Down somwhere u8nder the passagner seat in the RHD car, as for thePATDIESEL wrote:Guess that is my KJ inexperience showing.
What the heck is dash mounted auto shift? Never heard of that before.
Where is the ECU in a KJ Millinea?
So I need to get a ZE and bolt it up to an auto K8 tranny and that will supposedly fit? I would rather do a ZE install because there is more information and I know it has been done. The reason I was inquiring about the KJ was that it came with an auto and supposedly uses same mounts as ZE. I just want to find out if a ZE + auto will fit or if I need to look farther in to the KJ possibility. I'm willing to do the work just want to get the show on the road. Thanks for all the info everbody.PATDIESEL wrote:Doing a ZE would be the easiest thing. If your stock MX-3 auto tranny is ok it will bolt up and work. The ZE does not have enough power to wear out the stock tranny from a MX-3, but it will cause it to heat up more. Thus you'll need to install a tranny cooler to keep the temps down. (heat is the major killer of trannies)
If your MX-3 auto tranny is not in good shape (like most I've ever seen and at our car's age and milage) I would suggest that you convert to manual. It is a good bit more work, but in the end is the most reliable solution. I do not think that the auto ZE tranny will fit, but since some ZE engines come with the auto tranny for free (find one that does have a tranny for free) you could always try and fit it in the engine bay and see for yourself. They are a bit longer and the stock MX-3 trannies already come close to the engine cradle.
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I don't know about the auto trannys that came with the KLZEs...I have never seen one. But they came in a j-spec millenia and Mx-6. The LSD manual transmission form the J-spec Mx-6 fits in an mx-3 so by that logic the automatic tranny from a Millenia or Mx-6 should fit in an mx-3. Has it been proven that it won't? I have never read this anywhere so I don't know for certain. Also, We know for sure that the mx-3's Auto tranny will bolt up to the ZE.Aston Wards wrote:if we're assuming the KLZE + KL auto won't fit in an MX3, then why would the KJZE + KJ auto fit? does someone have access to the KJ auto tranny for some measurements?
This should explain the need for an engine swap (Dallas told me to point back to that in case it was missed, since the question was posed as to why we were even talking engine swap.FlyingMXer wrote:We started looking at an engine swap because the current one just doesn't run like it should. I mean it goes through 3/4 of a tank in 148 miles. I thought for $400 a JDM K8 would probably be cheaper than trying to fix the old one ( I would do the work myself but time is a factor and I dont have enough spare time to tinker and figure out what is wrong with it whereas an engine swap could be done in a shorter time frame). In my research I found the KJ. Has the KJ swap ever been done and does anyone think it would be worth it? For my own research, where can I find the size specs for the KL-ZE?
This was my concern with putting an auto tranny on any other engine with more power. It would break down fast. To be honest with you. If you are dead against a manual transmission your most reliable option would be to just get another working K8. Maybe someone on here is doing a swap and you can get it for cheep. Heck, I was going to give mine to anyone who wanted it but there were no takers so it went to the J-yard. If you do a swap at all I would suggest pairing a KLDE with an Auto Tranny...again...assuming that it would fit. I don't know how well this would work though. Plugs might not match up. You might need the entire wiring harnes and ECU to do it. Has anyone had any experience with the Auto trannys from KLDEs?Nd4SpdSe wrote:Fieromx-3 has his rebuilt auto on his KLDE and fried it on the test run.
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The old one is coming out anyway.
Mason Holmes tried a few years ago to put an Automatic from an MX-6 or a Probe onto his ZE or DE... in his MX-3. I cant remember.ccreech wrote: Has anyone had any experience with the Auto trannys from KLDEs?
That's odd...., i abused the hell out of my auto tranny with the KFZE. Once i installed the intercept link, had no codes, no problems whatsoever (till the horsefloat incidentNd4SpdSe wrote:Fieromx-3 has his rebuilt auto on his KLDE and fried it on the test run.
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