wassup_nuthin

yup i was told 1 year 12 k miles on mine. i had a new one put in at 55k

Never L8

iTrader: (5)

Great info in here! Thanks!

Quick question...Will Mazda complete the vacuum check on my 2004 to see if I'm eligable for replacement without an issue present? Do I need to complain of issues or actually be encountering issues before they will consider me for a replacement? I'd hate to wait until my engine encounters a catastrophic failure for the replacement engine to be considered. THANKS!

Sleepy-z

They more then likely will check everything if there is a issue with idle or lack of power going on. Dealers make good money on the jobs even though there warranty work.

BTW small note, I used to work for a dealer and realized sometimes people here complain about the wait on getting a motor and I figured it out. Dealers service writers and mechanics get bonuses each month based on how much money they bring in, a motor job is a large portion of that money and they tend to hold the jobs over for the next month or towards the end of the month to see where they stand on the bonus. Yeah its bs and if you ever want to fight that as of right now we have inventory on engines, there are no backorders or anything they get the engine 3 days after they order it unless the shipping company damages it(drops it) so if they give you the its will be 3 weeks line they are holding the job up for there bonus. BTW eventually I think the orders will catch up to our inventory but I dont see that happenning for months.

Never L8

iTrader: (5)

^Once again awesome information. Thanks for your insight!

aankhein

Hey Sleepy Z

I'm getting a REMAN engine in the next few days Do you know of the latest on REMANs? Still new or have they switched to used now? Also, I took it in for lack of power and before they found a dead rotor, they had me spend $900 on spark plugs, coils, throttle body clean out and fuel injector service. Should I get that all back considering I took it back the same day because the car still had issues - and then they found the dead rotor?

thanks for all the insightful information!

Sleepy-z

I have no idea about the plugs/coils, I dont know how they handled those things honestly, all I see is the engine....thats between the dealer/mazda corp on that end. I am sure someone else can answer that though on here that has done that.
Your getting a rebuild(sorry), only thing new we have is 09's and 3rd gen MT rx7 engines. Chances are 50/50 that I built it in fact. I have been building 5-10 engines a day lately to help out lately. If you see J on the front pulley bolt then I built it.....that is if you can see it the bolt. Good luck with the situation.

aankhein

thanks dude!

aankhein

this actually sucks. i'm a little OCD and it bothers me to nuts that I dont' know that engine I'm getting...04, 05 or later?! aaaaaah!

I'll have to deal with Mazda about changing everything out on the old engine and stuff.

Hey Sleepy Z, do they go by what year the car is to decide which engine they give you (what year?)

Any words of encouragement. Please tell me they're just as good or better please!

Sleepy-z

There is no difference in the engine/parts internally up to 2008. We inspect the parts and reuse what we can, we probably replace at least on of the housing per engine and as of right now every engine we have built has brand new rotors also. We haven't reused a rotor yet since they had issues with both our soda blaster and paint booth. We replaced every single bearing on the front/rear stationary gears also unless it was a very low mileage engine that had something like gasket failure. Simple rule on the bearings is if there is any copper showing its replaced. As of if there good/better then they used to be, its too early to say but the other place had too many small issues like oil leaks in weird spots and gaskets missing so they had a lot of turn around on there engines for small issues that are costly. We run the engines/compression test also and leak test them before they leave the facility. We even bought a 2004 and one of our engines in it to see how long it lasts, its still running fine with our motor.

04RX8man

man i love the white ones

swoope

iTrader: (5)

just a funny note.

my reman engine from the not so good place. just turned 60k miles.. after learning the motor it is running very well.

beers

WTBRotary!

iTrader: (6)

Hey sleepy, my engine is from the new remanufacturing plant in virgina, where would that J be located because im curious if you made or remanufactured it!!!

Sleepy-z

I wrote the J on the pulley bolt that bolts on the ecc. shaft. I have only built motors the last few weeks though so I have only dont about 40 or so. Since we are still waiting for the new hire to show up I have been floating in all the spots on the line between shipping/receiving. Luckily they trust me enough to put me anywhere on the line although I will admit I had to rewrite all my notes to familiarize myself with each step again but I haven't had a failed motor yet(crossing fingers).

WTBRotary!

iTrader: (6)

heh nevermind then, i got my remanufactured engine in november lol, dang i wanted to see if it was you

BigRed

I'm getting a reman put in for next wednesday! I'll look for that J!

WTBRotary!

iTrader: (6)

lol bigred, your "proper" break-in technique wont last long... i waited till 300 miles then i was redlining like crazy... oil change at 1k and bam :D

Sleepy-z

Well since its a rebuilt engine I would say the break in time isn't as long but I would still break it in for maybe 2-3 gas tanks full since every bearing is new. Honestly we are keeping up the inventory since I moved to building(3-5 a day) but the motors getting shipped were made within the last 10 days. We had such a long xmas/new year break from work(1.5 weeks off paid, thanks to the corporate schedule) and Canada ordered 20 of both MT and AT orders from our inventory that we got hit hard to start the year.

Smirnofsoldier

hey sleepy! what if the car is an 04 and has a rebuilt engine dropped in it does that mean my 8 years keeps going? or is that 36k mile warranty used in excess to the 8 year 100k as in if they engine was replaced at 99k it would have 36 k's left?

but also vis versa what if ur car only had 20k on it does ur 8 year 100k still work or does it switch to a 2/3 year 36 k???

Sleepy-z

I honestly dont know, I just build/receive/ship the motors. Thats the dealer/other employees of mazdas job to tell. As far as I know you keep the warranty, if the warranty is up and you only have 100xxx miles on it I would say the reman engine is covered for 36k or whatever is standard.......honestly its not my area with the company, we dont even handle the warranty disputes here we just receive and type in whats wrong/looks wrong or is missing and then dump it into someone else in mazdas hands to deal with the dealer.

Smirnofsoldier

ok thx for your opinion tho! and keep those engines coming :P

bampi

Well, I found this threat and i'm hoping sleepy-z is still around. I was debating just buying a remanned engine, and keeping mine around to pull apart and attempt a rebuild. But think i'm just going to have a shop do the replacement. Was wondering how the reman plant in VA was doing? Still replacing rotors for new in 2004 engines? This is a new car to me, and I'm doing engine swap first thing. I bought it from a guy who bought it at action, said ran and drives, but when he got it, failed compression test. Doesn't want to fix it, so getting very cheap. Curious what i'll be getting as far as remanned engine is concerend.

RIWWP

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Sleepy-Z is not still around, he was told to stop posting, and then some time after that he posted that he was no longer working there and disappeared again.

Reman quality is better than it was when he was around though. Still some DOA chance, but it's not a huge concern.

If you are just buying an engine and replacing it yourself, your cheapest reman option is buying from Mazmart, as his markup is far less than a dealer's markup for the same thing, and he has an option for some of the simple reliability upgrades as well.