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rowan
January 20th, 2003, 10:33 PM
MP5 Navy has been nice enough to put down the courvassier and stumble out of the stripclub to a computer terminal long enough to write up a review of the Mazdaspeed/FS-ZE camshafts as installed in our FS-DE 2.0L engines.

He mumbled something about a lot of people bugging him about how they transformed his car from a rice mobile to a domestic killah ... go read it in the Reviews section.

http://www.toprotege.com/reviews/fsze-cams/
tendim
December 30th, 2007, 01:27 AM
Hm. Was trolling the archives and this came up, but the link is broken. Can a mod fix?

Thanks!
Perma
December 30th, 2007, 10:44 AM
Yeah.. that's long gone
Logan
December 30th, 2007, 06:07 PM
wait... you mean this review isn't new anymore?

:p
Kansei
December 30th, 2007, 08:25 PM
Here's my 1-line review of the FS-ZE intake cam:
Wow, that was a lot of time and effort for .. a gain that I can't quite put my finger on. barely feels different.
ChopstickHero
December 30th, 2007, 09:05 PM
Here's my 1-line review of the FS-ZE intake cam:
Wow, that was a lot of time and effort for .. a gain that I can't quite put my finger on. barely feels different.

lol... in the early days, everybody was thinkin the FS-ZE is to the Protege as the B18C is to the Integra. too bad it was a waste of time and money for a few peeps.
solo.
December 31st, 2007, 10:19 AM
Here's my 1-line review of the FS-ZE intake cam:
Wow, that was a lot of time and effort for .. a gain that I can't quite put my finger on. barely feels different.

Kansei, when you installed that. What intake manifold did you have on? Was the VTCS removed if you had the stock manifold?
Kansei
December 31st, 2007, 10:36 AM
Yeah, VTCS removed. I don't think the MP3 ECU was in at the time that I did the cam.

all in all, with vtcs removed, mp3 ecu, underdrive pulley, and fs-ze cam, header, midpipe, catback --it felt really good. --but I'd just recommend the FS-ZE intake cam it if you've already done everything else
solo.
December 31st, 2007, 10:54 AM
^

I'm guessing that was before turbo-ing. You think the gains would be more noticable with the FS-ZE IM too?
Kansei
December 31st, 2007, 10:57 AM
^

I'm guessing that was before turbo-ing. You think the gains would be more noticable with the FS-ZE IM too?

meh.. with all the changes, the FS-ZE is just more HP, not really more torque at all.

turbocharging is the only way to get nice streetable power sadly. I do still have the FS-ZE intake cam in, car drives nice with it now.. dunno if it's really doing anything for me though.
solo.
January 1st, 2008, 07:05 PM
^
So your saying the FS-ZE IM is basically giving the same gains as the 626 IM?
I thought the FS-ZE gives a more distributed power increase while the 626 IM provides more grunt at top-end?
Kansei
January 1st, 2008, 10:09 PM
When did I ever mention a 626 intake mani? I sure don't have one of those, all I have removed from mine is VTCS (essentially making it a Protege MP3 intake manifold).

Yes, from what I've heard the 626 single runner IM is for more top-end grunt, but for a naturally aspirated application I'd fathom it wouldn't be appropriate (because of loss of power at the low end).