1986 Mazda B2000 SE-5 "The Beast of the East"

ok so Here is my Baby. I bought her about 6 months ago. I have been driving her daily, until the head gasket decided to take a shit. so while it is down I suppose i should take the opportunity to fix her up a little. so her she is in her pride and glory.















Some Additions are the skull shifter and the seat covers and the pedals

ok so here are some pics of the head being torn down.

Here is the sorry engine bay with breather cover off and filthy


This is with the breather off


with valve cover off


OEM stock Nikki BB Carb


Disconnecting hoses and such


Head off


Uh-oh something got into cylinder 2 and caused this!!!!


Checking out the head to make sure the valves are straight and not bent.



So now I'm waiting on the head to get back from the machine shop. no clue how long that will take, but in the mean while i will keep updates on the progress I make with upgrades

Ill be doing this soon, again.... whats your plans for the truck itself? Keeping it the same, lowering it? Paint? just curious. I like the ext cab, wish myne was.

hey i followed ur thread for a while. really liked the way it turned out. do u still have it or did u get rid of it?. my plans on the truck arefiberglassing the entire interior. building a center console. putting some 18" titan rims on it, working on cleaning the engine bay now. eventually bagging and dragging of course. thinking of a console like this.

it will replace the stock radio holder and stretch to the back of the cab. and i will be adding a rear bench seat to the ex cab. oh and ranger headlight conversion. thats all i can think of at the moment but whatever comes to my head i will be doing to her. just keep following the thread man and like i said thumbs up on the truck. oh and a possible paint job like this

ok so update time!!!!! figured i might as well pull the motor out and replace the front main seal, rings, rod bearings, main bearings, pistons, oil pan gasket, basically just refresh the motor. so......
Heres the hood and radiator off

radiator out

fan and fan clutch off

valve cover off and shined up, ready for paint

and the intake and all parts for the intake shined and looking new

The stuff that came out of theat egr was ridiculous. thank god for dremels!!!!!


so thats it for now more updates and pics to come

i still have it, just put a tonneau cover on it last saturday. Ill be watching for a paint job, what color you goin on the motor? your intake looks clean, i need to clean myne its all gummy and dirty as hell. wont need it soon, ill be doing an FI conversion.
ill be watchin for more

thanks man i appreciate the support not sure yet thinking of actually doing a deep royal purple with pearl in it instead of the blue as in the "future plans" pic. and i think Im going to do the motor the same color. probably going to chrome all accessories that go on the block. post some pics of the cover man im interested in seeing it. going to look at ur page again to see if u updated it. its been like a week or two since i last looked at it.

purple sounds cool, my dad painted his '85 vette a blueish purple. we call it blurple. its a 2000's VW color.
Anyways yeah the link is in my signurature, it has pics of the cover. not 100% happy with it, but it'll do until i fix it.
Ima do a burnt copper orangeish color with 2 tone to match the graphite rims i did.
Keep up the pics

ok so its been awhile since i have updated but I have been real busy with work so today I was bored and sat down and did a drawing of my truck and what I want it to look like when im done. Color still needs to be added but here she is.

Oh and Debi is my mom and I am dedicating my build to her

with color