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Well my K8 just a few teeth on the timing belt and screwed up the front head... Timing belt was ate up by something but who cares ZE time!! After tax's it came out to $915 for the engine from one of my suppliers and here is what I got!!

Looks clean, tell me how it runs. I want.....

Ya I am not sure how it runs stock but I am going to have a lightweight flyhweel with a exedy and my full exhaust that was on my old one.

Wait...how's that possible? It's a non-interference motor...


And on behalf of the senior members, I must say...

It's about damn time!

It was my local Mazda mechanic that told me 1.8 was interference, hes been working at Mazda for 10 years, sorry I believed him

I m not always right but my advice is usually not bad, sry if I offended people. I m only on MX 3 for fun and to learn.

No worries bud. No one is offended. I'm just perplexed that there's top end damage with a broken timing belt.

Mind you, being non-interference motor doesn't mean it's 100% damage-proof, but unless you were hard on the motor when the belt went, typically everything should be ok.

If you ever blow a timing belt on a Neon twincam 2.0 you will know about top end damage, no wonder they went bankrupt today !

Nd4SpdSe wrote:Wait...how's that possible? It's a non-interference motor...


And on behalf of the senior members, I must say...

It's about damn time!

Ya i have the 300+hp axels for it to and ya I was to busy with the supra thats my new baby and I LOVE IT!! but I will never get rid of the mx3 it was my first and it wont leave me! =) But that K8 has no balls and was eating oil like gas damaged or not screw that motor!!

Outside motor looks clean, hopefully that translates to the internals. Your going to love the increase in power and the increase in penis lenght that comes with having a ZE in your car.

LOL o I got one hell of a 14incher from the boosted supra I have !!! NO HOMO!! but for a daily driver I am going to hunt down hondas!!

Do you have to run the KL31 or KL36 ecu to run the ZE safly?

Using a K8 ECU and VAF just makes it run way rich. Rich isn't bad, but it waste alot of fuel. One thing to lean it out would be to use a KL02 VAF on the K8 ECU. The KL31/36 ECU's require the stock Mx-3's JE50 VAF

not to be a retard but whats VAF stand for?

Vane/Volume Airflow Sensor

So after installing the engine would it be safe just to wait for the KL31'36 ecu before driving it?