Mazda 3 tune?

[42boxer]

I know this might be a really stupid question but ill ask anywas haha.
I know colorado alltitude hurts cars perforance wise. I have a SRI and will shorty have a MS3 exhaust on my 2.0 3. My question is i've heard of getting your car tuned so is this possible for my car and would it make a difference at this alltitude and with these mods? Thanks

[iani1.1]

any tune makes a car run better or faster. an apexi safc will be fine since your not turboed or any of the sort. just installed and tuned mine a couple days ago and i feel a slight difference in power as well as better fuel mileage. this is all on a completely stock setup on my 2.3

[bellalyssa]

I thought you couldn't tune a 3???

I have been misinformed. I must look into this.

[reconbygod12]

any car can be tuned as long as you either have the software for it otherwise if your ecu can be tapped openly, but if oyu have a mazda 3 i would wait until you have all parts you wnat for the engine or exhaust

[RX-7 Chris]

You could get a tune and it would help a little. Don't expect much in the way of HP gains. You may be able to help the power band though.

To get any power out of an N/A car you need to work on the intake mani, head, and cam. I don't know if anyone makes larger cams or if anyone has done porting work.

[tbot]

I would say don't waste your money.

[bellalyssa]

That's what I was thinking. Hopefully I can buy this intake and exhaust soon... Until then... screw a tune.

[iani1.1]

well technically you cant really tune a 3. an safc only fine tunes a/f ratio and does maf/map compensations while tricking the ecu to read want it wants to. it was pretty much free from a friend so no money wasted lol. but ive been driving the car all week and used up only a 1/4 of gas as before id be about at half.

edit: this is with stock everything fyi

[bellalyssa]

^^ I need that kind of fuel efficiency.

[J'sMZ3]

DPtune offers a ECU flash for the 3... You need to get dyno'd with A/F and some data logging then overnight ship your ECU with the reports to them ... they flash and return, $550.00 plus shipping one time no charge for reflash. You will be without your car for about 2 days. Option two is get a group of people together (usually 5 or more) and they will fly out and do a group tune on the dyno possibly get a group discount. I brought this up awhile back but no one showed interest. They have a tune for the Mazda3, Mazda6, MX5 /Miata, CX-7, Protege, and RX-8. Then Hypertech has there Max Energy Sport unit for the 2.3L Mazda3, and Speed3 about $400-500 depending on where you buy it, also There is MazdaEdit from epifansoft for certain models. It requires a laptop, Tactrix Openport 2.0 cable, and knowing what your doing! I dont know the price on the MazdaEdit software...

http://www.dptune.com/index.html
Dynotronics Performance Tuning
Atlanta and Texas Offices
678.488.1011 office
678.897.4692 fax
dyno@dptune.com


http://www.hypertech.com/products-max-energy-sport.aspx

http://www.epifansoft.com/phpBB3/mazdaedit-discussion-f17.html

[mOOsE]

I wouldn't bother. The gains won't be noticeable and the cost to tune and get a flash far exceeds what other mods would cost to put on your car. I came from tuning several N/A Honda's and trust me, it's not worth paying to tune with those mods. It's generally only worth it on N/A vehicles with heavy mods like cams, pistons/shaved head, porting, intake manifolds, header(s), etc. Even basic bolt-on's for most cars at this altitude will not exceed the fuel limitations and adjustments that the factory ECU can make. Tuning will certainly make things a bit more efficient, but in terms of more power, you might see a couple peak hp over your current setup is all.