Pics of prototype MSP w/ECU flash

[Dr.Sound]

what info?
i dont see any info

pics are coming from me........although it's not my car

 

[DiscreetSpeed]

im sorry i meant where did you find out or see the upgrade on like the IC?

 

[Dr.Sound]

this car belongs to mazdaspeed

i took pictures during one of our weekly meets.........it was only one time when this car showed up

 

[Dr.Sound]

So they are testing the flash on a car that is not stock? That does not make sense. It has a MBC, which most people say cures 99% of the hesitation anyways, and a more effiecient IC? That just does not make sense.

Britt

take another look at that picture.............do u actually own an MBC?

 

[DiscreetSpeed]

so this intercooler is a little bigger, i cant really see the difference?nice man, no clue on a price for it?

 

[beans]

Well for one the ends are aluminum, where ours are plastic. And buy looking at mine I'd say that one in the pic is about an inch thicker.

 

[Dr.Sound]

it's thicker.....not plastic like ours...........and has better internals

 

[low_psi]

Vega- i only said chill cause the post above me was filled with anger. i'm up for discussion. maybe you took my post the wrong way. i was only saying that the test car only has a different IC and not a MBC, so you guys still didn't think that Mazda was testing a non-stock car. i was just trying to clear up any confusion the MBC was causing.

jeremeyfl- dr. sound explained perfectly the how the Joe P kit works. it was not designed to cure the hesitation, but it happens to help on most of the MSP's.

the flash will allow the engine to run smoothly throughout the powerband without running rich, therefore making the Joe P kit useless to anyone who ONLY wants it for the hesitation issue.

 

[122 Vega]

Cool, I seem to be wrong about the MBC, as I should have said "it appears" but I still can't tell what that valve if for. There does seem to be a hose from the BOV that travels over the airbox to behind the headlight area.

Britt

ps Dr Sound, yes I do have an MBC, thanks

 

[low_psi]

yea, that brass valve caught my eye but if you look closely near the intake compressor of the turbo(where the wastegate is) there is a black object that has a line going down towards the WG. if you follow that, it hooks up to another black box on the valve cover along with other lines. like you i'm confused as to where all the lines are going, but i don't see any hoses that connect to both the DV and WG, oh well.....

 

[AFaceInTheCrowd]

i thought this prototype was in texas...

 

[Dr.Sound]

hehe.........they're everywhere.........

did u actually think they are going to prototype one car only

 

[unwrittenLaw]

I'm still curious if the new flash will lean out the fuel too much to the point where it wont be safe to up the boost...

 

[slug420]

a new IC from mazdaspeed?

is this ever going to be released to the public? thats makes me more excited than the ecu fix, almost...

 

[slug420]

do we know what kinda perf gains they for outta the IC?

im sure there is a thread somewhere about this car so if you could just point me to it ill stop askin silly questions...

 

[Dr.Sound]

no other thread

i just took the pics...........thought u guys would like them
i know nothing about IC.......

 

[NEED4SPEED]

I'd be willing to bet that this new IC will be used on the new Mazda 3.

You heard it first here!

 

[nomahh]

Off-topic a bit:

Dr. Sound - thanks a ton for the pics & info. Small request: your sig pic is awesome, but it's slowing my page loads & scrolls to a crawl.

 

[funnylittlman]

Dr. Sound

Thank you for the updates.

You're (thumb) in my book!

 

[Aaron]

dr sound,

thanks for the info. At least we have proof of mazda looking into our problem with the pictures you posted.