HI! i been here for a few months now and behind some of crazy internet persona of me there has been some "building" of my Mazdaspeed3
before i get to mazda goods, little back drop.... (think doctor who time machine sounds)
My last car was bought on a wim, and with little to no practical use behind it, from older hobbies and "bad influencing" parenting of making thing go as fast as you could..
Meet the S2k
grocery runs for mother on the where a little hard..
after a few years and a few mods, not all suggested by my father...
and the power of teh internet, and track days
you meet strange and interesting people
but atlas some things are not to last, as the need to move thing and needing more space for "life" the S2k had to go, as i don't have room for more cars :sad 1:
after some research, and getting my ass handing to me by a few of them.... i looked in Mazdaspeed ownership,
Upsides: power!, spaaaaaccceee, and better mpg.
downs: no more RWD.
with me still saving my mod money up, and needing tires, it was time to hit the track and find areas of improvement.
pre-track day
track day
What i learned at track day
car needs some noise, it too dam quite. on par with a Prius
the TMIC is prone to heat soak like a mother, worse if you get stuck in traffic
stock suspension is a little soft.
the rear RSB is awesome
the stock tires where horrible
and i won my bet
Install didn't go un-hindered, the stock down pipe is a real bitch to get the nuts off, and out of the car. the aftermarket one was cake.
My Jbr intake was missing the machine screws that held the MAF sensor in place, and one of the small hose clamps was missing, cost of 1.50 and time spent. Not the end of the world but annoyed.
the FMIC was just a huge time suck, but once it was all together the stock BPV hose was too short by 1-3/4" and had to make my own temp hose to get the car moving, and boy it wasn't pretty...
doesn't leak though
Edgeautosport lost a few point for basically telling me, "It's not our fault, but it's your problem" and simply told me to buy the CP-E hose :001_huh 1: to fit the FMIC that clearly states that it uses the "oem" location, since this was not the case, that hose should have come with the kit and not be an "extra" for an 1K kit. so with edgeautosports answer of just buy it... i went to the higher source, I contacted CP-E directly. glad i did, as they answered by shipping me a new hose that will make it once piece and said sorry for my inconvenience. fuck ya
ordered Cobb XLE BPV and set a date to get my shit professionally tuned at SoCal Cobb on Jan 2 2014.
(so if see an red MS3 heading north / south on the 405 that day, be me)
Damn why haven't I seen this awesome thread of yours! We willl be twinsies soon! Are you ever going to get a video of that sexy exhaust. I'm uploading one as we speak since I'm currently getting tuned and thought of making an exhaust pull video.