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The car was recovered by Abbotsford police. It appears it was stolen for the radiator/cooling fan and the rear cargo cover.

The jackasses who stole it spray-painted the front air dam, front bumper grille, side mirrors and rear wing flat black, wrecked both interior door panels, and left it sitting ...

The name he gave was BS, and as I mentioned, the vehicle they showed up in was also stolen, out of Coquitlam.

Since I had his cell phone number and his girlfriend was going to wait behind while he test drove it, no I didn't get his driver's license number...

Hey everybody,

Just to let you know, our 92 MX-3 GS was stolen today by some punk who came to look at it and take it for a test drive (we were selling it). Almost certainly, it will be used as a crime vehicle and dumped, but just on the off-chance that the guy is stupid and tries to part it out ...

Just remembered a couple of other things it has - MOMO leather shift knob and boot, JDM Presso side skirts (need to be painted and installed), and a complete factory service manual.

Blaze Red, 5-speed, 2 owner vehicle, in decent condition. ABS, sunroof, power locks and windows. Near-stock except with SRD shifter bushings, PBR ceramic brake pads, Corksport brake lines and a K&N air filter. Also includes 1 year old 205/55ZR-15 Fuzion ZRi summer tires (not mounted) - snow tires ...

The plastics guys have given me the impression that it will be significantly more expensive than they had first thought to do the design work, so we'll take a stab at it. We are working on the design of the external housing - I am trying to model and dimension it so Kevin can translate that into CAD ...

Actually, we are using SolidWorks too (or rather, Kevin is, because I have no CAD skills whatsoever)!

Upon reflection, I think I'm going to hand off the design work on the housings to the plastics guys - that was my original plan for the simple reason that if they mess up that part of the design ...

Thanks for the words of support, guys! Some good news on progress:

Kevin (ovendenk) has been a big help recently with getting my designs into CAD to (hopefully) avoid the production problems I had with my previous attempts at the mounting bracket. With those CAD drawings, I'm having new prototype ...

The AST set for the MX-3 is listed on their website as still having no TÜV certification...

My German is pretty minimal, but on KAW's page about their ProfiKit (their fully adjustable coilovers) they do mention "TÜV geprüften" a couple of times... Perhaps you may want to contact them?

As I discussed with Pat back then, for what I wanted to do, his design would not work.

First, my goal with this was (and is) to require NO cutting or drilling of any kind, including modifications to the bulkhead behind the stock headlight housings. If I am not mistaken, his design required some ...

Still going - the third mounting bracket design didn't work out, so I am going ahead with a slightly modified version of my second design. I will post here when there is another update.

The tone of the exhaust system can be influenced by a number of factors, including the exhaust gas velocity, the length of the exhaust system, the construction of the silencers, the size of the exhaust pulse, the speed (rpm) of the motor, and the number of cylinders among other things.

Generally ...

I am pretty sure any MX-3's sold in Mexico were US-spec. I only saw one when I was down there, and it had the US front bumper (with the orange side markers/reflectors and no fog light holes) They have a weird mix of US and Euro/South American vehicles there...

While it would be helpful, I wouldn't feel right about taking people's money before having a product to give them. Thanks for the offer though!

The reason that wider tires hydroplane more easily is because of the hydrodynamics of their shorter and wider contact patch.

The wider contact patch has more frontal area, so its leading edge has to displace more water to reach the ground. On top of this, for the rest of the contact patch to be ...