Short answer: yes.

Long answer: yes.

-alex

Honestly, sometimes I worry that if I don't redline the car once in awhile, I feel that the performance will degrade over time. Semi true since the ECU adjusts itself based on driving style. Probably no evidence to it though.

Fucking brownie....post nudes or GTFO....FYHN....MSF FTMFW!

Hehe.

Haha

And this sums up pretty much every MSF post, the community actually helped influence me to move on from the car, and move into the FR-S (which is what I originally wanted)
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On topic:
I tend to shift mine pretty short (2500ish), but a good highway ramp or sweet corner you have to let the car stretch its legs, its good for the car and it always makes your day that much better.

So many Motorcycle Safety Foundation jokes...

I think it's only bad for the car if you're lugging it... which depends on load, gear, and rpms. I generally try to stay at 1800 and above when accelerating unless starting from a stop.

And seriously, rev the hell out of it. Have fun. Life is far too short.

As for the Mazdaspeed thing... LOL! What a bunch of pricks. Forum Wars? Never heard of it. Sad I now have. The thought of it pains me.

you guys finding it harder to shift smoothly if you shift below 2500rpm? when i shift at this rpm, i find i have to ride the clutch a bit longer longer to get it to shift smoothly. maybe i just suck haha.

Shifting down?

A light foot shouldn't cause ecu to pull timing. Quite the opposite, a heavy foot, particularly at lowish rpm, gives higher cylinder pressures and heat and would more likely cause timing to be pulled. Light throttle/low load should generally allow optimal timing advance.

Driving the car like a reasonable human being in normal traffic conditions should not be any problem. Unfortunately, regularly driving the car like a normal human being at trackdays, i.e. upshifting at redline every time, might be a problem with these cars (DI failures => catastrophic engine failures) :(

Lol. I know lionbacker personally,and can say that you guys are waaay off on some of your assumptions. Lmao.

To answer your question, no, you can't harm the car by short shifting all of the time. At the same time, you should realize that you can't harm the car by revving the piss out of it either (DI seal controversy aside). The car will save itself from any damage from revving too high by cutting fuel past redline. The only way to damage from xs revs is by money shifting the car.

I'll let you google short shift and money shift. ;)

*wring

I try to wait for the temperature gauge to hit the middle point which means the motor is "approximately" up to temperature. To curtail further discussion that gauge is mostly a "cold-warm-oh shit" indicator but it's good enough for 99% of owners.

That needle gauge is really almost useless. The middle point is a variance of at least 50 degrees F, I see my coolant temp on a real gauge hit 150 when that needle is at the middle. from 150-210 the needle doesn't move at all.

I recommend getting the car to the middle point, and then still waiting another 5 minutes of driving before wringing it out. :thumbsup: