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04 Mazda 3 2.3L I got 380,000km on it and have been feeding it oil for a year. Decided to finally dip into it, pulled my plugs and found cylinder 2 was soaked in oil both in the cylinder and around the plug itself where the coil pack boot connects to it. Did a compression test and all cylinders...

Just noticed my passenger lower ball joint has excessive play. I replaced both control arms less than a year ago and I think it's ridiculous you have to replace the whole arm every time you need a ball joint. Our roads here are s*** so suspension parts are replaced often. I have found ball...

I just had a shop do an overbore for me after I blew my motor, and they couldn't figure out how to remove them so they just bent them out of the way. I'm hesitant to bend them back cause they may be weakened from it and break off eventually. I've been doing some reading about some people just...

Hey guys, I'm gonna be bringing my 04 black Mazda 3 hatch in for paint in a few weeks and I'm considering painting it professional satin/matte black instead of gloss. This car is just my daily driver but I think it would look badass. Don't picture it like rattle can flat black. I'm talking a...

2004 mazda 3 GT Sport 2.3L Hey guys, just wanted to post some information about a problem I had that I could find no information on. So if anyone else is having this issue here is what I went though. So I noticed a humming noise coming from the front. Got louder with speed and made no change...

I was driving on the highway at no more than the legal speed limit and was definetly not racing anyone at all. I did not downshift to third and continue at WOT midway through fifth. I was just driving along casually, doing nothing illegal in any way and it started misfiring and blowing blue...

So anyway couple days ago I was enjoying a country road drive and went to hit some boost and it sputtered a bit. Did it again and it was fine. Next day went out and it wasnt just sputtering, it was bucking and misfiring and making all sorts of racket in full boost. I can rev to any rpm with no...

So ever since I put my standalone in I've had constant problems with the charging system. Sometimes it works, sometimes I hsut the car off and place bets on if its gonna start again. So anyway I have haltech platinum sport 1000 and using the RA8 crank/cam signal splitter so I can run rpm signal...

Ok so at the end of last year I switched from a no-name t3/t4 to a garrett GT3076R .63 A/R. Obviously with the GT series and more tailored frame I noticed a huge difference in power all through the RPM range and the dyno sheet when we retuned it made my jaw drop. (close to 100 more HP at same...

So anyway it's winter I'm not driving the car, but took it out the garage to let it warm up for a bit. Anyway on my way back in I got stuck one wheel on dry pavement and one on ice. Only one wheel was spinning. Correct me if I'm wrong but LSD are supposed spin BOTH all the time. I though when...

Ok so I normally don't post here because my car is definetly not close to stock and hard to diagnose but I'm at a total loss. Just last week got a dyno tune on my haltech sport 1000 standalone. Car was running great all week on 20 psi then today...... well I mean it idles fine, drives fine but...

So anyway my car is a few hours away from me at the dyno. I brought it there after failing to get it started after installing stand alone. Called the tuner today and he said it was working good, running well and idling. I was like perfect lets set a time for me to come up and finish the dyno...

Okay, so I'm at a point now that the SS FTC is just not cutting it. I can't control half of what i want and the engine just doesnt run right with 565cc injectors I have. If i take enough fuel out to get it to run the ECU sees a low signal on the MAF and the ecu is trying to learn around it and...

So I was looking at some threads and remembered that when I first bought the car this solenoid had broken nipples on it so I disconnected the vacuum lines and ran a vacuum line directly to the fuel pressure regulator. I meant for this to be temporary but forgot about it for a couple years lol...

I have a Titanium grey MSP, I've wanted a CF hood for a while but I won't be able to afford one for a while. A few more performance goodies and dyno tune gotta come first ya know. I just want opinions from you guys about how dumb or good my hood would look just painted gloss black. Most of you...

Hey, so went out to the ole mazda today, it's been sitting for a few days i don't really drive it. and then.... won't start has 8 volts on the battery. Boosted it...... runs fine.... unhooked cable.... still runs fine for as long as I want it to....... has 14 volts and then when i shut the car...

so after getting my motor back in I have been tuning with the FTC V3 from splitsecond, just got it to idle and run pretty good. Doing some fine tuning and after the last burn it was all ****** up car was just messed would do anything couldn't even move without stalling, then won't start at all...

Well, a couple months ago I blew first and second gear so I had to take the tranny out. Then I thought while it was out why not take the entire motor out and do everything I've ever wanted to do to the car lol. I have everything I need now except the pistons and rods. Supplier is mega screwing...

Where are you all, I only see a handful of done up mazdas and mazdaspeed. I want to get a meet togetehr sometime in september when my car is back on the road. Where are you guys all at?!?