I follow a BEAUTIFUL satin silver hatchback one on instagram and its got me so tempted... satin silver looks SO good with the body lines of the car, but at the same time I do like my polymetal gray.
These wheels were 18x8 which is an inch wider than stock with a 225/40 tire I believe but am now on a 18x8.5 on the same tire with no issues with rubbing or anything!
Great vid man! This is kinda off topic so sorry in advance but do you know much about the JB4 TUNER? I was thinking about putting it in my 21 Mazda3 Turbo hatch. Want to at least get 300hp lol.
Thank you! So I actually had a 2013 BMW 135is and I installed a JB4, intake, and catless downpipe. That car was rated at 320hp/tq from the factory and I hit 400 torque to the wheels after those mods. The JB4 is basically a piggyback ecu. It plugs into the stock ECU and various sensors and adjusts their inputs/outputs to tune the car, increase boost, and make more power overall. It worked really well and came with several pre made maps depending on what mods you have, fuel, and had a map that you could customize. I would recommend it as it was relatively cheap and easy to install, was customizable, made a big difference in power, and it won’t void your warranty as it doesn’t actually change the stock ecu tuning
The owner ended up selling the car about a year after this, but as far as I know there were no issues. The car rode well with the springs and they don’t increase the stiffness so far beyond that stock that issues should arise.
No, I don’t remember the exact reason why. Guessing it wasn’t necessary to do due to the design of the rear suspension. He never had issues with bottoming out the rear suspension after the install
@@didi3000 the top hat (black metal piece with three studs that go through the body of the car)? It is possible to turn it with the springs on, that’s normal. You might have to turn it a bit to align the studs and lower strut bolt holes/mount. Once it’s installed it won’t turn anymore.
Close to stock! My buddy who owns the car says he doesn’t really notice a difference between this and stock, although the handling and body control is improved.
Exactly why I’m doing it on my 3 turbo - it doesn’t take corners the way the regular (shitty) 3 takes corners for one, because it’s got +75 hp! Secondly, The Mazda g vectoring does next to nothing at a corner in the turbo (which is also why I’m adding the big brake kit sometime as well). Also the torsion beam at the rear sucks too - in previous years they supposedly had independent rear suspension in both reg 3s and turbos
