DJMARCOPOLO'S - The GREEN RIVET
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yesterday was the big day so my garden looks empty without the equipe in the back :x
Last week stripped the belt tensioners off and took them to solent bearings and had brand new bearings fitted in them for the princely sum of £9 each so the engine is nice and quiet when running.
I can now hear the bearings in the waterpump are a bit noisy so yet again another cambelt change on the cards very soon and could be the source of the vanishing water from the system as I had ignored it before as it was all brand new when the KL-ZE was fitted and have never had a puddle under the car but its possible its getting past when the water pressure is up ad the car is running, thats another £150 on her.Took delivery of the new rear bumper today, its not massively different to stock is just a little lower at the sides and a bit squarer but should sit nicely with the twin exhaust system being fitted in May. I had to import that from poland and its arrived with a little damage that has to be sorted now
The car is in JS Services near me having all the dents removed by a panel beater, any body rust sorted and treated, the MS bumper being stripped and sorted due to lack of keying on the first paint job and starting to peel and he is now fitting the new rear bumper and mounting and prepping the bumper and body for the vinyl wrap. He is also stripping all the metal grills and spraying them to match one of the main colours on the car so eveything will now be tied in.
The car is then being transported to wraptition for a complete vinyl wrap, its a custom design that they are struggling to get right as its almost completely original and never been done before so should make this car a complete one off worldwide.
Also having the uk-mx3.com logo sorted for along the side skirts quite subtly so any photos will have the site address in it
Cant wait, only a week to go til I get her back, then its refit the skirts and top spoiler, new exhaust mounted and she is being revealed at a local show on the 12th May along with the team who worked on it to grab some work lolcant wait to post the pics up :D :D :D
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awesome stuff! Nice to see an mx3 getting some serious love :bigok:
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Look forward to the pics
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not happy, the bumper I purchased online for an MX-3 turns out to be 17cm wider than the car itself, I guess they made a very cheap mold and left it stood on its points for a long time then made a batch that is just a bucket of sh&te as the center lines up but the rest is a shocker as it was made to order so i can see another court case looming as they are being cocks about it
because of these problems I have had an old sh!tt£r of a bumper cut up and modified to look a lot better and will have a nice subaru diffuser mounted in it too to to get the back end lower :x
Lets hope it comes out ok as i didnt plan it to be with this bumper, due to this b0ll0x the car is not ready today and wont be at the show in pompey tomorrow :(
next week it has its new exhaust, new induction system parts ad some other bits done, then skirts on and itll be ready for next weekend
then a week later it will get its debut at National Modifieds now
Lets hope its sunny after all this work as I intend to get sh!7faced there because of the money i have haemorridged recently on this I need to get some stress out my life Grrr :(
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17CM? Dafuk?
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yup, the rear tabs all line up ok then the wheel arches are out by 8cm each and being laminated like that you have no hope of it ever fitting
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Shame Bruv, best laid plans and all that…
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This week is the week she is nearly all done finally
Just the twin exhaust to fit saturday and the genuine subaru diffuser that fits perfect between the 2 exhausts and body wise she is finished :bigok:
fitted some new parts to my induction system as they were starting to crack and put a new filter on - wow the old one must have been choking it as its lost all the flat spots and hesitation its a different animal now
SO THIS IT WHAT IVE BEEN WAITING 3 MONTHS TO GET IT DONE
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The work done on this the past few weeks
Both belt tensioners removed and new bearings fitted
Carbon bonnet stripped and relacquered
Bodywork has had all dents and dings removed
The front grills have all been colour matched with the body work
After the failure of the first rear bumper I had this crap one in the shed refinished and modified so its lost its awful features now and I jus have that huge mouth on the rear
Genuine Subaru rear diffuser to bring the back end down lower to mach the bumper
Full custom body wrap in Avery vinyl with 10 year guarantee
The rear is just plain avery green but the front is a printed design of riveted metal panels and the effect of the old green paint peeling off to reveal the rivets. the front wheel arches had matt black triangles added to break the shape up and make the panels look squareItll be a marmite car for most of you but I love the look of it now :D
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They did a really good job on the vinyl.
Who were they, how much and would you be happy to recommend them?
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Wow very cool. I like it.
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@ daryl, they are wraptition near southampton
http://www.wraptition.co.uk/
i would recommend them 100%, custom job like that was £1200 all in whereas all the other quotes I had were more for just plain vinyls with no printing
theres some pics on the site of it in progress, a few units up he has a deal wth the bodyshop and he charged £200 for the full body smooth including the plate mount on the mazdaspeed front bumper, carbon bonnet relacquered, grills painted and the rear bumper prepped and fitted
http://www.wraptition.co.uk/mazda-mx3.php@Aarontietje thanks, I love it
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Just got my quote back !, used a design I've had on my phone for a while. Although think gulfy could paint mine for £1453 plus £30 per hour design costs. Hummmmmmm!.
However have to say its come out so nice Keith, body work looks amazing!. Thought the equipe logo was being reinstalled tho ?
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I have given up with that, its nothing like the original as ive 100% ruined it from stock lol. I managed to get one off whole and have kept it as a momento :(
Like to see ya design, was that with wraptition for £1453
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Yep, sent quite request after you put their website down and had it back about half hour after !. Quick. But alot more ££ than yours
Will pm you the pic
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Looks very good DJ, have to be honest, was fearing the worst! But nice colour chosen and nice original idea, what made you decide/think of it?
Have you thought about adding colour to the spokes of your wheels? I think they would look better that way than all silver, anyway hope you've got a nice garage to keep your car in now!!
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@71ccf15278=mx3gulf:
Looks very good DJ, have to be honest, was fearing the worst! But nice colour chosen and nice original idea, what made you decide/think of it?
Have you thought about adding colour to the spokes of your wheels? I think they would look better that way than all silver, anyway hope you've got a nice garage to keep your car in now!!
thanks gulfy, been searching for a garage to store her in now, the inspiration for the idea was looking for a peelin paint effect as the front was going to be carbon but then every honda and saxo is covered jn the stuff so while looking for peeling paint effects on cars I found this picture below of a car from forza motorsport from the xbox and kind of bought it to life, after searching the google it was pretty much original idea so I went for it
the idea for the green was the wrapper prined a small section off wand just put it with the colour chart that made the front really jump out plus I am too lazy to re-register it as another colour because it was noble green lol
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Magical and totally unique :respect: Be nice for you to post some pics on here so people could attempt to copy? :shock: ….......Greatest form of flattery and all that! Sssssstunning fella, why ya want to garage it fella? left in a dark enviroment, it may shed its sssssskin! :rofl: kev b.
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Thanks kev, just want to get it seen now but garaged to be safe a night :bigok:
What a shi-ite day it was today, got the old man round to give me some help changing the water pump and after a night of Jump Up Drum n Bass til 4am starting on the car at 8am wasnt the best plan lol
After I had both the belt tensioners done with new bearings bcause one was on its last legs we fitted them and realised there was something else not sounding right and seemed to be the waterpump plus that could also be the reason the water was vanishing now and again so it was last chance saloon before we went head gasket change.
got the waterpump off found it has been removed and refitted again in the past with old seal and red hermatite and the leak was at one end so that was the reason the water was vanishing and the reason the system was so pressured as it couldnt maintain its water pressure to stop the water boiling.
Lifting off the cam covers found metal dust everywhere inside so traced the noise to 2 of the 3 idlers were absolutely shot to pieces and on their last legs, then found a hole in the cambelt as something metal and large had been through the belt system so that was just in the nick of time, so a waterpump swap has turned into a full on cambelt kit fitting day as well as fitting an exhaust I had to cut up and reweld because it was never going to fit my car even though I took it off an mx3 only 2 weeks ago its been a hectic day
then problem number 3 reared its head, the metal dust has come from the bottom crank pulley, the key way that stops it moving on the crank shaft has disintergrated so the pulley has been moving on the crank shaft and now half the key is missing and I now have a slot more than double the size of the key, gonna have to run it like that for now until I find a replacement bottom pulley :x
Oh well massive pile of jobs done now so more to enjoy the car with :cheers:
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Phoooooookin Elle! that suggests to me, crank pulley bolt loose?
Christ I bet it had an interesting idle and power/torque curve?? The keyway runs through both the toothed cranknose pulley and accessory pulley which in itself has the crank position lobes vulcanised to its rear which in turn are sensed by the NE2 sensor down there????
Are you saying only the accessory pulley slot is worn???? what about crank nose pulley? ANY play in these two components will have DEVASTATING effects on cylinder/valve/sark timing as due to the small circumference of especially the CNP, any 'play' will be amplified two fold at cam wheels as they rotate at 1/2 the speed of crank!!!!!
If you intend to run it like this? I'd strongly recommend you DONT!! It is going to be nigh on impossible to zero/time both pulleys on crank nose and then you are relying soley on the tightening torque of the pulley bolt to hold that position as apposed to the security of position given by the machined fit of the keyway?Fella, If youre in a pickle, I have all three, keyway,nose pulley and accessory pulley on a K8 Im building up, They are all in spec with little or no wear 95k miles??? If you want them, theyre yours! gratis! :D all i ask is that you replace them for me if and when you locate them in future? Sup to you fella the offer is there? :? kev b.
