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WTB - looking for Mazda 13B irons...
« on: August 10, 2020, 10:02:14 PM »
Anybody have some leftover S5 13B engine irons, maybe leftover from a Miata rotary swap you never got around to? Asking for a friend whose autocross season may have drawn to a premature close. Pending pulling the motor and tearing it down, but it's likely the coolant seal failure on the rear rotor is really a failure due to corrosion of the groove in the rear or centre irons that holds the seal, rather than just the seal itself.
Or an S5 (89-91) 13B NA engine keg, or a healthy S5 Turbo or 13B-REW (even more unlikely than a healthy S5 13B lying around, I know).
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Re: WTB - looking for Mazda 13B irons...
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2020, 02:41:57 PM »
Have you checked with RX7 Specialties?  Just thinking they might have engines etc. lying around.

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Re: WTB - looking for Mazda 13B irons...
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2020, 10:10:23 AM »
I have checked their website, yes, just thought I'd try putting the word out, see if there's any deals around first... I'm mostly unemployed for almost a year now, soon to be fully unemployed, and it won't take much for some new irons and a seal kit, etc, to add up to the cost of a basic rebuild there, which is some real money. Though that's quite possibly where I'll end up anyway. I can't complain much, it's a 29 year-old car, that's done thousands of autocross and lapping day laps over 22 years - it's just an inconvenient time to finally need a major repair.
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Re: WTB - looking for Mazda 13B irons...
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2020, 02:11:22 PM »
Yeah, I hear ya.  My company and career in engineering is gone too.  Starting all over.

 

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