Info on the car:
-230,000 Kilometers on the body as well as the engine
-I am the fourth owner of the car, there was one gentleman who owned it till about 100,000 KM(that's a guess), my uncle then bought it from them, my father bought it from my uncle and then my father gave it to me as a gift for when I went to university.
-Engine is stock
-I changed one of the struts, back right, about 1,000 KM ago, it had give out and I needed to change it. The replacement strut was from an mx3 with about 160,000 KM on it so its far from new
-The muffler had been broken by my sister about a month and a half ago and it had a sleeve put over then welded on, the exhaust gaskett was also replaced at this point
My goals towards my MX3 are:
-Engine swap to make my car go faster
-Coilover set for the car, preferably to not lower my car, I'm happy with the current ride height, but my struts are on their way out.
-A paint job in the future, I like the colour(mira creek blue) but i got a lot of scratches on the body
-I have an extremely lazily set up sound system in my car, it was adequately wired but the speakers that were used were low quality and are pretty much finished, I want to upgrade that there
-My intake is needing a replacement right now, and I'd like to replace it with an aftermarket intake set up, I"m part way there thanks to Shayne/EvoSpec
-An aftermarket steering wheel, I have all of the components for it(also thanks to Shayne/EvoSpec) just gotta put it in
-Installing some projector headlights I have acquired, just waiting on some time to do it
My pre-existing problems with the car right now are:
-1 bent passenger side windshield wiper arm, needing to replace it but not considered an immediate fix
-My serpentine belt is squeaking a lot
-I am getting awful mileage(380KM per tank)
-This is partially likely to occur because of my damaged intake, also I have a rough idle that could be responsible
-Could be an issue with my oxygen sensor and my catalytic converter
-After driving around a few days with loose battery terminal cables, my car has started giving me a charge battery light, sometimes it flashes as well, I'm not 100% sure the battery is finished or if it's just been drained from my terminal ends being loose
Heres for some pictures!
I currently stand here:
Anyway, I left to run some errands and by the time i came back my battery died
Anywho,
heres what I've done to the car as far as interior/exterior looks:
-Installed Altezza lights, I smoked them with two light coats of Nite Shade by VHT
-I got two a set of "headlight foggers" for free with the tail lights and some wheels I bought, they aren't on right now but I plan to put them back on when the projector lights are put in
-Put in white indicator lights on the front
-My shifter knob got ruined so I replaced it with an Acura Integra shifter knob, I rolled down the boot for now but I'll probably replace that too
As far as the wheels go my current winter set up, as you can see in the above picture are two winter steelies on the front with 175/65r14 wheels and 15' mags with 195/60r15 tires on the back. Theres a good story to this haha. I bought a set of four wheels on steelies in october, however I didn't put them on until early november. I didn't get far before I noticed one of the rims was bent. So I had to throw a set of all seasons on the back until I could get a new steelie. I then purchased two steelies for dirty cheap and the day I was going to go get the good tire mounted onto the steelie I saw an ad on kijiji for the altezza tail lights I was looking for, after contacting the seller I managed to get him to sell me the tail lights, the head light foggers and three wheels on mx3 15' mags with almost brand new winter tires for $160. He also threw in some pieces of trim I needed as well. From this came my hybrid tire set up. I got the fourth mag from Shayne and painted it black as well as the other three. I've just been too lazy to go get the replacement winter tire mounted onto my fourth rim so I can install my set of black 15' mags.
Here's a picture of a painted rim
My summer wheels are these right here:
17' Drag DR2s. I couldn't seem to get a better picture then this but i'll upload more as i get to them. I got a great price for them and I love the look but the chrome lip has some major scratching and I'm mulling over a solution right now.
So, today I went down to pick n pull and found:
a shroud for my boss kit, I threw it together with the boss kit and steering wheel for the picture
Also found some rear splass guards
Cleaned this bad boys up, gonna black them out and throw them on hopefully tomorrow.
