Protege High Mileage Club

[bazooka joe]

NON-interference. but, you should still do the timing belt.

+1..150 doing it next month...finally!

 

[THE Phen]

I need to do mine. I'm at 168k...

 

[repthemazdas]

mine was starting to die out at 236,333!!!! (took out) miles there awsesome cars.. mazda rocks!

 

[THE Phen]

I'm hesitant to do the timing belt on mine since the body is falling apart.

If people think rusted hoods are cool... they should see my whole car!

 

[repthemazdas]

pics ?

 

[njaremka]

I'm hesitant to do the timing belt on mine since the body is falling apart.

If people think rusted hoods are cool... they should see my whole car!

ditto. i'm approaching 200k miles, and i'm not looking forward to replacing the timing belt again.

 

[THE Phen]

pics ?

Haha, I've got some on my phone. I'll try to post them up at some point.

 

[repthemazdas]

Haha, I've got some on my phone. I'll try to post them up at some point.

some point? i hope its soon

 

[THE Phen]

I've got crappy signal here in the building at work so I can't easily upload to Flickr. I'm working on it tho.

 

[tweety2300]

The fsde is listed as an interference motor and there have been people that bent valves from the belt breaking. How likely it is that it will is up for debate just stating facts not starting a debate. But seriously 168k on the stock belt? Amazing

 

[elcalientepapi]

03 P5 206,000
first try starts and looks great.

 

[kamon8404]

I need to do mine. I'm at 168k...

Your still on the stock timing belt?!?!? leave it to stephen to push it to the limit.

 

[THE Phen]

Yeah... but it sounds like the thermostat just went on it. Gotta head to Pittsburgh some day soon to check it out.

 

[Lboogs]

I'm at 101,400 on my '02 LX nothing compared to you guys, but I hope to hit 200K + in it. Had it since 4/2010 with 79k. by the way Gates' site now states our cars are non-interference, they used to have it listed as interference which didn't help the debate.

http://www.gates.com/part_locator/index.cfm?location_id=3598

 

[THE Phen]

215k... last timing belt was done at 90k ish I think.. I dunno, (shrug) its fine. And IIRC Mazda has never built a "valve bender" interference motor.. at least not in the severity of lets say a DSM. Can it happen? Sure, but will it essplode like a 4G63, nope.

With an FS-DE, a rod will go before the timing belt...

 

[StealthWyvern]

LMAO... Pssh. That engine is held together with bubblegum, paperclips and childrens tears.. What more do you need??

Duct tape and zipstrips!

 

[THE Phen]

LMAO... Pssh. That engine is held together with bubblegum, paperclips and childrens tears.. What more do you need??

 

[hornsfan10609]

I'm already at 112k, going strong.

 

[justanothermp5]

Just rolled 228k

 

[Protege17]

just rolled over 104,000 miles and getting ready for turbo!!!