Protege questions

[StealthWyvern]

For those of you looking for help with the protégé platform feel free to ask away. I personally have a great deal of knowledge with MSPs and protégé's in general. I've had my MSP for about 10 years (dang has it been that long already?) and a protégé5 prior to that for about 3 or 4 years. I've had just about every issue you can thing of including breaking the diffs, snapping axles, boost leaks, blown turbo, sheering off all the teeth on 3rd gear more than once, and the list goes on.

 

[Dustin_msp]

For those of you looking for help with the protégé platform feel free to ask away. I personally have a great deal of knowledge with MSPs and protégé's in general. I've had my MSP for about 10 years (dang has it been that long already?) and a protégé5 prior to that for about 3 or 4 years. I've had just about every issue you can thing of including breaking the diffs, snapping axles, boost leaks, blown turbo, sheering off all the teeth on 3rd gear more than once, and the list goes on.

Hey I have an 03.5 Mazdaspeed protege. I’ve had it for about a year now and it all of a sudden started trying to run hot. It’s been well maintained (since I’ve had it anyway) and not driven hard. There no signs of a blown head gasket or a bad water pump.


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[StealthWyvern]

Sounds like a stuck/sticking thermostat or low coolant.

 

[91GT347]

I have a 03.5 I bought from a recovery service. Racking my brain for a long time trying to get it going. Its for my sons first car. It was apparently in the middle of an engine swap turbo piping etc in the trunk. I finally figured out it is apparently an older engine. The head says “FS 15.2. Which I have found people saying their MSP’s have FS 22.2. It appears the cams are correct. Three pickup spots, instead of one. They are FSD7 and FS1G. Not sure if they’re right. I would assume so. My question is how to tell if the crank pulley is the correct one ?
The issue is power to the ECU. I can run a wire to the ecu and it starts right up. Pin 97(VPWR). The temp guage is pegged also. Until I run the jumper. I cant find where that wire goes. Used three different relays. While looking for where it goes, I found a thread where a guy in a similar situation had the wrong crank pulley.
Oh yeah, I can run a jumper to the relay power and it will start, but the guage still stays pegged on H. I assume the ecu is good. Since it works when it hets power. Thanks in advance for any help. He just had his birthday. So he can get his liscense. Hes more than ready. Lol

 

[Raider]

I have a 03.5 I bought from a recovery service. Racking my brain for a long time trying to get it going. Its for my sons first car. It was apparently in the middle of an engine swap turbo piping etc in the trunk. I finally figured out it is apparently an older engine. The head says “FS 15.2. Which I have found people saying their MSP’s have FS 22.2. It appears the cams are correct. Three pickup spots, instead of one. They are FSD7 and FS1G. Not sure if they’re right. I would assume so. My question is how to tell if the crank pulley is the correct one ?
The issue is power to the ECU. I can run a wire to the ecu and it starts right up. Pin 97(VPWR). The temp guage is pegged also. Until I run the jumper. I cant find where that wire goes. Used three different relays. While looking for where it goes, I found a thread where a guy in a similar situation had the wrong crank pulley.
Oh yeah, I can run a jumper to the relay power and it will start, but the guage still stays pegged on H. I assume the ecu is good. Since it works when it hets power. Thanks in advance for any help. He just had his birthday. So he can get his liscense. Hes more than ready. Lol

@StealthWyvern is driving and cannot reply. He said the following to me. "He should have a 36-1 crank pulley and have 3 triggers on cam gear. If he has to run power to the ECU separately then he might have a blown fuse and or a bad harness"

 

[91GT347]

@StealthWyvern is driving and cannot reply. He said the following to me. "He should have a 36-1 crank pulley and have 3 triggers on cam gear. If he has to run power to the ECU separately then he might have a blown fuse and or a bad harness"

Thank you ! I did figure out something. The main relay (the green one), has power to the normally open terminal, instead of to one of coil terminals. I made four short jumper wires with male/female ends. Plugged in the relay using those, but swapped positions with the N.O. terminal, and the coil terminal and it fired right up. Weird. The previous owner also installed a Split Second controller. Which appears to be wired correctly. Curious if its causing something too. Fuses are all good.