Rued

To make a long story short, someone installed a fan shroud in my car, they didn't secure it (I was looking around at the other engines they had laying around). It hit fan the next day while drift practice, fan slowed down, and the seal between the thermastat housing blew. Obviously the car overheated, I was making a 180 with sidebrake and it shut off. Keep in mind your guage are from from your eyes when your in the canyons. Next day tried to make my own gasket (sunday), friend broke bolts that held down top of thermastat housing. Started car just for the hell of it, it ran bad, and collant blew everywhere obviously, and car ran bad. shut it off immediately.

Couple weeks later I finally got it at my house after towing it to my other friends house. Rebuild thermastat housing, and try to start up car using my battery from my other car. It runs normally kinda...blowing white smoke everywhere (figure after two weeks of course). Then while still idling it dies. Then I wasn't able to start it again. I heard it trying but nothing. I tried the whole taking out the fuel injection fuse too.

So is my motor blown or is it something else?

dr0x

Sounds like your coolant seals got burnt up.

I believe the official mazda testing is:

Let the car cool, remove the upper radiator cap, unscrew one spark plug from each rotor. Now get one of those compression testers that use standard quick connect air line fittings and screw it into the rotor housing. Now use a compressor and feed it 20psi. See bubbles in the coolant? Do it for each rotor.

Rued

I have a compression tester, the reason I started it tonight was because I couldn't get those damned plugs out. Its odd, car ran for 10-15 seconds then just died, no over heating, no anything. Just dead. Tried to turn it over, and well kept on tryin afterwards. I could hear it trying to start up but nothing.

Its weird why does it work after 2-3 weeks, but not right after. Weird. Anyone wanna come to my house to help with compression test..I'm bored sometimes haha.

Rued

any thoughts on why it would just die on idle? and why it starts after 2-3 weeks, but not after already being started?

Black13B

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GOOD Idea.

Regardless of if it's Mazda's official test or not, that's some good advice right there.