2012 Mazdaspeed 3 build *picture heavy*

[RubikonKid]

Here's my girlfriend
I bought my girlfriend (2012 Mazdaspeed 3) back in October of last year. I've highly enjoyed this car and continue to fall in love with it even more each day.
It's been a slow build on it but it's about done and close to the power outputs I was hoping for.

Here she is the first night I brought her home.


I quickly got an itch on my butt to start modding it. First thing I did was an Injen cold air intake and a CorkSport turbo inlet pipe





I loved how the intake system I had just put on brought of the sound of the turbo and bypass valve. I couldn't get enough of it. I decided it needed to look different than the rest so I put fog light overlays on, painted the calipers red, and put on a set of 18x8 TSW Nurburgring's. At a later point I painted the emblems and fog light shrouds black.





Shortly after that I upgraded the rear motor mount to a JBR 80 durometer mount


At one point I had the resonator on the exhaust cut off and had a piece of steel pipe welding in it's place

After those things and a little bit of waiting it was time to get serious. So I ordered AutoTech fuel pump internals and a Cobb AccessPort (AP) and flashed my ECU to a stage one map from the AP.




After that it was time for a new set of tires. I did a lot of researching and after hearing how happy my friends were with these tires, I went with a set of 235/40/18 Michelin Pilot Super Sports


Next came what I had waited a while for. A CNT catless downpipe and a set of NGK step colder plugs






At this point I was happy with the car I so far but there was 1 more thing I wanted to get done. I needed to get tuned. So after a little debating on who I should go with, I decided to have Stratified Automotive Controls tune me. I'm currently still in the tuning process and my current power output is 276hp on my 5th revision of the tune.
Base horsepower I started with before the tune was 237hp
1st revision- 254hp
2nd revision- 269hp
3rd revision- 275hp
4th revision- 289hp (cold temps)
5th revision- 282hp
6th revision- 286hp


Base


6th revision


My tuning time is about up, it ends November 10th, I'm thinking I'll be around 285hp by the time it's over. Next summer I'm planning on running an E85 gas mix with goals around 320hp

And of course, here are a few more pics of the car.











Also, here is a picture of my new 2012 Honda CBR 600RR



Thanks for looking, questions about the car are welcome.

[RubikonKid]

Edit: I've been wrong all this time. Wrong calculations in the dyno program had me at lower numbers than I'm really putting out.

[Vinnyvkush]

look into getting a cpe catback when i had my speed6 love the way it sounded a lil on the high side tho

[BJoe]

Good luck on the E85 conversion once you do it, I bought a naturally asperated flex fuel car a couple years ago and even though I've lost mileage on the stuff, the car runs so much better on the stuff that the price spread has to be pretty horrible compared to the price of premium for me run gas in it any more.