Stephen

Sounds like turbo then doesn't it, however what confuses me is the same cylinder dropping out. There has to be a reason for this. So do this, check the 4 boost hoses and the inside of the plenum for oil deposit's there will be some blackening but it shouldn't be pooling. Warm the block up, whilst warming take a screwdriver and put the tip on each injector, listen down the shaft you should hear a distint pulsing or ticking. When warm, carefully remove the now warm plugs, while your there ohm the injectors. Check the colours and conditions of the plugs, compression test the block. Reassemble the engine bay and do a boost leak check. By doing this process you will establish the following, Fueling is occurring t at least a basic degree, compression is arriving, and the system is not being mislead by boost leaks etc. My guess is one of those turbos has front end damage, and oil is being sucked up and combusted.

Where have you been?

yeah that's not too bad, some rust converter and waxoil type product would go along way though.

15 days now. More importantly Happy open season ladies and gents....

:huh: what are you like lol

Yeah I hear what your saying dicky, this is the risk of second hand parts. As you say jeff does a Stirling job and noel seems pretty trustworthy, however shit does happen, hopefully its resolvable. Im sure by the close of play tomorrow you will now more about the why.

Rubbish excuse lol

Yeah read that article yowser, nice little read. The tommy one is interesting that's a new one on me, not so sure on the looks of that one though. Another other limited editions? Anyone know the production run numbers on these?

Have you looked behind the rubber flaps into the inner sill? don't take long does it and you can really see what's going on :)

When I say collapsed, I mean its lost compression, rings failed etc. I may still continue to run with a lower compression, continuing to fire whilst consuming oil/water. Was the plug wet? you say sotty, was it jet black, you can tell a lot by the plug condition actually. heres a helpful guide. http://www.mazdaforum.com/forum/mazda-mx-3-mazda-mx-6-25/94-mx-6-engine-hissitation-31499/page2/

Ive heard bits and bobs about these, but never known too much. However I found a website today that is all about the SMZ read on to enlighten yourself if you don't know what one is. Put it this way its how they should have been from factory period! http://www.smzregistry.com/

So your selling the car?

Fair point didn't even cross my mind, but still 16nm is nothing is it.

Guess what, 16 days now :P

One last time?????

Alright guys, I've had the rear struts out this week. I checked through the service manual for the torque settings, the rear ones were around 20nm, that sounds LOW especially seeing as when I did the fronts it was 40 odd. So I checked that to, yeah its around 40nm, now I'm confused. Surely they would be the same its the same bolts at the same size doing the same job would the rears really be half the torque setting? Or have I misread the service manual.

You can purchase a compression tester from Halfords for cheap, http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_199553_langId_-1_categoryId_255216 ive got that one, and so does my mate who uses it or porches, a lot wont fit due to the length of the hose supplied. At least then you can say the cylinder hasn't collapsed, which would be worse case scenario.

I dont know wether you know this yet, but if you remove the rear interior quater pannels you will have good visual access to the inner sill.

A 360 trust only protects the front from overboost, rear seal wise a stepped gap is the best way forward, however even with both they can still bloody leak, mine still leak after being rebuilt with both, albeit only when ive been ragging it.

Alright mum. :laugh:

The amount of work people ar eprepared to put into these cars is getting more and more, with people going on to ho wthe ford boys are and really looking after the shells maxiumum respect to you an dat the end of it you will have a belter no doubt.

Good soilid numbers, i sem to remeber something about the waste gates on those opening up the opposite way up to the garret style ones, causing isses with the wastegate opening and closing properly...

That doesnt sound positive im afraid to say, however mine did that because i drained the oil cooler and didnt refil it manually so it soaked up the volume, after id topped it up once it was fine. Did you put up a video? Didn't zedworld fit the block? May be worth having a chat and seeing if they noticed anything during transplant. let us know how you get on this sucks balls.

yes that is often the case lol

:arabia: not swallowing that one lol