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Just saw the second pic and yep that def looks like it. I really appreciate your input! I was trying to put the pan back on but didn’t want to until I knew more about my mystery oil pan treasure.

It doesn’t appear to be something that has broken off of anything. The balance shaft is there but I’m starting to wonder if the car was heavily modified and all the parts were taken off before sale. It’s been one thing after another so far. Looks like something that would’ve been pressed into a...

Found this laying in the oil pan. I assume it’s some type of jet for oiling. Anyone familiar?

Guess I should’ve known when I started the Vvt job and only got about a qt or so of oil out of it. Lesson for today, rod bearings need oil.

Weren’t so lucky. Vvt job went together well but on start up I found that extra new noise was actually rod knock! Only one was bad. Did some backyard polishing and gonna slap some new rod bearings in it and send it! Lol ???

Plugs came from local autozone, ngk. That’s the how to I mentioned above. Couldn’t afford the kit from edge, seem like a good company to deal with but I had to try my best to save my son some money so I made my own kit with the same oem parts. I did order their timing tools though.

Honestly I’m scared to test it. Lol not sure if it was modded or not.

I’m just hoping the super slack chain is the noice I was hearing and it wasn’t something more.

Yeah we have it all apart now. Definitely changing it all. Not something I want to do again anytime soon. I don’t know the physical symptoms of the phaser but I know I can push an inch or so of slack on top of the timing chain and the phaser moves without the cam moving. I noticed the tensioner...

Well it’s never performed as I believe it should. First the supposedly new spark plugs were old and had huge gaps which I’m suspecting caused the spark to blow out under boost. So new plugs fixed that. I’m still not convinced the turbo is on the up and up but we’ll have to get back to that...

Recently my 16 yr old son saved up his part time job money and bought himself his first car! Awesome! Except we got somebody’s headache I do believe. 2008 Mazdaspeed 3. Cool little car but we’ve had nothing but problems so far. Fed a bunch of lies about replaced parts etc etc. anyway, I’m trying...