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My car does the same thing, I had always thought it was just disengaging the A/C compressor clutch during harder accels.

Assuming you didn't forget to tighten something, how old are your tires? Lowering likely made the insides contact more than before, if there was some minor cupping started, it may be more pronounced now. I might start with rotating the tires and see if it changes.

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knokout5, Hard to troubleshoot from a video and this is the first car I've owned with timing chain versus a best but I was wondering if maybe it the chain lose and hitting the side of metal cover when the engine isn't under load? Just a thought? I've heard belts slap around on the insides of...

Protege17, Hope you figured out your boost issue by now. Mine is an '08 with ~70k miles that I bought new. Engine is stock except for the AEM CAI. My boost gage consistently reads ~15.5lbs during hard 3rd, 4th, and 5th gear pulls so your 12-13 seems low for some reason. I might verify the...

I've done mine about every 15K miles, not really sure if it helps that much or not but it makes me feel like I'm doing something good for it. Most of the commonly used vacuum lines seem to be in close proximity to one side of the engine or the other so I wasn't convinced it was being evenly...

Tons of threads on this so there should be no problem finding any kind of advice you're looking for; thanks to all those threads I ultimately went with the AEM back when the MSCAI had limited availability because Mazda couldn't make up their mind if they liked it as an aftermarket part or not...

'08 with 54K miles. Only real mod is the AEM CAI I installed 2 years ago. Also, conventional oil every 4-5K miles. Zero problems, never been back to the dealer. At 50K miles I wanted to do something nice for it so I changed the Gear lube to the Ford stuff. It does shift better and there have...

Just had the dealer flush and change the trans fluid last week. 50K miles on my wife's 06. Didn't notice a huge difference but the car has always run well. The dealer over-serviced the new fluid by 1 pint. Even with the trans cold, the level was above the max line in the 65deg range...

In the middle of last winter I noticed my left rear was leaking. People may have strong opinions on what I did, but in a pinch but I picked up a Monroe 5607 replacement for $36 including tax and installed it in about 30 minutes max. My plan has been to replace all with Koni's but the ride has...

Impossible to beat free but I came close. I used Delta SkyMiles to get Amazon gift cards and ordered my AEM CAI from them last year.

Maybe you're getting interference from something you've got hooked up? When I had a nail in my tire and pressure was really low, I got an audible beep and the light. Then I started just getting the flashing light followed by solid light with no actual pressure problems. Finally figured out it...

Got mine in the mail a couple of days ago. Waiting for the next day the temps are >30 degrees to install. Maybe I'll do my oil at the same time.

I've done it twice now, 1st at 20K miles and now at 30K and I have to say I like seeing all the black crap out of the exhaust and it makes me feel good but I'm not sure I really notice a difference with smoother idle. But my car has always run great with barely a hiccup. The first time, I used...