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Things are ok for my family thank goodness, the 500L water tank we installed in the roof to give Mums place more hot water pressure has turned into a great water supply for mum.
She hasn't a water supply for a while and my sister has dug a hole in the back yard for her no 2's. But I have heard that my engine survived the quake intact and will be shipped asap. Last edited by phildough; 28-02-2011 at 09:37 PM. |
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Good news on all counts.
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Good to hear, Phul!
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28-02-2011, 10:48 PM | #44 |
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Excellent multiple pieces of news
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Hy phill.. Good to here there all ok man
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Good luck tp your family for the future. Hopefully they get back up and running asap.
yay engine yay also |
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My engine was picked up from the wreckers this morning and will be on the next boat here.
I really cant wait, its nearly been 2 months with no car and I'm looking foward to having the only mazdaspeed astina in the world!! That I know of anyway |
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Sweet news! How long do you reckon rick will take to install and have it up and running?
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Its only going to be a few hours to actually swap the engine.
Its going to be getting it running that will be the fun part. We will have to swap the ECUs but we dont even know if the wiring harness is the same so im getting the loom sent as well. A few people have done the FS-ZE swap in the US but as there were only 209 MS Familias made very little has been said about them. There isn't much info to be found about the FS-ZE let alone the Madazspeed FS-ZE on the net, so it looks like im the first to try putting a Mazdaspeed FS-ZE into a granny spec Astina. Does anyone have any FS-ZE wiring diagrams? I have the FP-DE wiring diagram already. |
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All I can say mate is goodluck. Lol I wouldn't want to be attempting this for my daily driver. A track car tho different story :P
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I was talking to Focus on Mazdas247.com and his first impression was that the swap should be "plug' n' play" (his words). Focus has two or three FS-ZE engines and has adapted them to the USDM ECU's which have very different connectors to ours. If the wreckers have said that the connectors are the same between your car and the FS-ZE ECU then you might not need the wiring diagrams
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Update:
My engines now in Brisbane and im now waiting for the container to be unloaded, hopefully on Thursday I should be able to some how pick my engine up(its rather big and heavy and I have no car!) then take it to customs then its off to the mechanics, |
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Today I rented a ute and went to the freight forwarder then customs and then to AQIS then to the freight depot and finally drop it off at my mechanics, This only took 7 hours and a few $$$.
Now for the final wait, to see if it fits and will work in my car. I did manage to take some pics though. |
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what is with the purple and green injectors?
what is the black plastic box on top if the IM? those extractor look the goods. the yellow lotus in the workshop is hotness. Last edited by project.r.racing; 24-03-2011 at 07:38 PM. |
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That's a fuquing clean engine!
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Has to be to clear customs so has to be clean. Oh and the mismatched purple & green injectors are the standard items on FS'
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