So as many of you know I've had a busted powerplant frame (ppf) on my FD. I've been working on trying to find a helping hand to reinforce it for me. Thank you woundup7 for volunteering your services and rotorette for the delicious zucchini bread. I really appreciate your help and hospitality last weekend. I took my delicate time getting the metal clean and ready for a coat of primer and a couple coats of black finish. Let it cure for a couple days and spent my day off today tearing down the underside of the car to remove the original ppf which was broken. A bit worse than I realized. I knew it was in 2 pieces but DAMN! was it broke! All in all a pretty easy swap out and have yet to test drive the car as I'm minus one wheel which I leant to a fellow FDer cuz I'm a nice guy. So after reading thru all this I will reward you with pictures! Yayyyy.

For those of you who don't know what the ppf is, it mounts to the tranny and diff to form a solid link between the two and act as the tranny mount for the FD.

Primed and reinforced




Painted black


Original vs Reinforced



The break

 

I thought you had just Cracked off one side I didn't realize you sheered the whole damn thing off!!

 

Would be interested to hear how different it feels with the replacement in there.

Also reminds me that I should check mine !

 

I'll let u know once I get a chance to test it out later this week. Don't think it will make much difference in the feeling of *****, especially since I'm used to having lots of play with the broken ppf when driving the car to keep the engine fluids fresh. Maybe Mai will let me drive her car so I can compare the two

 

Or for a nice Fee I can let you drive mine, which has the Mazdaspeed PPF, Mazdaspeed engine and diff bushings as well.

 

How did you break it? Drag racing?

 

Hard street driving and wheel hop

 

DAMM Tim that thing was really broke. Glad you got a free moment to put in the reinforced one. So do you think you will make it to Del Taco.?

Your welcome for the Zuchini bread and the cheap labor, I think it was a fair trade for the great beer you brought down.

 

I will be making it to Del Taco, as for the car... It may only see the International Meet

 

Glad it's getting back together TIm. Thanks for keeping me company while I baked and did housework.

No rallying with the new one, ok?

 

Not a problem Michelle. We'll see ya Wednesday at the drags. If you need a driver for the Volvo just let me know I can drive an auto

 

Tim I believe that is mine if you look I wrote my initials on it but I will let you borrow it since I am a nice guy

 

ahahaha CHANCE it's actually woundup7's initials

 

dont know what your talking about, your welcome though. "TASE"(payback)

 

lol you shoulda kalled me Kim or Jim, those are more common mix-ups

Chance I'm sorry I called you Chase. Forgiveness please

 

You have been forgiven but only cuz your SHO will so kill my fd and I cry in fear of it every night.

 

HOOK A BROTHER UP.


and im glad you finally got one re-enforced timmah

 

I fail to see how a new PPF will change your bowel movements...

 

nice catch on the missed f Chris

 

so now you dont have to worry about your shifter popping up and hitting you in the arm anymore.

glad you finally got it fixed. i could not stop laughing at your shifter bro. that **** looked ridiculous.

 

Yeah it WAS ridiculous!

 

lol good **** right there tim. finally got it done too now huh? make me one!

 

haha I don't think you'll need to worry about it. It's not a common issue to deal with. Only reason I did it was to try and prevent it from breaking again. If this one breaks then there is something seriously wrong. Couple 3rd gen guys think I have have a broken motor mount that caused this to occur. I guess we'll see.

 

good news to see it on the car and you like it....bad news you owe me for 4 months of storage fee's

 

Aaron you owe me 20 pushups