please don't paint the door handles, it makes them look like cheap plastic ones

I added a little something that should have come from mazda: :D:

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Opened my back windows for the first time.

i installed an HID kit looks sweet :)

i stared at my car in the garage, and wonder why the hell i even bought it lol

haha Gotta love those days.. :cool:

I pulled forward too much into a f****** bench I am so pissed

Got two new rear tires (Hankook V12s) under warranty, because they found nails in both rear tires when they rebuilt my transmission under warranty.

Dang! Trans rebuilt already? Just ordered BBKs for my R3. 4-pot Rotoras with 14" 2 piece discs up front and TCE's Wilwood BBK with 13" discs on stock calipers in the rear.

It's an '09 with ~32K miles. I bought it with 19K miles.

5th started grinding. When the Mazda dealership took apart the transmission to replace 5th, they found that 6th was replaced at some Mazda dealership in Colorado before I bought it, and that service center put in some shaft backwards, which wore out 6th as well. So they went ahead and rebuilt the whole thing.

Thank goodness for warranties.

what I did today
 

put on a greddy SP2 exhaust and got more low :ylsuper:

thats about it, if you are in the so-cal area come and hit up AE performance they did a great job today installing my exhaust the guys there are pretty cool they are having a 1st saturday monthly meeting this saturday at 8am coffee, donuts and a butt load of cool cars.

GO HERE link below CHECK IT OUT!

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excuse my dirty car I live in the desert its hard to keep clean!

Dropped in on WCS

Installed the Davesport cat mid pipe and BHR ignition
Changed Trans and diff fluid

Dirty? With all the road construction around me, my 8 hasn't been that clean in almost a year. It was detailed last summer, but there's no point now until they finish these projects. As soon as I take it out, it looks like crap again :cussing:

kjb, is that your RV?

It was when I took the pic. We've since upgraded to a bigger one.

Picked up my replacement front bumper from RX8ualiv. Clean it up and install it tonight!

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Oh, I think I'm going to have to steal that idea!

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Walked by it and got in a PT Cruiser, because it runs.

Menzerna Swirl remover, Eraser, 3 coats of Zaino Z5pro. Tomorrow, 3 coats of Zaino Z2, then Friday Interior, Exterior plastics, tires, seal wheels, Pinnacle Sovereign Paste wax.

wow
 

SICK CAR!! :icon_tup::icon_tup:

Man, that is depressing.

I drove it like I stole it! Does that count?

I drove up to WCS's place with beers

We installed speed bleeders on my 8 and changed out the brake fluid. Speed bleeders are a great mod for any car!

We also created a new tune to enable advantages of BHR ignition.

More to come!

Isn't it? The immobilizer is on the fritz, so.....I bought a PCM, Keyset, Ignition Lock and all that happy shit from the same car. Still didn't work.
So, I sent the new one to racing beat today to be programmed without the immobilizer feature so I could drive my car again.:wallbash:
Though, the PT is a GT, so, it feels "gofast".

First, I did the oil change... It went from there to another: Buffed out the headlight lenses, removed the damaged front bumper and the under trays, removed the OEM front spoiler, finally installed my A/C Condenser screen that's been in my trunk for half a year, and found out about the tow hooks in the trunk so I attached to see it on the bumper support. I may as well do a coolant flush and replace the spark plugs while all these stuff are uninstalled.

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Cleaned up the replacement bumper then installed all the buffet of parts.

This was sorta strange. I just took mine to grab some groceries and on the way back, saw a virtually identical 8. The only visible difference was the color of the wheels. Mine are black, this one one had dark bronze wheels. Spooky Friday the 13th stuff!!! Okay, maybe not :)

Moved my car out the drive way for my wife to get her spot again lol
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I do this everyday cuz the PT is my daily driver

I dropped my baby off at the paint shop. She is getting all pretty for me.

I admired her parked there on her carpet in the garage, as I got in the Explorer to drive to work.

She gets her turn on weekends. :)

Got my first ticket in it...100 mph in a 70 :nono:

During the pulling over process, I bottomed out and cracked my undertray:banghead:

Installed the grom unit

Took the 8 to Canadian motor sports park. ( AKA Mosport.)
With free tickets from Mazda Canada Team for a weekend of racing.(awesome)

Changed the ignition coils. Much better.

2 extra coats of Z2. Tomorrow, Pinnacle Soverein Wax.

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Washed it, waxed it, cleaned the interior, conditioned the leather, washed the factory floormats in the washing machine and now they look brand new and smell nice. :)

Round trip from Grand Rapids to Detroit for a baseball game. Light traffic on the way back, so decided to feed it some gas and see what happened. Learned I could hit 120 in 4th. Will need to find a place where I can explore the upper limits of 5th and 6th.

I hooked the battery charger to it today. It's so blasted hot to drive it here.

took her to get an oil change, tightened the new lug nuts, and washed her, and stood and stared at her for a good half hour or so. lmao

Out to Mosport today to take in great racing action and to support Mazda.

gave her a little spray wash, it's been too hot and sunny to really wash it.
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Installed a BHR midpipe and did an oil change. I was really close to completely tearing off the exhaust hanger when removing the OEM Cat (took me about 15 minutes of prying to get it off the hanger :wallbash:)

Tomorrow (or later today): Trans and diff fluid change as well as a coolant flush if i'm not too hungover:all_cohol

Which mid-pipe version did you get? Sound clip?

I got the no cat no second O2 (don't plan on going FI anytime soon). I will try and get a sound clip of it later today. I'm loving the way it sounds, it's not too loud until you get to the 5K+ band then it just sounds amazing.

These arrived today :)

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Installed the turbo XS Catback plus mid pipe!! sounds great!!

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Nice looking, good shot!

I got a new windshield from the GF for my Birthday :) Bye bye 8 year old pitted and chipped windshield :)

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gave her a bath and slapped this on her :bootyshak. lol

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