Sho
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Hey guys.
So as most of you know, the ms6 with its new sleeved motor died at 2700 miles in.
Machine shop basically said to fuck off. So I was at a cross roads.
Michelle gave me an ultimatum:
-the ms6 either sits in the back yard until we're married, have our first kid and have a new house
-or sell it and get something you can drive now.
With us not having a garage, I didn't want the car rotting in our back yard for the next 3-5 years...so...
The ms6 is gone and I picked up a 2013 MS3 w/ tech package in wonderful Mazda Velocity Red Mica to use as a 2nd vehicle in addition to my 2010 Mz3 sedan beater
I knew the original owner, and have a good idea of most of the history of the car.
Original owner is an older gentleman that traveled for work. So most of the mileage is highway, and the car was meticulously maintained by him.
When the stock k04 blew in 2016, he got a bnr s4v1, cs hpfp internals, cobb catted Downpipe, CS catback, bosch 3 bar map sensor, htp 3.5" intake and a TR8L FMIC with cx racing piping, CS Carbon hood scoop, CS coilovers and a whiteline rsb. Installed it all at once and had it tuned on 93.
He traded it in to a mazda dealer for a ND miata in 2019 and it was sold at auction. A new owner picked it up, replaced the clutch and forgot to put gear oil in the transmission after draining it during the clutch job.
That puts it where I got it.
Compression test with 188k miles read 170 across the board, with less than 5% leakdown on each cyl.
So I had a Gen 2 gearset laying around that I was gonna put in my 6. So that came in handy as well as an ACT 6 puck with a streetlite flywheel.
Plan for the foreseeable future is to just see how many miles I can get out of it and make it last as long as possible until it's time for another build in a few years.
Come spring when it's due for next oil change, I'll be switching it over to tribodyn 5w30 dexos formula and get a UOA done for science purposes. I'll keep y'all posted with any updates
So as most of you know, the ms6 with its new sleeved motor died at 2700 miles in.
Machine shop basically said to fuck off. So I was at a cross roads.
Michelle gave me an ultimatum:
-the ms6 either sits in the back yard until we're married, have our first kid and have a new house
-or sell it and get something you can drive now.
With us not having a garage, I didn't want the car rotting in our back yard for the next 3-5 years...so...
The ms6 is gone and I picked up a 2013 MS3 w/ tech package in wonderful Mazda Velocity Red Mica to use as a 2nd vehicle in addition to my 2010 Mz3 sedan beater
I knew the original owner, and have a good idea of most of the history of the car.
Original owner is an older gentleman that traveled for work. So most of the mileage is highway, and the car was meticulously maintained by him.
When the stock k04 blew in 2016, he got a bnr s4v1, cs hpfp internals, cobb catted Downpipe, CS catback, bosch 3 bar map sensor, htp 3.5" intake and a TR8L FMIC with cx racing piping, CS Carbon hood scoop, CS coilovers and a whiteline rsb. Installed it all at once and had it tuned on 93.
He traded it in to a mazda dealer for a ND miata in 2019 and it was sold at auction. A new owner picked it up, replaced the clutch and forgot to put gear oil in the transmission after draining it during the clutch job.
That puts it where I got it.
Compression test with 188k miles read 170 across the board, with less than 5% leakdown on each cyl.
So I had a Gen 2 gearset laying around that I was gonna put in my 6. So that came in handy as well as an ACT 6 puck with a streetlite flywheel.
Plan for the foreseeable future is to just see how many miles I can get out of it and make it last as long as possible until it's time for another build in a few years.
Come spring when it's due for next oil change, I'll be switching it over to tribodyn 5w30 dexos formula and get a UOA done for science purposes. I'll keep y'all posted with any updates
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