a) 10 year old beck arnley that has been sitting in the garage in a unsealed bag, made in japan, still soft and fluffy

2) mexican felpro brand new

3) chinkshit brand new

i have all 3, im leaning towards mexico but i cant support them after what they have done in california.

also which rtv should i use, gray or black? leaning towards gray because its closer to white and im extremely racist but appraently the black stuff seals the best.

>>28457654 (OP)
>appraently the black stuff seals the best.
That's gray, the only advantage black has is that it stays flexible.

>>28457654 (OP)
Made in Nippon. Honor of the samurai flows through your bloodline. Do no dishonorable!

Use the new Fel-Pro seal. The old Beck/Arnley is too old, and the off-brand Chinese one isn't worth the risk. For RTV, go with black it's best for oil sealing around rear mains.

>>28457654 (OP)
The seal is as good as new unless it was in the sun.
Black rtv is the best for oil resistance, I assume you are sealing the pan? If you can afford it, use urethane hybrid rtv (hondabond, Toyota fipg, right stuff) it is god tier and blows all the conventional rtv types of of the water

>>28457700
>>28457703
>>28457708
>>28457721
ok ive decided to go with honorbale nippon seal and the nog RTV (right stuff), cant wait to re-do this because i took advice from forchan

>>28457721
>Toyota fipg
luv me fipg. good shit, got me the red and black.

>>28457654 (OP)
>6bolt crankshaft
What is this lump of garbage

>>28458246
>he can't tell by looking at it
wrenchlet

>>28458475
I make sure to only wrench on cars built by respectable manufacturers who would use no less than 8 bolts on the crankshaft of an engine like that.

Haha how did I know it was going to be a shitbox miata engine

>>28458509
>damn those Miata owners and their...
>*checks notes*
>fixing their cars themselves and trying to do it properly?

>>28458571
you checked the wrong notes buddy boy >>28458246

>>28458572
I fail to see the problem here.

>>28458579
Nah it's alright I suppose
A godyota would have 8 though

>>28458584
>just make the rotating assembly heavier for no benefit when 6 is already strong enough bro
Based Mazda caring about engine responsiveness

>BRO MY GORILLION FLYWHEEL BOLTS
im just trying to get to work and look cute with the top down lmao

My flywheel is only one big nut

>>28458584
mine had 6

>>28459049
dammit. photo viewer showed it was upright...

>>28459054
the fuck. is this that thing where 4chan strips exif data and in the process causes images to get rotated?

>>28459054
weird, looks like 1 is offset. what engine is this?

>>28457654 (OP)
i've always had very good luck with felpro, and now buy them over OEM.

>>28459168
7M-GE. Yep, one is definitely offset. Probably balancing reasons or something, i dunno. The 1G engine had no offset/index hole, pic related

>>28459054
This is why nobody likes the 7M

>>28459202
>Gigabased m series enjoyer
Did you really swap a 1g for a 7mge? Did you at least replace the head gasket before you dropped it in?

>>28459342
but i liked it...aside from the head gasket of course. i liked that the water pump was separate from the timing belt. Meant that I could just change it right there even though I wouldn't have to for a looong time. Also like how it sounded really deep, although that could also be due to the exhaust design. But honestly I really do like the engine, it never gave me any trouble during the time I hooned it besides just being thirstier on oil, well duh because I kept revving it to 6000 rpm lul.
>>28459498
No, I just stole that photo from a drive2.ru post because I couldn't find any decent images of the back of a 1G engine. I did the head gasket though, head needed to be straightened but the block was fine.