Mazda 6 MTX

[SHOGUN88]

I remember reading about the two MTX Gen 3's one had a Mazda 6 tranny and the other had a MTX-IV. I assume it would bolt up then. So wouldn't it be possible to do the opposite? I suppose there are many variables such as clearence that would be differnt and such. Discuss...

 

[St Louis SHO]

Buy one and try. Its been brought up 1000 times, but gets nowhere.

 

[Twisted6]

The Mazda6 used the Duratec bolt pattern on all of it's engines, and the V6 SHO uses the Vulcan bolt pattern. Now if you wanted to do a V8 SHO swap, it too used the Duratec bolt pattern. However all the manuals that came in the Mazda6 were only 5-speed, save for the Mazdaspeed which is an AWD transaxle and I am unsure if it can be ran as only FWD.

 

[LOUDSHO92]

I don't think the bolt pattern is the same. I think the MTX-IV was not a direct bolt up, but I could be wrong.

 

[SuperHO]

the Mazda6 has a duratec...direct bolt in to the V8 SHO. the yamaha engine, on the other hand, has a Vulcan bolt pattern...it'd require an adapter plate.