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Did you ever come up with anything? (I realize your post is over a year old!) I am curious myself in regards to anything aftermarket for this car. As far as exhausts, maybe look at Ford Probe stuff. Same drivetrain as this generation MX-6.

My dad is still driving the one my mom bought new in '95. 2.0L 5spd, bright red. While she was alive she wouldn't let us touch it, so it is unmolested and bone stock all the way through. Minus faded paint on the spoiler, it's clean and straight, always garage kept with no rust. The harmonic...

USERNAME: 03.5MSP_12 STATE CAR RESIDES: Missouri Year 2003 or 2003.5: 03.5 PRODUCTION NUMBER: 12 COLOR: Titanium Gray Metallic YEAR BOUGHT: 2009 YEAR SOLD (if you sold it): Never! Still daily driven.

The oil line going in has a leak. Stock turbo with about 156K on it; tired for sure and I figure this is probably fairly normal. I've tried to tighten the line without much luck. Solutions? Suggestions (aside from buy a bigger one) What kinda mileage have you guys put on the stock ones and...

Check your exhaust manifold gasket. I was experiencing this and had the CEL go off with a lean code. After searching and searching, this is what I came up with. At first there wasn't much noise, but as it got worse the noise got more prevalent. It was blown out on the top corner on the passenger...

Ok, gotcha....this is my first forced-induction car so I am still learning alot of these things. Thanks for explaining...

Thanks for the videos guys. Jo060...yours sounds pretty tolerable...are you modded out fairly heavily? I am concerned about losing back pressure if I go to a 3" without anymore major power going through it. BOOSTR, the build in the link looks about like something I would want...and after what...

Sounding good thus far...good options...next question is, what about that O2 back behind the first cat?

Ok folks, starting to think on an exhaust build here due to the aging OE pieces and was wondering about a few different routes. First off, the motor, turbo, intake etc. is all stock. Should I... Buy an individual muffler and go to an exhaust shop and have custom pipe bent and installed... or...

Yeah, I attribute that to normal wear and tear with age. It has been a damn good car though. Educational as well, being my first boosted car. Eventually I'll end up with some extra money to throw at it and all shall be good. As long as the turbo doesn't let go before I get that pile of cash...

Haven't gotten there yet, may tear into it a little this week. Have lost power, or at least it seems the turbo has more lag at times, other times depending on the air temp the car seems to pull as hard as it ever has. The CEL does come on and off at random now. No backfiring though. Just...

Jspeed, That sounds just about right. Once the heat breaks and I get in there to inspect things I should have a better idea, but yeah, it does quiet down a bit once warmed up. What would be the best way to check the actuator for the vacuum leak? Carb cleaner while running?

Ok, so I posted here about 6 months ago about a potential vacuum leak causing a lean code and a wicked "buck" at the top of the rpm band. After more inspection and closer listening, it seems to be a cracked exhaust manifold. It is still stock with close to 150,xxx on it, and of course the heat...

keep me posted on that...seems weird that an O2 would mess with fuel delivery that much... the code that I got from the scan tool was P0171 Lean on Bank 1. Is anyone familiar with this one?

Yeah, what about the fuel filter? Mine just recently started falling on its face very randomly(won't do it all the time, totally inconsistant) after boosting. When it did it the second time, it threw the CEL...I took it easy, took it to my buddy, he scanned it and it said it was running too...