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Autotech fuel pump internals upgrade, with an E85 safe seal kit.. I was going to do a bit of a "make sure you check this stuff" kind of post with this. I am not sure what happened to all the pictures I had of my stock worn out HPFP... There are area's of the housing and such to keep an eye out...

With cylinder head #2 off at the machine shop I figured I could use cylinder head #1 to still do some mock up/fabrication work.. The bottom end was fully assembled, transmission bolted up.. You can see oil filter sandwich plate below the oil cooler, and the -4 an line ready to us for the turbo...

So what kinda of motor does $2k buy you?? The seller had a video of it running before he pulled the car.. This "should" be a decent motor right? Well crap! that's not good.. Let add insult to injury... I had lent a friend my KLG4 V6 swapped Mx3 to drive while I borrowed their truck to pick...

So, how much further off the rails can this build go? Well.... My stock throttle body was missing.. I dug through everything and couldn't find it... A corksport larger throttle body was cheaper than any replacement stock throttle body I could find.. If you're going to install a bigger throttle...

The build took a back seat for a while as I took on some other projects at home.. At work I moved to a new location where I'd get to focus on my bosses project cars.. At home I had my friends 99 Camaro we did new suspension, sway bars, shift kit, custom ECU tune. Custom built brackets to fit...

So at the time of the land slide, I mentioned my car had been sitting in the back compound at work where it was broken into and a bunch of stuff was stolen... I had a large FMI, piping kit, my stock intercooler, stock exhaust manifold, a knock off T3/T4 turbo and some other parts stolen.. This...

I've found some more pictures.. So we are going to take a step back and have a look at some of the differences between 2.5L and 2.3L timing chain components... both 2.5L chain guides on the Left... both 2.3L ones on the right. This is the tensioner side guides stacked on top of each...

The building with the tyvek was 2 stories.. The 1st floor was wiped out.. The 2nd floor is sitting on the mud.. The coach house/Garage thats damaged and twisted almost fell over... If it had, it would have taken out my new shop.. half of the bottom floor of both the houses was wiped out.. load...

I was going to get more into all this info as I wrote out my build thread... but after reading your post I think there's some important information to pass on to help fill in some gaps... First off, your current problem sounds like a possible ignition misfire from a bad ignition coil, or spark...

When doing the timing, you've got brand new friction washer installed correct?? Absolutely no oil, or any lubricant on any of the surfaces where they go? If you've got a copy of the install information for doing timing chains, there's nothing on the crank gear that gets lined up... There's...

August/September of 2021 the build took a back seat.. I bought a new house, moved started taking time to setup a new home garage... For those of you living out here in the PNW, you might remember the disaster we went through in November of 2021... Major rains caused a major flooding issues, and...

I guess it's time to start building this motor now.. Lots of time spent measuring, second guessing myself... not remembering if I wrote down the correct numbers... I had taken on WAAAY to much at this point in my life.. My boss was pushing for me to finish his 67 Camaro build.. So I was...

IF you do end up down that road... You've gotta be specific to get them to disassemble the head and remove all the valves to inspect... I've run in to machine shops that will just vacuum test the valves... This can be a problem due to the carbon build up that happens... That carbon is softish...

Valve seats, and valve faces on the exhaust side are common to have issues with wear and carbon build up... It would have been a good idea to get the machine shop to go through and resurface the valves and seats... This would have required that they had all the tappets and cams.. they would have...

Lets get into the important details that can get heavily debated depending on who you're talking to... Pistons! 2.5L piston.. interesting dish shape to it... I didn't want to spend the time measuring compression chamber area's, so I don't have information on how this might changed or effect the...

There's one person who's asked about the crank shaft... Let's take a closer look.. 2.5L crankshaft on the left... 2.3L on the right.. It's pretty easy to see the counter weights are shaped and sized differently... there's a different level of machine work between the 2 cranks.. The 2.5L is what...

I don't have any other pictures... But maybe this is more clear... The tooth sinks into the chain in the space I've circled in blue... The drawn picture is my poor excuse to draw a side picture of the link... The poorly drawn blue hump would represent the gear tooth.. On the right, that's what...

Let's take a closer look at something that can apply to a stock 2.3L... Timing Chain upgrade... This comes from the updated style that 2.5Ls and newer generation motors in general run.. On the right you've got a stock 2.3L chain, oil pump drive chain. crank gears and oil pump drive gear... On...

Before we get into the important information regarding a 2.5L swap.. lets have a look at some differences in the blocks.. The oil squirter isn't a bolt on piece.. It's built into the block.. It's hard to show in pictures, but where it's located means there's differences in how the oil passages...

I don't buy into information that a 2.5L bottom end is good enough to gap the piston rings, slap the mazdaspeed head on it and call it a day.. The information surrounding the 2.5L motor and it's strength under boosted applications comes from the NC Miata world, where they run different turbo...