MX3ZE - T

[mx3ze]

K801 V6 1.8 Stock engine




KL-ZE engine




KLZE heads






New clutch






KL-ZE and MX6 Tranny






Engine bay




Millenia IM








Compression test

210 205 210


205 210 210




Running KL-ZE




KL31 ECU




Paint job












CAI




New stainless steel brake lines







Interior












Tokico shocks + Eibach springs











Turbo










Turbo markup

As you will see, number of clearance issues will have to be addressed













Now to address clearance; in most cases heat and bang-in and/or trim/cut.










Install

Hot pipes




Oil sensors/return






Turbo




Intercooler








Intercooler and cold pipes ground clearance




Millenia S injectors




Coolant hose




WG and rad fan




Blow off and AIT




Almost finished




MS Install

[93vtecklr]

Where the heck did you get those hot pipes??? BTW great work so far

[MX-3zoom]

veeeeery nice bro. very clean work. nice colors you picked!!! another sweet 3!! congrats!

[solo_ryder]

Ah yes, one of my fav mx3's. Awesome work

[_-Night-Shade-_]

Wow, so beautiful! This car is a work of art. Are the valve covers powdercoated or painted?

[mmmx3]

very nice work.

how long did it take for you to get all done?

get the projector headlights, your car will look even nicer.

[Ukrman]

great job, awesome looking mx-3

[mx3ze]

93vtecklr; hot pipes are part of the ebay turbo kit +termo-tec wrap.
_-Night-Shade-_; valve covers are painted.
mmmx3; I worked on car inconsistently since 2005.

Thank you all for positive comments.

[Newfie_dan]

very nice indeed, where did you pick up the pre-turbo cai for the car? I am gonna hunt around for a nice lookin 1 like that myself.

[mx3ze]

It was Acura Integra 94-01 two pieces CAI from ebay.

This was a bottom part that you don’t see on the photo. I made plastic cover to seal the top and large cut in front of the cavity for cold air suction.

[fowljesse]

Awesome job!
I love that you left it stock looking.
I hope you get some racing vids (especially with honda boys coming up with excuses)!

[mx3ze]

Thank you fowljesse,
One day hopefully I will take it to the race track and get couple of videos.

[Daninski]

All of the above, great work. I'll hold my opinion on painted interiors. Now to hold our breath and see is it starts first turn of the key.

[mx3ze]

Thank you Daninski,
It didn’t start first turn of the key.
In process of swapping injectors I used original Millenia O rings that are a bit bigger. Five out of six were damaged in installation resulting in engine flood. When original (KLZE) O rings were reinstalled engine started just fine.

[fowljesse]

"When installing injectors, use the SMALL hammer".