Engine bay dress up :)



  • i took two months off work to drop the new k8 in there and polish all of the parts myself.

    i just used different grades of sandpaper and lot's of mark hours :) looks really effective. i sent a piece off to a 'top quality' polisher and it came back and i wouldn't have fit the piece to my car > it was that bad! they took no time at all on it. So i spent the time doing it myself :)



  • Sounds cool I might have a crack at it myself.

    Roughly how many hours will I be commiting myself to if I take it on?

    Did you do it by hand or use a drill?

    Or bench grinder?



  • i used a drill and hand. Expecct the car to be off the road for around a month.

    or buy the parts you want to polish then fit them so your car stays on the road.



  • Can you give me a brief rundown of what you did step by step and what sandpaper and drill bits you used.

    Thanks
    D

    Also did you use an electric hand sander or bench grinder?



  • savage! I never went as far as polishing my headder! but i just clean it every weekend!



  • Jesus Christ, that's serious.



  • did u spray all the wires? :?

    or are they aftermarket?



  • where did you get the manifolds



  • can use the probe one i think, clarify before buying one but i think thats the one hes used. can be picked up off ebay for less than £150 i think. got one for my 4 cylinder for £125



  • not sure what was used here (hope dont cause offence) but some looks like blue electrical tape, may just be camera angle as was ment to be showing off polishing :oops:



  • i have to agry there Valley dose look like blue electrical tape on the loom



  • hey after a long time of not bothering with the mx3 as my old one got wrecked at the bodyshop, I'm back :)

    the polishing was achieved with sand paper and drill fan wheels. It's not perfect > but then again it never will be. I took it to a proffesional polisher who said it would look amazing > and it was worse than my effort.

    I bought silicone hoses in blue and used a small amount of blue electrical tape as the origional black was removed due to the amount of sand on it > from the sand blasting i did. > didn't turn out how i wanted it to but when all the parts were fitted it worked out ok.



  • i good lol… thinking of it just wondering on the wires etc. for a bunch of them over sized heat shrink could be used. but after this is heated up. would it stand the extra constant heat from the engine its self.



  • What engine you got in there? Is it a KLZE or KLDE?



  • its a k8 (the standerd 1.8 )



  • hmmmm! Same as mine but I not got V6 DOHC 24 Valve stamped on either of mine even though they both are. Ones a 91 J and the other a 92 K was this a new thing when they stamped it on mine just says mazda.



  • they come with that stamp on the 2.5
    hes changedthe rockers
    my 95 dosent have the 24 valve stamp
    but my ze or de that im geting dose



  • great work on the engine, came up reeeeally nice :wink:



  • All your hard work has payed of it looks really dam good. I wish i had the time to acheive that level of bling under my bonnet.

    It looks ultra fresh +++


 

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