Mine is only a 1.6 auto but still presentable and in daily/weekly use. I do about 300 miles a month in it to keep things ticking over. The sills are going to need sorting soon as is the sun affected red paint but the interior is still A1 and I love driving it!!

Hello, Your welcome for the advice. With regards to to dizzy you have 3 options: 1 Replace the dizzy. 2 Replace the coil inside the dizzy. 3 Perform a HEI mod, doing a search will give more details of this. I myself went down the option 3 route as its a common fault that happens ox the MX3. Also there is a possibility that you change the dizzy or coil and the same thing will happen again. I've heard of some people changing tjere dizzy 4 times in the space of a year where as others have no trouble at all. The choice is yours to make.

Finally I have movement on the project 🙌. I've got everything I need for the big brake kit and ready to be sent to mwb engineering for the brackets to be made. The list as follows.. Front Hubs have been converted to 5 stud 323f v6 hubs, all refitted with new bearings. VW Mk5 GTi discs with center bore increased to fit the 323f hubs. Alfa Romeo MiTo 4 pot brembos ( can't decide what pads to run). New HEL brake lines ordered to suit the brembos. Once the brackets are made I need to find a set of 17" wheels that will fit over the brake's 🙄 then I can get a lot of work done this winter, as the car will be off the stands and back in the garage.

Many thanks for the info ,yes my dist cap is marked in a strange order ,I managed to get a new distributor ,but it took some finding Regards Mushman

@jono Hi Jono - thanks for the info. Yes, it's a pure competition car (ie no road use). For the exhaust design, I'm planning a 'freeflow' 3-into-1 system for each bank. Due to the length of the primaries (quite long) and the secondaries (quite short), I may go with a sensor in each collector. The alternative would be to fit just one in a 'balance' pipe connecting the two secondaries (I think I'll need a balance pipe anyway to get a proper extractor effect from the whole system). Bit undecided as to the final design but I'll weld up some pipes and see how we go. Must get on with some carbon work on the chassis whilst the warmer weather is with us !

Cheers Rax, sounds like the voice of experience there ! Quite a lot to watch out for eg miss-use of those box rails etc.

@rax Thanks again Rax. Another step down the road to understanding the K8 !

@daffyd Hi, if it's a V6 (K8) engine, I may need a few bits for my sportscar project....see today's thread. I'm a Swansea boy now living in England !

@rax thank you. That’s some sound advice.

@marco that would be great, thank you :) Minor update: I found and fixed the ground issue, I need better grounding, but it will do for now. Clutch is fixed, had to remove pretty much everything I just put in to get to the issue, somehow the clutch fork came away from the pin it sit's on, the spring clip seems ok so just put it back and will see how it goes! Everything back on again, and it's running again. Just needs tuning now. One issue I have noticed is clearance between the turbo downpipe and the clutch fork, I've ground a little off it, but it's still hitting the exhaust, which is annoying! Anyone had similar issues? Jono

Thanks @rax I will look at this when I get the engine out in a couple of weeks time.

Hello, I would recommend doing some research and changing the distributor for an external HEI mod (also works out cheaper in the long run and easier to change parts). You will get a better spark and its more reliable as i have known people to go through more than 5 distributors. Putting the distributor inside and next to the hot engine was not a good idea. With regards to the MX6/323 distributors, i would not recommend them. HEI Mod link http://www.mx-3.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=69006

I thought I'd revive this thread..... I'm presently swapping out the 4 stud hubs for 5 stud and I'm going to have a play with getting some audi s3 320mm discs and rx8 calipers to fit the front of the mx3. I'll post some pics up here when I get the calipers.

@steveg yeah I know it's been a long time but I've just got it on the road and cheers I've sorted it now

@hypnoticstoat thansk for your information,i get informationm from you