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Whoah there buddy. Sorry if you feel decended upon. If I sounded like that to you, I apologize for it.

Let's pretend we're sitting in a garage shooting the shizzle about cars, maybe even with a beer in hand.

In that setting, where we're all buds that can chuckle together, I'm going to respond to anyone saying 50hp comes out of a new set of pipes and an air filter, by saying "Dude, you are talking out of your ass."

Then you'll laugh and say "Hey man, FU, if you know so much, why don't you tell me somthing?"

Then *I'll* laugh. Then I'll tell you why 3" pipes from the cats back aren't going to get you more than 5-7hp TOPS, and why a cold air intake and air filter might be good for the same thing. Maybe, if you're lucky.

Now, as for anyone here modding out your exact car, the odds are more in favor of you finding that person on a Nissan forum, as your dad's links lead to.

Pretty much, most people on the internet should be telling you to find your own forum links, becuase you're as capable of using Google as anyone else. Then again, some folks here will (out of the kindness of thier hearts) do a search for you, and post links. I suppose "constructive" can mean "doing your searching for you." For me, not so much.

In any case, I'm sure if anyone happens to know a kick-ass forum for you, you'll get a link to it.

The rest of what you're going to get (here) is prolly not peeps who have worked on a Mazda 3.5, but instead very knowledgeable folks who can tell you a lot about an awful lot.

A gasoline internal combustion engine is an IC engine, your 3.5 ain't special. It's as crowded in that front driver's bay as about any other V6 front driver made in the last 20 years; all the same general performance tricks are going to apply.


It's all good man...

So, what's your budget, what do you think you want to try, etc?

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