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Heart surgery prep


Weight savings mod to the extreme!


Somethings missing! Oh and the snakes nest Im leaving till I swap to the G4 besides the main one that was mandatory.


Verifying its all lined up, just before putting the radiator back in and removing my specialty Throttlebody spring retainer that helped get past the brake booster. Sure did look pretty with the headers on and painted to match my old one ( i took that as a good sign Lol)


All finished, well minus the vacuum bits and airfilter, but its on the ground and bolted in! Btw like my garage in the background?


Video of First start up! Miss the headers sound


So after driving for a day with the exhaust sealed I had this unnerving grinding sound, traced to the PS tensioner, atleast it was an easy swap
Dont mind the sludge leftover from the K8 on the suspension and my swapped harmonic balancer

Great pics, still wish I could have given you a hand.

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Im an addict and cant help it, least I can do is never buy another ATX one again. THAT was a nightmere!

Sorry to hear about that, but it's good to figure out what you really need/want. Good luck on your future endevours with other cars and feel free to drop by here anytime!

Sucks to hear of all the problems you've had. All the best with finding something more reliable, more fun, and more enjoyable to own. I look forward to seeing what you get It'll defs be sad to see such a tidy, nicely modded MX go.
And like Mark said, it'd be great to hear from you still every now & then

Try not to laugh please, but I have a question Which wire runs from the headlights to the interior switch itself? -.-

Thank you!

Alright, One more go around time. With the sale of the black beast and a reliable honda in the drive I feel a bit better about reviving my high school sweetheart. Found another 2.5 in a local yard last month that they are willing to extend me a 30day warranty on so going to give them a call tomorrow and make sure its still around. Although this time I think Im going to buy a new oil pump spring and shim it once just to be on the safe side. After all I now have a working oil pressure gauge to install on the new one!

Ya Im a hypocrite, what can I say she has nice curves and I hate hondas electric throttle

You can say ZOOM ZOOM and give me your light crank pulley for a song and a dance!

Sorry thats staying on that car no matter what motor goes into it. Now i just have to get the car towed back to work and get a motor shipped in. Ahh the perks of working in one of the best dealerships in the city/state, all the updated tools and one master tech that enjoys helping me fix the car, if anything to mock me all the while but its quite amusing and his insight is priceless and has saved me time to boot.

Poor you, all the tools you could ever need, a proper lift, and a master mech. to help you get it all going! How will you ever survive with such luxuries?

I'm teasing, I'm thoroughly jealous of everything I just made fun of. I don't even have a garage... Bleh.
Anyways, Can't wait to see her going again!

You found the key to enjoying toy cars. Have two cars, a real one to get you to work, and a toy one to play with. Guys at work don't understand how I can drive a stock 323 or my stock Civic every day, but on my way to work (stop and go traffic) a fast car is really not necessary. I wish I would have learned this much earlier in life. (Commuting in 5.0L Mustang's in the winter ect.) The other bonus is when you blow up your project car....or cars in my case, you can fix them when the time and money allows instead of thrashing on it so you won't be late for work in the morning.

Alright just spent the last 2hrs on my back dropping my crossover pipe/pan/shield/OPR spring. The good news is there is no major internal flaws from what I can see, no large bits in the oil or strainer either. Also the Oil pump spring is maybe .5mm off from what the New oem spring is when I put them side to side ( i had hopes that the spring just failed )

So now that Ive seen all this and know that when the motor was put in it was holding a strong 175-180compression across the board, what would you do?

A) Try and save it, install new mazda pump for $300 and hope for the best?
B) Install another used motor w/30day for $350, well $400 b/c Ild want to keep the core to build it. ?

The only time this has been run now since the light came on was 2 trial turn overs for maybe 3secs, then about 6sec when I put the oil pressure gauge on and turned it off soon as I heard a knock (again didnt want to believe my guage reading 0psi)

Beck/Arnley pump from rockauto , 150 bucks

Mi|<E wrote:Beck/Arnley pump from rockauto , 150 bucks

Question is, would you trust an afmkt for this? These are one of the few parts that leave me skeptical

I'd trust it. If it fails immediately, you could always force them to make it right.