Recent content by 03blkmazdaspeed

I'm pretty sure it is a bad bearing and or rod. I have already started tearing it apart. I gotta question for anyone that has been into these motors. I was wanting to drop the pan and see the end caps and rods but there is a bottom piece of the block that is aluminum. Can you separate that piece...

Nah, I know it's not a exhaust leak. I gotta vid somewhere, i'll try to upload it. **Sorry for the bad quality and wind noise** <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Gdaoc0rnFZ8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Thanks for the replies! I'm not 100% sure it is coming from the top end. I am leaning more and more towards the fact that it is probably a spun bearing.....ugh.. oh well. Thanks again guys (thumb)

wow....40 views and no one has anything to say?

Whats up guys, this is the first time posting and I have searched for everything I can think of. A little while back my car started sounding like a diesel. I thought I trashed the motor but I was told it was the VVT Actuator. I looked at videos of the Mazdaspeed 3's that have a bad vvt actuator...