Muttsnuts - MX3 V6 Project



  • haha good job for a can. I wasn't too impressed with the Halfords cans, kept getting dodgy caps/nozzles on them!

    I think I might give my car's little pink ears a blast this weekend.



  • if your paint is fading to pink on your red cars, use G3 polishing/cutting paste with a polisher, the G3 is like a tougher t-cut and will bring back the best shine your cars will have seen since they left the showroom.

    when using the G3 add a lot of water to it to stop it burning the paint. it'll look awsome and any body would think you've had a re-spray!



  • An MX3 is born!!!!!

    I decided to use some red colour T-cut, lots of it, followed by Zymol polish to make her look like new. Auto Glym alloy paint to make the wheels look nice and a drop of red caliper paint.

    18 Hours polishing, painting, spannering, sweating and swearing…....

    And here she is..............

    Muttsnuts, a VERY happy owner of a shiny MX3….

    :D :D :D :D :D :D



  • looks great!!



  • @b8c17b45bb=Muttsnuts:

    WARNING, do not spray rear spoiler in kitchen as floors turn pink and wife gets very irate.

    LOL I learned my lesson about that too! my newspaper didn't cover enough of the floor!

    Your polishing job looks fantastic! :o Anyways have you thought about lowering your mx-3?



  • Thank you…..

    Was thinking of getting her lowered but got a few more niggly little faults to sort out first.

    Since the last post on here had a locksmith come out and remove half a key the last owner managed to snap and glued into the ignition barrel (I had been starting her with the left over stub of the key). Mazda garage wanted £250 for this but the local auto locksmith did it for 100 quid including a new set of keys.

    I have a groaning sound comming from left hand side whenever I turn the wheel, this happens if the car is static and moving. After lots of wheel turning and listening the noise is comming fron the suspention strut, it seems to be turning and grinding somewhere above the spring. So todays job is to take the strut off and see what I can do with it.

    Muttsnuts.



  • UPDATE..

    Taking the suspention strut off was straight foward enouth, It looks like the source of the noise is the thrust bearing at the top of the strut so its shopping time to get that and a set of spring compressors to allow me to change it.

    Putting the strut back on was a bit of a drama as the drive shaft popped out, however a bit of wiggling, swearing and sweating later it all came back into place.

    Last night was removing various bits of the engine bay and spraying them up red, was dark when i finished and reinstalled them so photos to follow.



  • hi man nice pedals got the same ones myself. where did you get your paint code from was there a pannel on the car some where?



  • @ffc4e75bff=CHRIS211083:

    hi man nice pedals got the same ones myself. where did you get your paint code from was there a pannel on the car some where?

    Should say on the driver side door where it locks to the car SQ for red I think.



  • UPDATE TIME…..

    New back box fitted (sounds damn good)
    Rusty bits on wipers painted.
    Complete interior clean.
    All electrical faults finally sorted...

    So far so good…..



  • Stage one of the engine bay clean up.

    Stripped off the front rocker cover.

    Placed in dishwasher (dont tell the wife!!!!!)

    Dried, rubbed down polished and refitted, looking good.

    Next engine bay jobs- Red Ground wire kit and Red braiding for pipes and cables. Piping from the air filter to a scoop.



  • lol! Dishwasher - fantastic! Looks well ;) I think you should paint the mazda letters red or black



  • Now thats a damn fine idea Marco…...

    Also got rid of the now unused air intake box that supported the bonnet holding open thingy. New brackets made for the support and air filter.



  • looks good man!!!!! ru gonna get a cold air induction kit??? looks the dogs and improves the power!!!!



  • Cheers Chris :)

    Ive got a plan for the cold air induction kit. Going to get some Metal flexi tubing and install it between the Air filter I have fitted now and an air scoop at the lowest point on the engine bay to be made from aluminum plate. I can only find 120mm flexy metal tubing in silver at the moment, what I really want is red. Also I will have to move the coolant header tank, so looking at how im going to do that.



  • WELL man thats easy because its not pressurised so any length of pipe to the bottle will work!!!!! just make sure that the new bottle holds about a litre.!!!!!!



  • gave me an idea about replacing all the header tanks in engine for stainless steal or alloy. then can paint up or shine.



  • Ive looked into that one valley, seen a few online that come painted or shiny, thats given me an idea for a project in the new year.

    Update on CAI fitting.

    Finally got some metal tubing so fitted the cold air induction, one of the very few times that Halfords worked out cheaper than anywhere else. this is possibly the last bit of project for me for a month or so as im back to work now and cant spend all day playing round with my MX3 :(



  • UPDATE…

    Ground wire kit (courtsey of santa) fitted.

    Turned out to be quite an easy job taking about an hour. I found that attaching the earthing points to the lights was damn easy on an MX3 as there are earth connector blocks on each side of the engine bay.

    It has made a difference to ease of starting and the front lights seem a little brighter. She seems to run a little smoother as well.

    Engine bay is finaly getting there. Just got a new pressure washer so will give it a damn good clean out in there when i get the chance.



  • dude sorry to hear about your clutch!!! (found your car on ebay.)


 

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