{"id":3274,"date":"2012-06-22T12:19:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corksport.com\/blog\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2018-09-13T13:19:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T21:19:20","slug":"featured-car-of-the-month-rays-speed3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corksport.com\/blog\/featured-car-of-the-month-rays-speed3\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Car of the Month &#8211; Ray&#8217;s Speed3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/corksport.com\/blogs\/247-Ray\/Ray6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As Ray put it, \u201cIt is easy to buy a fast car, but it\u2019s much more fun and rewarding to make a car fast!\u201d and Ray has done just that with his 2009 Mazdaspeed 3. This Albuquerque NM native has a laundry list of performance parts on his car and based on the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/corksport.com\/blog\/vote-for-junes-reader-car-of-the-month\/\" target=\"_\">votes for his ride to be CorkSport\u2019s June feature<\/a>, a lot of friends within the Mazda community!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/corksport.com\/blogs\/247-Ray\/Ray1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This occasional (drag) racer has a COBB SRI and <a href=\"https:\/\/corksport.com\/cobb-tuning-mazdaspeed-3-access-port-tuner.html\" target=\"_\">Access Port with custom tune<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/corksport.com\/corksport-mazdaspeed-top-mount-intercooler.html\" target=\"_\">CorkSport TMIC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/corksport.com\/corksport-mazdaspeed-3-downpipe.html\">CorkSport Downpipe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/corksport.com\/corksport-power-series-racepipe-2010-mazdaspeed-3.html\" target=\"_\">CorkSport Racepipe<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/corksport.com\/corksport-2010-mazdaspeed-3-cat-back-exhaust.html\" target=\"_\">CorkSport Cat Back Exhaust<\/a>, JBR Thermal Insulated Gasket and JBR Throttle Body Gasket, but the go fast parts don\u2019t stop there, he went big turbo with an ATP GTX 3076 26 PSI, added a big turbo inlet pipe and Devils Own Progressive Methanol Injection Kit 80\/20 with D07 Nozzle. To support the many aftermarket parts, Ray has also upgraded his internals with KMD HPFP Internals.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/corksport.com\/blogs\/247-Ray\/Ray2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To enhance the handling, Ray had added a Short Shift Plate, <a href=\"https:\/\/corksport.com\/h-and-r-springs-for-2010-mazdaspeed-3.html\" target=\"_\">H&amp;R Springs<\/a>, 18&#215;8 Drag DR38 +47, Eibach 5mm Spacers, and 235\/40 18 Nitto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nittotire.com\/passenger-tires\/nt05-max-performance-tire\/\">NT05<\/a> tires.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/corksport.com\/blogs\/247-Ray\/Ray3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next on the list for Ray is a fully built block, full suspension, and braces. He also has his eye on the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/corksport.com\/blog\/corksport-product-development-update-2\/\" target=\"_\">CorkSport Mazdaspeed 3 Coilovers<\/a>. Looks like July is going to be a good month for modifying your Mazdaspeed 3 Ray!<\/p>\n<p>Gwynne-<\/p>\n<p>Full List of Modifications:<br \/>\nCobb Access Port (Custom Tune)<br \/>\nATP GTX3076 26PSi<br \/>\nCobb SRI<br \/>\nCorkSport TMIC<br \/>\nCorkSport Down Pipe<br \/>\nCorkSport Test Pipe<br \/>\nCorkSport Cat Back Exhaust<br \/>\nOil Catch Can<br \/>\nJBR Thermal Insulated Gasket<br \/>\nJBR Throttle Body Gasket<br \/>\nJBE EGR Delete<br \/>\nJBR Throttle Body Coolant Bypass<br \/>\nCP-E Big Turbo Turbo Inlet Pipe<br \/>\nKMD HPFP Internals<br \/>\nStreet Unit TurboSmart Dual Port BOV<br \/>\nCP-E Single Guage Pod<br \/>\nDashHawk<br \/>\nProsport Boost Gauge<br \/>\nDevils Own Progressive Methanol Injection Kit 80\/20 with D07 Nozzle<br \/>\nE85 Tune 50\/50<br \/>\nStreet Unit Rear Motor Mount<br \/>\nTRZ Tranny Mount<br \/>\nShort Shift Plate<br \/>\nH&amp;R Springs<br \/>\n18&#215;8 Drag DR38 +47<br \/>\nEibach 5mm Spacers<br \/>\n235\/40 18 Nitto NT05.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ray put it, \u201cIt is easy to buy a fast car, but it\u2019s much more fun and rewarding to make a car fast!\u201d and Ray has done just that with his 2009 Mazdaspeed 3. This Albuquerque NM native has a laundry list of performance parts on his car and based on the number of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/corksport.com\/blog\/featured-car-of-the-month-rays-speed3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Featured Car of the Month &#8211; Ray&#8217;s Speed3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,97,4,1],"tags":[455,70,62,434],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corksport-mazda-performance-leader","category-featured-mazda-of-the-month","category-mazdaspeed-3","category-uncategorized","tag-featured-car-of-the-month","tag-mazda-aftermarket-parts","tag-mazda-performance","tag-mazdaspeed-3"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corksport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corksport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corksport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corksport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corksport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corksport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corksport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corksport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corksport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}