What have you done to your Mazda6 today?

Got a new sticker it adds 75hp.. Lulz

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Took my car out of the garage for the first time in 2 weeks this morning. On my way to work, noticed that the bulb behind the right-most knob (temp setting) is burnt out, but the halo is still visible. Anyone know if that's a simple bulb change, or is that a more difficult one that requires soldering?

I had the halo and knob light out on two of mine. They were the same for both. I didn't have to solder just hard to strip the tiny wires on the bulbs from radio shack and then getting them through the holes in the holder and wrap the wire around like the old ones. It took some time and patience but simple. They were 12v mini bulbs and cost like $1.50 each.You will have to strip the wire all the way to the bulb to make it fit and re-use the silicone cover

here is a link: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102815
 
Finally installed the jbarone ssp and E4P heavy knob. It's a surprising amount of difference. I expected shift effort to increase due to the shorter lever arm on the ssp, but it feels kind of good. I feel like I'm being a bit more deliberate with my shifts and that the gates are more well defined now than they were before. At WOT during relatively quick shifts, it sort of feels like chambering a round in a rifle, really slick and mechanical. Anyway, that's what I did to my MS6 today.
 
My mazda window flags came in today. Gonna use these at the car show coming up soon.

I am not sure if you are meant to drive with these or not. At about 60mph it is flapping so violently. Its like the ones with the football logos on them. It looks cool on the car. but turns a lot of heads as people are trying to figure out what is blue flapping on the top of my car.
 
This afternoon I switched out the brake master cylinder so I can actually stop now.







...Oh, wait... That wasn't my MS6... That was Caitlin, my 7...
(cabpatch)
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-Jay
 
My mazda window flags came in today. Gonna use these at the car show coming up soon.

I am not sure if you are meant to drive with these or not. At about 60mph it is flapping so violently. Its like the ones with the football logos on them. It looks cool on the car. but turns a lot of heads as people are trying to figure out what is blue flapping on the top of my car.

ive got some of those.. and they snap off if you go 40 mph for a mile of so..
 
Is this true boosted? I made it about 5 miles at about 40-60mph and thought it was a bad idea.... Took it off before it flew off and hit another car.

Tuner- I got mine off ebay but I think the dealer sells them.
 
Is this true boosted? I made it about 5 miles at about 40-60mph and thought it was a bad idea.... Took it off before it flew off and hit another car.

Tuner- I got mine off ebay but I think the dealer sells them.

i tried it and one of mine started to crack, but maybe the ebay ones are better.. who knows.

ohh yeah and i have to make a custom strut tower bar.. since the turbo will be top mounted, i need and extra 1/2" of clearance..
 
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I think ebays is a 60mph flag. The cheap ones are limited to 40mph. More of a parade rated flag. There in the process of engineering a flag that can with hold the type of wind caused from a 1/4 drag.
 
I got two of those Mazda flags... both for free. One at the Auto Show (after I answered a skill testing question, name 5 Mazda models lol) and one at a meet I went to. There was a local meet for JDM cars and TM6 showed up with the flags on all the 6's, everyone was like wtf? lol. I wish I took a pic of all the cars.
 
My mazda window flags came in today. Gonna use these at the car show coming up soon.

I am not sure if you are meant to drive with these or not. At about 60mph it is flapping so violently. Its like the ones with the football logos on them. It looks cool on the car. but turns a lot of heads as people are trying to figure out what is blue flapping on the top of my car.
I got mine and drove down from MD w/mine...yeah...it started coming undone...so I took it off. I have 2 also. One came to my address in FL, cuz thats where my Mom has her RX-7.
(mswerd)
 
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