Car Thread!

[D-Lew]

OK I FINALLY GOT MY CAR YAY ME!!!!
CHECK OUT A COUPLE PICS

I am soo excited!! its great I love it hahah comments welcome!

those are just a couple I snapped in the parking lot at work this morning about to walk in lol...ill get more later

-Kevin

Sexy. I'm usually more partial to hatches but I have a hard time deciding between the 3 sedan and 3 hatch, they both rock so much. You basically got what the new Focus was supposed to be.

I recommend taking a look at these:
Borla for catback exhaust
Koni for shocks (and springs unless you want a more agressive drop)
Volant if you want a name brand intake

Those are my personal favs, they reek of quality.

 

[alvino]

My sister was thinking of buying the Mazda 3 hatchback. She got a Volkswagen Golf instead.

 

[D-Lew]

Should have got a Mazdaspeed 3. 263 hp turbo I heard bad things about the new Civic Si throttle response too, since it's drive-by-wire also. They say you can peg the throttle and let off quickly without the engine responding. I was thinking about putting a bigger throttle body on my Neon, because dodge purpously modified the throttle body for the manual transmission models to respond slower, for newer drivers.

I changed my throttle body. Went from about the size of a quarter to a 6.5cm diameter.

Except that's a different model and my OEM throttle body was actually smaller.
Thanks, Ford.
But anyway, now it's like a surge of torque and instant throttle response, but a little after you press it, it will start to slow down a lot, you will only really feel it from a stop. It makes a ton of noise, though. Good noise.

Yay, 400 posts.

 

[alvino]

Nice. Keep it up! Haha...you shoot critters off your back porch?

 

[aff1993]

i dont have a car, im 13

 

[aff1993]

although id like a lotus elise, if anyone got one for me!! lol

 

[MooseMan1]

the mazdaspeed 3 has a turbo the but the normal mazda 3 has an aftermarket kit...

lets see what I already want to do:

Short Ram Air Intake
Cat-Back Exhaust
Short Throw Shift Kit
Throttle_Body Grounding
Timing Variation....
Coil-Overs


to bad all my money went to that :-( hehehehe

all those things don't make much difference in your performance really. Do you plan on anything major? I doubt all that will get u any more than 20HP, 20 if your lucky.

 

[kjman87]

all those things don't make much difference in your performance really. Do you plan on anything major? I doubt all that will get u any more than 20HP, 20 if your lucky.

id love to do more major mods...im just low on the $$$$ now lol...turbo/SC would be nice but not now, or on this car lol...or if NA cams and such but again not now...those things its hard to void a warrenty with lol...

 

[D-Lew]

all those things don't make much difference in your performance really. Do you plan on anything major? I doubt all that will get u any more than 20HP, 20 if your lucky.

The 2.3 Duratec responds very very well to intake and exhaust mods if you get a chip, so that sounds about right. 20hp is pretty noticeable though, and for a car that's already pretty quick, it would help out. You'd probably see a lot of torque out of it too, which would really be noticable.

 

[kjman87]

The 2.3 Duratec responds very very well to intake and exhaust mods if you get a chip, so that sounds about right. 20hp is pretty noticeable though, and for a car that's already pretty quick, it would help out. You'd probably see a lot of torque out of it too, which would really be noticable.

yeah Now I have to find these mods lol!!