Recent content by Highway Star

No, you're absolutely right Necessity. When you drive the ATX car like you would any other auto equipped car, it does feel laggy at first. My intention was only to share my findings with all the other 6/ATX owners. Driven properly, which in my book means aggressively, the 6s goes like a...

I've found that one can make a decent launch with the automatic by loading the tranny up against the brake just before launching. When done right, the car takes off very quickly, in fact, I dare say as quickly as a manual trans. Mine will take off with both tires squealing. Not excessively...

I don't know, and truthfully, I don't give a rat's ass. I bought the car to drive, not to sell. Mazda's have never had the resale of Toyota's and Honda's, probably never will. But they have always been driver oriented and reliable, at least the two that I owned before this one were. The car's a...

A guy on ebay has/had muffler set-ups for sale that bolted on right where the stockers do. IMHO, they looked good, and didn't seem too expensive (around $290 w/shipping). What I wouldn't give for a chip. The poor car is being hamstrung :rolleyes:

My free mods include removing the resonator box, pulling the "tray" out of the airbox, and cutting out the panel over the intake "tuba". I also ran ground wires from the TB to the battery. The only thing I can report other than bitchen' music from under the hood is that it does seem to pick up...

I'll see that Guiness and raise you 2 Murphy's (cheers) (cheers) (cheers) :D

(sigh)....Minus, my mang, first of all, take a pill, ok? If you look back to your original post on this subject, it seems to me that YOU were the first one to make the derogatory/wise-ass comments about whether or not somebody "actually wants to drive the car or not..." Just because somebody...

If you are used to other cars, and most of us are/were, the 6 may SEEM sluggish until you get to know it and how it likes to be driven. I have the 6s w/the ATX and I would hardly call it "sluggish". First of all, don't floor it from a dead stop. Instead, step down firmly but steadily,and then...

18 years old? You don't even have control of your hormones yet, let alone your car! I was power-shifting, using the "heel & toe" technique, and ripping apexes in a screaming 4-wheel drift when you were still a stain in your daddy's shorts! Control indeed! (lol)

You monkeys are missing the point entirely. Read the previous posts...Those of us that are defending the ATX are not doing so in preference to the stick, but just because it's very good as far as automatics go. We love driving a stick as much as the next goon, but chose the ATX out of...

The reason I have an ATX is the same as Mazdaspeed6s's. If we had spent that much money on a car that our wives couldn't drive too, we'd be sleeping in our cars. It's her car too, and she deserves to have an automatic. I jam a 10 spd Road Ranger tranny in a Mack cabover for a living, and rest...

I would not "throw" a manual trans into 1st gear while driving. If I were going slow enough to want first gear, but not stopped, I'd double clutch and put it into first while still rolling, no problem. I do the same thing with the ATX below 15 mph, if I want 1st, I shift it down and smoothly...

This is the best excuse/reason for the limiter that I have heard yet, it actually makes sense. If this is the case however, there must be a way around it eventually. There's plenty of cars out there that aren't limited because of this. Do they use a different type of shaft?, like a "Racing"...

While this statement is completely true, I find it VERY hard to believe that Mazda would give us the option of shifting our non-sporting, power robbing, over-priced, girlie-foo-foo ATX's if they thought that it was going to be detrimental to the trans. Warranty and all that. They put the manual...

That's scary. What a stupid thing to do on their part. Take away your power steering and brakes @ 125 mph? What the hell were they thinking? :wtf: