2003 Mazda Protege5 No start

[__CHI__]

Cranks,has spark,fuel,and compression. It’s in time,everything from the head gasket up is new,has good fuel pressure and I even checked all the grounds. Still can’t get it going after 2 weeks of trying and I’m out of ideas. Any Mazda techs on here or anyone that’s worked on these p5s before? Seriously any help would be greatly appreciated guys

 

[Erik the Awful]

I'm not familiar with the Protege engine - same as a Miata, right? Did you refer to a factory manual for setting the cam timing? I know when I was a Nissan tech there were a few engines that looked like you were supposed to line up the dots, but if you did that instead of following the manual, it was off.

 

[__CHI__]

I'm not familiar with the Protege engine - same as a Miata, right? Did you refer to a factory manual for setting the cam timing? I know when I was a Nissan tech there were a few engines that looked like you were supposed to line up the dots, but if you did that instead of following the manual, it was off.

The 1.6 engines are from miatas,I got the 2.0 that came in like a 626 and MPV. Triple checked the timing on everything too,I seriously can’t figure it out lol. Even replaces cam sensor,crank sensor,tps,anything I could think of got changed. This car is a pain in the rump

 

[Erik the Awful]

Have you put a 'noid light on a fuel injector lead?

 

[__CHI__]

Have you put a 'noid light on a fuel injector lead?

Yup,everything checks out just fine. I have no idea what the issue is. It gets fuel and spark but just won’t fire

 

[Erik the Awful]

If you're getting fuel, air, fire, and compression then the next most likely thing it could be is timing. Do you have a distributor gear, or is it one of those Japanese distributors with an offset slot that can only be installed one way?

 

[__CHI__]

If you're getting fuel, air, fire, and compression then the next most likely thing it could be is timing. Do you have a distributor gear, or is it one of those Japanese distributors with an offset slot that can only be installed one way?

Typical Japanese distributor,it’s fine though. I swapped it onto my running one and it ran just fine. The timing is right too..After I get the 350 in my truck and move it out of the garage I guess I’ll pull the car back in and recheck all the grounds. That’s the only thing I can think of at this point would be a bad ground on the engine itself

 

[Erik the Awful]

Are you smelling gas out of the exhaust when you crank it?

 

[__CHI__]

Are you smelling gas out of the exhaust when you crank it?

Yessir

 

[Curt]

If it's not a bad ground, I'm going to of off on a limb and guess that it might be a factory/aftermarket alarm preventing it from starting?