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QUOTE (Rylinkus @ Apr 24 2004, 11:52 AM)

Right, but Mazda and Ford do design seperate engines. They just use them in vehicles that are released under both Brands. This IS a Mazda engine. Not designed by Ford, but by Mazda. Well technically it was designed by Porsche, but that's a long drawn out story.

Yours is the V6 right? Just a small note, but the distributors (well actually the electronic pickup inside them) on those things can (and probably will) go pop for almost no reason at any time, and cost a small fortune!! I have had to fit a fair few of them in my garage, to both probes and mx3's, one of my customers has had to have two fitted in three years!! When it goes it will seem like you have a fuel starvation problem, the car may start for a second or two, then stop again, and a quick test for a spark will usually show positive (keep cranking, it will soon dissapear) the first one I had in made me scratch my head for quite a while, and I wasted time messing about with fuel pump relays etc


In england its cheaper to buy the part from mazda than it is ford, so worth asking both for prices!!

I'm probably telling you something you already know though!!  

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QUOTE (moistness @ Apr 29 2004, 05:32 PM)

Yours is the V6 right? Just a small note, but the distributors (well actually the electronic pickup inside them) on those things can (and probably will) go pop for almost no reason at any time, and cost a small fortune!! I have had to fit a fair few of them in my garage, to both probes and mx3's, one of my customers has had to have two fitted in three years!! When it goes it will seem like you have a fuel starvation problem, the car may start for a second or two, then stop again, and a quick test for a spark will usually show positive (keep cranking, it will soon dissapear) the first one I had in made me scratch my head for quite a while, and I wasted time messing about with fuel pump relays etc In england its cheaper to buy the part from mazda than it is ford, so worth asking both for prices!! I'm probably telling you something you already know though!!

The ignitor is known to pop... yes The power transistor inside over heats and simply gives out over time. Been there done that. The neat thing is that It was only a problem in 93 and 94 models. After that it was redone, and designed properly.

Thusly, all the new ones for the 93/94 car have been redone and will not fail. But only if you buy from Ford/Mazda. Even with a lifetime warranty, I wouldn't risk my engine shutting off again at 90 on a corner because the spark disappears. So I went Mazda.

770 From Ford. 269 from Mazda. I even asked the guy at Ford if they simply bought the parts from Mazda and marked them up. The guy just looked at me and said, "If I were you, I'd buy that from Mazda then...." And I did.

Technically my car shouldn't have a distributer since the engine swap. ButI swapped the Disty on since the engine would be a wiring nightmare without. At some point I may go MSD wireless.

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The car I had to fit two to was a '92 mx3 though........!?!

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92 MX3 may use the same setup as the 93 PGT. I think the MX6 switched to the newer style a year earlier in the european countries, so it probably happened with MX3s as well. We needed to wait an extra year.

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That accident looks quite surviveable.  If I hadn't been wearing my belt in this one, I definetly would have been dead.  


There's no expeirence quite like flipping your vehicle onto it's top.  Very scary.

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QUOTE (Hoppy @ Jul 8 2004, 01:50 AM)

That accident looks quite surviveable.  If I hadn't been wearing my belt in this one, I definetly would have been dead.   There's no expeirence quite like flipping your vehicle onto it's top.  Very scary.

A very nice reminder that a car can be fun and can be useful but can also be a 2000 pound mass of steel hurdling along at 45 mph.

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i rolled a bmw x5 when i was 14, my dad took pics of it but he'd prob drop a brick on me if i asked for them... needless to say i now drive like a grandma. And yea, rolling a car sucks bad.

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QUOTE (Rylinkus @ Jul 7 2004, 11:25 PM)

A very nice reminder that a car can be fun and can be useful but can also be a 2000 pound mass of steel hurdling along at 45 mph.

Actually it was more around 60.  

Still completely retarded on my part nonetheless.