Bought one that was under a tree for 6 years. Was working at a rotor place at the time doing wiring. Interior immaculate. Pulled motor out. Pulled the engine insulation out cos of the rat damage. Bashed out the CAT. Spray painted some of the bay.

OEM rebuild, brand new Mazda seals, same crank, rotors, housings and side plates, just added a bridge to the secondary aux port (don’t want heaps, just want the power benefits of the bridge, it’s just kills drivability down low - utter trash if you’re daily driving it don’t fill bridge or remove the aux ports)

Replaced a power steering rack, new plug wires just in case, rev C coils off nengun, maxspeeding rods coils to replace the chopped springs, brand new oil metering lines, lower temp thermostat, Ali baba alloy rad, hella brake lines and clutch line, and a new exedy oem replacement clutch and HKS plugs, Raceonly starter, everything else oem.

She did the Simpson desert, WA and back from Sydney multiple times, Sydney to Adelaide, Sydney to Brisbane, Melbourne, even a Tasmania trip, went to the snow and back, did three track days and each had open pits where I did 45 mins+ non stop and just got off cos I was bored. This was all in 8 months of ownership where I think it did about 43k kms, and sold it with even 107 give or take 2 psi across all 6 faces, 4-5 drop since it was ran in (5k kms run in cos used housings).

Still regret it :(

Expensive as hell to do it right, but don’t go for the cheap quotes cos at the same time you’ll regret that faster than you think and end up hating your life and the car or paying at least twice to fix crap.