dirtyred2009

Well my car died on me the other day!

I was driving, and suddenly.....the engine power dropped power about 75%.

It stayed on but barely.

Long story short.....I took it to Mazda.

The front Rotor failed compression.

They said.....rebuild.....or buy new engine.....or buy rebuilt...or buy used.

500,000 YEN - 700,000 YEN!!! WOW

I am leaving Japan in 3 Months (June2011)

ANy ideals or suggestions??

I thought about junking it and taking parts off of it.

I also thought about doing the rebuild myself.

I want to be able to sell it, and make a little money back.

Anybody know some good and fair priced shops near Yokota Base (Fussa, Tokyo) area??

I need help...badly!

87GTR

iTrader: (61)

sorry to hear about your engine. if your only going to be here 3 more months. just buy used engine and change it at the auto hobby shop yourself.

dirtyred2009

Yeah but the question is..............how much and where?

Military people dont like to spend a lot on a used car. So if I spend $5K for example.........I gotta sell the car around 10K just to be O....K.........

Most people here wanna buy a car under 2K

87GTR

iTrader: (61)

maybe pick up a used engine on yahoo. or hit some local junk yards for engine. Yeah I agree with you on most people dont want to spend more then 2k on car while here in japan.

nipponichi_2000

iTrader: (6)

uhh, hey man... do you still have the car??? if so, give me a call...

090-1742-0754

i'm at Misawa and totaled my car and i'm looking for another body...

dirtyred2009

Still got it.....need to go pick it up from Mazda.....but its Golden week as you know.

Circuit Theory

iTrader: (52)

I also am looking for just the body and am in Saitama.

Or

If you do want to put a used engine in it I can get one for $2000 with good compression and take it down to Yokota for you. Maybe even help you with the swap if you need assistance.

Or if you want a mega engine I know of one with less than 3000km on it with some large sideporting work. Probably not good to use this unless you have a stand alone ecu and large turbo though heheh.

Feel free to pm me or respond here. I can take the engine down as soon as monday next week.


Tom

Circuit Theory

iTrader: (52)

Hey dirtyred,

I picked up the car with no problems today. I did a compression test on the front and came with ZERO compression hahaha. I will open up the engine later and see what the damage is inside. All in all I am very happy with the car and hope to have it up and running in June.

Speak to you soon.

Tom

nipponichi_2000

iTrader: (6)

yeah, i was upset that i couldn't get the car shipped up to Misawa, but it was better that i didn't in the long run... anyway, if you are looking for some FD parts, i have a bunch of stuff i stripped off mine... LMK...

Circuit Theory

iTrader: (52)

Nipponichi: If you happen to have a list of parts you have I would like to see what you have. I am debating rebuilding or just throwing in a used series 6 engine. Since the front rotor had literally 0 compression I am pretty doubtful that the front half of the engine will have many parts that can be reused in a rebuild and also think the turbos may have munched on some tasty apex seal chips...

nipponichi_2000

iTrader: (6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHQEZ...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kJ2_...eature=related
well, i have pretty much have all the drive train.... front/rear subframes, mission, rear diff, doors all the interior....
then engine, however, does still run, but when i crunched the front end, it knocked off one of the oil coolers and i didn't know it... i had to get it off the highway before i got ran over by an oncoming truck and drove it to a gas station... pretty much ran all the oil out of it... i would highly reccomend opening it up to inspect the e-shaft and bearings... other then that, it should be good to go...

its a full bridgeport with 850 pri and 1300 secondaries... not exactally built for fuel economy, but then again, what rotary is.... the car was a 96, so it had the newer style "rats nest" solenoid block... no turbo, as i sold it already... the clutch is an OS giken twin with the push/pull conversion... i have greddy suspension... and i was told it was a large brake setup cause it had the factory 17 inch wheels... but i don't know how true that is...

dirtyred2009

Hated to let it go............but.........oh well............had to be done.
Maybe next trip to Japan get a 2002 Spirit R............and rebuild the engine as soon as I get it.........unless it was recently done.

Circuit...make sure you keep me posted on your progress.....I wanna see it rolling again.