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Did you install the radio yourself? Find the ground wire coming from the radio (black), and cut it's connection to whatever wire you hooked it up to. Strip a bit of insulation from the radio's ground wire, and touch it to a metal part of the vehicles chasis. There's some bare metal in the DIN slot w...

Oops...my bad. Clearly you were talking about the part in front of that duct. Sorry, not sure what that is.

That would be your intake resonance duct. Some theory about smoothening out the waves of intake air, I'm not completely sure about it. Likely the previous owner installed a CAI, and upon removing it, never reinstalled that hose.

One of those would be the main cat, the other one, farther back is likely the resonator. I believe they all have one. It tries to cancel any resonant frequencies at the muffler.

I live in Canada, and I have a warm-up cat, as well as the main cat. My car, however, is a '96 and OBD-II. Removing the warm-up cat will apparently not be an advantage to you. Yoda can explain it to you fully. But the just of it is that unless you replace the warm-up cat with a pipe that gradually i...

I'm gonna guess that you connected your radio's ground to the dimmer or park light wire. This wire will show ground when the parklights or dimmer are off, then 12 volts when they're on. I'm a part-time installer at a car audio shop here in Winnipeg, and anytime these symptons appear, what I describe...

Also, I have the diagnostic connector under the hood, as well as the OBD-II plug on the passenger side. If I try to pull CEL codes from the diagnostic conncector by jumping TEN and Ground, I don't get any code.

On my '96 MX3 RS, it's on the passenger side of the center console under the climate control. It faces downwards. The OBD-II connector has to be accessible without removing any panels. I'm sure it's in the same location on your car.

I wouldn't worry too much about things mating up. A muffler shop can do wonders with a MIG welder and a cutting torch. I was skeptical at first too, but was pleasantly surprised. If you don't want pipes welded, so that you can easily remove pieces of the exhaust in the future, have flanges welded on...

First of all don't make a habit of standing behind your car while your friend redlines it, that probably won't help the situation. It's possible that it's a piston ring, or a headgasket, or a valve-cover gasket. Lets hope it's just a valve cover gasket. Do you have oil down the side of your head? I'...

Actually, not to argue, but the windshield does play a very important part in the structural integrity of any car with the unibody design. The frame's strength is supplimented by various body panels including the windshield. However, I don't buy that replacing the windshield will ruin the car's stru...

Most body panels and such are interchangeable throughout all the years. I'm going to take an educated guess that the windshields are the same.

I wonder if you need to swap the front gear as well. I believe the rotors are larger on the MX3 GS, and the calipers have a different part # but look the same. So, if you did replace the front brake lines, would that also mean replacing the rotors, calipers, etc?? This is assuming that the MX3 GS an...

The oil in the spark plug well is probably due to a blown valve cover gasket. And I wasn't suggesting that you not make turns, just expect that your fuel guage is going to move around a bit, and that's normal, end of story.

Good job!

I used some metal polish to polish mine, and they turned out not bad. But yours look excellent. I wonder if removing the lens from the case and polishing the inside of the lens would make it even clearer.