What tuning options are there??

[mx3man]

a manual tranny isnt that expensive (200-300$CDN)... but it is the man-work that will kill you. You have to remove the motor and that alone will cost you 500-800$ a most shops. I would guess a tranny swap would cost you ~1500$

[babybluemx3]

yon don't have to get your engine out to get the tranny out.. true it costs around 20-300 for the tranny itself and can cost around another 300 do change it so 500 for a tranny swap

[mx3man]

...dont you have to take off the mounts to lift the engine a bit? I thought you had to... so if the motor doesnt need removing... how hard would it be to do yourself?

[babybluemx3]

I have not done it myself but I guess you can just take it off from underneath..I think that's how the shop did it..You got to have acces to a lift tough

[mx3man]

hmmm.. i might try that this weekend and see how hard it is. Ill try out my PGT tranny to see if she works.

[lone_night_fox]

well the DE is another Option if you would perfer a Turbo... it's a 2.5 like the ZE just has a lower compression (9.2:1 instead of 10.0 :1), similar to the K8... The KL-DE is also know as the K03. This engine was found in A-spec MX-6s, and the late (2nd Gen) Ford Probe V-6... it's cheeper than a KL-ZE depending where you live and availibility.. but that's the road I'm takin to only puts 170hp to the wheels stock though... but easier to turbo!

[babybluemx3]

by the way a ze IS 170 whp and a DE is around 135whp

[mx3man]

u ever take ur car on the Dyno babyblue? We should have a Dyno-day with Phil, Steph, you and me this fall when u have your Turbo, I have my ZE, and Phil gets his Boost controller going. It'd be cool.

[babybluemx3]

for sure...when the turbo is going to be in I'm going to the dyno right after

[Vanished]

just wondering but when somebody says horspower not wheel brake or crank, just HP were is it mesured from?

[mx3man]

it could be either one, thats why people have to specify what they are talking about. Most of the time people say the crank because it is more impressive that way. But on Mercedes, BMW's and cars that do dyno-runs are all listed in Wheel horsepower... im sure there are more cases of car comanies that do so, but I am unaware eof them.

[lone_night_fox]

well the US lists the HP from the Wheels if I remeber correctly to give Net HP. and when I did the check on it it was 130 hp for the MX-3 (160 hp in J-spec model) 170 HP for the MX-6.. it can't be too much less cauz my friends MX-6 raced my Friend's Camaro V-6 and the MX-6 won... both were automatics so it's got nothing to do with the shifting of the driver. and for a 200hp engine to loose to a MX-6 (which isn't but so much lighter) so it must have a descent amout of HP compaired to the K8.

[mx3man]

The MX-3's 130hp is at the crank, and just slight correction, but the MX-6 has 164hp at the crank.

[babybluemx3]

there's no company that list their engine in whp..that all give hp (crank or whatever)...
the only time we get whp is when a car is dynoed

[lone_night_fox]

really? KBB said 170.... but thanks I couldn't remember where Net HP was taken from....