Sam's 1.6 MX-3- LT Turbo project.

Thefez · Post by **Thefez** » March 21st, 2013, 7:35 pm

looks great! now i want a pair lol

youdirtyfox · Post by **youdirtyfox** » March 23rd, 2013, 12:38 pm

New radiator, working fan, OE top hose with filler neck and tucked coolant overflow tank fitted today.
Running well so far, no leaks will empty and top up with anti freeze tomorrow. Need to make some sort
of rad. support too now.

youdirtyfox · Post by **youdirtyfox** » March 29th, 2013, 11:16 am

New seat feet are coming together nicely, got these bolted on today and will be drilling the main holes ready to be fitted then will make a start on the rears. On a side not I'm in talks with a company who refurbish seat belts and can re-webb them to any colour, might go with dark red and get them to put a Celica belt clip on to save me swapping over the seat belt stays.

Also on the agenda for this bank holiday weekend:

MAF clean.
New spark plugs.
Forte fuel treatment.
Ramair foam cone filter (stainless one has gone rusty!)
Replace perished concertina air pipe with aluminium item I was saving for the turbo.
New cat. for the impending MOT.

youdirtyfox · Post by **youdirtyfox** » April 3rd, 2013, 1:41 pm

Fronts now bolted in, which means sliders can move exposing the rears so brackets being made for them now!

Also in the making: Carpeted center console, black suede with red stitching shift boot & handbrake gaiter
with sit on top centre console armrest with cup holders

MazdaMan1991 · Post by **MazdaMan1991** » April 3rd, 2013, 4:58 pm

you innovative bastard

lol im digging the center console idea

youdirtyfox · Post by **youdirtyfox** » April 4th, 2013, 1:57 am

Haha thanks yeah should be good, atleast it's a job I can do indoors as it's the coldest March in 50 years right now
with the wind chill it feels like -2 during the day... sucks a-- man!!

Also looking to install a 3 way cigarette lighter adapter with added USB socket into the console, should be interesting....

youdirtyfox · Post by **youdirtyfox** » April 5th, 2013, 12:17 pm

Civic 01>03 Gaiter fits nice over existing rubber handle!

youdirtyfox · Post by **youdirtyfox** » April 10th, 2013, 12:06 pm

Finished and now installed, great feeling the cloth against the side of your leg,lol

Car now back on the road as of Monday and running like a new engine after my mini tune-up. Throttle response, idle and MPG have been improved significantly, would highly recommend the MAF clean and fuel treatment if your engine is running a bit lumpy. The main reason though for rough running was one the plugs on the AEM was about to fall out as they are not a great clip in fit, plugs now secured and ECU velcroed to the carpet!

Speeking of carpet, time to crack on and furry up the last of the centre console and bolt on the monolith that is the double decker cup holder...

Plate for it to sit on.

The beast!

Gunna be cruising in comfort, RV style...also up for the furry treatment will be sun visors, kick panels by the ECU and up the side of the dash.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » April 10th, 2013, 12:42 pm

Nice work on the carpet!.. Looks great.

The center console is higher than I though it would be. LMK how it feels comfort wise.

youdirtyfox · Post by **youdirtyfox** » April 10th, 2013, 12:59 pm

yeah is a bit! IDK how it will affect my steering elbows yet, nice height for resting on though.

youdirtyfox · Post by **youdirtyfox** » April 11th, 2013, 1:30 pm

OK so the double decker armrest did not work it's way to high and get's in the way of your gearshifting! would fine as a standalone though without the stock item in place but that just looks a bit weird...

So in times like these there is only one thing for it, deconstruct & reconstruct as was not letting go of cup holders that easily..

Boooom!

Josh · Post by **Josh** » April 11th, 2013, 3:56 pm

HAHAHA nice!

youdirtyfox · Post by **youdirtyfox** » April 12th, 2013, 10:46 am

Comfort rating :10 having that longer armrest extending out over the handbrake.

Nd4SpdSe · Post by **Nd4SpdSe** » April 14th, 2013, 10:25 am

I had the double-stacked center console, it was a bit weird to get used to driving/shifting with it for a while, but I can't imagine taller than that

youdirtyfox · Post by **youdirtyfox** » April 14th, 2013, 12:24 pm

I can imagine, anything higher than standard would mean crookin your elbow round for shifting and handbrake!
but seriously extending it out longer is great support for shifting and chillin on

With fitting different make seats to a car you always have the issue of the seat belt buckles not being the same. Instead of ripping apart the buckle connection off the MX-3 seats which are still in use I am going to be retro fitting a whole new seat belt assy to the car complete with matching buckle to the Celica seats.

Pair of Securon 500/15 belts purchased:

MX-3.com

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