We will be here - just buzz us on the mobile before you leave. The earlier the better. I'm usually up at 8AM looking for trouble.

 

UPDATE!!!! I want vid(s) with SOUND

 

i just got back from nemesis's place. i'll let him share the stories but here are a couple pics i snapped.. suppose i coulda got video too..

 

I want to hear the ported motor!!! Nice pics though. Did you get a ride in the beast?

 

nah i was only down there for 7 hours or so. lol.

 

7 hours? Sounds like BBQ...

 

LOL - there WAS BBQ! Smoked two pork butts for 14 hours the night B4. Good times, until we threw a stuck APV code....

Turns out it was nothing we did - it was the APV gears. Without Dan's expert troubleshooting, we would not have had a successful outcome. The outer white gear under the APV motor was installed 180 degrees in the wrong direction.

It's fixed and on the street for break-in.

 

No vids?? I really really really want to hear it running How does it feel when with the little bit of driving you have done?

 

Congrats on getting it installed and running

 

Wow

 

I will shoot some vids later this week. Can't really say it sounds different, but then again we kept it under 4K. Idles smooth as glass. We only drove slowly around the neighborhood and came back home and looked everything over. I need to get some break in miles on it.

 

Not a single leak was a welcome, well only one leak. I forgot to tighten down the oil filler neck, and when I went to pour oil in, well it made a slight mess. Brake cleaner should fix it clean.

 

well done guys. i learned a lot just watching today and got some delicious food as well. thanks!!

once you're done breaking it in, you can come show off.

 

Is that something I did?

B

 

Couldn't have said it better myself


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good going kev ill be up your way for SID in about a week and ahalf. we'll have to get together so i can hear/see it in person

 

Not likely..........It went through other people after you

Learned a lot about thinking out of the box on this one

You don't know the sinking fee,lng I got when the code kept coming up...and a new motor didn't help

 

Yea, in hindsight, it might have been me. I had the gears all apart also, so I will take the blame. We had three APV motors to use, so after Dan swapped the first motor out, and it still threw the code, we started thinking the worst - pull the engine back out to pull the LIM. Instead, we pulled the second APV motor off and found the gears rotated fine. No binding. We had my old LIM to study since the one on the rebuild was from another car. Studied the gears a bit and noticed the magnetic pickup on the outer white gear was not in the correct position for when all open or all closed. Struggled to get the gear out, swapped 180, bolted it all back up and it worked like a champ.

 

All that stress for a gear that Mazda should have designed to only index one way

 

Give me a heads up - I travel to Indiana in about two to three weeks - can't remember for sure.

 

Thank you for helping wrench also.

I looked up the ER30 battery specs for you, and they are 450 CCA with a 950 pulse amp for 5 seconds. It weighs 20lbs.

 

Nemesis: grats on getting the car up and running and bravo to all who helped in the project.
Your engine bay is damn sexy.

 

indeed

 

Great job guys - looking forward to seeing how this beast performs

 

Threw the P0300 misfire code.
Found loose plug wire front trailing.
Threw the same P0300 misfire.
Installed new coils.
Now throwing P0302 cylinder 2 misfire.
Now resetting the ESS.
That cleared it.
Those coils were not that old - weird.