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The Xede is a piggy back system that lies to the ECU rather than actually remapping the ECU itself. Those systems include CPEs Standback piggy back. They have a lot of issues. Xede can be customized but very few know how. It is pretty much obsolete for our platform after tuners cracked the...

What is Xedex chip? I'm reasonably conversant with tuning options for our platform and have never encountered it personally, here, or on other Mazdaspeed used forums. Can you provide a website link, user manual or other resource? Are you able to flash back to stock and resolve the issue? Is...

No thanks. I understand your intent, but this is my daily driver. I'm right where I want to be with power with my mods. I've gone the big turbo route on other cars, Saabs and Volvos. Turbo lag and unresponsiveness at less than WOT is no fun in stop and go driving. The K04 spools quick and...

It was a small chip on the leading edge of one vane and went right through. I was lucky it seemed not to have hurt anything. Could have done a lot of damage. Look at bottom center of photo...

turborepair.com (Work Turbochargers in Pelham Alabama). They did mine. http://www.turborepair.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=184&Itemid=146

I had my K04 rebuilt earlier this year at about 105,000 miles. I had it done by Work Turbo in the Birmingham, Alabama, (turborepair.com). They charge $350 with quick turn around. I had a broken vane on the compressor side, so I opted to have a new CHRA installed at extra cost. As to what I...

When you are done, paint it John Deere green with yellow wheels for that unmistakable diesel tractor look. Whatever the other site said, they were too kind.

Very few will spend the big bucks for that upgrade. Switching to Shell Rotella T6 (full synthetic) 5w40 oil and raising idle rpm to 900, which requires an ECU reflash, usually solves the problem for less money. The Hypertech tuner is about half tge cost of the vent kit, allows you to reflash to...

Check the rear swaybar end link on that side. It does not "rattle" as much as clunk, but at your mileage, it is suspect. You need a hex wrench and a proper size box end to keep it from rotating while you tighten it. If it is tight and still makes noise, time to replace. Easy job...

I have never gone big turbo and post regularly on MSF and get along really well there. You do have to have a thick skin and a bit of irreverent swagger to fit in, sort of like being in a front line combat unit or football team. What that board is really intolerant of is failure to do a search...

Facebook video does not play for me. Without being able to hear it I speculate it may be one of the accessory belt pullys. There is a belt tensioner and a separate idler pully and there is a bearing in the AC clutch that can all make noise at idle. If it is one of them you do not want a...

Run a search on the Mazdaspeed Forums board and you should find many threads about that kit.

My '08 has the little FL22 sticker on the overflow tank. I am the original owner and have about 115k miles on the car. Several years ago (about 3) the accessory belt broke when the belt tensioner froze. Temps climbed and I shut it off before it overheated. It pushed out some coolant, but the...

Not to jack the thread, but: 1. My '08 MS3, mods below, just hit 115k miles and going strong. Just put a rebuilt K04 in, and replaced some front bushings in swaybar and end links, but otherwise trouble free. 2. I tow a full size Kubota M series diesel farm tractor with bushhog or disk on a...

Sorry to see you let it go, but understand completely. Not much winter here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

If you have the intake manifold off, clean the back of those nasty, carbon crudded intake valves. Mine need it now, but I've been putting it off. Shame not to do it if you are in there anyway. My most recent maintenance was replacing the left strut bearing a week ago. Stupid alignment shop...

The Mazda 3 and even the Speed 3 version have proven, over and over, in rating after rating service, to be one of the most reliable cars, if not the most reliable, in its class. It does not need Toyota on that account.

I guess you know those posts were made 2-1/2 years ago.

What makes the car "stage 2"? Describe the custom exhaust, please.

The noise you hear that diminishes or goes away when you depress the clutch pedal is the clutch throw out bearing. This is normal. To keep these cars light there is almost no soundproofing under the hood or anywhere else. Mine has done this from day one. I now have 111,000 miles on the car...