If you can't tell a completely new housing from a used one then you have no business rebuilding engines.

 

Fine since Tyson posted I will post.
Enjoy. All prices in USD

81-82 12A Front/Rear N201-10-100 - HOUSING, ROTOR $318.15

83-85 12A Front/Rear N249-10-100 - HOUSING, ROTOR $318.15

84-85 GSL-SE Front or Rear N304-10-100C - HOUSING $332.70

86-88 NA rear N326-10-B50C - HOUSING, ROTOR - REAR $420.70

86-88 NA Frotnt N326-10-B10 - HOUSING, ROTOR FRONT $420.70

86-88 TII Rear N332-10-B50B - HOUSING,RR $382.40

86-88 TII Front N332-10-B10 - HSG, ROTOR FRT $420.70

89-92 NA Rear N350-10-B50A - HOUSING,RR $420.70

89-92 NA Front N350-10-B10A - HSG, ROTOR FRT $420.70

89-92 TII Rear N318-10-B50C - HOUSING,RR $420.70

89-92 TII Front N318-10-B10A - HSG, ROTOR FRT $420.70

FD Rear N3Y2-10-S80 - HOUSING, ROTOR - REAR $505.80

FD Front N3Y2-10-S70 - HOUSING, ROTOR - FRONT $505.80

RX8 Front/Rear N3H1-10-B10A - $419.75

If you go to one SOLO1 weekend that is considered two races. Then... You would've qualified for your discount, and you get to beat hte living crap out of your car at the track. The track has no mercy if seomthing you thought was a bit sketchy the track will make damned sure to bring it out to the lime light and punish you for it. If it doesnt break at the track it's 99% not going to break on the street anytime soon.

 

^^^Damn that is the best post ever. I am sure there are some people kicking themselves for not being in on the Mazda Motorsports discount already.(Self included)

 

Don't forget to factor in shipping from states.

 

Way to go lawyer your ride is coming together nicely

 

I have built about 4 engines in the last 2 months with JHB coated housings on them. All of them have broken in super fast and are running awesome. I saw 95 psi after only about 100kms on a rebuild. BTW that is with lapped end plates.

I would never ever buy a new chrome housing, and would never run anything but cermet in my own personal motors. For the price of new chrome, you can get cermet B housings and still have a couple hundred bux to spend on something else.

There is a Mazda tech paper published for SAE about their coatings used. I would highly suggest that anyone interested in the coatings read it. Mazda tells you in their own words that the cermet is way better than the nitriding and the micro porous chrome surface. The link is around the forum somewhere, thats where I got it.

 

But no taxes or brokerage fees. You come out ahead on almost any item.

 

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I wish I could be more insightful about the JHB housings but we're really not going to know anything unless I have to open it up again. I am hoping that will not be necessary anytime soon.

Actually, it's not necessary to open the engine to inspect the housings if you have access to a borescope. The LH sides of the housings can be accessed by feeding the borescope through the leading spark plug holes, and the RH sides can be viewed by either feeding it in through the intake ports or by removing the exhaust manifold and going in the exhaust ports.

 

I'm still waiting to hear how this goes.

Since i have about 4 housings I would like to get done

Wished that some racing people used it. Maybe then the real data will come out.

Ian

 

yeah, i'm quite interested as well.

i think the debate over coating some decent condition used housing or getting new housings is the biggest issue at the moment. it's hard to tell if this coating will last any longer than stock new housings.

but i DO believe in the fact that the housings are easier to recover after a serious internal failure...but there are certain things that even the coating can't do anything about, and even harder to proove is the reliability of these housings when they have been re-coated multiple times...

but LS the car looks great so far, keep it up

 

I just got my motor out tonight, depending on how the housings look, I may use JBH, considering they are so close.

 

Just so I've got this straight...this JHB process resurfaces the INSIDE of the housing, replacing the chromium surface?? A FAQ on their web site sure would be nice.

 

Of course I've answered my own question by now

Just tore apart my engine and it looks like the housings are no better then borderline, so I'm probably going to go the JHB route. It's cheaper then getting new housings, and has to be better (I hope!) than re-using the existing ones or hunting for decent used ones.

 

Need our boy The Lawyer to provide an update regarding Saturday Morning.......

 

Well my car is back on the road. Thanks to Alvin (Renegade07) for helping me diagnose the problem, which turned out out be a simple resistor pack for the injectors. Thank god the Aspec graveyard is still around, 40 bucks put me back on the road.

 

A-spec is still there?? weird i didn't smell all that weed when i drove by the other day, figured the chop shop was closed. Good to hear you managed a quik fix.

 

A-spec is good for parts. You have to remember that you always have hte option to walk out and not buy and the prices get better as you head out the door.

 

Is this the place on Whitlam in Etobicoke? I need an engine rotor for an S5 - would that be a place to check?

 

They are on 24th street for now. As long as you know what you are looking at any place is fine. I would check the board first by putting up a WTB thread in the Canadian classified section.

 

Thanks. I have posted here, actually. So far, 2 offers for turbo rotors, but mine's an NA. If I wasn't sure that I'd find one, I'd be starting to worry by now

 

BTW...no issues with the JHB housings? I'm just about ready to send mine in.