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Sweet shit, the price for a brand new DISI just keeps going up and up. I remember when it used to be around $8k and that felt like way too much. $13k is 'fuck no' territory. Not when you can go 2.5 Duratec bottom end for a few grand.

This is such an odd question considering that we've been custom tuning this platform and removing those limiters for the last 16 years.

I'm 6 ft 2 and daily a CX-30 now and it fits me fine. The new interiors actually are superb. It is a really, really nice place to be most of the time and IMO it's the best thing about the car, that and how quiet it is. Seriously, compared to my '12 MS3, it's dead silent on the highway. Is it...

Guys, Last year, I was seeing some clutch slip at full throttle on the highway (just fifth gear, never fourth) that I attributed to a failing DMF or dying OEM clutch, as I'm at 112k. I went out and bought a LUK/Fidanza setup in preparation for a clutch job. After trying Enki's clutch deglazing...

Cruising in vacuum at low throttle openings? 2500-ish.

That 3 Turbo is dead sexy, damn. Just wish they drove more like an actual sport compact and less like an Audi A3. My CX-30 is a great daily though

Anyone else feel like there's hardly any of us left? I rarely see any other Speeds here in northern new england. Everyone else blew up? Genwons all rusted out?

Anyone have this combo? I've been on Oranges for the last 70k and the ride is starting to feel harsher. Or, maybe I'm just getting old and soft. I emailed Koni directly about using the Special Actives (reds, formerly known as FSDs) with my Eibach Pro-Kits and they advised against it, claiming...

That is some truly amazing shit. Still the original trans? You modded/tuned? I should just sell my CX-30 and daily my Speed if I can keep driving the thing for eternity. I do worry about eventual parts availability, though.

Still holding boost in all gears now - which makes me wonder if the clutch and flywheel are actually fine, and that what I really have is an intermittent rear main seal leak. No evidence of this on the dipstick, though.

How's the chatter? That's my number one concern. If it's loud, I know it'll drive me nuts during normal driving.

Two weeks on since the deglazing and I'm still holding full power in 4th and 5th with no slip. Shit is miraculous. I'll get the clutch taken care of sometime in 2022, but it's far from a dire situation at this point given that the car isn't a DD. Before I pull the trigger on a flywheel, I still...

After a couple of sessions testing out the deglazing technique, followed by a few highway WOT runs in 4th and 5th, I can report that it seems to have worked. In the first of the 5th gear pulls, there was a brief RPM jump, but then it caught and pulled normally. All subsequent pulls were normal...

Looks like my clutch is finally on its way out after 111,000 miles. It's had a long life at 280whp, so it has done its duty and then some. Right now, it's only slipping at WOT in 5th gear, which isn't something I need frequently, and is still holding at all other times. Two questions - Would it...

You like the CX-30? Why'd you replace your 4th gen 3 with that instead of a new one? My current daily is a '21 CX-30 base, and it's a smooth and civilized daily with surpisingly capable handling. The turn-in feels like it may be sharper than my MS3 thanks to that brake vectoring shit they use...

Totally fine with me guys. I'm all for anything that helps the site, the community, and the platform.

Good to know that this place is in good hands with Raider and that it'll be here for years to come. I was active back in the MSF days and somehow, after going on 10 years, I still have my '12 Speed and am still kind of obsessed with it. It's still stupidly fun to drive, even though I no longer...

Looks like the last new front page post here was back in 2019? The Reddit Mazdaspeed sub sucks, is full of kids with broken 180k mile cars, and because it's Reddit, long term knowledge retention for the community is impossible. I don't do FB groups. If this place goes, there will be literally no...

Yeah, I am tuned for step colder plugs currently, but as per all recent advice on this forum and elsewhere, I swapped from ITV-22s back to stock heat range plugs because of the mundane driving I was/am doing most of the time. I'll give the NGKs a try for the next round of plugs - haven't run...