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Yeah, turns out I had more than one problem. I had a leaking coolant hose which might have been the cause of coolant boiling in my overflow tank but at the same time, I also put in blue devil head gasket sealant and it stopped all of those problems (even white smokes). Switched o2 sensor...

Sounds good! I will try that tomorrow morning. I don't know how to test the wastegate actuator too. Mind telling me? Thanks!

Thanks, I'll try checking for vacuum leaks again and exhaust leaks. For how the car runs, it drives pretty smooth other than my boost won't go over 5psi and it feels like it stumbles. Maybe boost leak? There is also no check engine light too. As to the engine oil, it looks uncontaminated.

Hi all, I had a blown rod and I recently just swapped my FS-DET (160k miles) engine to a FS-DE (140k miles) then transferred all the needed turbo to it. The shop I got the engine from told me that the compressions tested good and the engine is in great condition. After I was done swapping: I...

Found it. Thanks! (alright)

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone can help me locate where this coolant hose plugs into on my Mazdaspeed Protege. One end is on top of the throttle body and I can't seem to find where the other end goes. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!

Yeah, that's what I figured too. I'm guessing he just wanted to pull some extra money out of my pocket.

Sorry to ask again but, the mechanic I took my MSP to said I can swap a protege engine (fs-de) into it but it'll cost more rather than getting another MSP engine because of rewiring the ECU. Is that even true? Thanks in advance.

Sounds great. Thanks!

Another question... Would the engine still have the same MSP hp (170 hp)?

Oh really?! Brilliant! Thanks!

Okay, so it turns out I have a locked engine and my only option is to get my MSP back on the road is to get a new engine. It's hard to find a original Mazdaspeed Protege engine knowing that they only made a number of them. I'm just a noob with engine swaps so my questions are: 1) Would a...

Thanks for the advice! I'll check on that first thing tomorrow and see how things go.

Okay, so this is what happened on the day it died. My friend who lives right next door to me needed my car to pick up someone and he asked for it. Stupidly, I lend my car to him (which I seriously regret doing so). Anyways, I was heading to fish with my buddies and told him to give my dad the...

Okay, so this is what happened on the day it died. My friend who lives right next door to me needed my car to pick up someone and he asked for it. Stupidly, I lend my car to him (which I seriously regret doing so). Anyways, I was heading to fish with my buddies and told him to give my dad the...