88' 626 first project in along time
#1
88' 626 first project in along time
I picked up this gem about 6 months ago. 88' Mazda 626 4WS, turbo, auto. It had been sitting for 2-3 years. the previous owner had the turbo rebuilt because of a bearing failure. Well they put the rebuilt turbo on and it lasted about 50 miles and they thought the engine was toast. I bought the car, took of the turbo and found the oil supply line completely blocked with carbon ----. cleaned it out and in the meantime picked up a fully functional 90 probe GT with a 5sp tranny. the kid who owned it hit a deer with it and said ---- it I guess. I basically got the car for free. so said probe was raped of all its good parts and taken to the scrapyard. I stuck the stock turbo on the 626 and drove it for awhile. BORING! In the meantime i was piling together all the ---- I would ned to do a turbo swap so a few weeks ago my buddy came down to my work with his TIG and helped me make this into a fun car to drive. I did the 5sp swap the day before. Enjoy
welded a standard T3 flange on to the stck manifold....this is before the die grinder
halfway done
all done porting...thank God for carbide bits
the stock turbo...BYE BYE
The new ****. T3(garrett) fron auto T-bird
IC I got from a buddy mounted
My buddy on the TIG. He does amazing work
shot of the downpipe
and another...theres alot of finessing to get this ****** in
Ching chong WG. ******** sent me a 16 psi spring instead of 8psi so I took it apart cut 3/4 of a coil off the spring flattened it out a bit so it would sit level and voila solid 11psi
All installed...the haterz on MX6.com said I would have ditch A/C and possibly P/S...
but its all still there. real tight fit though. wastegate clears the rad by 1/8of an inch and the charge piping by 1/4
What a totally different car to drive...open DP, whistles all the time. probably picked up 50-70 whp(just a guess)
and heres what I do for a living
welded a standard T3 flange on to the stck manifold....this is before the die grinder
halfway done
all done porting...thank God for carbide bits
the stock turbo...BYE BYE
The new ****. T3(garrett) fron auto T-bird
IC I got from a buddy mounted
My buddy on the TIG. He does amazing work
shot of the downpipe
and another...theres alot of finessing to get this ****** in
Ching chong WG. ******** sent me a 16 psi spring instead of 8psi so I took it apart cut 3/4 of a coil off the spring flattened it out a bit so it would sit level and voila solid 11psi
All installed...the haterz on MX6.com said I would have ditch A/C and possibly P/S...
but its all still there. real tight fit though. wastegate clears the rad by 1/8of an inch and the charge piping by 1/4
What a totally different car to drive...open DP, whistles all the time. probably picked up 50-70 whp(just a guess)
and heres what I do for a living
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Re: 88' 626 first project in along time
4WS. four wheel steering. to answer, no. the shift rails between 4WS cars and non-4WS cars are different. my 5sp stuff came from a probe, so no 4WS there...had to bend the rails to get them to fit and had to remove the shaft that goes to the rear steering ---- to clear the rails. and I still have some issues with 5th gear, replaced the synchro but the gear may need replacement too, or may be still just a linkage issue. the 4WS didnt work anyway so I dont give a ----. in the future I may try to remedy the situation, but right now Im thinking MS, JAW, custom equal length runner manifold and 300 whp in my future.
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Re: 88' 626 first project in along time
Originally Posted by reactone
Nice, these are the kinds of new members this place needs! Welcome
Originally Posted by Impact240sx
Looks good man. Hows it run with the vaf inline with the TB like that? I've been thinking of running that setup too.