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Don't quote me on this, but I believe stock it's programmed for 9psi in 1st, 12psi in 2nd, and 15.6 in the remaining gears. Power also gets limited depending on steering angle, I have no idea how much. From a Car and Driver Review: As for the torque steer, Mazda knew it would be Oscar winning...

I've been struggling with the common issue of our rear sway bar endlinks loosening up. I had a similar problem with my 93 626 (which used the same stupid allen-key design) when I swapped-in a much thicker addco rsb. But someone on the 626 forum had found out that the endlinks from a mid-90's...

Yeah, I never run the climate control in auto. It just doesn't do what I want it to, so I always run it manually. Also, the temp control is so incremental it takes dozens of turns to go from full heat to a more moderate temp. I hate to hijack but I need to find a way to retrofit a regular...

My favorite factory boost "gauge" was on my cousin's old '88 323 GT. A tiny green idiot light in the shape of a turbine would come on whenever the turbo started spooling. Ridiculous! I do wish our cars would come with an oil temp gauge though, waiting for the oil to warm up (which takes longer...

1st doesn't have a synchro (I think), so it's difficult to get into when moving unless you rev-match. 1st is so short on our cars I don't like to use it for anything other than a dead stop, anyway. I've never had a problem getting into second, but I always try to rev-match when downshifting. I...

Just had to throw in my 2. For my tastes the ms3 is an amazing highway car. Many of my highways have curves though and I prefer to do about 140kms/hr. I find the suspension to be stiff enough to stay controlled on high-speed corners, but compliant enough that bumps on high-speed corners don't...

Wider is not better when it comes to snow, a skinnier tire increases the pressure on the contact patch and is better at digging through the snow to get traction on the ground underneath. Look at rally cars, when they run on snow courses they use super-narrow tires. I'm not knocking your...

I'm also interested in oem rx8 rims for next spring (stock rubber is done after two summers, ouch), so I'd love to know once and for all if 235's clear without rolling the rear fenders.

Are you sure you're not hearing the front suspension bushings creaking? Our cars all get noisy as hell on the tiniest of bumps in cold weather, which goes away once the car warms up. I can't see how a wrong-offset tire would only rub when cold, especially on small bumps that don't compress the...

Driveability is always slightly compromised with a lighter flywheel. I had one in my old 626 and it noticeably altered the car's character, I loved it. But if you spend alot of time crawling in stop/go traffic with the AC on you'll hate it. Pros: Crisper throttle response. At higher revs...

Nice! I'm planning on getting a pdx5 and that looks like a great place to hide it.

My dealer made a big spiel when I bought the car about how their prices include floor mats, block heater, locking wheel nuts, etc. Then they wanted to charge me for an oil-pan heating pad because it wasn't a mazda part. I waited until the proper block heater came out and mentioned that it was...

You're both right. To clear this up, Mazda didn't have a true block heater for our cars right away. So dealers were charging to put heating pads on the oil pans. I think it was around last fall when the DISI-specific block heater became available, that's when I got mine (for free!). The best was...

I normally prefer twin tips, but I'm not 100% convinced it suits the ms3. The price doesn't help, either

Here's what I did: http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123701496&highlight=improve+bose+for+cheap not sure if you have the bose but I've been very happy with this little upgrade so far.

JL stealthboxes are always too pricey, but in their defence they actually spend quite a bit of R&D on each one to make it sound as good as possible. I just wish they'd sell it unloaded, a W3v3 would not be my first choice for a sub.

Sorry man, this isn't a good plan. Non-bose runs 4 ohm door-speakers powered from the head-unit. Bose runs 2 ohm door-speakers with 4 ohm tweeters powered from an amp under the driver's seat, with specific wiring harnesses from the factory. A tiny 5 1/4" sub sits under the passenger seat...

Most car stereo shops will build a custom box for you, I don't know what they charge, though. If you go ported DO NOT build it to manufacturer's specs, they usually spec too small of a box with too high of a port-tuning frequency (to save space and have a short port length. This is what gives...

after my 626 with eibach pro-kit springs and addco rsb my ms3 seems pretty smooth. I do wish that mazda had spent more time tuning the rebound damping, this car feels pretty bouncy on medium to big dips. My winter tires are 16's and the ride gets really cushy with them, but so does the steering...

What kind of amp (s) are you using or planning to use? Some amps have an rca pass-through output, which you could use to feed your sub amp. Many 4-channel amps can allow the rear channels be driven from the same input as the fronts, so you could run the other pair of rca's to the sub amp. That...