as most.. well all of you know there is a hole where a CAI can go into the wheel well and you put a filter on the other side.

my question is why is there a hole in the first place? what did mazda decide to cut a hole?
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If you look on the passender side, the windsheild washer fluid resevoir is located beneath the hole on the passenger side. I'm assuming that Mazda cut two holes in the chassis so that for right and left hand drive models, the resivoir would easily fit on either side of the body.

 

sounds good to me

 

actually when you take the stock intake off there is a huge piece of plastic there that went into the wheel well that looked like a bottle/jug. i think most cars have these its to deaden the air so its not as loud or something. i know i had one on my 88 crx too.

 

there is something like that on our cars...but it has nothing to do with the whole he speaks off....

I believe that Neg may be right on the money.

 

Yeah, I agree with Neg & Nuke... If you look closely, there are all manner of parts, holes (not a whole... a hole is really almost the opposite of whole... strange enough - if you had the entire empty space, would you have a whole hole... that would be interesting... ummm... crap, where was I... Oh yes...), etc. that don't have a purpose.

On the engine block for instance, right above the heat shield there is a threaded whole that could be for another model car using the same engine block.

The hole could also be there because some one in the factory needed to reach a hand or a tool down in there to fasten part of the wheel well in or something... never know, really. Just be glad it's there so you can stick your CAI in there.

 

I agree however, if you look closely, the two holes are not the same as one seems to have a bigger diameter, so maybe the wash bottle that goes in there may be different? Also, why would Mazda have to switch? It shouldn't matter which side the bottle is on, should it? Stuff on the firewall, yes, like the brake master cylinder and other junk like that. Hey, what we need is someone to post some pics of the engine compartment of the vehicles in Australia. It's called something different there but I forget. Atena? I'll have to check elsewhere on this board.

 

I just rented a 626 while on vacation, and it has the sound-deadening bottle spoken of above that drops down into that hole. So if there is any sharing of those parts between the 626 and the Pro, that could be why.

Other thoughts on the 626:

It had the same 4 cylinder engine as the Protege, only it's a heavier car. Couple that with an automatic transmission, and you've got a whole lot of no accelleration. Don't bother knockin', there's nobody home. I imagine it would have been competent with the optional V6 installed.

On the other hand, the OEM wrench for removing the lug nuts was WAY better than the Protege's. It had a long handle with a wrench part that folds out, so you can really get a lot of torque. Much better than the miniwrench in the Pro, which wasn't even capable of removing my lug nuts when I rotate my tires a couple weeks ago.

 

Yeah no kidding!! That is why I intend to change out my wrench to the cross type which has four sizes on it. Of course you will only use one.

I have found that to use that stupid small wrench, you have to put it on the nut so that it is horizontal and then stand on the end. That usually unfreezes it. I think it must be a space thing for Mazda as you can put that little pouch anywhere. Also, once you take it off the first time and put them back on you should have no more porblems.

I also wondered if there is one wrench manufacturer in Japan as it sure seems that every new car has that stupid wrench. What's up with that