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So...after 9 hrs driving, half of which was trailing a beat to hell donor car and parts back to disassemble in front of my house in the suburbs....I now have three engines and a disk brake rear to swap out on my 82 bottom of the pack S model. Which leads me to a few questions..
1). Do I need to worry about the current brake master etc up front, or is it as simple as swapping rears and putting some new brake lines on? The rear is from an 81 GLS, which I believe has the same ratio, right? Or is there another easier method that avoids a whole rear swap?
2). I was able to scavenge one of the sweet factory Clarion amps which give me hope of having 4 speakers rocking to my ABBA greatest hits tape :-). Does anyone have an easy way to test this thing before I remove my seat and risk messing stuff up?
3). Ok. Now on the the engines. I broke one down today at lunch, and one of the housings looked to me to be in surprisingly good shape. The other... it had two chipped areas (not large) right at the edge where it met the back iron. Could this have occurred during disassembly? I wouldn’t think so, and could find the requisite shards. Attached is a picture. Is this one hopeless, or is it repairable somehow? I have seen people suggest Goopy, but don’t want to pay to ship it down there just to find out is it crap.
Thanks for any and all advise!
Definitely some rusty crud in the cooling channels, but looks to be easily removable.
that housing is a paper weight. flaking chrome like that isn't a good sign. between the three engines, u MIGHT get two half way usable housings out of them.
Thanks for the feedback. I assumed as much, especially in the deeepr chunk, but am still trying to figure things out.
On the upper picture, as an example, if I see some flaking at the edge but it is not in the compression region, and still sticks to the purported 1/8” that Mazda apparently said was OK, are people still reusing?
keep in mind that this is more of a DD than a ported speed beast.
