Recent content by Trademark

That just might have to be the route I go for the tuning part. I'm thinking that may be a while in the making, though, given where I'm at with the engine. New problem arose today. Hood release cable pulled through into the cabin at the end of the day a couple days ago, and now I can't get the...

That's is a really good idea. One I wish I had before I bought the Cobb lol. I'm actually currently running into the whole "lose your tune" issue, but what worries me more is that the AP is telling me that if it's not an OEM or Cobb tune I could brick my ECU by changing it. I'm speculating that...

Yea. I've already been prepping myself for how awful of a cleanup process that's going to be. Thankfully, it may actually be the least of my problems at this point lol. I think my big concern was that there was some kind of hidden bolt or something keeping the cover on. I ran out of daylight...

Been a good long while since I've updated this thread, but that's because it's been just as long since I've even touched my 3. Health issues, life stuff, etc. kind of get in the way, I reckon. That said, however, I've started working on it again over the last few days. New battery and oil...

Thank you so much for this! I hadn't seen or considered that yet, so I will absolutely give that a shot.

The way I see it, bad choices got me into this situation (don't buy a Jaguar), so they might as well get me out of it.

Indeed. So it sounds like I'm likely in the same boat either way. So it seems my options may be to pull this and do the work or acquire a second and do the work while I limp this one around. I only have to drive like 50 miles a month, so if this makes it 100 I get 2 months to work on the other...

I'm glad you asked, because I had forgotten to mention I checked it. I tested the battery at 12.34 off and 14.32 at idle. I believe those numbers fall pretty close to correct give or take. Not an electronics expert, though, so I could absolutely be wrong.

That was, unfortunately, my concern as well. I'm hoping to get to spend some time this weekend really getting into it, so hopefully we'll know soon.

Was feeling well enough today that I decided to go mess with it a bit. I cleared the codes and checked some more of the settings in the AP and figured I'd see if it could idle on it's own for a few while I checked to see if I could log with the current tune on. And even though I cannot log...

Oh good. Hopefully the rattle is just something trivial that worked itself loose and we're good. Why the hate for JDM engines? From what I've seen they are generally better maintained and pretty reasonably priced. Granted, I'm woefully unfamiliar with Mazdas in general, so maybe there's some...

Got a chance to mess with it again briefly tonight. The breather hose is definitely as seated as it can be. The tube from the intake is seated deeply near the joint on the piece it clips to. It definitely does look weird, though. The BOV was misaligned, and held on with two different bolts no...

One of the unlisted issues is that I don't have plates for it currently (waiting on title), so most everything that can be fixed without too much moving will be done first. So I'll be doing all of this, fluids, and plugs before moving it again. Once those are done I can justify the risk to get...

I'll have to look into the trim and get back on that. Hopefully I'll be able to run logs before I remove the current tune. The BOV i noticed wasn't particularly well secured. It was on my list of things to look at. I didn't, however, notice the breather hose. I'll take a peek at that tomorrow...

I grabbed some quick pictures of the bay before the sun went down. If you guys see anything out of place you'd like to see closer, please point it out and I'll grab some more. I'll get some of the whole car soon, just want get it at least a little bit cleaned up first.