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Update: Bad news sort of....
I have a hair line crack at the dowel casting on my rear iron. It is slowly seaping oil, about a drip every 30 seconds. I was in denial at first and I replaced o-rings on my pedistal, sealed the Oil Pressure port, ect. But i watched it seap from the casting and I just uttered, "F*CK!"
It IS the S4 rear iron so I guess it just can't take even 360 whp. So sad because I just was about to dyno.
GOOD NEWS is I am going to order a brand new rear iron from Mazdatrix and from what Kevin Landers told me Mazda will send me with the iron with the BEEFIER casting. Kevin says he hasn't ordered a S4 rear iron BUT S5 he has and it was beefier.
So I will take the engine out, pull the bad iron CAREFULLY, trace the port job since I have no template, Port the new one, put in new water seals and o-ring and original side seals. Kinda risky but this is my ONLY option right now. Mazdatrix and Racing Beat techs told me today that they have done the procedure and both stated, "just don't move the engine around a lot once tension bolts are removed."
Gonna be a while before she is back on the road due to moving in to a new house we bought BUT never the less this still isn't as BAD AS A BLOWN engine.
Will update wiith pictures during the removal and install. F*ck me sideways man!
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