Welp, it's about time that I hopped on the built bandwagon. I've been pushing the car pretty hard since I bought it, so it was only a matter of time. A few weeks ago, my car started running really shitty, sputtering really bad, and barely staying alive. I decided to pull the plugs and check the coils. Plug #2 was coated in oil. I had been losing oil for a bit, so rather than wait for it to REALLY blow up, I'm going to build it before it can really mess something up. Can't complain about ~142k miles and a majority of them at 400+ tq.
A little history of the car:
Bought at 33k miles in 2013 and after meeting @Enki and @udntknw for the first time, it was all downhill from there. I hadn't ever worked on any of my cars, and really didn't care much about them until I got my speed. I went to my second ever Mazda meet with them in Sierra Vista for a partout and was planning on buying a rear motor mount from the guy. I ended up leaving with a JBR TIP/SRI, JBR RMM, Accessport, and eventually Cobb Downpipe from the same guy. After looking around for a tuner for a bit @Enki convinced me to just tune it myself... and thus, ButtStallion Tuning was created.
Around 114k miles, I ended up buying @Enki 's turbo setup among other things when he decided to go all in. Here is a dyno pull of it fairly recently:
My current mod list is:
EFR 6758 Turbo
.85 AR Hotside
ButtStallion 3.5" Intake
CPE Top Mount Intercooler
Full Race Exhaust Manifold
Full Race VBand Downpipe
Magnaflow Catback Exhaust
JBR Trilogy Mounts (Highest Duro)
PERM Plate
Custom Dual Catchcan Setup
Luk Clutch
Fidanza Flywheel
DW 65c Fuel Pump
CS Skidplate
JBR Short Shifter
JBR Shifter Bushings
JBR Mudflaps
TSW Nurburgring 18x8.5" +45
245/35/18 Michellin Pilot Super Sports
Cobb Accessport V2
ButtStallion E30 tune
My new build list currently:
EFR 7163 w/ .85 AR hotside
Manley 88m Platinum Series Pistons
Manley H Beam Rods
ARP Main Stud Set
L19 Head Stud Set
ARP Crankshaft Pulley Bolt
Gaskets & Bearings
VVT Stuff
Cleaned/Flow Tested Injectors
Massive Speed Balance Shaft Delete
CS Injector Seals
Damond EGR Delete Kit
SpeedSolutions Brass Shift Fork Pads
SpeedSolutions Crank Keying
CS Cams
CS Intake Manifold
Supertech 70lb Valve Springs
Supertech Followers/Shims
Custom PI Kit
Modified CPE TMIC
Koni Yellow Shocks/Struts
Eibach Springs
New OEM Coolant Lines
New Endlinks / Swaybar bushings all around
Fuel-It Ethanol Content Sensor w/ Bluetooth Capabilities (ties into Eonon headunit for display)
Damond Side Mounts
HTP 51R Battery Box
Tucked PI harness from Eric
Re-loom and re-wrap entire wiring harness
Ricey Additions:
Repainting most interior trim (stock silver stuff was beat)
Powder coating
Eonon 6163 Head Unit
Pioneer GM-D8604 Amp
LED replacements for all interior bulbs
Currently I've got the whole car torn apart and I'm just waiting to get the motor pulled out and onto a pallet to ship out to Speed Solutions.
It'll be nice to clean out the engine bay since everything is disgusting in there.
I'll keep this updated, but this whole process has been taking a while unfortunately. Once I get the motor back and in the car, I'll have a whole lot of re-tuning to do, especially when I add the meth in for some extra fueling headroom.
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