![]() ![]() With the battery gone, and much less in the engine bay, it annoyed me to see so many wires all over the place, so I cut some of the harness wrap back, and re- routed a few connections. The next job was to clean up the harness as much as possible. I had gotten the engine in and made sure it was running right. I got the engine in, and it cranked right up… The good thing about these engines is that they can run on the US harness just fine, the only thing you need to swap is the crank sensor and pulley and it will fire right up. So I would need to source another one or use standalone to tune it for its full potential. Being a completely different vehicle the fuse box is much different from the US protege. I did have the matching harness and ECU come along with the engine, but they had cut the harness at the fuse box connection. But in order to achieve its full potential you must use the matching harness and ECU because it is a OBD 1 engine. I went through a few things, and pretty much swapped everything off the other motor onto this one, and replaced the water pump and timing belt and it was ready to go in.Īs mentioned before, this engine is a Japanese version and a higher output then what is available in the states. The Engine was marked as if it had under 70k miles on it, and by the looks of the cylinder head it did not look like it had many miles on it, and it looked to have had a decent life. The intake manifold looked like it had been sitting for a long time. The engine tested good and had good compression, but it was very old and had a lot of signs of corrosion mainly from the coolant side. It was my first time purchasing a JDM engine from a company, and it was a breeze, and it was delivered in about 2 days, so I highly recommend Tennessee JDM if you are looking for a engine.Īnother way to determine if it is a FSZE or not is the FSH9 cam on the intake side. The engine came out of a 2002 Mazda Capella GZi AWD, which is the 626 in the US. That and the plastic resonator box on the intake manifold are 2 of the easiest ways to identify it. After communicating with them on IG I gathered enough information to know which engine was which, the main giveaway was the valve cover, which has studs for a plastic engine cover. One of the engines was nice and pretty, and the obvious choice, but upon further inspection it was determined to be the lower compression version out of a Japanese MPV from 2002. At first I was not looking to go with the FSZE because with out the proper harness and ECU, it does not make the power it is supposed to and I just wanted to get the car back on the road. There are 2 versions of the JDM engines, one is a FSDE which is rated at 130hp (similar to the us version) and the other FSZE that has higher compression and more aggressive cams. Local yards were asking 5-600 for 170,000 mile engines that had been rotting in a yard.Īfter going through and communicating with a few sellers on Ebay, I ran across Tennessee JDM online, and saw that they had 2 JDM engines available. ![]() All the grommets are good and there is no oil leaking into the spark-plug areas.It took me a few weeks to find a good replacement engine for the P5 because the car has gotten a lot older and finding good replacements for reasonable prices has become very difficult. It is a good quality silicone one and has a good 1/16 to an 1/8th of protrusion from the valve cover. However, I was wondering if I should replace the valve cover gasket. My wife is freaking out on me because it is still in pieces waiting for the New timing component kit and belt. I replaced the front struts, motor mounts, hoses to radiator, fixed the intake that was installed on it. I did not however pay close enough attention, as it had two broken motor mounts and was in very desperate need of a power flush and oil change. OD is at 292000 bought it for 2300, simply due to the fact there was absolutely not a single deposit in the head and it ran like a sewing machine. Turned out to be the timing components eating through the side of the Timing cover along with the belt. So I just bought mine 3 weeks ago and I have only driven it once, I just happened to have to go out of state and found out I had no heat, then the car started making a racket. Whoever owned mine before me and after the original owner had the belt replaced, but I do not believe they replaced the timing components, they did replace the water pump though. I will vouch that it is non-interference, just make sure to replace the timing component wheels as well when you do the timing belt. ![]()
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