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#1701
<p><span>@hornetball tell me more about axle rebuilds. You mentioned finding cv boots on rockauto but I'm not sure exactly what I need. Also need to find a good source of axle nuts.</span></p>
The inner CV joint is designed to be completely disassembled/cleaned/regreased. The outer CV joint is not meant to be disassembled -- but I have seen pictures of them apart -- not sure how it was done. When I did mine, I completely dismantled the inner CV joint for cleaning. On the outer CV joint, I did the best cleaning job I could with solvent and compressed air before repacking with grease.
Link to service procedure here: http://www.mellens.net/mazda/Mazda-M...xle_shafts.pdf
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<p></p><p>Yeah that one. I have a set of snap ring pliers from amazon so that should help there. Looking at the clamps that held the boots down it looked like some sort of crimp.</p>
#1707
BMW guys are running higher compression with turbos because they have fancy direct injection technology. You don't.
Whatever you decide to do, you'll want to measure your specific setup to confirm what the compression ratio is. Block deck height relative to the piston at TDC, cc the combustion chambers, etc. I didn't do that, I wish I had, because while my current motor is nominally built to the same specs as the old one, but it pings a lot sooner.
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Whatever you decide to do, you'll want to measure your specific setup to confirm what the compression ratio is. Block deck height relative to the piston at TDC, cc the combustion chambers, etc. I didn't do that, I wish I had, because while my current motor is nominally built to the same specs as the old one, but it pings a lot sooner.
--Ian
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</p><p>My BMW friends are E30 guys. So not much better than us. </p>
BMW guys are running higher compression with turbos because they have fancy direct injection technology. You don't. <img alt="" src="images/smilies/smile.gif" title="" /> Whatever you decide to do, you'll want to measure your specific setup to confirm what the compression ratio is. Block deck height relative to the piston at TDC, cc the combustion chambers, etc. I didn't do that, I wish I had, because while my current motor is nominally built to the same specs as the old one, but it pings a lot sooner. --Ian
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</p><p> </p><p>i use all the things, and still get disorgannized, or just forget what/where. google usually ends up finding it for me lol</p><p>anyway, you need to shop better</p><p>http://www.ebay.com/itm/ACT-ZM2-XTR6...8b&vxp=mtr</p><p>http://www.summitracing.com/parts/acl-zm2-xtr6</p><p>
</p><p>so you want to save $40?</p>
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<p></p><p> </p><p>cheap bastard tip:</p><p>get part/model number of what your looking for, whether it be a food processor, induction furnace or one of those rabbit vibrator things. seach amazon, ebay and google with part/model number, learn to sort by price. then if youre really crafty and have time on your hands, think of ways things are accidentally and commonly mispelled, or fat finger typos. i have gotten a few very $$ things just stupid cheap on ebay that way, mainly because of my own fat fingers lol.</p>
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Google shopping requires websites to pay to be included in results nowadays, but regular google pages don't. While sorting by price is nice, I can sometimes find even cheaper prices in google pages themselves. Search everything specific, catch phrase in the product description, image search the stock photo...