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Well I took my car to the garage the other day and guess what my turbo is gone. I brought it in since it was starting to smoke blue. I would normally get just black smoke but now I was getting a really nice blue cloud. So my dealer is really great. They are allowing me to put what ever turbo I...

new downpipe now better Well I installed my new downpipe lastnight and I have to say that it made little to no difference to the performance of the car. I cannot tell if it did anything accept make the car a little louder when you are hard on the gas. So with the mods I had before I think I...

Well I installed my new pump tonight. Compared to the exhaust manifold this was lets just say a breeze :) Well this pump does indeed make a difference. There is less studering under heavy load like 6th gear when at 3k rpm and stomping on it. I used to get a small shimmy but now smooth power...

I installed my Protege Exhaust Manifold which is a big job and plenty of nuckle scrapes. So after getting it all together I had some strange turbo noise that I could not explain. I spoke with Ken and he gave me a few suggestions and he said he was going to look into it and was willing to refit...

Well I got the in my car and when taking it for a ride I noticed that under heavy load there is a whirl sort of noise from the turbo or close to the firewall. It sounds like when you hear a bad bearing. The car boost ok but under load when the turbo is boosting you hear this loud whirl sound...

Well I installed by new ETS TMIC 3.25" and also a BPV from Forge. I can say that it made little to no difference on my car. I had a MS CAI on there at the same time. Mind you it is -4 degrees C here in Canada so I am not sure how much that is playing but I expected more out of it. Now on the...

Well I have been looking for rims and I came across these which I like but is the quality good since they are expensive and 2 piece which actually scares me. I have attached a picture. I have a black mica MS3 and these are hyper black. Let me know your thoughts.

I am new to this forum but hope that someone has some answers to my issues. I have a one week old MS3 with a MS CAI installed by the dealer. It has 1300KM. The MS3 ran like a monster on the first day. The second day it was hesitating sometimes but would run ok most of the time. One minute it's...