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I went thru the same thing with the 1.8l b4 the klze swap....Car runs great, then out of the blue, the car dies, leaving u on the side of the road for like 5 mins, and then it starts up and is fine, and u drive away...Then itll b good for a few days, then it does it again, then gets worse by doing it more and more and more often...it sure sounds like the IGNITOR in the DISTRIBUTER to me....its like a $500CAN fix... or try to find a used DIST in the boneyard, or find a new IGNITER and get that replaced. Seems too much to do this in the backyard, so i would bring it into MAZDA DEALERSHIP for this fix...Hope this helps...

dubspeed wrote:I went thru the same thing with the 1.8l b4 the klze swap....Car runs great, then out of the blue, the car dies, leaving u on the side of the road for like 5 mins, and then it starts up and is fine, and u drive away...Then itll b good for a few days, then it does it again, then gets worse by doing it more and more and more often...it sure sounds like the IGNITOR in the DISTRIBUTER to me....its like a $500CAN fix... or try to find a used DIST in the boneyard, or find a new IGNITER and get that replaced. Seems too much to do this in the backyard, so i would bring it into MAZDA DEALERSHIP for this fix...Hope this helps...

search for HEI mod - its $50 fix for the problem you described...

my hei mod was like 25 dllrs, w00t!