I spent the entire weekend trying to figure out the problem. Once I got to my exit the car stumbled again, and I limped it home and started to check all connections and everything that you can imagine. It was late, and I had to get home from work, so I drove the car home. So after this photo was taken that night, the car all of a sudden had a really harsh idle, and stumbled under 2k rpms.
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I initially was trying to make my own door panels, but after heavy consideration I gave that up for now, and just resorted to the DX manual door panels. I was also removed the door speakers, the window regulators themselves saved me about 8lbs total, not sure on what the door speakers weighed, but it was much more then the regulators. The P5 only came with power windows, so I was able to source a set of manual window regulators out of a DX base model. My next task was to shave some weight from the car.
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Swapping from power windows to manual windows… I ran most of the harness under the intake manifold and it made a world of difference with the look of the bay without getting crazy with it. With the battery gone, and much less in the engine bay, it annoyed me to see so many wires all over the place, so I cut some of the harness wrap back, and re- routed a few connections. The next job was to clean up the harness as much as possible. I had gotten the engine in and made sure it was running right. I got the engine in, and it cranked right up… The good thing about these engines is that they can run on the US harness just fine, the only thing you need to swap is the crank sensor and pulley and it will fire right up.
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So I would need to source another one or use standalone to tune it for its full potential. Being a completely different vehicle the fuse box is much different from the US protege. I did have the matching harness and ECU come along with the engine, but they had cut the harness at the fuse box connection. But in order to achieve its full potential you must use the matching harness and ECU because it is a OBD 1 engine. I went through a few things, and pretty much swapped everything off the other motor onto this one, and replaced the water pump and timing belt and it was ready to go in.Īs mentioned before, this engine is a Japanese version and a higher output then what is available in the states. The Engine was marked as if it had under 70k miles on it, and by the looks of the cylinder head it did not look like it had many miles on it, and it looked to have had a decent life. The intake manifold looked like it had been sitting for a long time. The engine tested good and had good compression, but it was very old and had a lot of signs of corrosion mainly from the coolant side. It was my first time purchasing a JDM engine from a company, and it was a breeze, and it was delivered in about 2 days, so I highly recommend Tennessee JDM if you are looking for a engine.Īnother way to determine if it is a FSZE or not is the FSH9 cam on the intake side. The engine came out of a 2002 Mazda Capella GZi AWD, which is the 626 in the US. That and the plastic resonator box on the intake manifold are 2 of the easiest ways to identify it. After communicating with them on IG I gathered enough information to know which engine was which, the main giveaway was the valve cover, which has studs for a plastic engine cover. One of the engines was nice and pretty, and the obvious choice, but upon further inspection it was determined to be the lower compression version out of a Japanese MPV from 2002. At first I was not looking to go with the FSZE because with out the proper harness and ECU, it does not make the power it is supposed to and I just wanted to get the car back on the road. There are 2 versions of the JDM engines, one is a FSDE which is rated at 130hp (similar to the us version) and the other FSZE that has higher compression and more aggressive cams. Local yards were asking 5-600 for 170,000 mile engines that had been rotting in a yard.Īfter going through and communicating with a few sellers on Ebay, I ran across Tennessee JDM online, and saw that they had 2 JDM engines available. It took me a few weeks to find a good replacement engine for the P5 because the car has gotten a lot older and finding good replacements for reasonable prices has become very difficult.
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