What Did You Do To Your Mazda Today!!!

[Spooldrx7]

Originally Posted by lepichichi

^^ 8 years old???? that thing is clean. pics of your engine bay pliz ;)

thank you and I have the downpipe off and going to be welding the o2 sensor bung onto it and its going back on and getting put back together and I'll make sure to take pics for ya

[l337fpc]

tracked my blueberry

[fitftw]

I love guttedness^

installed OEM front lip and TDR air splitter. My broken-ass apartment parking lot sucks to lay on

[Spooldrx7]

installed my new rear tow hook today took about 4 minutes...





daytime pics of my finished headlights... will have new engine bay pics once I get my downpipe/turbo/bov back on very soon.

[fitftw]

^ 4 minute mod ftw lol. Nice headlights.

[Protege v2.5]

Installed CS Powerseries exhaust today. Found out in the process that my old custom mild steel exhaust had 2 massive rust holes in it. So the CS PS exhaust is actually quieter in the car then my old one...lol.

[Spooldrx7]

Reinstalled downpipe, finished hooking up the AEM wideband, got the wastegate dump connected back onto the downpipe (worse part of it all), found a new place for my Pettit Racing Air Seperator Tank (looks way better than in front of the alternator), made a new screen filter using 2 pieces of screen overlapped since no air filter will fit with the intercooler setup and then reinstalled the Turbonetics 62-1 but now need to figure out how I am going to connect it to the hot side on the intercooler... then vroom pssshhh...hopefully lol

[fitftw]

imagined what it's going to look/sound/feel like a few weeks from now with 80 extra whp's under the hood. Waiting sucks.

[MX5]

Yesterday I changed the spark plug wires, valve cover gasket, CAS o ring, and painted the valve cover. I think I'm going to take the paint off the lettering and polish it.

[lepichichi]

Originally Posted by l337fpc

tracked my blueberry



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Francesco did you track in the rain??? if so, how was it???

Originally Posted by Spooldrx7

Reinstalled downpipe, finished hooking up the AEM wideband, got the wastegate dump connected back onto the downpipe (worse part of it all), found a new place for my Pettit Racing Air Seperator Tank (looks way better than in front of the alternator), made a new screen filter using 2 pieces of screen overlapped since no air filter will fit with the intercooler setup and then reinstalled the Turbonetics 62-1 but now need to figure out how I am going to connect it to the hot side on the intercooler... then vroom pssshhh...hopefully lol

Waiting super sux nice pic!

[fitftw]

Dave, looks good man. I like all the black! What wires are those? OEM? I want black wires, but they have to be better than NGK

[MX5]

Yeah, they're just OE replacements, I went the cheaper route. If I didn't have to replace the gasket on the intake manifold, I'd take it off and paint that to match. It looks so out of place now.

[fitftw]

^ go with a coldside supercharger someday and you won't have to worry about that lol

yummmmm

[MX5]

Haha, yeah and I would be able to keep my RB header

[fitftw]

exactly. I keep forgetting when I put the turbo on I can sell the header for around $350 and recoup some of that cashmoney.

[Spooldrx7]

went to sears and picked up a 3" piece of flexible metal ducting just for a mock up to see how I need to make a stainless pipe for the hot side and so far only got the shape I need but getting very close to a new street tune run though... also changed oil with Castrol Syntec 20w50 (saving the expensive oil for the next oil change since its been sitting for awhile and im just going to be cleaning it out with this oil change and changing it within 1000 miles), then tried starting it and the battery is so dead it wont even try and crank with it on a charger haha oh well $$$... and I also relocated the monster sticker onto the side of the fuse box haha. Here's more pics.
*please neglect the mishimoto coupler thats being swapped asap

[Spooldrx7]

1 day later and got it all together with pieces I had laying around...finished under the hood now just need to get a battery and waiting for my keyspan to get here so I can hook up my netbook to my Haltech and do a few street tuning pulls to get my avc-r dialed in where I want it (10-12psi 1st gear then 18-20psi 2nd through 5th gears)... new pics but hopefully gonna be getting some videos soon.

[Silverfc88]

How much room would you have if you clocked the turbo a little to eliminate a couple of couplers?

[Spooldrx7]

Originally Posted by Silverfc88

How much room would you have if you clocked the turbo a little to eliminate a couple of couplers?

clocked up = hood didnt close and was too much above the intercooler to fit piping anyway
clocked up and to the right = wouldnt fit with coolant filler neck
clocked down and to the right = I never would have got piping over to the turbo from the right of the coolant filler neck...

this is my best option as I cant move my downpipe or manifold because the turbo has to bolt to both the same way and I also have a recirc tube from my wastegate going back into my downpipe that also acts as another mount for the downpipe... crazy setup I know but it works lol

[blue08mz3hb]

destroyed my passenger front fender well yesterday after hitting a puddle. had to pull off the road after it was rubbing my tire. Finally got it bent back into place and away from the tire. scared the **** out of me!