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Old 07-24-2008, 12:07 AM
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there was a clamp but it was found in the wastegate
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a hose clamp ? did it jam the wastgate open/closed - what ?
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ugh. no.
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moved to rx8 general discussion..

someone wants the masses to know of taj's failure?

thats not nice..
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Waiting for it to get moved to the lounge.
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I made it in the louge......wtf?

btw, it was a hose clamp, I have no clue how it was in the waste gate, but it was when I uninstalled everything

btw, Jeff, while I have you here

a quick word?
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Originally Posted by tajabaho1

a quick word?
By quick, do you mean a word that means quick like "acceleration" or a word that is quick, like "go"?

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Originally Posted by MazdaManiac
By quick, do you mean a word that means quick like "acceleration" or a word that is quick, like "at"?
i dont acceleration is a word in Taja's vocabulary now...
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Right.. thats what I thought.. it was in the Lounge..

Like I said.. someone moved it.. possibly to highlight Taj's failure?
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or perhaps because, as much as this thread was bound to provide entertainment one way or another... it doesnt really belong in the lounge anymore.

so where do you put a thread that isnt exactly funny now, but doesnt quite warrant the performance category as it was bound to never perform?(lol)

...... General Discussion!


i'm extremely curious how a clamp found it way in there at all without being obvious..... and also as to how it caused these problems....

-a clamp starting on the exhaust side of the motor and finding its way to a wastegate could create havoc with the turbo, but not the motor(not at idle anyhow)
-a clamp starting before the motor: is either pre intercooler in which case the intercooler would catch it?
OR post intercooler in which case it would have to make it through: the throttle body, the upper and lower intake mani's, then be run through the motor and spit out to reach the waste gate.... i think that would be freaking obvious if it happened, just by looking at the clamp.....

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0_0 wow... sorry to hear that.. and i second that you dont' truly know if you blew your engine until you get it diagnosed properly
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can we clarify something taj - did the motor increase in revs when this happened or did it stay at a fast idle then just die when the ping noise happened ?
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Originally Posted by tajabaho1
I finished installing everything, it started up, and idled......for about 10 seconds, and subsequently, there was a gigantic PHEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW and then PING!!!! a huge jump in rev and the engine stalled and died............
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Originally Posted by tajabaho1

it started up, and idled for 2 seconds, @ 3k rpm, and then just died,

those were the sounds, a huge PSHHHHHHHHHHH and then PING!!! and everything went dead,

I saw that - but then he wrote this /\ which made no mention of the motor reving . Maybe he meant the turbo ?????
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^^^ i dont know if they would be tied, but the only way i can tie a clamp flying around inside to a huge jump in revs is if the clamp was on the cold side and either hit/opened the throttle for a moment before getting sucked through

this leads to the clamp having to go THROUGH the motor to get to the wastegate though.... which i would guess would completely destroy the clamp and be obvious upon discovery....?


hmmmm, just thought of something... "HUGE PSSSHHHHHH"...? BOV venting?? but that would mean a closed/closing throttle, and pressure on the cold side... how does that happen from idle.......

MM, you arent saying much, i wonder your line of thought.... i need to learn to think logically about this kind stuff...

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Nothing much to say.

1) I think this might be a hoax
2) The description of the failure is so vague that it is incomprehensible
3) The few details offered are somewhere between whimsical and impossible
4) The failure, if it is real, is so fantastic that it really would gain nothing by way of explanation
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Originally Posted by MazdaManiac
Nothing much to say.

1) I think this might be a hoax
2) The description of the failure is so vague that it is incomprehensible
3) The few details offered are somewhere between whimsical and impossible
4) The failure, if it is real, is so fantastic that it really would gain nothing by way of explanation
ya, i can buy that.... i called BS on him when i first saw it iirc. but i'm just going with what i got...

good to hear that i'm not crazy in the fact that i cant makes sense of it.
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when something like this happens and you don't know wtf is going on , it is really hard to remember what actually happened .
There is more OMGWTFBBQ going on than - hmmm i should remember everything that is happening so I can tell the boys later ......
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Originally Posted by Brettus
when something like this happens and you don't know wtf is going on , it is really hard to remember what actually happened .
There is more OMGWTFBBQ going on than - hmmm i should remember everything that is happening so I can tell the boys later ......
sooo true i imagine. i know if somehing crazy happened to me here in a few months i'd be screaming the wtfbbq thing too!
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Now everybody has me curious!
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to be honest I don't know what happened, all I know is my car is dead and that I am driving a beater right now since it is

I have to get her back! I miss my rx8!!! P%I!#Y$(Iyj69Qym
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All I know is that I can't generate boost at idle. I can rev the crap out if it and boost never goes above 0.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vTFWJiHOGv0
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Originally Posted by tajabaho1
so now I have to either pay mazda 3.5k for a new engine and pay labor for putting it in
Try doubling that.
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pics or it didn't happen!.
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