Let's play stump the EXPERTS! (now we will find out who the real smart guys are..)
 

The OEM FD3S bumper skin is made from:

A. Thermo Plastic Olefin

B. Urethane

C. Polypropylene

In order to play and win you must state the correct answer from FACT and back it up with proof - not "I heard" or "I think"...If you answer this way I will flame....... no - wait - make that ROAST - your punk ass!

The winner gets a big "atta boy" and recognition as one smart mofo that knows his ****.... Unleash the hounds!:D

Most would agree that it's made from kleotite menthile.

A. TPO

Through a contract with Mazda, Haartz became the first North American automotive supplier to provide a TPO instrumental panel coverskin for a major car maker.

A. FACT
I read the plastics code off the front bumper when I took it off and the Yamaguchi book says it is a Thermal Plastic :D

A!!

cause flybye and lane changed picked it :D

Here's a good one:
The STOCK thermostat begins opening at:

a. <180F
b. 180F-190F
c. 191F-200F
d. 201F-210F
e. 211F-220F
f. >220F

And another one:
Factory new compression specs are:

a. 6.0 kg/cm^2
b. 7.0 kg/cm^2
c. 8.0 kg/cm^2
d. 8.5 kg/cm^2
e. 9.0 kg/cm^2

Bust out those shop manuals!

A & B.
It begins to open between 177-182F and is FULLY opened at 203F.
By the way, it is opened .31-.39 inchess when fully opened :D

A = 6.0 kgf/cm^2 (85psi) at 250rpm
:D

Ooooh, got the first one, but looks like you misread the second one. I'm asking about the new spec, not the minimum spec.

I'll take turbo RPM @ X RPM for $1000 please Alex

ATTA BOY! Flybye is GOD. One smart mofo.....and everyone keeps calling it Urethane... sheesh.

Lane Change - I was talking about bumper skins, not instrument panels.....sorry, Flybye wins.

Even if he used to drive a......Taurus!:D

DAMN, not only do you Kalifornians jack cars - you jacked my thread!:eatme: :beerchug:

Everyone knows the correct answer is 8.0 - C.;)

I think everyone that knows better just refers to the bumper as 'urethane', to save to confusion if one was to say pp, tpo, etc.

Is the plastics symbol on the 93 bumper? I know it's not on the '99 - I looked (didn't I ask you too Flybye, when you were selling your '99 bumper?). The '99 lip is pp though - that's on there.

heres a good one. WTF are the little *doors/windows* above the tail lights for? :D

my bumper will be made of chuck's plastic stuff :)

Here's another good one WTF is up with the overheat exhaust system, first person to make his light up, *not with the PowerFC*-for all you smartass-from heat, wins gets a cool million. Really has anyone ever seen there's light up?

the stock thermostat should open under 180degrees, and i was pretty sure it was 9.0... :cool:

Good question, wondered that myself.

thought they were to acess screws.. i'd have to go look.

I have on one of my old first gens, but not my FD..


Although for a cool million, hell, what color you want it? Ill illuminate it with the flames from underneath!

this kid i know used to work at the mazda dealership about 5 years ago. he said he used to take out the cars after he worked on them and race them until the light came on.

Ah-HAH! You guys are all wrong, the correct answer is 8.5kg/cm^2. I have to go back home and drag out my version of the shop manual though cause my digitized version doesn't seem to have the info.

My exhaust system actually caught the car on fire right where that overheat thing is. It didn't even light up. It just started smoking and caught on fire.

Now I have a one of those fire extinguishers mounted in my car (don't worry, not in my window or anything). Ever since, when I see a rice-dog, I tell em' that its a bottle of nos and there is more under the passenger seat.

Then only time I saw my overheat exhaust light come on was when my car ran out of gas and I tried to start it again, the light then came on.

Yeah ok, but I still haven't really heard anyone light it up, the person who said the mazda employee used to do it, I don't think so. To tell you the truth I've seen a cat catch on fire, non-stock, which actual flames coming out the sides so I don't see that happening. So my conclusion is that it's a bullshit warning, even though it has it's sensor under the carpet. One more question then, since it has it's own sensor and all that, then how does the PowerFC have the capability the bypass it and use it for a check light? Hmmmm? Last but not least when I said a million, I didn't specify which currency so I chose the Turkish lire, so that comes out to like 5bucks which you still won't get! Ha!

I think the little doors above the taillights provide access to some water drains. The drains are there to catch runoff from the seam between the hatch and the body. You have to keep them from clogging up.