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Any update on this beast?

Many things happend again.

HLA's of my KLDE engine were completly stuck, so a small overhaulage.


Measuring crankshaft


Perfect in spec.


Also cleaned and measured all bolts of the bottom-end.


Crank is in.... slow proces of building the engine.


In the meanwhile picked up my car after a fresh engine bay paint.






And... a very happy person with my PRESSO floormats

Very nice! and those mats look great

I should update this

Rebuilding my KLDE before starting on the KLZE

Piston ring clearance


All torque to spec


Clearance checking


Heads rebuild







Adding a bit of color







Polished the cam caps



Plastigauged the cams




















Mx5 brake calipers + mx3 e-brake cable.. brackets

Finished my KLDE build.

What a beaut! That's some brilliant work put in. Hope it runs beautifully!

Working on some more wiring.
Will take more interieur pics lateron.

Every aftermarket electronics hooked up in the car will be properly fused and all the wires nicely tucked in 'snakeskin'.
**damn what a work **
-- at the same time documenting how it is hooked up.

Also the connectors to the amps and wiring will be redone; order has been placed to get the necessary things in.


My KLZE heads have been port matched for intake / exhaust so that build can also slowely start.

Trying to find a brake disk in a 4 hole pattern in 300mm+ size for my mazdaspeed 6 calipers.



And.. Dont believe I posted on this, the 3rd brakelight with a big thanks to Mooneggs.

This was an excellent read. I love coming over here from the Probe community and seeing the same amount of passion for the cars! *Group Hug* lol

Wires, wires, wires.

I think now I'm about 95% done with putting these covers around every not-original wire (+ original engine bay wires).

It looks great, just like OEM.
Big benefit as well is that it is flame retardend.

Like it

Love it, very nice.

Want some more of it.

Found some extra airvents in my car








Reinstalled my exhaust.

Just lookin at some work and wonderin when you can do my mx3 I can't wait to have to time and money to work on mine like this!

haven't been back here for a while to find this, nice work man.

that twister cat thing looks awesome.