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Hey guys, I have a question for you. I have a 2007 Mazdaspeed 3 that had a motor that pistons hit the valves. This is what I have done. First of all I purchased a motor from a salvage yard gen2, put it in and in less tha 300kms piston 1 suffered a cracked piston. So down 3k on a engine. Still...

Hello All, Not sure if this is the right place for this post but I thought some of you would be interested to see the failure of my recently aquired 2007 MS3. I bought this car knowing it had low compression in cylinder 3 and after a 1 hour drive home I parked it in the garage and started...

Installing the Head You would think this would be pretty simple and it was but it also took forever. I got freektune h11's and they have a LONG install process which seemed very short compared to some of the stuff I have already done. The one thing that threw me a curve was that I had oiled...

Pistons going in. I got the pistons installed the night after I did the filing and here is how I did it. I had the machine shop connect the pistons to the rods as I hear that is a nightmare and it cost 40$. Once again I watched this video which was a big help. Video 1 - Assembling pistons and...