Recent content by DavisCO

Timing job is all wrapped up. Pretty straight-forward. The only "stressful" parts were tightening everything in place and hoping it's where it's supposed to be. Everything's lined up and looks to be ready for action. While it's on the stand, I went ahead and did the BSD and installed the...

Oh yeah - the retainer cap(?), spring, and a bit of the gear itself have left the party. I put this out on a Speed group on FB, and it sounds like the consensus is that the rest of the engine should be fine to proceed with as long as it didn't skip timing or send metal all through the engine. I...

Been a while, but I hope the offer is still good for VVT questions. I'm in the middle of swapping a "good" engine out of a wrecked 6. I pulled the pan off to do the balance shaft delete and install a MassiveSpeed baffle, and I found the pin (?) from the VVT gear in the pan. Pulled the valve...

She's BEAUTIFUL. Only 90,000 miles. Already found unfired shotgun shells, 9mm ammo, .223, and a live lizard inside the car. We're making money on this one. HKS BOV, Mazdaspeed CAI, HPFP upgraded, SURE rear diff mount, Corksport diff brace, Whiteline sway bar, and enough broken up tiles to...

I just bought a wrecked 6 with good motor/trans for $800. NOW I feel like a member of the community. I can see how y'all accumulate so many worthless parts on shelves owning these things. Planning to use the shell as a table-top for my dirtbike track unless somebody wants a huge mailbox.

I'm terrible about videoing things. Here's the best I can do... It drove from the far side of the barn into my driveway and backed uphill into my garage. The noises she made were NOT pretty, but she did even build some boost:car2:

I drove it from my barn to my garage with those holes in the block and pan haha. Poured some sacrificial driveway oil in and she fired right up. Couldn't believe it. Hope the filter/catch can did their jobs, but I think a turbo rebuild will be on the list after that act of laziness.

I wish... Buttoned it all back up and the noise was still there. Took it for a little test drive with my 5 year old in the back seat, and he is an instigator. Figured what the hell - loaded the OTS stage 3 tune, and sent her to outer space. The death was decisive. Medium length burnout marks...

Been a long time. It wasn't the chain or VVT gear - that had all been replaced with the updated parts. I had replaced the passenger motor mount and Autozone gave me the regular 6 mount that seemed to be identical + a stud for what I assume was a ground. Noticed that stud was making significant...

Looks like everything is in it's place. Going back to the comment about the slack being at TDC in the picture; no. There was less slack at TDC, but the picture was taken with a stone cold chain @ like 45 degree ambient temps. It's tighter at TDC, but I have witness marks and can't imagine that...

Appreciate it. Yeah - she's docked with oil drained and parts coming off. It's rotating freely, but the flakes in the oil were just enough to make me hold off on ordering anything before I dig further. The metal looked bronze in color, so I'm thinking turbo/discolored VC material from chain...

That's what I thought initially. Somebody posted one for sale on a Facebook forum as a BNR S3-V1, so I went to double check mine. Sure enough, it has BNR laser cut into the WG mounting bracket. Further digging online turned up a thread from 2008 where Bryan (BNR) was doing the first group buy...