Makkuro Eunos

[benpopham]

Next up, is my engine project.

About a year ago I brought a used 1.6 long nose engine to rebuild with the idea of turbo’ing it. I know that generally everyone just bolts on a turbo to their current engine, but I felt I wanted to have a fresh engine and know that it had the best chance of surviving. The new engine was not meant to be making massive power, but with reliability coming first. I drive this car every day so it needs to be reliable.

Any way… pictures!





It was certainly a used engine when it arrived. I stripped it down and took the head, block and crank to my engineer, he lightly skimmed the block and head to clean the surfaces, diamond honed the bores, washed out all the galleries, and refreshed the head.



It then arrived back to me like one of the best lego kits ever. It was rebuilt with all genuine Mazda gaskets and seals, new Mazda oil pump and water pumps, ARP head, rod and mains bolts, ACL race bearings and new pistons rings.









I also rebuilt the hydraulic lifters.