Swapped injectors... I had to troubleshoot that problem for months. I guess it's a common mistake during rebuilds, so much so that Mazda put out a bulletin about it. Glad you guys got it right away.

 

Thinking of ditching the mazdaspeed spoiler and going spoilerless. your opinions?

 

Definitely not the MS. I don't think it flows

 

Yep, ditch the spoiler.



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ditch it

 

We can trade trunks for a day and see how you like it with the factory lip spoiler.

 

I think i would like it alot actually.

 

Don't trade him back

 

Meah, i have a spoilerless trunk already. Just would need to add the lip. It will be fun to park 9k and my car next to one another at shows for sure.

 

How's the tune coming along?

 

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Just fine. I have a base tune in place. The car drives well at light load. I'm trying to put some miles on it and make sure everything has had a bit of a shake down before the real tune. With as much new stuff that went on at once I really want to be comfortable with everything mechnically before the tune. My next big step is to get the car back up on jacks and make sure everything is still snugg and not showing signs of stress.

 

nice.
can't wait to see final results.

 

Sensible approach ... although some issues will only surface once you actually make a reasonable amount of boost .

 

And remember all it takes is one ping and you can kiss a lot of work goodbye...so be careful

 

Yep, all the best hardware in the world is useless without a good tune.

 

..........................if on stock Apexs

 

Or NRS, Or Atkins......

 

On anything...

You might think some of the softer ones are fine...but they tend to bend enough that they don't move freely...and you loose compression...and get blowby and then things start to get strange.

I had problems with a very intermittent miss that we finally figured out was from an apex seal that seemed to hang up every once in a while because it was a little curved. Why it didn't do it all the time I will only guess. Ended up loosing a rotor from that one.....

 

You can 'get away with' a lot more . On stock apexs you break the angle tip with so much as a sneeze.

 

Mill the rotors, put in OEM FD seals. Done.

 

Stock seals FTW! 20,000 and counting. Although I have never pinged (that I know of).

 

20,000 of mild boost is fine .


Take it to 10psi + and lets see how the next 20,000 goes ..... I dare you

 

I have been at 10psi since finalizing the tuning actually, only recently (like last month) have I dialed it down to 5-7psi since my turbo has started smoking occasionally. I think 10psi is pretty safe, but I won't venture above that, I'd like to drive my car for while and enjoy it.

 

^wise man.

 

You have done well to not have a ping at some stage - why your experience qualifies OEM seals as 'the best'