hello forum new the mazda world. just traded a car for one 3 day ago. it had a v8 in it well kinda he pulled the motor after he spun some rod bearing. so i took it off his hands and it is now in my garage waiting to be put back together. yesturday i played hooky from work and took my motor up to ross auto machine. he said the guy i bought the engine off was full of crap and he ruined all the new parts on the motor he put on. the guy i bought it from told me he just had it bored and all that good stuff. the guy at the machine shop said no way. he said it looked like there was about 40k on the motor and it was put together all wrong. there were no hone marks or machine marks on the pistons or cylinder. anyway, i told him i'd like to get an honest 300hp and be able to do a 100 shot of NOS he said the forged stuff would up the price and said "let me show what i can do" so we went and sat down and he went through everything he would do to the motor with my budget. and said i'll have "at least 375hp" i said sold!!!!!! lol lol i will have the engine back end of next week. i'm so excited, total bill is 1300$ my wife is going to kill me lol lol lol lol "i all ready paid it, so it's a done deal honey" lol lol i do know the owner of the machine shop and have had two friends use his services so i dont think he's taking me for a ride. anyway does anyone know if i will have a problem getting a 700r4 trans in this car? also any suggestions on keeping this motor cool? thanks for reading and thanks for any input.
brian
brian