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Tires have less then 200 miles on them when the engine died. Tires $650 literally only 4 days of use on them Cat $100 less then 6 months old Alternator $75 less then a year old Turbo $500 wastegate is only 6 months old Radiator $50 Brand new for non-turbo models. Bought the wrong one on ebay...

It was the harmonic balancer. Thank you all for you all for your help, never would have gotten as far as I have without it! Engine is running, took advantage of my buddies lift in the process and did my own custom exhaust that sounds amazing! Thanks again!

Is your PCM still available by chance?

I'd be interested in your PCM

https://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123863994-swapped-engine-getting-no-spark https://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123861338-Start-up-hesitation Those are my other posts if anyone wants to see what I've been going through.

Engine is from a Protege 5 / MX6

Hey all, So I swapped engines and I'm getting no spark. I've done everything to test what's going on, the list of what I've done is in another post I started. I'm looking for anyone in the north Austin/Cedar Park, TX area who would be willing to meet me at my buddies place in Georgetown, TX...

Ok, I heard that getting PCM's for these cars was extremely difficult. The dealer said that my PCM for my VIN was discontinued and can no longer be ordered. There are several part numbers for PCM's that go to MSP's which is why I asked all that jazz before which was probably really confusing I...

Ok, so I went to the dealer and gave them the run down on whats happening and his thought was that the PCM is bad. There are a lot of part numbers for PCM's of this car and unfortunately mine is the one no longer available and cheapest I've found online is $700. I'm not done trouble shooting...

Fsde with a non turbo fsde. To be honest, I have no clue if the original engine is the one I pulled, I got the car for super cheap and I've had to do a lot of work to it. A lot of stuff the previous owners did is band aid stuff. I can tell you however that I had to swap everything that bolts to...

Ok people, I need help figuring out why I'm not getting any spark when I crank over my engine that I just swapped. All connections are good as far as I can tell, tried 2 sets of coil packs, 2 sets of wires. Tried pulling the boot and sticking a grounded plug in it to see if there was spark and...

Thanks for the info, I'll do that. I never bring the car to redline, I may drive hard but I'm not stupid lol. I bought the car for $900 so I already knew I was going to be fixing a lot of things, just not this. I don't want to clean out the engine because there is always going to be metal...

I drive semi-hard, Castrol high mileage

So my engine threw a rod bearing and now there is metal everywhere ... I have pulled the engine out and have it completely taken apart. I've come to the decision that I'm just going to replace it with a used longblock. I've been looking at JDM engines, is there anything I should know before I...

I have a black MSP that looks like it's seen better days and I was at the domain doing some work. Honestly I don't know what I'm going to do with the car. I primarily bought it because it was cheap and it ran, needed a second car. I'd love to get the car back to new condition, but it'll be a...