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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

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

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

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

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

very nice work.

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

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

great job, awesome looking mx-3

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.

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.

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.

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)!

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

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.

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.

"When installing injectors, use the SMALL hammer".