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what's to worry about, it's just yer fuel system! =] Oh yeah, it's 95 degrees today... is your car bogging? Mine isn't. =]

Awww I wish I could make it on saturday... E85 still rocks, I don't feel like testing the waters at more than 25% blend, but this is plenty of improvement for me. =] Have you tried it yet?

St Cloud? You mean down to Treasure Island? I won a trophy in St Cloud two months ago, but I didn't go anywhere on sunday.

I think the octane differences come from pure ethanol vs. E85, which is only 85% Ethanol. I'm also pretty sure that Mazda's warranty statement has more to do with covering the bare minimum they can get away with than with the scientific risk level involved. I'll be interested to see what they...

Hmm, well since ALL gas here in MN is E10, and will be E20 soon, I think he probably doesn't know what he's talking about in this case. If he'd care to expand on WHY, I'd love to hear it, but saying that E10 will destroy our engines is obviously false, since every MN MSP has been running it...

Here is the info my friend linked, check the last post in the thread: http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=795381&highlight=e85 Interesting info of unknown validity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_as_a_fuel Chart for determining how much E85 to use...

Yes, that was my point. I'm quite sure there are engineers in Japan who would laugh at our conversation, (one way or another) but I'm quite sure none of us would ever get to chat with them.

LOL if you could get a hold of someone at Mazda who knows what a turbocharger does, I'll be impressed. If they actually know the effects of various blends of ethanol on our motors I'll be more impressed. If they give you an honest answer without looking up your VIN to void your warranty I'll be...

I should grab the info my friend was referencing, I'll do that when I get to work, so that people who might be able to poke holes in it can have a look. I'm only 50 miles into my first blended tank, so the ecu may yet relearn this stuff and shoot me down, but it's promising so far! =]

So here in MN we have some stations that carry E85 gas, which is 85% Ethanol. A friend of mine who might as well be a Subaru engineer, was telling me about how well this stuff performs, especially with turbo applications. He had all kinds of charts and documents and such that I won't remember...

See, that's the kind of evidence I was looking for. I take it the roof beam connects the two B-pillars? My sunroof ends at about the B-pillars, but it obviously would cut through it. I can, however, feel four bars going across the roof behind the sunroof. I'm not sure exactly what they did in...

The stupid thing HAD a moonroof, we just put it back in.

"Sedan variants", do you mean the protege and the P5, or other cars entirely? Do you know for sure the MSP has a single beam, or are you talking out of your ass? I still haven't seen anyone comment intelligently on this issue with any evidence or even authority. I should call the sunroof...

Guys the roof is a piece of sheet metal. There's obviously crossmembers at the windshield and the rear glass, and the A-pillars are there, but what's in between? Sheet metal. The glass is probably better for rigidity than that! On the pic of the above crash, can you tell if there's a...

??? And you know this because some highway safety person told you this or something? I don't understand how you could feel remotely qualified to make a statement as absolute as that.

Has anyone cut into the roof and could verify this? Proteges come with sunroofs as a stock option, they wouldn't cut straight through anything important to put that in, would they?

And this is why technicians don't usually talk to the customer directly. You wouldn't understand customer service or sales strategy if it bit you in the ass. (just like the customer service monkeys wouldn't know a PCM if it hit them in the face) I'm an engineer, and there's a reason I don't talk...

When those 140 treadwear RE040's wear out, get yourself a set of Kumho MX's. At stock size they're a bit taller and a bit plusher, but grip MUCH better, wear better, and still do ok in the wet. (oh yeah they cost about half as much as the RE040s) I think the road noise is about the same though...

I'll take one, but I too will have to wait a little bit... Oil change > metal plate.

I'm interested, if they turn out looking good.