Recent content by MSP2003.5_Nick

Bumpy bump. Price drop, $200US shipped

sold!!!!!!

I did the valve cover gasket after I seen the oil all over spark plugs. Oil no longer sits on top of the plug but if you pull out a plug it is covered from the oil in cylinder. So im definey leaking oil internally into the cylinder. I've decided to pull the head and look at stuff sometime soon...

Yeah you're right the body is rusted all to s*** lol. The wife really likes the car, but I'm at the point where I gotta make the decision to paint the car and fix motor, or just drive it into the ground haha. Maybe best bet is to find another one in good shape and use this one for parts or reshell.

04 Mazda 3 2.3L I got 380,000km on it and have been feeding it oil for a year. Decided to finally dip into it, pulled my plugs and found cylinder 2 was soaked in oil both in the cylinder and around the plug itself where the coil pack boot connects to it. Did a compression test and all cylinders...

Fuel tuning is easy. It's making an ignition map from scratch on a standalone that gets sketchy lol. Dyno is your friend

Big hammer

Got 2 ball joints from Taiwan for $40 shipped on eBay. Old ones smashed out, new ones pressed in. Perfect fitment and good quality. Even has 20,000 mile or 1 year warranty lol. Screw replacing the whole control arm. Taiwan ball joints FTW!!

04 Mazda 3 gt sport. Black paint, has rust on every single panel. So bad I have to get the car painted this year. Eastern Canada, snow and salted roads every year. Car has 350xxxkms

Just order a short ram intake and be done with it.

You need to do more diagnostics. Do a compression test. Get a vacuum gauge to see if there is leaks etc.

Just noticed my passenger lower ball joint has excessive play. I replaced both control arms less than a year ago and I think it's ridiculous you have to replace the whole arm every time you need a ball joint. Our roads here are s*** so suspension parts are replaced often. I have found ball...

Depending on the model, The tcm should be located on your transmission around the front under your intake pipe, or inside the car under left side of dash. The brown wire is the power wire coming from fuse. Disconnect the connector and check the brown wire for continuity to ground. If the wire is...

Yeah, ACT is complicated lol. There's no stages, you basically have to choose what kind of power you need to hold to Pick the pressure plate and what kind of engagement you want for your application to choose disk. I got the Heavy duty pressure plate with 6 puck unsprung disk. On/off hard...

There's fuses and relays for a reason, I wouldn't think any of the body or engine ecus got damage. It's likely blew fuses or wrecked relays. Maybe melted wires but I can't see it. Take every fuse and relay out and test them. Relay testing procedures are in the service manual. Also that fuse...