so i'm back on the forum with a new account,

just fixed my car after a month seated in the garage, and now i have a crack in the top of my radiator,
i was thinking about an aftermarket one but, not BHR cauz i don't really want spend $550 with this right now, any suggestions of other good brands

 

well w/b

Sorry have no reccomendations for a rad

You could have contacted the Mods they should have been able to change your user name

 

Theres been a few people who installed some radiator from Mizu recently but the fans that come with it are bad, you maybe buy a different set(best idea) or try and reuse the stock ones. https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-aftermarket-performance-modifications-23/mod-1-mizu-radiator-fans-mod-2-spal-fans-215539/

From what I have seen on here stay away from the koyo radiator people were saying it is possibly worse than stock.

 

Little Phil, you would be better off with a stock radiator than getting most replacements. Obviously the best is the BHR but then you have to pay for it. I have heard that the radiator that Mazmart sells is a good alternative. I have no idea of the cost of any of the replacements. I can tell you to forget a Koyo. I tried one and it was worse than stock. I gave my stock one away to a needy owner with no money and I sold the Koyo to some guy in Colorado.

 

thanks phil, i already bought a stock one, and i end up having to buy another fuel pump, i was trying to mount the O ring and i hold in the plastic that connect the fuel pump to the fuel line and broke it, so now my car is down again and i'm waiting on the radiator and the other fuel pump to be delivered

 

would anyone have and fuel pump assembly that i could borrow till i get a new one? i need just the top part

 

Yea, I have a fuel pump you can borrow.......I will be home tonight if you want to come by.

 

thanks phil, ill call you before i stop by

 

does anyone have bad motor mounts for a 6speed i can buy?

 

^^ Check with Mazda up north dude. They might have some left after a few engine swaps. Worth a try since you just want some bad ones.

 

WTF do you want with bad motor mounts? If your thinking of making solid motor mounts you may want to rethink that idea...........Solid mounts will let you feel the tooth pick you run over (and make it feel like a log). I just hope that is not your idea....

Centennial (sp) Mazda has new ones but throw out the old as soon as they are removed.......You might ask them to keep an old set for you........I know this as I just purchased another set for my car (AT so no help).

 

yeah i thought about that but havent had the time to call them in the past 3 days. i would call right now but just got called to work on some mustang cobras to prep for the track tomorrow. i'll see about it tomorrow.

 

How ya doing Chun?

 

im going to fill them with a soft durameter urethane.

 

I'm OK, new house and new job has kept me away from concentrating too much on Kasumi. She's running great since the engine swap and mid pipe. She needs a tune badly though and I haven't had time to work with my guy to get that to happen.

I dunno, maybe I'll get the service from Jeff... he still take several months to get his maps out?

Hope Nancy is doing well Phil.

 

Hi Chun.
Mazdamaniac does tuning "LIVE" every other Tuesday twice a month. Much faster and personal interaction. There's a thread about it in the Tuning section.

 

I'll check it out. The new engine runs a lot cooler since I married the AP to the car with my first tune from a while back. But she also lost some power. I do need to get it done.

 

i got the car working, thanks phil
i might have the fuel pump sometime next week to return to you

 

Need more info about this and would these solve the vibration problem? Was planning to call Mazda in Centennial if these are covered under the warranty. I have an 05 with 32k miles on the odometer. Let me know, thanks.

 

if ur mounts are bad. then yes. plus they would outlast factory mounts by a long shot.

i doubt they will cover ur mounts under warranty.

 

Olddragger (forum member) did this a while back and if memory services me correctly tried several different compounds before he settled on a fill formula. Might save you some time and aggravation to PM him first to find out what he ended up with. Again if my memory has not failed the soft stuff had some bad traits and a harder compound was needed. He is a nice old man (younger than me) who races his 8.

Monchie: I don't know what Mazda will tell you these days but the first time mine went out I was told they are only warrantied for 10,000 miles. Locally they cost about $150.00 each (Centennial Mazda). If you are presently getting vibration or noises while turning then yours are shot.

 

EX, you got a link for that live tune thing? I don't see it.

 

phil, my car didn't started again so i towed it to my house

then when i tried to fill the coolant bottle with water, there was a leaking coming from the mid pipe and also from somewhere else, somewhere around the spark plugs, i can't say from where the other leak was coming from but just wouldn't stop leaking water
also the smell was pretty bad and few hours after the engine stop i could steel smell it

when is erick coming by with your 8? i might ask him how much he would like to take a look at my car and then see what are the options

 

from the midpipe? as in, the exhaust? You need to check some hoses and make sure they're tight.

 

lol. Hoses.

If there is coolant coming out of the exhaust and spark plug holes, there are no hoses involved. That is a blown coolant seal, which makes sense in the Vegas heat.

The only solution is an engine rebuild (if it doesn't seal itself up after a heat cycle or so, which can happen, but it will immediately fail again).

Are you sure the water wasn't just running down the outside of the midpipe?

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