What have you done to your MSP today?

[mazdamike0831]

My msp goes off to the body shop to get repaired from a basketball hoop that fell in a storm.. she'll look good with fresh TG and a scoop...if not ill have a hood for sale hahahahhaha

 

[Jaleik]

I'm well into the rebuild now but when I went to test fit the new pistons I realized that they are significantly larger than the old one so I had to do some extensive honing to get them to fit.. I'm not very happy about that but I'm hoping the cylinders are staying pretty round.. I measured them and couldn't believe the difference as they are both are supposed to be 20 over.

 

[rally2003]

Switching out the WG to see if that is the problem.

 

[StealthWyvern]

I'm well into the rebuild now but when I went to test fit the new pistons I realized that they are significantly larger than the old one so I had to do some extensive honing to get them to fit.. I'm not very happy about that but I'm hoping the cylinders are staying pretty round.. I measured them and couldn't believe the difference as they are both are supposed to be 20 over.

better that then way to small

 

[o0n8]

better that then way to small

that's what she said

 

[float_6969]

(yesterday) was not a great day for the MSP. The oil light came on. I just put a quart in it a couple of weeks ago. It's been MAYBE 300 miles. I had to put 2.5Q in it to fill it back up again. I ordered a new CHRA for the turbo. I've checked everything else on this motor. If the new CHRA doesn't fix the oil consumption, the motor is getting torn out and rebuilt.

Then I thought I started to hear rod knock. I don't think it's rod knock now, but I think the EGR valve is leaking when it opens. The sound varies with load and rpm. I'm sure that won't be fun to fix.

Then I went to wash the car and the windshield cracked when the water hit it (It was damn near 100 yesterday).

Stupid car.

 

[rally2003]

WG didn't fix my problem. Bought a used T25 I pretty sure the exhause side bearing was shot.

 

[Perro del Sol]

I drove her to work today........going to do a flush and fill of the cooling system tomorrow.

 

[StealthWyvern]

(yesterday) was not a great day for the MSP. The oil light came on. I just put a quart in it a couple of weeks ago. It's been MAYBE 300 miles. I had to put 2.5Q in it to fill it back up again. I ordered a new CHRA for the turbo. I've checked everything else on this motor. If the new CHRA doesn't fix the oil consumption, the motor is getting torn out and rebuilt.

Then I thought I started to hear rod knock. I don't think it's rod knock now, but I think the EGR valve is leaking when it opens. The sound varies with load and rpm. I'm sure that won't be fun to fix.

Then I went to wash the car and the windshield cracked when the water hit it (It was damn near 100 yesterday).

Stupid car.

check your intake tube for oil.. a lot of the times a PCV will go bad and cause high oil consumption. My neighbors golf went through 2 quarts in 1.5k miles due to a back PCV. Changed that out and 5-7k miles later haven't had to add any oil.

 

[float_6969]

check your intake tube for oil.. a lot of the times a PCV will go bad and cause high oil consumption. My neighbors golf went through 2 quarts in 1.5k miles due to a back PCV. Changed that out and 5-7k miles later haven't had to add any oil.

One of the first things I did. Didn't change anything. Put in an air/oil separator for air tools and it only catches about 2-3 oz. of oil every 3K miles.

After more investigating today I'm still not sure what the sound is. I don't think it's rod knock, but unplugging the EGR didn't have any effect on it either.

 

[FlyinHawaiian]

Anyone know what MSP's are going for these days? I'm starting to shop around for a new car and will be looking to sell/trade-in my MSP soon...

NOT A FOR-SALE GB POST - just getting a feel for what people think the cars in general are worth...

Titanium 2003.5 #1460
109k miles

 

[11B-33T]

Anyone know what MSP's are going for these days? I'm starting to shop around for a new car and will be looking to sell/trade-in my MSP soon...

just getting a feel for what people think the cars in general are worth...

Titanium 2003.5 #1460
109k miles

They are priceless & irreplaceable dude. You'll forever regret losing her like that first sexy/wonderful/crazy first-love babe you reflect about in the random quiet hours that occur in your life...

 

[o0n8]

Anyone know what MSP's are going for these days? I'm starting to shop around for a new car and will be looking to sell/trade-in my MSP soon...

NOT A FOR-SALE GB POST - just getting a feel for what people think the cars in general are worth...

Titanium 2003.5 #1460
109k miles

$5k-ish is what I've seen.


Did a compression test today since I finally had time to work on my MSP and my neighbor bought one a a garage sale and wanted to test it out. Readings were 0 - 25 - 5 - 75 & 0 - 30 - 30 - 30. Not sure how accurate it is but cylinder #1 (passenger side) never got a reading so there's my problem. Hoping to do some more work tomorrow and remove the head.

 

[o0n8]

found this when I took off the valve cover

the bolt that held the cam gear on the camshaft sheared in half

 

[CHIQLES]

super lucky any other damage besides that. was there anything that drove you to think you had a problem. Or was it by chance you found it?

 

[rally2003]

^It hasn't ran in a while. That sucks Nate. TOO MUCH POWA! I have another head here in good shape from my other motor. Can trade you for the motor mount if you want

 

[o0n8]

super lucky any other damage besides that. was there anything that drove you to think you had a problem. Or was it by chance you found it?

It's been down since November, haven't had a chance to really do anything until now. Hopefully there is nothing wrong with the bottom end.

^It hasn't ran in a while. That sucks Nate. TOO MUCH POWA! I have another head here in good shape from my other motor. Can trade you for the motor mount if you want

just sen you a pm. I wished you lived closer so I could hire you as my mechanic.

 

[float_6969]

Ouch, that's not fun. Is the FSDE and interference motor?

 

[323]

Ouch, that's not fun. Is the FSDE and interference motor?

nope

 

[ajkulish]

just sen you a pm. I wished you lived closer so I could hire you as my mechanic.

you dont want that, he likes breaking motors and ps pumps and turbos