Well, if you remember or not, about a month ago, I broke the purge solenoid installing my SRI. Well, about that time, something smashed the spark plug shut and was only running on 3 cylidners. Took it to the mechanic and ordered a new solenoid from Jason at onlinemazdaparts.com. Mechanic swapped em and put a new plug in and i drove away fine, till I put gas in the tank. After everytime I put in gas, the motor would choke, sputter, misfire, then die. Let it set a second, start it again and keep the revs above 2000 and I was alright, till the third time I filled up with gas.
Filled up, started, it sputtered, popped, and died. Started again and I got a CEL flashing at me, and, it feels like it's on 3 cylinders again. I take it to autozone, 1/4 mile away and get the CEL checked. It was a misfire in cylinder 3 now, was 4 last time.
Take it to the mechanic from autozone. He starts it the next day and it starts knocking like a dog. So, now we're in the process of finding out if I get a new motor or not. It's gonna throw a rod within a week if I kept driving it. Mechanic only starts it to move it in and out of the bay and he's affraid to even do that.
So, now, we wait. The motor is pulled and he should have someone from the warranty company come check it out tomorrow. I hope I need a new motor
I was going to go forged, but, my wallet isn't going to let me, so, I'm hoping to pick up a new motor from Ken at Protege Garage, and a clutch and flywheel and tranny mount from AWR in the process.
Time will tell. I"ll post up a pic if he's got the motor aprt tomorrow.
Tylor