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    gmorristwn
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    Agreed. I’m still playing, but I’ve been taking sips rather than sitting down for several hours at a time several days in a row...

    Curious what type of engine management is being used in this build. Tuning for ITBs, particularly low load part throttle gets tricky. As evidenced with the two tries to get it started in the video.

    It’s trapped in there forever!

    I buy them in bulk from e-bay. I tell you, whoever Mazda sources their clips from...needs to be taken out back and get a stern talkin’ to.

    My county, by policy, prohibits officers from pursing suspects fleeing at high rates of speed, this being one of the reasons.

    Lets not forget that driving around without the ability to defrost/defog your windshield is not exactly great either.

    Yup. I always plug in a reader to check for cleared codes and inspect Long Term Fuel Trim percentages. If LTFT is greater than 7-10% in either direction, depending on the goals (ie not a project car) walk away.

    I saw this same car on Constitution on my way to work late this summer and was quite confused as I didn’t think the model was even released yet!

    My first though here too. This doesn’t make either of us horrible people, but that mother? She’s a horrible person for burdening her daughter with a laughably stupid first name.

    Heh...Ford Duratec is the Mazda MZR licensed to Ford.

    Intake and Exhaust manifolds all in one day? What did we do to deserve this? I give thanks.

    Yes, see the post above RE: Mazda 787B

    Great tech until the screws holding the butterfly plates come loose and end up in the combustion chamber...

    This reminds me of another good thing to look out for when purchasing used, plug-in that ODB reader and look at the LTFT!

    The proper term is MIL - Malfunction Indicator Lamp as you noted.

    99.99% of the time CEL is due to something in the emissions system, which other than a clogged cat, won’t do any harm to the car.

    Need the glasses for that...

    Oy...with what I’ve heard about the complexities of tuning SkyActive-G  engines, I can only assume SkyActive-X will be quite the challenge. Granted, if the market is there someone is going to figure it out, but it’s gotta have the market. Hell it took years for quality tuning of the stock ECU for the MZR NC!