New FD engine. Who got them.
 

hey guys

I'm just curious to see how many people got the new FD engine. I know Mallow Mazda sold quite a number of them. These are new, not reman.

If anyone got one, please share how's that going. good / bad compare to rebuild and so on.

thx

I got the last one in existence, according to Ray @ Malloy. I bought it a few months ago. From what I understand, you can only get reman now.

I haven't fired it up yet, but for the price Ray was selling them for, I thought it was a no brainer. Look at my build thread in my signature for pictures of it.

We purchased several of them for different customers, opened all off them up to find the same things; lots of rust sludge and loose chunks of cast iron. There is another thread that addressed this issue. https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generati...ngines-983731/

http://www.banzai-racing.com/2011_cu...breakdown8.JPG

http://www.banzai-racing.com/2011_cu...breakdown6.JPG

thanks for the info. so hopefully that's been like 8 months ago and Mazda already fixed this by running straight coolant? or you still recommend flush the coolant a few times.

that was good thread. btw.

They didn't fix anything, flush the engine.

I have 350miles on mine so far and no problems, very happy i got one.

rotary engines always collect sludge after being filled with coolant, flush it out soon after dropping it in about mid break in. there's just too many small valleys for junk to collect.

I've got one but I haven't started it yet. I am aware of the rust issue and I will give it a good flush once it's running. Not long to go before my car is running so I can report back in few weeks.

We tore down my buddies who got it from Ray last month. Didn't see any of the issues Banzai showed FWIW.

^If your buddy got an engine last month chances are it was a reman, not one of the all new engines. What I posted was pics from a new engine from Mazda Japan, not the reman facility in the US. We have opened countless remans, they have not been filled with water, so there is no rusty sludge. All the new engines, including the Renesis engines have all had the the same goop as above.

new engines are test run at the manufacturing facility, remans are not.

remans are easy to spot, they have a blue badge attached to the front cover..

I wasn't discounting your experiences just stating mine. It was the last brand new engine ray had. He held onto it because it was mishandled in shipment and cracked a section of the rear iron off.

i bought a new engine last year. had build up. i constantly do coolant flushes with distilled water.

engine has about 2000 miles and its been good.

I bought a new one from Ray in 2005. 28K miles on it now - running great