I got it from you ..... misinterpreted what you said .

 

Jeeze I hope it's not contagious!!

 

Someone is giving Joker a run for his money:

 

Oh lawd.

 

On another note :/

Faster Than A Superbike: A Real 1,017hp Street Fighter - Speedhunters

 

Didn't Mazda make a 4 door sedan with a 2.3L turbocharged Duratec?

Didn't it only last 2 years?

 

^Wasn't it a notoriously unreliable engine.... Oh wait that's par for Mazda right joker?

 

No, not particularly unreliable. The V6 was the hugely unreliable Mazda6 engine. Worse than the Renesis, though it gets zero press or bad rap for it. The Ford V6 Duratec is rather horrific in reliability. Numerous dealer techs have agreed that they were swapping V6s at a rate of 5 - 8 times more frequently than 13B-MSPs.

But yeah, the Mazdaspeed6 was a 4 door sedan of about the same size as the RX-8, it gained a bunch of weight due to the AWD and the heavier engine package. According to that swap type reasoning, it should have outsold the RX-8 and would still be getting sold today.

When actually it sold decently in 2006, barely at all in 2007, and was halted after only 2 model years due to poor sales.

Kinda 'proof is in the pudding' type statement.

 

For full disclosure, how many v6 of that type were sold? Would you say 5-8x more?

 

Doubtful, but I'll dig into it. The references were the V6s in Mazda6s, not Ford techs, so the comparable counts would be the Mazda6 sales vs RX-8 sales. They will be higher for sure, but I doubt by even as high as a factor of 5. I'm willing to be wrong though, i'll see what I can find.

 

I found some more of Joker's work:

 

Nice welds. Its crazy someone who does that much custom work should be a little better at welding

 

Talk about free flowing exhaust! oh well, it will likely leak out thru all the weld cracks before it gets to those bends...

 

Those pictures are hilarious.

 

That bend,

 

Maybe he's sponsored by Mr Pretzel

 

Agreed, that blue oval V6 was/is a turd. Friend of mine has one. I didnt' think it was possible for any engine to have more carbon problems than a lightly driven rotary. But, that v6 takes the cake. Front and rear main seals were also made of tissue paper...

I had a speed6 for almost 4 years. Fantastic car to drive as a daily driver, ESPECIALLY in the snow, but man did it fall on it's face WELL short of redline. It was no fun at the track and it started to develop reliability issues at 80k. Wheel bearings, shocks, turbo seals all went out around that same time. Plus that stock HPFP was really sketchy...

It did handle amazingly well for a sedan. I liked the 2.3MZR, i think it got better over the years, reliability wise. I think the reason the speed6 didnt sell well is because if its perceved competition being the STI and EVO, which it was never intended to directly compete with...and the fact that it didnt have an automatic option...for better or worse, automatics sell.

 

holy **** pearl. please tell me that exhaust is a joke

 

Guess which car went unsold again on Ebay, My $8,000.00 exstimate looks to be on the high end now in terms of expectations.

 

But he had 50 bidders on it before.....

 

And none of them were willing to bid up to his reserve. Shocking.

He was positive he could turn a profit.

 

If you zoom in on the rx8 undercarridge pic he posted , you will see his welds have not improved much since then . Hence my "seagull" comment ....

 

To be fair, those were posted by a shop in New England. The "Joker's work" reference was not literal.


Still....

 

A "shop" produced those welds? Just goes to show you never know what your gonna get if you dont know your mechanic... please dont tell me they tried to charge money for that crap.

 

No, the shop was supposed to fix it.

The caption the pics came with originally:
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The shoe still fits.