Recent content by Simon Tibbett

Looking to buy the following for a 2005 Mazda3: -Driver seat -Driver side seat belt buckle -Stock 17 inch wheels WITH tires, tires MUST have some tread on them. Need them for a 250 mile drive or so, wheels can be scratched or whatever, they just need to be safe to drive on! Located in GA so I...

UPDATE. Decided to run the car this past weekend at the Chin Motorsports track day (I just ran Sunday) at Road Atlanta to get things sorted for the American Road Race of Champions in a month. The event didn't go as well as I would have hoped. The car had a horrible sputtering issue which ended...

So I'm considering a Mazda6 wagon and am looking for some input from owners. The car is an automatic with the sport shift option thing which in most are I drive with that isn't much different than automatic. I'm looking for a practical car that is fun to drive when I want to have some fun but...

Looking to buy a Protege5, Mazdaspeed Protege, or MP3 in this next couple of weeks. Looking to spend $5,000 TOPS, MUST be a 5 speed, must be ready to drive, no projects. I'm in GA so the closer the better. Just seeing what's out there, I have a few I'm interested in on CL but we will see if...

We're looking at a new car and are considering a Mazda3 or Mazda6. Will the US be getting any diesel models or a wagon any time soon? I love the 6, but would prefer it in wagon form so as of right now I'm leaning towards the 3, but am still keeping my options open.

So the 2014 3 won't have any design changes?

I believe it is.

A few photos from last weekend:

Final session start:

UPDATE. What a weekend. Before leaving the shop and going to the track I ran into a small issue, my kill switch went bad causing the car to cut on and off, luckily I caught it early, sourced a new one from a vendor at the track, and got it back together quickly. We took the car to the track...

No I don't drive with the air cleaner and cover off. lol

Yeah I can't wait to pull apart the bad transmission and see what went wrong. I have another that's good as well as a spare but have to reseal it. UPDATE. Got the car on the ground, got it running, and drove it! Easier said than done though. It did not want to start, we had fuel (too much) and...

UPDATE. After a long winter I'll finally have the car back out on track this weekend. Fingers crossed nothing happens. We just did a LOT of work to it such as replacing the transmission, clutch, all associated items, suspension bits, and tons of just small things here and there to make the car...

Looking to buy a Protege. $2500 to spend, mods are OK, please no projects I need it to be mechanically sound. Located in GA, show me what you have. No automatics.