PhatSpeed3 マツダ BL3FW

[— Phatmiata —]

........ Its awful in the snow, and every year I hope will be a snow-free year. .......

.........Driving in the salt of winter tends to take a toll on cars pretty quickly.

Meanwhile here in Florida .........

[theothersawyer]

Yup! I'm loving the weather these last few days!

[— Grip Driver —]

Another vote for snow tires. I have run them for at least the last 15 years.

[blkpearl]

My mazdaspeed 3 had a cork sport on exhaust on it including the careless downpipe. That is where u get most of your power. As well as their 3 inch intake. I did there first fuel pump internals and then they had to be taken out for a revision so once they did that they sent me a new one. Go fast or go home rich tuning did my 93 tune as well as my e85. Ets top mount intercooler took care of the air. Primary and secondary egr delete was done. Jbr oil catch can. Oil restrictor bolt in turbo. The forge ninja sword v1 bpv. The cork sport short shift block and the bushings was a nice upgrade. I also did their wiper delete. Did the rally flaps and eibach springs to bring it down. 5mm spacers for the privat wheels. Corksports big mouth carbon scoop the first batch that sold out. Car made 330 hp and almost 400 on torque with the e85. Had some other parts on it as well from grim racing, jbr, and some others I can't even remember. It was a very fun car to say the least!

[etikoner]

That's a lot of power for a FWD. lol

[blkpearl]

Yea it was scary fast. Could melt the tires on demand basically. The e85 is the key. You shouldnt run just straight e85 or the fuel pump the one under the hood will get Black Death and get gummed up a lot. So I went with 6.5 gallons of e85 and 6.5 gallons of 93. Perfect mixture. Running the e tune vs the 93 tune was night and day. Get tuned for e85 and phat, if you ever have any questions on speed 3 just pm me.

[— Phatmiata —]

Update with the Mazdaspeed3

Still really happy with this car. The factory tires are very soft and wear out fast though, so I replaced them with some harder tires since most of my driving is highway commuting anyhow.

Also had the A/C cooling fan motor replaced under warranty!! Really happy with my local service rep Anthony Homez at Precision Mazda Tampa for leaning heavy on Mazda North America to cover all costs since my mileage was over the warranty limits. However I reported the issue of the compressor tank purging around 30k miles. I'm sure Mazda could have just blown me off and made me eat the $600 bill, but Anthony was able to show them this was all related.

[— Phatmiata —]

In other news I have this sweet 2015 Mazda3 rental while they are working on the speed3 today. They are doing the brake pads and rotors but apparently I was too hard on the rotors so they have to replace them. But there are no OEM Mazdapeed3 brake rotors available in the state so they have to ship them in.



This car is pretty sporty though. Very nice interior too, and automatic plus manual transmission. I do love the looks of this next gen but no factory turbo option is a deal breaker for me. Still this is the best rental I have driving in a long time! Thanks again to Anthony Gomez at Precision Mazda Tampa for taking great care of his customers!! This guy needs some kind of excellence award, seriously, he always goes above and beyond for the customers, I could not be happier.

[mx54life]

The MS3 is the car that I almost got but the 6 sitting Mazda 5 got the freakin' vote. But I don't regret coz' as a daily driver after 200K+later the damn car is still strong. Anyhow I have driven the variant of this MS3 in the AWD form which was the MS6. And I have to agree that these boosted MZR are wicked. It's not much of the HP but the equivalent torque is the one that blew my butt all thru the 6 gears. Technically you have drive one of these to really appreciate what you are missing and for the price range it was unbeatable in my opinion. The thought of owning one even in a used form is still haunting me to this date. My son is driving soon so he can get the Mazda 5 (if I can solely decide) LOL. THEN I can find me a decent used one......

Randy did you ever wonder how wonderful if MS3 was an AWD? Not that it would matter but push her in the corners without fear? Well a friend is actually looking to see if he can find a good Mazda 3 with bad engine so he can transfer his MS6 into that car lol. I am pretty sure that a little massaging for the rear AWD component to bolt-on and fit but the platform is pretty much a plug and play. He dreamed of this since we read of the "Bosswagon" project where they fitted the MS3 engine into the Mazda 5.

IMHO this the engine that Mazda should have shoe in to the ND. They would have blown out the competition. This potent power house will put the ND in a different level. I still can't forget the thrill in balance of HP and Torq when I drove the MS6 some 7 years ago. Like you, my friend still grins when he drives his MS6, the real "sleeper" ugly look lol. Why the factory abandoned the Turbo MZR still puzzles me.

[— Phatmiata —]

Unless Mazda makes a turbo AWD MS3 I will be keeping this car as long as I can. Its that good.

[— Phatmiata —]

Got my hoopty back, wooooo wooooo!!

[mx54life]

Me want one too!

How's the maintenance cost for the last two years?

LOL never mind you haven't driven her over 10k yet? You are not worthy yet........lol

[— Phatmiata —]

Huh? It has 47,000 miles on it so far. No maintence other than the wear items, tires, brakes

[★ Unk577 ★]

A man should do his own brakes

[— Hammerhead —]

A man should do his own brakes

This!