Corey McCauley
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Jon
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MAZDA 3 TURBO INTAKE COLD AIRBOXAXO-6-115-10
MAZDA 3 TURBO INTAKE SYSTEM COMBO - SHORT RAMINTAKE & TURBO INLET PIPE - ALL 2.5 TURBO MODELS (BLACK, RED) AXO-6-121-61120
I am putting this review under both items, I figure if someone doesn’t like that they can move one.
BLUF: I like it!
The Butt Dydno noticed a change in initial thrust, and when passing, especially when NOT in sport mode.
In sport mode the difference is less but still there.
the biggest difference is hearing the Recirculation valve pop when coming off the throttle. You can tell the turbo is working even when you (or at least I) didn’t think it was.
While you can hear the spool up, you probably need the window down and have to listen, or I just have old guy ears.
As always the instructions are complete and well written, since I was installing both and didn’t see anything with instructions to install both from Stock, I used both sets of instructions.
I believe that now that the Air box is available, a set of specific instructions for both from stock would be helpful. I believe more people will buy that combo in the future.
The order of events and what to assemble when, is not always exact and the writer has to pick what they believe would work best, even when other ways are still acceptable.
In my particular case with installing both at the same time on a Stock 2026 Mazda 3 Turbo, I found that some deviation from the instructions worked better for me.
I am in no way saying the instructions are not correct, I have always been impressed with the level of detail in CorkSport’s Instructions.
I recommend installing the Airbox first, and if Stock like me, see the note that says start on Step 5. I had to pull pretty hard to get the intake tube off of the turbo inlet pipe.
In Step 11, “Attach the bracket to the Air Box leaving them just loose enough so that the bracket can still slide in the slots.” This wasn’t working for me I was having trouble lining up the two rubber isolators, and getting them flush while still getting the third Isolator in place.
So I detached the bracket from the airbox and put the isolators over the pins first, then slid in the box and put the screws in, there is enough room.
In Step 12, “Install the bracket in the orientation shown and use a 10mm socket and ratchet with an extension to tighten until the bracket is snug but can still be adjusted later.”
I had a similar issue as above, but it came when trying to line up the MAF with the Short Ram Intake & Turbo Inlet Pipe (Step 25 in the Short Ram Intake & Turbo Inlet Pipe instructions) I just couldn’t get the MAF to line up so I could put in the two screws with the blue threadlocker. In my case those were screws were for Allen wrenches.
To resolve this, I attached the bracket to the MAF first (screws loose) then installed the MAF with the suppled Clamps and then put in the Long screws to mount the bracket to the Airbox.
While this worked, there was not enough room to use an Allen wrench to tighten these up. Seems like there is plenty of space to make the Airbox a ¼” wider, or just use regular cap screws and we can use a regular wrench to tighten them up.
I plan to replace these screws soon so I can properly tighten them.
Other than that Installation was a breeze, and still only took 3 Hrs for both pieces.
David Buchholz
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Devyn Larsen
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