Daily Driven Demon (Sleeper )

Thanks Bro. I'm actually doing alot better so far... alot less pain and capable of more movement... I'm going to hire a lawyer to fight this..

 

Damn dude. Glad you're alive

 

Thanks Man! Me Too!!! My Baby Stayed Together Rather Well!!! And didn't catch on fire evan tho the fuel pressure regulator snapped off the PI rail. When I found that my heart dropped...

 

Update...
Well I'm back on my feet, recovered with full range of motion! I'm just thankful it wasn't much much worse!!

I'm a impatient kinda guy.. As soon as I could go back to work. The hunt for a roller started.

I kept seeing all the mica black speed 6's getting bought and parted out. It was really bumming me out, and weighing on me that I might not find another one without shelling out another 5 to 7k for a running one. And the only ones I was seeing that had a blown motor and was selling for cheap was on the east coast.
Too far for me.. I had a limited budget of $1500. to fnding another sexy mica black one in or around colorado. It was a real challenge. So I settled on a mica cherry speed 6 roller. And got it at the price range I needed it. So i made it work.



Got it for $1100. Came with some goodies but had a over heating issue.. guy said he thinks he blew the headgasket while racing someone in a tunnel in the mountains.

Roller-
Goodies included
-Treadstone Tr8 Fmic kit W/crash bar
-Raceland coilovers
-Sure 3" intake
-Cheap 3" cat back no mufflers no res
-Go fast bits Bov
-Ebay 3" Catless Downpipe
-Autotech hpfp Internals
-All 3 Damond motorsports motor mounts

Pros-
-95% clean exterior
-Interior in good shape
-Still starts and drives
-Came with Goodies

Cons-
Minor body damage(hood slightly bent right at nose)
-Foil tape on lower trim around car exterior
-Foil tape on interior handles
-Cracked radiator support(not completely thru)
-headlight screw holes on radiator support broke and put a 1.25" bolt thru the support and the driver side headlight housing
-cut rear bumper trim
-shitty diy tint job peeling up
-driver floor board pad and carpet blown out.
-Trunk lid bent right in middle.
-Both trunk Brake light seals bent in at corners

Overall a good buy. Needs work but at that price point with goodies and still running, Sold!



So I got the car back to my brothers and got started. Took a few pics on the way.



Moving a engine hoist with the engine and trans attached on dirt was hell. Lesson learned Lol




Ok, so before I got the roller. I had to periodically start the one that had rolled to keep the fluids fresh and seals good. Well the last time I ran it. After idling for about 30 mins with a few revs to 5 k after the fluids were warm. The car just died and would turn over. I looked at the ap and the fuel pressure was like 20psi while trying to start and eventually went to single digits. So clearly a in tank fuel pump issue.

So when I got around to switching the custom hellcat in tank fuel pump over. I checked it out and found the small hose between the pump and the fuel basket had ripped. I don't think the fuel line was rated to be submersible in fuel. My bad on that one. So I got the proper in tank fuel line and repaired it. Grabbed a couple pics.


Got it running. Then jumped back into it to finish everything.

At this point it still needs
-cat back switched over
-rear end switched over
-gauges installed
-remote start installed

But she's running in the new shell!!!

 

Well I guess I made a huge mistake.

I didn't cure the blow by or high crank case pressure fast enough and the car has power loss... really could use some help figuring out why.

I didn't have gen 2 valve cover w/vented oil cap until couple months ago. And oil was coming out the vented cap.

I thought maybe it was because I didn't get the vented valve cover soon enough. But I got it before the power loss so why didn't it stop the oil from coming out? And why did the motor still die?

Compression test

Dry. Wet
130. xx cylinder 1
130. 140
120. 140
105 135

Battery died didn't get wet test on cylinder 1

Sad day

 

Rip, leak down test time.

Which thread are we discussing this in?
Your build diary or the engine thread, much easier to discuss an issue in one place perhaps the engine specific thread?

https://mazdaspeeds.org/index.php?threads/new-built-motor-died-roughly-20k-miles.14841/#post-103641