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I regreased them Sunday and they're pretty quiet again. I don't have issues with them performance wise, they feel pretty awesome. The dust does suck though. I'll probably stick with them a while and try the HPS 5.0 next... A lot of people have been impressed with them... Maybe I'll cease my...

Here's a video to gauge the amount of noise/tone you can expect from them daily driving. My daily drive is 95% highway. When I get stuck in a traffic jam(which is really often) you get some... interesting looks... from people. The last two short clips in this video are about what you hear when...

I have a Mazda2. And a spare transmission. With plans to add a diff and change the final drive possibly. Depends on if I decide to run FSP or jump straight to SMF. Its too bad I didn't make this plunge sooner, I lived in Dayton, OH up until last June. I will be back next year for some...

Check out my thread on the AX6 review... specifically the part about me adjusting the brake switch to change the way the initial bite feels. It may be applicable to the HPS 5.0 as well. The AX6s went from untame-able to pretty awesome and still great bite as far as braking performance goes...

Yeah, but FWIW that's all highway miles. Anyways small update: After last weekend's test and tune on Saturday(45 runs on the car) and then event on Sunday(another 8 between me and my co-driver)... the brakes squeal like a train once they get a bit warm. It's also been 85 deg out which I...

I've not seen a trans leak yet. Got a good, clear picture? I've seen several oil pans leaking, normally at the front or back corner near the transmission. Rattling may or may not be related to the engine mount, get under the car with a soft faced/rubber dead blow hammer and start hitting stuff...

Yeah, I'll let you run the numbers and stuff, I'm mainly flying by the seat of the pants :-p I've had the rear shocks since December. They definitely did help... 550/700 was miserable at Pungo on my old Koni rears, bounced like hell at the last event of the year. Your lack of wheelspin...

Yeah I remember running the numbers a while back and that was why I chose the 700/700. The roll stiffness was very close to 700/550 with rear bar(which Jeff used for some time, maybe 700/600?). I used estimated beam stiffness values based on how much deflection there was on one spring while...

It was still wheel-spinny some(not as bad as 550/450 w/ rear bar though), but wasn't understeery. It was just incredibly neutral. The rear would come around if you lifted mid corner, but it was very slow to do so and I needed more of it. The 550/450/rear bar rotated enough, but it was a bit...

Last year I tried with and without when I was on 550/450. I believe it was without for my first TSCC event this year and also for the ODR event. I only played with the rear bar on the street mostly this season. I have a test and tune coming up where I'll try it out again hopefully. Our Pungo...

I've used Purolator(basic white), Purolator PureOne, Fram ToughGaurd, and currently running a Fram Ultra(which is highly regarded as one of the best on www.bobistheoilguy.com). All of them returned the exact same insoluble content 0.1%. (All but Fram Ultra, I have not had a sample tested with...

http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123854793-Review-Carbotech-AX6-front-brake-pads And there's my AX6 pad review as promised for future reference in this thread.

Well I've taken way longer than I originally planned before writing a review, but I've put about 5k miles on my Carbotech AX6 pads, with 44 auto-x runs(15 of which were from codrivers). I'll add just to note that I also installed DDMWorks stainless braided brake lines at the same time as...

Yeah I do overdrive some generally... But the run above was my last one... I was giving it everything I could to try and go faster(than Jeff... Haha). The front grip from the 700 rears is night and day vs the 550s. It was run in the dry at NCCAR like this and it was awesome there as well. In...

Oh definitely. The 550s out back worked amazing in the rain at the last wet event I did. The 700 rears are incredible in the dry, this was basically just an experiment to see and confirm what was suspected(700s too much for the rear). Plus we just corner balanced it on 700s the day before :-p...

Yeah the tune makes it a night and day difference. You won't be disappointed.

And a few pics from the weekend, I didn't take a whole lot because on Saturday we were pretty busy getting everything ready, and then Sunday it rained. Here's Jeff getting ready to set up the scales: At Metlife Stadium: Jeff waiting in line for a run: Me after crossing the finish and...

The next day we went to Metlife Stadium for the MotorSports NorthEast event. It went pretty well! We got 10 runs, unfortunately all in the rain. I am pretty sure the 550s out back will be my rain setup, but we played around with 700/700 just to see if we could make it stick.. it was actually...

And then finally this past weekend I made my way up to New Jersey to finally meet Jeff(username jasyatz on here) in person. We got to work on Saturday about 2:30... Jeff leveled the spot for the scales while I replaced my torrington bearings for my coilovers since they were getting gritty and...

I've been slow to update my thread here since this forum is so slow but here goes: From 4/24 Tidewater Sports Car Club PE#2: NCCAR is an amazing facility, I REALLY wish I could have made it for the Gripfest event on Saturday(basically standing start single lap around the whole road course...