Well spent 7 hours today detailing the Rx7 for the first time, and finished my rims up. Decided to go with black and a clearcoat and they turned out way better than I thought they would, looks like a totaly different car now. While I had the wheel off painting them I decided to clean and repack the front bearings and that cleard up all my ront end noise and tightend up the steering a little bit.

 

Heres a few more and a couple with my bosses monte carlo ss The red one is an xr7 I think lol. And now you can see the Rx7 logo on the hatch, didnt even know it was there till I scrubed it a little hard and saw half an x.

 

nice, maya gold is one of my fave colors.. and the + wheels look great like that
altho i think you should add more air.. and get some sticky weights

 

Looking good!

 

represent the maya golds! Very clean FB you have and I hope you keep it that color since I rarely see maya gold ones these days even though i was told gold was a very popular 80s color.

nice job on the wheels too!

i noticed that your front all the way to your doors have a deeper shinier color than the rest of the rear half. perhaps it was a respray or had some front end damage? post up more pics of your car if you have anymore!

oh and welcome to the forums!

 

Looks good! A friend of mine did the same paint scheme on the plus wheels of his desert brown 85 years ago, gives the car a totally different look.

 

Thanks for all the coments guys, makes me wanna go fix more stuff lol. And yeah I noticed that to boyee, it is resprayed but I think the whole car was done, I think its from sitting in a garage for a long time and only getting hit halfway by sun because the lower half of panels are more like the front and not faded. But it is possible it was in a collision, if it was it was repaird by a very good body shop, but as far as I can tell its all original body wise and front end wise. My day off is tommorow so ill get some better close up pics, going to sand blast my wiper arms tommorow and paint those and the trim around the windows, should make another huge differance. Man Im sooo in love with this car and I dont know why lol, its slower then any of my civics and parts arnt as easy to come by and it gets terrible gas milage. But it still makes me smile when I get behind the wheel, out of all the cars ive owned this one has soard to the top of the list. Not to mention im sleeping better now, with my civics everytime id hear a tuned exhaust drive by my house I was grabbing my bat and running to the door to make sure no one was trying to jack my car, and yes I would wake up from a dead sleep at 3am.

 

sweet maya gold is my favorite color!

 

I know the feeling. I built a EF with a LS Turbo for my fiancee. The thing has been tampered with so many times Im tempted to sell it. I have a Mayan Gold 81 its been sitting since 95. I hope to start on it soon. Did you clear coat the wheels?

 

Yeah I decided to clearcoat them, at first I wasnt but after a couple coats of black and they were lookin so good I was like yeah that looks good enough for a clearcoat so I walked up to Oreilys and got some. Oh yeah, did mazda make a factory 1st gen car cover? I was cleaning out the bin behind the driver seat and found 3 door handles 1 good, 1 ashtry a couple quarts of oil and what I thought was a sheet pull it out and saw it was a car cover, thought it was just a cheapo like the camaro one I have for my 79 and threw it in the garage. Pulled it out to see how it fit and after I got it on I noticed it says Mazda RX-7 over the hood and it fits like a wet suit, deffinately not a cheapo and ust wondering is its factory or not. Ill take some pics of it on tommorow in the daylight.

 

I do not believe it was a factory option but perhaps a dealer option. There are a lot of aftermarket accessories produced for the first gen back in the day.

 

Very nice job, matches up well with the car.

 

Thanks Yojimbo, well spent today freshing up the rest of the RX-7, trying to just make everything look new mostly. So today I striped the trim around the windows, I was originally black but was peeling pretty bad and for me was quite the eyesore so it got a fresh coat of black and a matte clearcoat to try and make it last. Also sanded down the wiper arms while they were off and recoated those. Wish I had pics but it got to dark and was in a rush to get it finished up tonight. It came out great besides 2 little spots where I got to close with the clear and it ran a bit but ill clean that up with a little wet sanding. Also did plugs and wires today to and rthrew a can o seafoam in the gas tank and put a little in the carb, it was running pretty good b4 but feels like it idles a tiny bit smotther and and the revs drop a little bit faster then they did. While I was looking around under the hood I noticed that the tube going to the cat is gone, it looks like it wasnt put back when a new cat was put on and if im right theres a good chance my cat is burnt toast so ill probably end up cutting it out and throwing a resonator pipe in its place at work tommorow, hope that opens it up a bit without making it sound bad, we'll see tommorow I guess. Hers a vid was to dark for pics but took a vid of it running, I know its a crappy vid but how does it sound, idles smooth as silk but theres a couple noises that I dont know if there normal or not, I think one is the flapper linkage in the air filter housing, just wondering if im being to picky or not lol thanks guys ill have some pics up tommorow of the window trim, later.


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