Reman Crankshaft???
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Reman Crankshaft???
So, I did the loctite fix on my crankshaft at the beginning of summer. I've been reading up and researching on turboing my car for the past year. I've decided that before I up my power I need to replace my crankshaft. Do you guys have an opinion on Enginetech's Reman Cranks? They come with main and rob bearing and ship for a total of about 300 dollars. Any help with this would be great!
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any idea where I could find a ready to drop in, used crank? Tom at the parts group or whatever didn't have one and planet miata never got back to me.
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You know who knew how to manufactur a crank shaft for this motor? Mazda.... well there's a couple out there that cost more then most used miata's too.
Let me put it this way... and this is coming from someone who has had a **** time with a reman motor.
A shop taking used parts and turning them and burning them for a profit has less vested in the product then you taking a shaft to a local engine shop and having them turn it for you. That extra money is going to be worth it most likely...even if just for the piece of mind.
Let me put it this way... and this is coming from someone who has had a **** time with a reman motor.
A shop taking used parts and turning them and burning them for a profit has less vested in the product then you taking a shaft to a local engine shop and having them turn it for you. That extra money is going to be worth it most likely...even if just for the piece of mind.
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You already have $120 in to the crank that needs to be turned right? So from where you stand now it's $150 plus bearings to get a usable OEM crank.
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Spend $300 and get a mystery crank w/ bearings.
Am I stupid for misunderstanding you or do you suck at making decisions?
Or
Were you planning to unload the bad crank for what you payed like an absolute tool?
Or
Spend $300 and get a mystery crank w/ bearings.
Am I stupid for misunderstanding you or do you suck at making decisions?
Or
Were you planning to unload the bad crank for what you payed like an absolute tool?
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You already have $120 in to the crank that needs to be turned right? So from where you stand now it's $150 plus bearings to get a usable OEM crank.
Or
Spend $300 and get a mystery crank w/ bearings.
Am I stupid for misunderstanding you or do you suck at making decisions?
Or
Were you planning to unload the bad crank for what you payed like an absolute tool?
Or
Spend $300 and get a mystery crank w/ bearings.
Am I stupid for misunderstanding you or do you suck at making decisions?
Or
Were you planning to unload the bad crank for what you payed like an absolute tool?
the plan was, if you guys recommended the reman crank I'd buy it and return the one I bought from ebay. However, now I'm just going to have it turned and buy the proper bearings myself since the reman seem to have a bad rep.
thanks for all the input guys. Hopefully after this winter I'm able to join the turbo miata world.
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If you did the fix correctly (660 in the keyway, oil resistant blue slathered on everything else) it will hold up just fine. We did a loctite fix on my friend's already boosted miata and put 7k hard miles onnit no problem before he crashed it and cracked the head. Plan is to combine that crank with the motor out of my car when I swap it, as a spare for his. Some joker welded the sprocket on my crank instead of doing loctite....
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If you did the fix correctly (660 in the keyway, oil resistant blue slathered on everything else) it will hold up just fine. We did a loctite fix on my friend's already boosted miata and put 7k hard miles onnit no problem before he crashed it and cracked the head. Plan is to combine that crank with the motor out of my car when I swap it, as a spare for his. Some joker welded the sprocket on my crank instead of doing loctite....