Yep, the MS Factory burnt down in the 05 year. There are very few Lava Orange and Black MSMs because of this. Someone just had their MSM upgraded to a FMII setup and they made about 290RWHP on 93 Octane gas @ 12PSI. Sexy car.
I've never seen a single instance where closing the throttle is going to increase available torque at a given RPM - or even keep it the same. I've always requested more torque by opening the throttle farther. Now I understand what Cobb is saying above but there are some key phrases that, after reading other threads here, I believe people are missing. (e.g. "in just" and "in and of itself.")
I guarantee you that if you keep the boost from tapering off and the throttle blade open, the stock bell-shaped torque curve will turn into more of a decreasing plateau and that there will be a significant increase in horsepower all the way to redline. Keeping the manifold pressure up is easy, just takes a boost controller. Getting control of that throttle so that you get "unrestricted" flow to the manifold is not so simple.
Yep, the MS Factory burnt down in the 05 year. There are very few Lava Orange and Black MSMs because of this. Someone just had their MSM upgraded to a FMII setup and they made about 290RWHP on 93 Octane gas @ 12PSI. Sexy car.
Ditto.......Miles and build date.
I have 5200 miles on the car now so today for kicks I tried the bad turbo check people are talking about to see if the Turbo is OK or not. It will show even with the full stock exhaust I guess. I drove for about 25 minutes to my parents house the last few miles I drove the car a bit hard. No beating hard but hard. Once I got to my parents I let the car idle in the driveway for 15 minutes while watching the exhaust for anything. And it was 43* and light rain. I had no smoke at all......not even white. So I had my Dad get in a rev the car to 3000rpms........nadda. I then told him to give the peddle a good whack.......he did and the BPV chirped and no smoke at all. Not even a black puff. So...........I am guessing my Turbo might be good. I am really trying to give myself a red or green light on a down pipe and mid pipe combo from I guess CP-E since they are the only ones with a cat in the pipe.
Just do it...whats the use of having a bad turbo leaking oil and a stock exhaust thats masking it. If it leaks it leaks... Just because you wait or don't install a DP/CBE doesn't mean you'll be saving your turbo...
I'd rather find out if I have a bad turbo or not...that why I can take care of the situation. I wouldn't want to keep stock parts just to hide a problem.
Just do it...whats the use of having a bad turbo leaking oil and a stock exhaust thats masking it. If it leaks it leaks... Just because you wait or don't install a DP/CBE doesn't mean you'll be saving your turbo...
I'd rather find out if I have a bad turbo or not...that why I can take care of the situation. I wouldn't want to keep stock parts just to hide a problem.
I know but the other thing is emissions in my state. It is VERY strict. So if I do end up smoking all the dealers will make me put the stock DP and MP back on because they can not legally work on a car with a modified exhaust (cat back is OK). And if it doesn't smoke with the stock stuff the Mazda reps will not do anything with it. I do not think exhaust mods should be looked down on as much as they are. I will still keep it smog legal with a nice cat. And I have no boost controller so I will let the ECM controll my boost.
I have an 08 by the way with a 9/07 build date. I baught it 11/26/07.
