a show car, so you'll never feel out of place with something missing.
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Even though things have been busy this month trying to scramble and get the car ready to show, I've still managed to find time to get most of the parts installed and some of the finishing touches done to the Relaxed5 Project. Now that I've got most of the companies that I went after, it's time to get things together for show season. This past month I managed to finally get the car lowered. Driving around with 18's factory height you would think the car was a 4x4! After making a few phone calls and waiting for a couple months, Skunk2 Racing finally released their coilovers for the Mazda Protege5. This is one of their newest products. The pictures and info below is how I installed the coilovers on my car. The coilover install is pretty much the same as most imports cars today other than a few bolts being in different places. If you take the car to a shop to have them put on, they will use air tools, spring compressors and a few other "fancy" tools. If your like me, you rely on hand tools and the help of a few friends in a driveway. All I used is common hand tools and a floor jack. As long as you have basic mechanic skills, this should be a fairly easy task.
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