What did you do to your ride today

Replaced my busted rear shock. Only did one since I plan on doing a full upgrade when it gets nice out again. The Mazda platform has been the worst at eating shocks. My last 3 ate three rear shocks. Hopefully, the replacement survives the rest of Winter.

 

Front suspension went in despite my best efforts to fuck it up.

 

Replaced my JBR shifter with the TWM full replacement. still needs a few tweaks but holy hell way more precise!

 

I drained my tranny fluid (very carefully and with much excitement) and refilled it with that good stuff!

 

Gave 'er a wash and installed a set of WellVisors in our randomly nearly-60* weather this afternoon. OCC install will be attempted tomorrow.

 

Atta boy!! How do you like it

 

Looks good Sharks!


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Thanks, man! Can't wait to get the winter wheel and tire setup pulled back off.

 

I will let you know once I get my car back on the road. I stripped and broke one of the bolts from the fuel pump so I am fixing that today!

 

Put it in a time machine. It now has 1,000 miles, is just broken-in, and is in perfect condition in every way (with all my mods intact, of course) o.0

 

I got mine it's 3rd speeding ticket


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Mish-mash OCC install success. CS kit using DM Stage 1 routing with a DM check valve added in, and easy-way-out daisy chained PCV hose.

 

well atleast CS fixed the issue of the tops of their cans popping off... Why not just get a DM can?

 

I have found that it is very easy to speed while driving a speed3. It also seems to makes me a more aggressive driver than I really need to. Like for example, I need to switch lanes to exit the highway. That's alright, I'll wait till I'm close to the exit because I got the power to get into a gap and switch lanes near the exit anyway. If I was driving my wife's CX-5, I would have just switched lanes early LOL.

As for what I did today, datalogs this morning and sent datalogs to Jason a few minutes ago.

 

CS kit was a surprise xmas gift; after discussing various routing options with smarter guys than I am, I ultimately decided I preferred the DM routing. Just needed to pick up a check-valve so the IM can't push air back into the can, and routed it using DM Stage 1 directions. Totally happy with everything else about the CS kit, just connected it up in a slightly different way.

"Easy way out" mod was because I was able to disconnect the hose from the IM side, but couldn't get it off the PCV itself...so instead I just used a fitting to connect the new hosing to the OEM hose and avoided spending excess time/effort/swearing trying to get it off of the PCV without breaking it.

 

Just keep an eye on it to make sure that daisy-chained hose doesn't kink/block flow. Also, you may want to look into an in-line check-valve VTA fitting like this:

Back in the day, I got it from Damond for ~$10 bucks, and it gives extra venting of CC pressure with no vacuum leaks. I put mine on the line from the PCV to the OCC. But you should be able to put it on the OCC to IM line, instead. Great future-proof mod for up to 30psi too, if/when you upgrade your turbo.

 

Haha very true. All the speeding tickets I have gotten are when I am not purposely speeding. I thought it was a 110 kmh zone so I was driving 120 kmh. But it was a 100 zone. :/ $325.25 later. I too get very aggressive in the speed as well. Unless my wife and kid are in it. Then I drive like a grandpa.


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Haven't gotten a ticket in my Speed yet, but I did just get one in my wife's Jeep.

 

I triple-checked the hose coming off of the PCV and it isn't kinked and doesn't seem to be too unnaturally positioned; I just angled it downward a bit from where it would have fit onto the IM port and added in the fitting, then ran the new hosing over to the can in the typical driver wheel-well location. If anything, the bends in the OEM hose are pulled a bit straight with how I have it routed now. I'm not too worried about a VTA check-valve at the moment, since I'm only targeting 21psi on my revised tune, but I may look into it when I'm finally able to swap in the CS turbo that I have waiting for install.

 

Had some nice sunny weather so I went to the car wash, while I was there guy in front of me decided to pop his hood and pressure wash his engine bay, then used his sleeve to wipe the silt off the wheel well