Ordered my parts!
 

I've personally been a fan of originality and stock cars, especially with my 1968 GTO, since I first started liking cars. But recently after reading a bunch of posts and going through many threads and such I have decided to look into modding. I don't consider exhaust, rims, or suspension too much of mods so I was willing to get some exhaust work done a while back. So I already have a flowmaster muffler and resonator delete (done before joining forum), and after some research and advice from a few of you guys.. I decided to throw down the money and clicked the pay now button. You bastards have changed me!!! My list of ordered parts as of yesterday and today: COBB AP, UR Test Pipe, Autotech Internals, COBB TIP, Denso ITV22's, SURE SRI, SURE Return, SURE Charge Tubes, SURE Countershift, SURE Anchors, and SURE Torq RMM.

Any thoughts, comments, or concerns? By the way I plan on getting a FREEKTUNE.

Lol welcome to the game of modding, now it will never end :tongue:

Nice! Congrats on getting started and choosing some very good parts! You will have nearly the same setup as me now.... but in a month I will be rolling with a gt3071r...:3some:

Where did you buy from?

I bought from Mazdaspeed 3 2010+ | SURE Motorsports and also I ordered from Mazdaspeed 3 - 2010- Gen2 - EdgeAutosport.com ... I highly recommend both companies, even though SURE was on back-order for 3-4 weeks with their TIP, they gave the $179 back! Which I then turned around and instead bought the COBB TIP from edgeautosport! Edgeautosport was also great with answering all of my questions, and replied to my messages/emails very quickly, not to mention they also gave me some pretty good prices! :bigok:

charge tubes are pricey lol, i love white silicone tho, and not just the ones with milk in them

Yeaaaaaa $75 I thought was a bit much for just some hosing.. oh well

My only comment is that you could have waited on the Denso ITV22's. You don't need to install them until you start monitoring things with the AP and notice KR creeping up. But at least you have them if you need them in the near future.
I couldn't agree more about Edgeautosport. JP is the man and they're prices and customer service is spot on. I should be a damn spokes person for them.
@JP@edgeautosport.com
@eric@edgeautosport

Would you guys recommend waiting to install them? Or should I just do it and get it done with?

I would wait. Get an e-tune by one of the awesome tuners on here and then see what they have to say.

I would throw them in. I ran ITV-22's since I put my autotechs in with no issues.

Per Cobb's recommendations I gaped my itv 22's at .028
Originally I thought you were not supposed to gap iridiums But on Cobb forums they recommend it.

For my big turbo im gapping at .024

When I install my 3071 do you recommend .024? Also I will probably be running the NGK's since Denso's are back ordered. What would you gap the NGK's?

Try .026 to start. Same with the ngks I will be putting those in tonight

Nice! Thanks Eric. Hey I have a thread in the fuel section (sorry not trying to thread jack) could you check it out and shead any light on it? Thanks again:You_Rock_Emoticon:

You're off to a great start man! I wish I would've had the coin to buy a bunch of parts all at once. I had to space them out, mainly in an attempt to hide the purchases from my wife.

Only things missing power wise are a DP and aftermarket IC...........you can always get suspension stuff too!!!

My next plans are an IC, then coilovers/rims.

You should post a vid of how your car sounds. I'm interested to hear it!

I might do before and after. Fly by's, revs, in car and others. Anything specific you guys want me to record?

Idle, fly bys, wot....any drone?

You will bless and curse the day you started modding....

I get a little drone from around 1500-2000 RPMS. BUT it doesn't bother me because my GTO also has straight through to flowmasters and that drones from like 1500-3000 is my guess (no gauge to see actual RPMS..) That's the late 60's for ya...

Yeah, I'm 40 and have had plenty of modded cars in my time, so I swore I was'nt going to do a thing to this car. 8k on the odo and down there is my sig. :saevil: Want even moar.

Update already. I will be getting NGK's instead of the Denso's.

Finally, a newb (who joined this month) who isn't a complete fucking retard! You're in!

AP, internals, SRI, custom tune, this man has done his reading. Thank the Lord!

It's gonna feel like a totally different car. Congrats!

Congrats i just got a bunch of parts too. Big Thanks to eric and JP!!!

Thanks man! Since I'm still 18, and living with my parents (fml)... They've started to get upset with how much I'm on the forum, compared to doing homework or studying. hahaha! Wahtever it's paid off.

Fawk I wish I didnt have to hide all my mods from wifey, and pulled the trigger on everything at once like you.

Anyways, good luck modding, and say bye bye to warranty.

She won't let you mod??? Booooooo!

I told her this was a car I wasn't going to touch. Just bought a bike in feb, modded the shit outta that in 3 weeks time with every part you could do asides from cracking open the motor.

Told her I just needed a rmm and that was it. Riiiiiiiiiight.

That's hilarious! Good work my man!

Hey, I've been doing research from day one and if I had the money a similar list would be up....haha...
But hey OP congrats hope you enjoy the car

PLUS, my dad's gone on a trip and I took his Escort Passport 9500ix out of his ZR1... No tickets for me, and it gives me +50 hp!!1!

Double post... but the parts need to HURRY THE FUCK UP.......

Congrats on also (apparently) being an 18 year old that's not a complete FYHN idiot. Be careful young Jedi....

Internals and NGK's have arrived. 2 out of the 11 mods.

I'll be taking some videos soon of before and after, to show the difference these make. Not sure if I should just keep posting in this thread, or if I should make a build diary one? Probably just keep going with this one..

SURE Aeros, SURE Return, SURE Countershift, Sure Torq RMM, and SURE Anchors have arrived. The SURE Charge Tubes went on back order for 30 days, but the $75 was still charged. Called them up and they told me that it was a mistake and that my money would be given back within 2 days.

Cobb AP, Cobb TIP have arrived. UR TP will be here Monday.

So envious reading someone doing this, I will be trying to do this is September when I've saved up the money from my job this summer.

And also really good setup you've done and you seem like me, reading up on everything about these cars before just jumping into mods.

You are doing what I want to do to my 2012 !! If I didnt have a house I could drop the cash like you did !! When i was 18 I was dumping cash like you on a Jeep lol...
I have been waiting 2 months now for my tip from sure and was billed and never refunded anything wasnt even givin the option!! I talked to them last week and it ws still on back order, I might just call tomorrow and have them ship all the shifting stuff and a rmm instead.
Good luck with the modding!