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- 1989 RX-7 GXL Blaze Red
might as well upgrade it while your in there
What have you done to your MSP today?
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jk. hope you find out- :
- 2003 Mazdaspeed Protege 1660, 2004 Winning Blue RX8, 2005 Mazda6
Yep... It's the diff... I put the ring gear in a vice, put a breaker bar into the center section and got it to turn freely...
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- 1989 RX-7 GXL Blaze Red
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- 03.5 YLW MSP
broke diff.... trust me mine did the exact same thing.
Edit: see this post.. I thought my clutch was shot at first due to being able to still move the car down the road but my diff was shot
http://tinyurl.com/cross-over-thread
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- 2003 Mazdaspeed Protege 1660, 2004 Winning Blue RX8, 2005 Mazda6
No, I know it's the diff... I put it into a vice and put a pry bar in the center section and got it to spin freely...
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- 2003 Mazdaspeed Protege 1660, 2004 Winning Blue RX8, 2005 Mazda6
I'm guessing Pope hasn't shipped my transmission... He said he'd send it out the first of the week... Whenever I freight transmissions and engines for the shop for that distance it normally takes 2 days...
Spiced MSP
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- 2016 Peterbilt 579
he is probably busy with his manifolds and the last few downpipes that were ordered. Some of us ordered downpipes at the beginning of the month and some of them still haven't been made and shipped yet. I would give him a few more days as he is probably beyond busy.
im gonna paint them bronze and you're gonna hate it! lol jk. imma keep them as is. they're a pretty simple and clean design for a wheel. good backup set
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- 2003 Mazdaspeed Protege 1660, 2004 Winning Blue RX8, 2005 Mazda6
I know. Just missing the car and the transmission is pulled waiting for it to g in. Taking up a bay in my shop, too. But that's fine, he told me up front he was busy!
Because of the uncertainty of this junkyard engine I have decided to wait, and do an OEM rebuild on the replacement. Going to wait until Christmas bonus time, and just buy everything at once. Until then I am going to remove my enine, and clean up the engine bay while it's empty. May paint the bay flat black, and possibly do a light wire tuck.
Now thinking about doing what Preferio suggested a while back and just upgrading the rods, and leaving everything else OEM, save for a Cometic head gasket, and ARP hardware. Could do this for about $1000 versus the $2500-$3500 I would want to spend on a "full" build. I'm not going to be trying for as much horsepower, so I think just upgrading the rods would be sufficient for the next few years.
Now thinking about doing what Preferio suggested a while back and just upgrading the rods, and leaving everything else OEM, save for a Cometic head gasket, and ARP hardware. Could do this for about $1000 versus the $2500-$3500 I would want to spend on a "full" build. I'm not going to be trying for as much horsepower, so I think just upgrading the rods would be sufficient for the next few years.
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- 03.5 YLW MSP
I had a interesting drive into work today... but lets recap a little. last night I backed into my driveway and went to shut off my lights. The lights shut off and came back on. I checked my relay and it was wet a little. Pulled it our for the night for it to dry out. Installed it this morning and everythign functions like normal! Now im up and running without issue or so I think. I got about 1/4th of the my headlights shut off at about 6:10 in the morning. I couldnt get the lights to come back on to save my butt. The only thing I had was my running lights. lol Thankfully I made it to work safe, on time (going a lot slower then normal), and no tickets! lol
2.0t03speed
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- 08.5 CWP Speed 3
its not worth it to just replace the rods. You will have to machine the stock pistons to accept a floating wrist pin. A set of wisecos is only 500. Hi boost used to just replace the rods and leave the stock pistons back in the day but the ringlands would crack around 300whp
