[Oil Leak]

I've got quite the to do list going, you never think there's that much left to do until you start keeping track of it.
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[99blkx]

Moving on to the subject of this post. Attached are the photos of where we are going. Instead of a light engine refresh, I absolutely sent it. Please keep the K swap rabble rabble to yourself.

But like... what if I'm a rabble rouser?

 

[Oil Leak]

After speaking with Boundary Engineering, they were happy to inspect the pump for me free of charge. Win. I guess that's worthy of a can of brake clean.

Tore the Jenveys down while I was at it so they can be sent off for port matching. Hopefully both of these will have short turn around times.

 

[Oil Leak]

I was able to get both the transmission and the oil pan clean enough to throw some engine enamel at them and make them look somewhat respectable. Wish I had a pressure washer.

 

[Oil Leak]

The Mazda Motorsports oil pan baffle came in the mail and it looks pretty nice. Ill get that installed once I get the motivation to clean the inside of the oil pan out.

 

[Oil Leak]

To make this engine really something special, I was hoping to have a set of "MandrewMade" headers built by Andrew (mandrew_made_life on Instagram). Andrew unfortunately quit making them for the foreseeable future, however, I won the lottery, and found somebody selling a used set. These were listed on a Facebook page, and sold within the first 30 minutes of being listed. The person who originally bought them had buyers remorse and I bought them from him. Getting shipped out tomorrow, I cant wait to see these test fitted with the ITBs.

 

[Oil Leak]

Andrew was nice enough to send me the pictures from the build process of these headers, and with his permission I'm going to post them here, because they are simply magnificent.

 

[Oil Leak]

 

[Oil Leak]

The photos of the finished product are absolutely mind blowing. Its a true shame he isn't going to be making these any time soon, and man am I glad I found a set.

 

[Zed.]

To make this engine really something special, I was hoping to have a set of "MandrewMade" headers built by Andrew (mandrew_made_life on Instagram). Andrew unfortunately quit making them for the foreseeable future, however, I won the lottery, and found somebody selling a used set. These were listed on a Facebook page, and sold within the first 30 minutes of being listed. The person who originally bought them had buyers remorse and I bought them from him. Getting shipped out tomorrow, I cant wait to see these test fitted with the ITBs.
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I'm a sucker for a big manifold can realy help release power

I'm modifying one to fit my 1.6 (manifold needs re-shaping slightly to fit a 5) but theres a few other jobs happening so it's taking time

Rich.

 

[Oil Leak]

I'm a sucker for a big manifold can realy help release power

I'm modifying one to fit my 1.6 (manifold needs re-shaping slightly to fit a 5) but theres a few other jobs happening so it's taking time

Rich.

I've seen pictures of this thing somewhere on the internet, does the build thread in your bio detail the dry sump at all? Super interested in learning more about the dry sump setup. Been toying around with the idea of a dry sump lately.

 

[Zed.]

I've seen pictures of this thing somewhere on the internet, does the build thread in your bio detail the dry sump at all? Super interested in learning more about the dry sump setup. Been toying around with the idea of a dry sump lately.

yup, if you've a day (or two?) to read that link you'll see some thoughts on the drysump setup but it's fragmented and probably hard to read as I'm bouncing between many different parts of the car at the same time
also budget driven as I'm not constantly earning so used parts & no linear progress

I've played with drysump on a few rallycars but they were 'off-the-shelf' kits whereas theres nothing available for the Mazda 1.6 (OK, theres alloy sump pans for the 1.8 available from ARE in the US but not here in the UK😕) similarly with the tank / reservoir.

I'm assembling with the pump & reservoir on the exhaust side (UK / RHD passanger) as this allows the reservoir to be in the footwell behind the dashboard - could easily be replicated on the inlet side for LHD.

Rich.