Sam's Proper MX-3 - LT Turbo project *Parting out*
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bumper looks really good like oem! nice work mate !!
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@41d43ec847=youdirtyfox:
Nah cause I dont mind :) Low tack masking film is the way to do it
though that vinyl I used was just too sticky when removing it!Plans for the Turbo are coming along nicely ta >
Need to get the manifold shot blasted and checked for cracks
and possibly welded up, and drill out broken stud and replace that
Buy gaskets and oil lines,
water hoses.
Buy shorter radiator (323F 89-94 hopefully) to pass intercooler pipes past.
swage up current alloy straight boost pipes (none of this mild steel stuff
the yanks use :? ) find a few more black rubber elbows
Buy centerforce clutch and AEM fuel and Ignition controller
I have a choice of MR2 or 323 Turbo intercooler to fit up.Hopefully I can get all that together by the end of the summer
and if its too cold and wet to fit it'll be going in spring 2012.Did you roughen the surface of the lights up first?
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@521c6718c1=mx3gulf:
@521c6718c1=youdirtyfox:
Need to get the manifold shot blasted and checked for cracks
You pay for postage and I'll do it for you FOC
Cool thanks, will look into the postage costs.
@ jay > thanks mate, was after that factory modified look :D
Nightstalker, yes I did, after I had applied the rounds of vinyl masking though and only lightly using a red fine scotchbrite pad.
Grill mesh no.2 turned up today, along with this!
3 inch stainless steel exhaust tip, so nice to cover
up the pony pea shooter thats on their 8)
Hopefully its stainless, find out soon I guess if I trying burning the tip :lol:
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Grills up :D
fookin nightmare jobmight of stood of chance of getting this
fittied up this weekend, but I think its
going to be pissing it down all weekend :(
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very nice work looks great
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Top job fella, that really does look very good.
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Cheers dude Im pleased with the way
its turned out, gave me a chance to replace
the cracked headlight glass too.still need to tension the splitter down
a bit with those support rods as it hoofs
up in the air a bit!
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Looking good fella…
Will look immense with a FMIC poking out behind the grill!!! :wink:
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Tidy. Very tidy indeed.
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now that looks well great work
and that extra splitter finnishes it of keep up the good workhave you thought of some smooth side skirts
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Funnily enough, yes I have been!
If thers enough of the plastic
I used for the splitter I would like
to make something like this Rx7
has > Feed underskirts.
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Alright folks, next mod up is these 25mm wheel spacers
I bought off ebay.usa,
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250736927618&viewitem=bit of an unkown comodity
as the bore size wasnt right, but luckily enough
a 67.1 > 54.1 spigot ring fits right in there and should
do a good job of centralizing the spacer on the hub.The finish on the rear face of them is terrible though!
I would never let machined parts go out like that…
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Should have checked here first bud
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Nice job, I had my doubts, but fitted on car looks A1 8)
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@70d3adac50=youdirtyfox:
Alright folks, next mod up is these 25mm wheel spacers
I bought off ebay.usa,Wheelspacers on the rear for this application… OK... barely.
On the front? Of a turbo FWD car? Don't do it. Your handling will be buggered, the torque steer will be nasty, and don't start me on bearing loading.
Pushing the centre of the tyre contact patch outboard any more than 10mm on a FWD car is a recipe for disaster. Spacers are hateful devices, purely made for Barry aestethics.
If you want to push the tyre edge out 25mm, do it right - buy an alloy with the same ET offset, but is 2 inches wider than your current wheel. It is my (currently untested) belief that the MX-3 can cope with an 8" rim all around with an appropriate tyre (225, possibly 235). If you really have to, I'd increase the stock ET by no more than 10. If you're increasing the rolling diameter of the tyre, then you can go a little more, but you'll soon create a foul somewhere and have to be very careful.
Someone here will surely tell you the envelope they have pushed to - there are a number of 17 (and 18"?) rim users here, I believe?
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@ee935e9fe6=Venari:
If you want to push the tyre edge out 25mm, do it right - buy an alloy with the same ET offset, but is 2 inches wider than your current wheel. It is my (currently untested) belief that the MX-3 can cope with an 8" rim all around.
Someone here will surely tell you the envelope they have pushed to - there are a number of 17 (and 18"?) rim users here, I believe?
I'll let you know soon bud, my new wheels are 8 inch wide :wink:
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Ive used spacers before Venari so no offence,
but Ive heard it all before.I'll let you both know tommorow if your arches need rolling!
:wink:
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The results are in! :D
With an 8J rim ( mine are 7J rim 195/50/15 tyre with an et35 & 25mm spacer)
you are outside the arch without some negative camber.
and only just in with some negative camber.
So without some stretched tyres, negative camber or arch rolling
the tread will probably be outside the arch with a 8j rim, wich is an MOT fail!
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Needs more Camber :twisted:
Looks good tho!!! :wink: