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I guess I’ll put this here sense we were talking about alloys too. Just hit 30,000 miles on my bottom end and got my first piston slappy slappy this morning. 2618’s. Mind you this is a pop n drop so it wasn’t exactly torque plated and properly honed, just used a dingleberry and brush, but they...

edit: so yeah in thinking about this more I think it's likely OP received a bolt for a Duratec 2.5. That might be what happened, I'll look and see what the torque spec is for the 2.5, I'd be surprised if it wasn't the same or pretty close to ares. I might have just got a bad one, not the...

Idk man but both were different then what was in the motor to start with and both came from @edgeautosport. I could feel it yield before it even got to 57 foot pounds, bout shit my pants, I thought it was the threads in the cam. As far as the @corksport cams I believe they are the same...

I haven't called Mazda to see what number they give me, these came from @EdgeAutosport.com

Been thinking about posting about this and now that I sit waiting on this hurricane to run over the top of me I have nothing but time. So last month I had to replace all 16 valves and of course new washers and crank bolt, I went ahead and picked up 2 new OE Mazda cam bolts as well. So...

Some of most of it but not all maybe just a little but could be a lot depends on if some is not enough then you may need to take a little more then a lot.

Because it doesn't bother me enough to fuck with it. So it rattles a bit when I close the door when the window is down, meh big deal.

I honestly gave up on it once I found out it wasn't the 2 bolts at the bottom coming lose again. I seen it was the guides itself and was like meh

It broke off and somehow got into the timing cover and into the chain Snap on 3/8 10-75 lb click type

I believe you need the tracks on the sides. What the window rides in not the reg itself

Yes but the squirter was bent to clear, guess not enough

I have this same issue starting to happen, unfortunately the only fix is new window guides.

It's going back together with some 620 lock tight on the sprockets and crank pulley. Was thinking about using the old washers on the bolt side of the cams, sanding the one side of the washer smooth so it doesn't affect torque readings. Puzzling for sure because I've heard of this happening...

Everything was clean,dry and new. Like I said I'll buy the whole "improper install" if it happened in the first few thousand miles but not after almost 3 years and 25 thousand hard miles and countless pulls to 150+ without a hiccup. Believe me I'd own that shit if it was my fault but this...

Positive, I set #1 TDC checked the crank with the plug and the crank trigger, dead nuts on. Both cams were out, on about 90* the intake was out around 60*