Garfy1981's - KLZE Project superleggera
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that is one sweet set up! you've done it all right. Very tastefully done! do the oil cooler feeds come from the filter area?
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looks nice, what sort of ride do the coilovers give?
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hey,
with the oil cooler, you take off the original filter and bolt on a sandwich plate which has 2 lines from it, then the oil filter bolts onto this, the two lines connect to the oil rad and thats about it. There is two options with the sandwich plate thermosatic or non-thermostatic. Mine is thermostatic so that the oil has time to reach temperature before the oil cooler opens and vica versa maintaining a optimum oil temperature.
The coilovers are good but very harsh as they were built by a race company they are made for track use, which makes road use very harsh ! it has adjustable height so will lower it once it settles.
As usual i ordered them about may 2007 when nothing existed for the mx3. A month later the K-Sport ones were available. And these have adj damping and also look really good for the price available on the group buy. Oh well. It was also the same story with the big brake conversion! Guess I should learn to be patient!
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lol that's a sad story! What company was it? Well I'm sure you could sell your customs to one of the americans who mainly track with thier 3. But you'll get used to ride… probably :P
Oil cooler sounds easier than I thought. Probably creates an easy place for turbo feed too? Did you get the cooler off ebay?
I hope you pull off the throttle bodied intake, would be immense!
lol at 12k, that's a fair bit.
Lets compare to a hyundai 2.7 coupe to cheer you up
£18,495 - ouch
165bhp - owned
0-60 - 8.3 owned
Looks pretty sweet - so does the 3
Brakes - owned
Handling - in a hedgeBut seriously, I take it alot of that was on your custom brakes and suspension?
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I'm keen to fit an oil cooler as do a few track days, very interested in were you sourced yours from..
:)
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yes, most of my money has gone on custom parts such as exhaust, suspension, and brakes, the total of the 3 is around 3K, then engine etc etc. But i enjoy every part of it so its all worth it, everyone has to have a hobby right lol!!
The oil cooler parts are all sourced from demon tweeks with no problems. I actually have a spare non- thermostatic sandwich plate if your interested? say a tenner?
The main pain with the cooler was getting it behind bumper and trimming the required parts, but once its on plumbing it in prob only took an hour including replacing oil.
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Yeah i'll have the plate please PM me the details on how you want the money..
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Cricky a year since my last post, well had the mx3 MOTd in aug2008 and its only done 500miles since then. Only addition is removal of air bag wheel and new momo wheel, which is much better. Other than that its still the same.
Few clips of recent action;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InR2DmJhhUE
was good to push it to limit, you can see where RWD is so much easier to handle on track, FWD power, braking, and steering was bit of handful on corners but straights were good!, i have a new found obsession with the small 2seaters ( elise, catherham, VX220 ) could be a possible future replacement for the mx :shock:
From 1st May poor mx willl sit in Garage to save bit of money, can be trailored to track so may get some more use this year.
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Long time no see indeed! Guess you better start working on a rear subframe for the KLZE :P Really you should keep the mx AND get an elise ;)
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no think the only thing left for the mx would be a quaife ATB, but to be honest think i will prob curb the spending on mx and start enjoying it now, taken 5 years to get to where it is now.
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Yea fair play, but why Quaife when you can MFactory for less than half the money ;) http://www.clubprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38426
This is a Quaife equivalent ATB LSD, allegedly made the same if not better tolerances and materials for half the price. I'm on the group buy, can't wait :)
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I enjoyed the vid… I love how the ze sounds!! I need to get mine to a track soon...
anyways I'm in on the mfactory LSD as well - it's going to be AWESOME
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yeah would like to hear how M LSD performs.
As for rear subframe for the mx that would be great but can i keep the engine at the front and have one in the back too! :D
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UPDATE PICS AND DETAILS;
BYE BYE AIR BAG WHEEL;
FLUIDS UPDATE;
ENGINE OIL CHANGED FROM MOBIL1 0-40W TO Silkolene PRO S 5W-40
AND GEARBOX OIL CHANGED TO REDLINE Synthetic Manual Transmission 90 MT90 75W-90ALL AVAILABLE FROM OPIE OILS
The engine is still slightly noisy but this is quite common and some people have complained that the mobil1 0w-40 left the engine really noisy but i havent noticed the difference really, supose it depends on engine condition and mileage.
The gearbox oil ( not cheap £57.35 inc ship&vat ) but made a massive difference, as the gear change always seemed a bit grindy and hit and miss, but i presumed it was down to the original k8 box on 138k miles, but now the change is sweet, and think i only missed the gear once on track, not bad for 4x 20mins track sessions.
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nice wheel! Certainly updates that area. I had mobil1, found myself struggling to justify £47 for it. It costs just $20 in USA! I saw it in wallmart and was outraged, even took a pic.
It's amazing the gearbox oil makes such a difference, when I get my LSD I shall treat it to some of that redline then :) I have a really good feeling about it. Here's what one of the prototype testers said:
@e8c3f437ef:
"In hydroplaning conditions Auto-Biasing is easily notable- alltho a given difficult situation to maintain a straight line. the lsd provides a severely drastic improvement consistantly transferring power between the wheels providing more available traction In dry conditions the Auto-biasing is a smooth transition hardly noticeable to a persay "everyday driver"- beyond its exceptionally increased
traction through each & every corner/turn. Exiting speeds are notably increased in excess of 15+mph Vs an open differential- as noted on one of my personal favorites, traction to the inside wheel is immensely improved
Roundabouts also feel amazing in comparison(feels like the car is a merry-go-round stuck to the road). Dan has already proven its worth during launching applications so i need not be
redundant in explaining it"
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have you got a closer pic of the vauxhall corsa bonet lifters
im very intrested in doing a bonet lifter mod
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hello, due to a couple of requests here is lifters;
make, Powerlift Autospezialteile Bonrath ( German ) www.bonrath.com/e/pl.htm , was told that these were for opel corsa ( although corsa i think was nova abroad? so not sure if its nova or corsa)
Im sure that in any doubt any style of lifter would work, as these were just laying around in local modification store. www.trac-art.co.ukAny how
Length of lifter fully extended; 430mm
From tip of wing by headlight to centre of bottom fixing ( wing ) 485mm
From centre of fixing to end of bonnet over headlight 765mm measured straight not against curve of bonnet.
( hope these measurments arnt too confusing. )
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well its been exactely one year since i put the mx away to save some cash to fix up the project house. Started getting a few bits cleaned slowly, removed number plate holder and old plate, looking for a legal smaller version now, without number plate holder. Also received a nice parcel this morning any one care to guess what it is???. :D
going to sell my blitz sus filter even tho i dont want to, but its too big to relocate. Now looking for a good quality ( ie not ebay ) replacement. Relocating as barrywhite and gulf mx3 have into front well.
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Come on garfy spill the beans! What is it?? Looks like some sort of ECU, can't work out the lead though, looks like an old printer lead LOL! What I wanna know is, is it gonna make your KLZE quicker? if yes I definately need to know!!!! LOL :lol:
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Well i hope so lol, its megasquirt stand alone ecu. Will remove the Kl36 and install megasquirt, can then remove the VAF ( which removing that alone should free up some hp! ) a small IAT sensor goes in its place.
Dyno tune everything up and hopefully free up some Hp. Dont know when it will be installed as im still looking for a AEM UEGO AFR guage to monitor the air fuel ratios.
Marco is also using same system but his system is a bit more advanced than mine!!.oh sorry guys i have no intention of selling kl36 and je50. Keeping it as a back up fail safe!.
