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The wastegate on our stock turbos is internal. The dealer definitely replaced it with a stock turbo so you can be pretty sure your spring is stock. They most likely also replaced your WGA (wastegate actuator). This is the small cylinder with the rod connecting to your wastegate lever on your...

My neighbor was flipping cars for a living for a few years. He pretty much stuck with BMWs, but occasionally he'd pick up something cool like a 300ZX TT. I think the single most profitable car though was a CL600, '02 I believe. Pretty sure he picked it up for around 12k and sold it for nearly...

You are not on the positive side and never will be. You bought the car for $3500, so that is how much it is worth. If you get it running properly and everything is in tip top shape cosmetically and mechanically, you might be able to get six or seven for it. There is no way you are getting...

I bought ARP studs and honestly they are nothing special. I bought a 3mm hex key socket so I could get them in and it stripped the studs trying to get them in the holes where I had used Loc-tite with the replacement factory bolts. The factory bolts are also a huge rip off. If I had to do it...

I used a mounted phone using a 1/4 mile app. It was the exact same temp and weather on back to back days. Stock vs SLS mid pipe. The butt dyno thought I gained a little bit too, but the phone had the exact same trap speed down to the tenth of a mile per hour. It was in the middle of summer...

Get rid of that car. The cheap turbo replacement should have been the first warning sign. If he ran enough boost poorly enough to loose a turbo and ruin a built engine, then the transmission can't be far behind. If the car is in good shape cosmetically, hopefully someone on here who can do...

Then you most certainly have loose or broken manifold bolts. When I took my heatshield off for the first time, one was completely missing and another was all the way out but the shield kept it from falling to the ground. Tightening down the bolts has been a 6 month ritual for me, much like...

Ha ha. Although it could take a while to get the smell of french fries out of it.

I had a magnaflow muffler on my MX6 and it sounded great, tons of complements and no drone. Another C6 owner swapped his stock cans for magnaflow cans and they also sound great. I have yet to hear a magnaflow system that doesn't sound good. When I think of those awful sounding trucks, I think...

"What I ended up doing is I tapped the hot pipe and put a fitting that is hooked up to the wastegate." This is what I explained about a year ago. http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123798636-Fun...damental-flaw-in-this-half-ass-d-design

This brings up an interesting dilemma though. What do we do with these cars? I feel like someone should save them from their abusive deadbeat owners like taking kids away from their abusive parents and putting them in foster homes. The problem is it always takes more money to repair these...

This.

If we don't put a stop to this s***, who will. I feel like I have a moral obligation to stop this kind of thing from happening. I don't care if the OP thinks it looks great or whose car or whose civil rights they are. The only thing that can be done now is to start sanding and paint it back...

The VTCS shutters open when the engine reaches 3k rpms, the temp is over 176 deg F, and the throttle is over 75%. I don't know if idle is any rougher without them but I would guess it is negligible. From my understanding, it is there to mix up the fuel/air better for a cleaner burn at low...

It didn't cure it. It treated it. This thread explains it in detail. http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123792646-Hesitation-explained-with-pictures. The flash advances timing to mask the poor fueling, it doesn't really solve the problem. It also makes the tuning more dangerous...

The PCM cuts the ignition if it ever hits 100% duty cycle on the injectors. This happens when the MAF signal is maxed out but can also happen sooner if your long term fuel trims are high from a bad O2, exhaust leak, vacuum leak, or some other O2 signal modifier. The strange thing is that this...

Ok so I did mine this weekend after fretting over it for six years. When I bought the car it had inserts on the rear and has always had more vibration than I liked, but as I got it older it bothered me more and more. Since I was going through the trouble, I bought a new mount, but turns out...

Yeah the two piece is in the land of unicorns now, although occasionally I run into someone who has one, but they aren't selling it. BTW, I replaced my rear motor mount with a new one this weekend. Yes that job is a b****. I will add my own take to one of the threads at some point. My...

Even bone stock cars do that occasionally. Pretty embarrassing, any EMS or piggyback can fix it. I am currently running a stock PCM, but I swapped my boost source to my WGA from the manifold to a silicon coupler off the compressor outlet (using a hard hot pipe now) just a few inches long and I...

I'll second that. I put in a fairly extensive grounding kit and there is still a very slight dim of the headlights as the fans kick on. This makes sense.