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I'll be putting down a deposit today for a 2005 Mazda 3s sedan, taking delivery in early October, the Civic just hasn't been the same since I rolled it and I fear impending problems, its been a good run, but it'll be nice having some extra displacement and switching from auto. to std. trans.
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The car approached write-off status, but didn't quite make it there, the fact that it rolled w. only ~5000km on it had something to do with that. That and the fact I was hoping on not having insanely high insurance rates for the next 5 years.
Nope, HIDs are only an option on the American model, I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to import some though and fit the OEM variety yourself, or even buy an upgrade kit.
Congrats on the purchase, nice to see another civic owner go Mazda! However, from what I know there isn't many mods available for the Mazda3. And, there isn't such thing as easy HP(unless you own a turbo and you crank up the boost). I am speaking from experience. On my P5, with I/H/E, plugwires, and grounding Kit, I was only able to get about 18whp over stock.
Intakes with custom MAF sensors (because apparantly the ECU won't allow you to just plug in an intake and sometimes will throw a CEL) have produced upwards of 10whp on the dyno, but are still in R&D. Cam changing will be harder owing to the timing chain, but all in all I think one could conceivably add on a good deal of HP w. bolt ons to the 2.3. Also one might find limited parts interchangability from the SVT Focus owing to some platform similarities.
No, the leather trim felt kind of flimsy, its too slippy too. The cloth seats on the GT are nice, bolstering is good and you don't slide around.
Congrats on the purchase, nice to see another civic owner go Mazda! However, from what I know there isn't many mods available for the Mazda3. And, there isn't such thing as easy HP(unless you own a turbo and you crank up the boost). I am speaking from experience. On my P5, with I/H/E, plugwires, and grounding Kit, I was only able to get about 18whp over stock.
Intake - 1 hp
Header - 2 hp
Exhaust - 3 hp
Grounding kit - 0 hp <- better grounding = easier starting, less light dim with voltage drop.
18hp on bolt ons is wonderful if you really got it, I wouldn't complain. Those cars have a lot of front end space... turbo!
