My 04 Nordic Green GT Restoration
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Not much progress has been made this year at all. Been busy with other projects. thinking of buying a known good used engine to install in the car just to get it up and going.
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Thank you! In the hands of many people, this car would have been parted. It does have a bit of rust but the car is well worth saving. I really love the car very much and its worth it to me to slowly bring the car back. All of the cars I bring home I love and appreciate.
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That Nordic Green was such a great, under appreciated color. I wish they had continued making them past ‘04. I could say the same thing about the blue and black second gen RX’s as well. Don’t quite understand Mazda’s color choices like dropping great looking ones.
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mazdaverx7 (07-16-2019)
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Nordic Green was available in 04 and 05, but was dropped in 06 to usher in Phantom Blue. Don't get me wrong, Phantom Blue was an exceptional color, but Nordic Green is by far my favorite! I'm not sure if it was a cost thing or low sales in Nordic Green that convinced Mazda to replace the color. They did the same with Titanium Grey as well. Replaced it in 06 with Galaxy Grey, which is darker and in my opinion, not a beautiful of a color. Mazda did great with the color choices on the 8 over the years, that's for sure!
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I started the car a couple days ago and moved it around the driveway and took a couple pics. Figured ibwould post a couple pics since I haven't posted any in awhile. The car badly needs a bath and a new engine. I feel bad because it's been on the back burner for so long. But working two jobs and having 6 kids doesnt help much with getting all of my projects finished.
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With 6 kids I don’t see how you have time for much of anything...,even making more kids! I ended up putting my 8 in a storage container on family land. It’s all locked up and just waiting for me to retire and start driving it again. We ended up getting the boy an all wheel drive car for Upstate NY snow. I couldn’t let the 8 go since it is 100% solid. I just saw another Nordic green on Craigslist for 500 bucks, but it was a rusty mess, but the interior was nice. The urge to horde is strong....,
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With 6 kids I don’t see how you have time for much of anything...,even making more kids! I ended up putting my 8 in a storage container on family land. It’s all locked up and just waiting for me to retire and start driving it again. We ended up getting the boy an all wheel drive car for Upstate NY snow. I couldn’t let the 8 go since it is 100% solid. I just saw another Nordic green on Craigslist for 500 bucks, but it was a rusty mess, but the interior was nice. The urge to horde is strong....,
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With 6 kids I don’t see how you have time for much of anything...,even making more kids! I ended up putting my 8 in a storage container on family land. It’s all locked up and just waiting for me to retire and start driving it again. We ended up getting the boy an all wheel drive car for Upstate NY snow. I couldn’t let the 8 go since it is 100% solid. I just saw another Nordic green on Craigslist for 500 bucks, but it was a rusty mess, but the interior was nice. The urge to horde is strong....,
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mazdaverx7 (10-08-2019)
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Thank you very much. I'm hoping to be able to get to it soon. I've been working two jobs to stay afloat so I haven't had a ton of time this year unfortunately. I was looking at the car yesterday talking with my son about getting an engine for it.
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wannawankel (10-08-2019)
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Well in my hunt for a good engine for this car I found not one but two lower mileage Mazda reman engines! I ventured out last night and bought them both. I further decided to buy the cars they came out of as well. I'll be back for those. I'm going to call my local Mazda dealer today, with whom I have a good relationship, and have them run the vin numbers of each car and have them tell me at what mileage each of these engines was installed. I know the mileage of each car so I can get get a good idea of the mileage on each engine. The dirty engine was removed from a 70k mile Nordic Green Touring model. The guy said he launched the car and heard what sounded like a chain breaking and the engine never ran right after that. Said it shut off when warm but would restart shortly thereafter. Turning it over by hand, it generates strong compression pulses. Definitely a great candidate for a rebuild. The cleaner engine came out of an 83k mile Velocity Red GT. The guy said it had no problems running and was destined for the Nordic Green Touring car. It also has strong sounding compression pulses. This is the engine that I will be using for my Nordic Green GT. I'm going to order an engine gasket kit and get everything cleaned up and post better pictures of every step up to and after installation.
This is the car the alleged good engine came out of. Its next on my list to buy as I made a deal for it last night:
This is the car the alleged good engine came out of. Its next on my list to buy as I made a deal for it last night:
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mazdaverx7 (01-15-2020)
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Ordered the engine gasket set yesterday from Mazda. Should be here in a week. I'll start prepping the engine in the mean time getting everything cleaned up. I'll post more pictures and a video when I do.
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Made some more progress on getting these engines cleaned up. Once I finish cleaning them, I will pull the car in the garage and begin removing the engine to prepare for the cleaning and transfer of parts.
This is the engine I will likely use, which has 50k miles and was known running well when removed:
This engine will be destined for my Titanium Grey Touring and has only 30k miles according to Mazda records:
This is the engine I will likely use, which has 50k miles and was known running well when removed:
This engine will be destined for my Titanium Grey Touring and has only 30k miles according to Mazda records:
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Engine gasket set came in and the engine swap will begin soon. I need to find a good used clutch kit to toss on the engine. I don't want to blow a ton on money on a clutch set and have issues with the engine. I'm doing this low budget and taking a gamble so a good used clutch will be just fine. The clutch that's currently in the car is definitely a puck style clutch. It's either on or off. There's no progression in the pedal.
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