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1992 Mazda MX-3 GS 1.8 V-6

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murz:
Figured I'd create a post, to help motivate myself to work on it.

I've had this wonderful car since 2008 when I bought it off of a family friend (or was it 2007? I don't even remember), actually I had my mom buy it for me with my money, because the owner wouldn't sell it to me as it was "too fast" for a young kid like myself at the time ( no air bags either... ). Well, it was the first car I bought with my actual saved up money, which was about all of it at the time.

I knew how to drive stick already, as I had an old 72 Volkswagen Beetle that I learned on. What a difference it was though compared to the Mx3! It was a whole new experience! I had to quickly learn how to drive it, as I was working, and just got a job about 25 miles away. I learned quick!

This car is pretty cool, it has one of the tinest, if not the tinest V6's made in a production car. It redlines at 7k, and fuel cuts at 7.5k? I believe it only makes around 140bhp (Somewhere around there), but it's plenty for how light it is. I've seen people claim it does 0-60 in 8 seconds, but I can do 6 seconds it seems. It's FWD, so it's a great daily driver car, which I've used through plenty of winters. It's got a very unique sound, being such a small V-6. A lot of parts are similar to the RX7 as well, which is nice, haha.

I've replaced a BUNCH on this car, and it's driving me insane. Oh the engine has about 25k miles on it, or so. Anyways, this car has taken me across country several times, also averaging 35+ MPG.

Anyways, here are the pictures, I'm doing this so I can help motivate myself to work on it for winter.

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Stock Wheels when I first got her. Still have them.
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Auto-seat belts that everyone loves.
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171k on the clock.
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Dirty.
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murz:
Right now she's under repair, the hard brake lines went out on her, slowly replacing them. She's on jack-stands currently. The rear calipers need replacing, as well as all of the rear hardlines, they rotted out, while driving... so I'm finally getting to fixing them, so I don't have to take Summer (the 'vert) through another winter.

~Groll69~:
Let me know if you need a hand.  i will help you get the lines in.  I know its a pain how they routed the lines, but we can get her back on the road for the winter.

murz:
That would be excellent! Might have to come up with some creative solutions.

murz:
Last night I finished removing all the old hard lines, wasn't too difficult, as the lines were so brittle they just snapped off... and probably gave me tetanus as well. Oh well. I'll probably try to take some pictures, but the the issue isn't exactly routing the lines, it's getting through up into the engine bay. It's recommended that the engine be removed for this. Because the lines meet at a proportioning valve behind the engine just above the exhaust, and the lines are sewn through the Steering rack, fuel lines, frame, and everything that's in between. It's messy! They were also clipped on twice in unviewable locations on the firewall. It's the tightest engine bay I've seen.

The proportioning valve also converts the lines into a different kind of brake line, which means I can't by-pass that and go directly to the master, that would make it easier if I could.

I probably should have just pulled the engine, oh well. I've said that a few times now.

Just waiting on new calipers to arrive, hopefully today. Will begin TRYING to connect the lines ( I have multiple lines with unions, so installing and future replacment will be sooo much easier.)

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