Recent content by hoorah

I guess its subjective but I don't know that I would say -1.7 is too much in the rear, especially since we rotate our tires. I ran -2.5 on my BMW with a staggered setup (no rotation) and the wear wasn't terrible. I typically got 25k miles out of just the rears and 50k on the fronts using 300...

Higher brake torque just makes the ABS come on quicker. You can play with pad compound between front and rear to try to play with the brake bias before the ABS comes on but requires a lot of trial and error. If you want to stop faster, low hanging fruit is softer tires.

Sorry to bump an old thread, but this was the most recent thread I could find on oil consumption in the skyactiv engine. I've been running with some oil consumption in my 2014 Mazda 6 since it was new, and on my previous oil change I noticed about the same amount (actually, exactly the same...