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After racing a Toyota Celica for season one its time for a change... We will be building a couple of MX-3 for the track..
Here is a pic of our Celica along with a race video.
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And here is the start to our MX-3 Build Tread.

First off out comes the interior..



My helper is reponsible for the interior work!


Stay tune for custom header build , I will be cutting the header flange on my cnc table later today, will post up the pics!

So here is a demo cut of my header flange.
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A tread with out pics is like a bike with out a seat...

Header flange pic.

excited to see how this turns out!

update pics..

Heres some interior pics, have it pretty much gutted.. Will finish removing dash and then I will see about designing a new race style dash.


Seat will of course be replaced with a race seat!

and one random shot of a 55 Buick we are doing for a customer ...

Little more interior work done.
Remove the rest of the dash.



Removed the crash bar and striped the tabs off.

Reinstalled crash bar, will use the factory crash bar to mount the new dash . Will spend some time with a wiring diaagram and strip out all the wiring that is not needed.



Started skinning the doors, sure is nice to have the plasma for this.





Drivers door all skinned out ready to go.

More?? More!! LOL

Dropped the Suspension about 2 1/2" yesterday and cut off the old steering wheel and installed a quick disconnect wheel. Will take some pics later.... Waiting for the machine shop to drop off the pipe for the roll cage. Then the car will be off to the paint shop.

How much weight do you figure you have saved by stripping all of the interior?

I'm building a rally racer using a 1994 MX-3 with the 1.6L 4 cylinder. I'll be watching this thread, it looks interesting!

I dunno if Aero matters much in that kind of racing, but your windshield on the Helica is deflecting like crazy, but looks like it was plenty powerful...
You guys are going to circle track that 55 Buick!111!!1!!??? lol
Looks like some awesome fun, but I hate to say I bet your MX is slower than the Celica. I owned a stock 94 Celica GT and it was pretty quick and faster than my Mx-3 GS.
Thanks for sharing and good luck with the car and the season.

Celica is fast but you still have to get around the corners, on the straight the Celica leaves everyone behind.. But cornering sucks... Adjustable suspension is way more money for the Celica than for an MX-3 ... We will be racing both so it will fun to see which car will be faster.

Pic Up Dates Roll Bar Construction.












More roll bar pics to come...

going to add a few of these, I cut them on my CNC PLASMA TABLE.