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Cheers mate, the straight pipe exhaust is a very cost effective system I found the receipts for the work done on it and it only cost them $250AUD which is way cheaper than a proper exhaust system :)

Came with the car, I got it second hand with 50000km on the clock for 34000AUD

You’re not wrong there. I think the gloss plastic makes it look a bit shit which thankfully they haven’t used on the centre console as it’s a scratch magnet. The resolution is at least fairly decent. The 2024 models have updated to the newer mazda infotainment systems which look quite slick.

@@JacksDailyDrives Yeah, I saw the new infotainment screen too. Still looks awful to me.

Here in Australia I got a few quotes for one and they’re about 5-6k m, seems super steep when I only spent 34k on the car 🤣

I eventually came back to Australia for medical school in 2010. Dad had a house in Westport CT and my girlfriend at the time went to Columbia University in NYC with parents in Northampton MA so we did a fair bit of driving around there. It seemed to me the speed limit in the US was more a suggestion than a hard rule 😂 here in Australia the police are everywhere and it’s mainly used as a revenue raising tactic for government with stupidly high fines in the thousands of dollars.

It’s just been straight piped and had a section of pipe put in to replace the end muffler. Cheap to do and sounds great. Think the previous owner spent about $250 doing it

Women are way less likely to modify their cars than guys, they’re also likely to be more sensible drivers too. They’re less likely to speed and have less accidents but on a whole are worse drivers than men in terms of skill (probably because you need to do dangerous shit to get good at it). They’re also likely to be less mechanically minded than men. I know there are exceptions but stereotypes exist for a reason mate…fuck why do people get so offended by everything these days 😂

@@lucianolucidi8624 I think you're right, it does everything just perfect now and I'm perfectly happy driving it how it is. Turbo would just kill the reliability

@@JacksDailyDrives hp are never enough i know. But this car was not made to compete against the other thousands turbo engine cars

@@lucianolucidi8624 that's true and my motorcycle will do 0-100 in just over 3 seconds if I feel like I need to go super fast 🤣

@@JacksDailyDrives exactly

@@TwilightLynk I ended up getting one of those, it looks great 😃

I don't find it bothersome at all. I talk on the phone and shoot videos with the roof off. With the roof on its like a coupe and the best of both worlds...

I'm tempted to get the remote roof operation thing so I can open the roof from the keys when I'm walking up to the car.

That's what I'm leaning towards the Toyota seems a little bland and the interior of the Honda is much nicer and it just looks better as a car. Supposedly much better driving dynamics than the RAV4 also...

I actually think we are just offloading the carbon footprint to other countries as well. China is the big EV player now and they make 30 new coal plants a year more than the rest of the world combined. They're actually way less green than people think. If you really cared about the environment you'd just buy a used car and run it for as long as you can keep it alive for. But yeah nothing like a 6 speed manual and a nice exhaust note. Porsche are going to destroy their company at this rate, new boxters are EV only which is not going to end well for them...

@@JacksDailyDrives I don't know if Porsche is really gonna commit. Germany is already backpedalling hard on EVs inside the EU due to the fact that they realized they can't beat Chinese EVs and it's a general disaster regarding the sales. No more full EV in 2035, they opted against. But I also agree buying a used car is always more environmentaly friendly than an EV. They already fight to know which one is more environmentaly friendly from conception with a brand new ev vs a brand new petrol and only from a c02 pov. And idk, it feels kind of logic to me that over comsuption is never going to be an answer to any environmental issue. The future is definitely not full of EVs, probably a third of the park will be EV. Happy with my 2011 z4.

Yeah mine has a straight piped exhaust too so I rarely rev it out because it sounds ridiculously loud. The other day I got pulled over for a random breath test and I had to drive away so slowly so that the exhaust wouldn't get the police excited to check it out further 🤣

I find it's fine with the windows up, but if I'm not recording a video I'll have them down. I'm used to riding motorcycles all the time so the wind is nothing compared to being on a bike 🤣

I handed over many thousands when I lost my license a year or two ago when a police officer rocked up to my house for a previous TH-cam channel in which they had watched 50 hours of video of me riding motorcycles and wanted to throw 100s of thousands of dollars of fines at me. Had to lawyer up and it was pled down to one high range speeding fine. Never actually lost my ability to drive to work though because I worked as an emergency doctor during covid and had a 24/7 work license. The police in Brisbane are a special kind of twat :P

@@mikeb9569 such a beautiful state, I lived there around 2008/9/10. The cops around your part of the world seem a bit more relaxed towards speeding than they are here in Australia 🤣 one time I got doing 140mph and I told the cop I get confused between miles and kilometres per hour, as soon as he heard I was an Aussie he was pretty chilled 😜

@@JacksDailyDrives LOL. 😄

I'd wished I bought one sooner. Mazda make such vehicles to drive. It's definitely not a slow car but in an age of cars that do 0-100 in 3 seconds flat with dual clutch transmissions it's so much more fun to drive an engaging 6 speed manual and to enjoy actually driving something rather than just mashing a pedal and steering 🤣

Definitely get the swaybars. I’ve had my nd rf for a year now and just put in swaybars about 2 weeks ago and I wish I had done it sooner.

@@Hazard_skates which ones did you go with? I think that'll definitely be a job for someone else to install not me :P

Which colour. I'm finding the black and absolute nightmare to keep clean :P

I'm have tempted to get something slower like a 400 because recently I got myself a 6 speed manual Mazda MX5 and it's an absolute blast to drive without the risk of losing my license every time I floor it 😂

I think it's on the passenger side because I haven't noticed it on the driver's side

@@JacksDailyDrives Hmm, it's on the driver's side in a RHD ND in the UK so I assume for every model (LHD and RHD) it's on the right side. You just don't notice it when your foot is on the clutch or on the left foot rest unless you have loose trousers that might brush against it.

I think they've just straight piped it from the looks of it. It still has the catalytic converter as I believe the ND has two of them one near the headers and another one further back. Also from what I read in the receipts I got with the car wasn't an expensive solution and only cost $250 to get done 👍

You can get lowering springs for much cheaper than a whole coilover setup but yeah mechanics earn more than us doctors do these days 🤣

@@JacksDailyDrives 😁

@@mikeb9569 yeah now I need to match the red stitching on the steering wheel as it was all grey before. I watched a video on that arm rest mod how tricky is it to install?

@@JacksDailyDrives You have to remove the console, but it's easy and the instructions are good. It involves gluing the foam to the leather and lid. I brought the console into my living room and did it in an evening whilst watching TV. There are two thicknesses available, I chose the largest, but used "memory foam" instead of the supplied foam in the kit. Super comfy.

@@mikeb9569 how long did that while task take you to do?. Got a Miata thing rear led strip for the rear of the car to install into the rear light haness that should arrive soon :)

@@JacksDailyDrives The LED strip was easy to install, just plug and play. I think you have to thread the wire through an existing grommet. You may have some light bleed around your trunk (bonnet?). I used foam strips to block the escaping light. Like I suggested, reinforce the connection of the wires to the strip.

@@mikeb9569 like light escaping the top of the trunk lid? I think next up I need some metal pedals to make it look a bit more swanky 🤣

Yeah I love how they look, tyres are getting a bit worn out so I think I'll have to make a video soon on tyre selection for the MX5

@@carlodipaolo5826 is that because people assume it's been in an accident? Maybe I'll just have to get it redone the same colour again at some point to make it look mint again...

@@JacksDailyDrives No not because it could have been in an accident. Consider that when a car is built the complete body gets painted all at once so the color is through out the whole car. The color is the same in the door jams, under the bonnet and boot panels, the metal in the engine compartment. Everywhere. To change the color would just make the car horribly cheap looking every time an area exposes the other color, In expensive complete restorations where an entire cars get disassembled down to a bare body shell then it is usually sand blasted down to metal, then completely primed and painted. With such restorations then any color could be chosen since the color would be through out like it was from the factory. I believe your car here is black and black is a completely cool color for a car.

@@JacksDailyDrives How about a wrap?

@@mikeb9569 I got some quotes for wraps and they want like $5000AUD which I felt was a bit steep. Also I'm not too sure how they will hold up here in Queensland Australia with the epic heat and humidity...

Looks great in the video, unfortunately black is a very difficult color to maintain, every imperfection shines like a diamond. However it looks great when clean and properly detailed. Perhaps look into a quality detail, paint correction, ceramic coating and maybe some 3M paint film for chip prone areas once properly refurbished. Best of luck with her!

It's a Kenstyle one got it off Amazon delivered from Japan to Australia for $399AUD, bargain.

It's literally just been straight piped through and had the end muffler removed. It is what sold me on the car, came that way from the dealer but sounds so much better than stock. Bit less restrictive too :) not entirely sure on the legality of it...

Yeah everywhere I go camping on my motorcycle there is no reception which is very relaxing just to be disconnected from the world. It's been so long now that we've been constantly online and I don't think it's great for our health, I also don't see a way to escape it that easily with modern society and having to have a job etc. I'm also quite partial to my TH-cam which is really all I use my TV for at home as of never watch mainstream media for anything other than a laugh at the propaganda they spew out 🤣

Thanks mate, I don't know if I really have a theme for it yet but I like cars, motorcycles, camping, politics, health and fitness (being a doctor that's sort of my field although I'd argue most doctors don't know anything about health and are just taught about disease).

Cheers mate. I'm 184cm tall and I don't find it too cramped at all, it's not spacious but I guess it is a sports car. My hair isn't close to touching the roof when it's closed but I've heard you can even get an adaptor to slam the seats lower to make for more headroom if you say wanted to track car it and needed to wear a helmet.

The soul red colour looks awesome, would have been my choice if buying new but alas I am stuck with this black which is a nightmare to keep clean 🤣. It came with all the mods except for the steering wheel and gear knob which I've done. It looks like with the exhaust they've just straight piped the exhaust and gotten rid of the muffler from looking under the back of the car. Always a cheap and easy way to make them sound better just need to cut out the old box and link it up with piping. It's really a great daily driver, especially since it's only really for taking myself to work and the gym and the occasional blast up the mountains (we have a Jeep wrangler for family outings with the kid or dogs).