It was about availability of shell or entire cars.
The good:
After sending many messages on several craigslist MX3's in a four state area and shopping for about 6 months, I finally got a email reply on a '94 RS 1.6L man trans, body has 179k mi like I really wanted for $700 w/ silver ext and black int. So a couple hours later a call Sunday evening form same guy about 7 pm. I just could not find one local so I had the boys adapt the tow package light wiring plug to 4 wire flat real quick, lead footed it in our '94 Villager recent fix (less that 50 miles) which had broke crank snout. We went to larger crank snout upgrade and up to St Louis. Drove 800 miles & 13 hours round trip over night and picked up the above silver one with the B6-DE engine that had been changed out at about 76k with a low mi engine, engine bas been on a mobile 1 diet for 6 years. Had new Dr LH cv shaft, new radiator, flush & wp protectant, lots of other good maintenance. Paint otherwise of below ugly items is surprisingly very good. Glass is all very good. Has very minimal rust can be taken care of easily. 2 new yoko tires & 2 nearly new Goodrich's 185-65-14's. Recent alignment. With gas I have $850 in it total now. Spare and jack kit looked good and present.
The bad:
She has a dead used replacement distributor, no battery, missing headlight HID bulbs but ballast kit left installed, Hatch lock needs some TLC. It has factory AC (Yea!) but needs charged or the like no prob for me I did auto AC for a living before aircraft.
The ugly:
She has and a large fender bender on the pass side casusing pass door not to s--- enough and messed up the door seal, some easy to fix surface damage crunched dr side frt bumper issue. mismatch fender hood height on dr side, needs a radio head unit and has high powered stereo amps and the like, Kenwood eq, I need to unload or trade that expensive stuff for a just decent in dash unit. Missing 1 hub cap other one id damaged badly. Headlights need yellow polished out. Possibly lost the outer cv boot on trip down there was red synthetic translucent gel lube on the dr side of the car after 300 miles and in both dr side wheel wells, we have seen red, green,
black moly, and grey grease in these boot kits, will verify the shaft soon
Now I need to start a compatibility list for the dist:
We need to order the correct distributor to get her running. Anyone have one laying around I can use?
My son can not find the distributor casting number (12 digits according to this Ebay item
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/BRAND-NE ... 56441cf8c7) we allegedly need for the correct application. Is this number on the base of the mount flange and must be removed to see it?
Or is there a good authoritative guide for distributors on the mx3 1.6 DOHC 2nd gen?
Looks like the 92-93 SOHC is different and not compatible but am not sure.
Grocery list wise what we need in order of urgency 1st two items will get us on the road the rest is icing on the cake:
1. '94 1.6 DOHC distributor.
2. Qty 2 hid bulbs. Bulb type? (also have to find out if its a combo hi/lo unit 1st or just low).
3. 90 amp alternator upgrade popular fix for efficiency due to oem anemic 60 amp alt (out of mx3 1.8 V6 mx6 v6)? Saw it somewhere on the site.
4. Stereo head unit, front speakers I think and maybe rear, have to look around for where they may 5. be hidden. I know the front tweeters are bad.
6. Qty 2 hub caps.
7. May need engine gasket kit as the front bottom pass side of the engine looked like I saw old leakage when hooking up the tow bar. Saw valve cover & distributor bas gasket leakage also.
8. Pass door seal.
9. Dr door handle well cup has bottom area for screw busted out. Likely plastic welder epoxy fix.
10. Center hinged lower console broken at hinge. Will likely plastic welder epoxy this together.
Donations of your not needed above (parts) to clean out your garage/barn are accepted
with thankfulness. Otherwise I have to wail until next payday.
Will post a pic soon.
