Don't own a Mazda yet...but my wife drives an '08 CR-V, it was purchased new in November...has to be at least 20 chips in the front end of it...I have an '03 Tiburon...front end and hood look like a warzone quite possibly the worst paint in the hostory of mankind...I also have an '07 Acura...
I believe that the housing is your issue,plain and simple, but if it were a wastegate issue an external gate offers you the ability to swap out springs and such to keep the valve from opening until exactly when you want it to.
As far as the wastegate I was thinking more along the lines of the...
Any chance the guys at PG have a compressor map for their upgrade they performed for you? Did they have to modify the housing at all or did they simply just swap the compressor wheels? I only ask because even with the larger coldside the compressor side may still be choked by too small of a...
newcomer to the site here...not to boost though. Forgive my ignorance but what trim is the stock K04 in the MS3? Obviously it's larger than the BW units appearing on Volkswagen or Audi 1.8T's. Also to the guys who upgraded what size compressor wheels are you upgrading to? How about the hot...