Recent content by spudgun07

No go. Time to check my wires more closely, check the gap again (my friend said they should be fine, cause I was working on some stereo stuff while he was doing my plugs for me...), and maybe look at the egr. I'm so annoyed.

Sorry to Threadjack... but how off is my speedometer if I'm running 205/40/17?? That's probably something I should know, haha...

I guess I'm kind of the same, but opposite?? I don't see why not use a torque wrench. Better safe than sorry, I say. Sure.. it might be alright without it, but it doesn't seem necessary to skrimp on stuff like that. And air gun... aghghghg. Again, better safe than sorry. I don't want to...

well, I'm driving a 3 right now... on loan from the dealership. They're keeping my car while the recall work is done. He's very confident that the problems I'm having are due to the recall campaign. I think the EGR clogging that some people have taked about might have something to do with the...

I also learned that you want to re-torque after about 100 miles after you take wheels off and put them back on.

I would never use an air gun on my shizz. Eeeek. My wheels are torqued to 90. I learned that you wanna be in the 90-100 range. No?

Changed plugs... no real difference. Got a recall notice in the mail. Anyone else get it?? I called the dealership, I think it was something to do with the intake manifold... he said it could be the cause of my problems. that would be an amazing coincidence... but I've really got my fingers...

Good luck dealing with the Karma exchange on that one... (cabpatch)

I changed my spark plugs and dumped in some fuel injector cleaner today. The idle is still a bit hard... so I don't think that totally fixed it. I threw a CEL, so I had AutoZone test it, and it came back as a Mis-Fire. Annoying...CEL is off now, and it starts better, but hopefully it'll kind of...

I've never had one since I've owned the car. I got it at 30K and it's now at 51K. How often are you supposed to get tune-ups?

Yeah dude... I heard those are actually good for 12 whp. Good call!

Boost could be conceivably very far off for some people. A header is what... $250-300 or so? That's a bit of a drop in the pan when compared to the cost of going turbocharged. I say throw the header on to tide yourself over for the time-being. Who knows how long it'll be before you can afford...

Cool, I'll give that a shot if this doesn't work... I found this while searching around, and it sounds pretty familiar. http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=94788&highlight=MAF+clean Thanks, man.

Could you ask them if you could take a look at the kit, and mesure everything out, and just get the parts from a hardware store?

Tire size, maybe? I don't know... If I had to guess, I'd say you have a 215/45 or a 215/40?? I have 205/40, so they're pretty small. I wanted the stretched look, and there's not a lot of sidewall... so that might explain it?? If I'm wrong about the size.. then I have no idea. Haha.