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You see..I've had my MX-3 for about three years now. Bought it for $3000. US. It's only had one previous owner (he was an older man) and there are only about 60k miles on it. There doesn't seem to be any tampering with the odometer either and both the engine and transmission (it's an Automatic..sadly) seem to be in great condition.
There are some minor problems..such as any time I round a corner with a slight hill there'll be this loud THUMP-CLUNK noise. The interior isn't in such a great shape either..dashboard has two deep cracks in it that I've attempted to seal together. The section with the lighter is loose..so you can't plug in a phone charger without exposing wires when you go to pull it back out so it seems he might've been a smoker. The roof is kind of a mess. Spots and pieces of fabric are falling off. The driver side door power window switches snapped off..and I know some of you might say I used too much force when pulling on the buttons - to be honest I just lightly pulled up on the switches to raise the windows and they kind of snapped off. Upon further inspection it looks like they had snapped off before since there was a sort of glue residue where the two sticks that lead further down into the electrical box snapped off at.
Oh, and evidently the guy sealed the sunroof shut because rainwater was seeping in and he didn't want to spend the money to get it fixed..so I don't have that.
Now a couple weeks ago I thought about selling my car..but after coming here and reading about all the tweaks and mods and upgrades you all do to cars in much worse condition than mine is in, it's changed my mind.
I was never much into upgrading cars and such because I never had the money for that. Computers was always more my cup of tea, cheaper to mess with, instant results.
But..now that I have a better source of income I can actually afford to do all the nice things this car deserves. I keep hearing about ATX to MTX swaps..it's something I'd love to do but I have no idea how to go about doing this. I've gone to a couple junkyards trying to find a 93 MX3 with a stick shift so I can rip that out but I haven't had much luck.
I have no friends as far as shops go, none that know about cars either. The few mechanics around here (Hialeah, FL) seem a little shady, I don't want to get ripped off either.
I don't have a whole lot of knowledge about vehicles either, at least not enough to perform an engine swap or something like converting an automatic to manual by myself. Even if I did I wouldn't have a lawn or backyard or garage to do it in.
So my question to you all is:
What should I do without having to burn a hole through my wallet? The first thing I'd like is to change out the automatic for a manual. Where can I go for something like this?
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The rest such as the interior will likely come shortly after that. And I do apologize for any ignorant questions I'll likely be asking in the future.
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