Just thought I would share my 8 with the community (bought her in November).

Mods so far are mostly cosmetic, just had a brand new engine installed less than 500 miles ago under warranty + installed my new clutch and flywheel .

Mods:
Carbon Fiber front lip
Carbon fiber headlight eyelids
Carbon Fiber mirror covers
Carbon Fiber door pillars
Carbon fiber gas door
Stage 2 clutch + 11lb chrommoly flywheel
K&N Carbon fiber typhoon intake
VMS Purple oil catch can
After market tires/rims.
EDIT* Forgot to add my aftermarket waterpump







Will update with more pictures of the gas door/mirrors/eyelids/door pillars once its not snowing (indiana weather man).

 

just FYI if a Mazda Delealership replaced your engine it is a reman not a "new" engine...

 

I am aware but its *new* to me.

 

 

Looks good and my favorite color too...

 

Different rims, and a drop and you'd be golden! Plus a better intake wouldn't hurt (that K&N will).

 

What is wrong with the K&N?

Unfortunately I can't drop her at all right now, living in an apartment complex with massive speed bumps some days I scrape and I'm not lowered at all, my brother has an 04 GT and his is lowered about 2-3" and tore his exhaust wide open on the speed bumps.

 

The K&N sucks hot air from the engine bay and will cause you to lose HP... the factory intake is better... if ya want aftermarket for sound and asthetics get the AEM/MS or the Racing Beat... as for dropping it.. Tein S Techs will only drop it around 1" in the front and .75 " inch in the rear...(as per my sig pic)

 

This.^

 

I actually plan on super charging her soon once I get a few more dollars saved up, I would go turbo but it seems to be far too expensive for me to budget since I don't own a welder and can't manufacture my own exhaust parts, my plan is to get a centrifugal setup going over the summer intercooled of course so the K&N will be used as the air filter for the supercharger it self before the intercooler. I have no intentions of lowering it even half an inch as long as I am still living at this apartment complex just too much risk to take, i already go 1mph over them and only let half my car touch or it scrapes like crazy.

 

oh my please read up on boosting your car before the firstorm starts... even SC will cost you $4000 +...

 

The SC's for the 8 are more expensive than a turbo kit. And the Greddy kit is a bolt on (instructions on their site look straight forward). No welding that im aware of is required.

 

^ other than a bung on the oil pan for the turbo oil return line. Or a new pan with a bung already fitted. greddy makes one.

 

True. However the Greddy oil pan is a much better solution than reusing the stock one, as the Greddy holds more capacity (and turbo = More oil consuption). So if OP can swing a few hundred bucks on top of the price of a Greddy kit he can have a bolt on turbo kit.

 

I actually have a procharger laying around I was going to refashion for the project, all the turbo kits I have found available are pushing $5500+ and it doesn't include the oil pan, gages, oil feed lines, boost controller, bov etc. I make enough to afford it if I were to save up for about six months ahead of time but i just can't justify the cost when I have a procharger sitting collecting dust my only cost then is to get a custom bracket made, get the pulley gearing correct, intercooler, intake lines, bov, boost controller + tune.