Its been the better part of a year since I finished this thing and I've still only posted a couple pics every once in a while. I used to get the odd PM about "I love your car, What kit is that? where can I get it?" kinda made me feel warm and fuzzy...

SOOOO... here's a build thread with all the pics I took along the way. Hope you like it.
And if the image tags don't work I'm going to look like a big idiot...


Here we have the plain-Jane mazda RX-7. This is NOT my car. It is identical in colour to what mine used to be. The PO brought it in from California to B.C., then B.C. to Winnipeg. This thing had never seen winter.unfortunatly I negected to take any pictures of it before I threw a giant wing on it... embarassing. I drove it like this for a month, put the wing on it, put a Holley, RB intake, and headers on it and drove it for a year.


THEN.... It got to winter time and I wanted to look cooler.
So we progressed to this point over the course of a winter.


Getting the front end planted at autocross. 15x8' BFG G-Force sports were pretty sticky!!! This Car brakes like a mother with drilled/slotted rotors...


http://www.cardomain.com/member_page...192_7_full.jpg
Not bad eh? Still... needed somethign else...
some side skirts...
yeah. AS you can tell, the PO had a little accident... No problem!! little dolphin glaze here, a little Rage Gold there...


The putty is at most a quarter inch thick, btw... Just to get it smooth...
Some new headlights and fill up the header panel...


and an *** that won't quit...

 

Damn thats a lot of metal work, looks good man! It's different I like it.

 

A sign of thigns to come....


primer prepped...

Primer painted....

And yet, I felt it was missing something....
But what???


Thats it! yes. A spoiler!
No fiberglass shortcuts here....

Just a little to straighten it....

 

We can all agree that brown interiors suck.
And if you don't agree, you were probably raised in the 80s and are therefore too old to have your opinion matter to a young punk like me...

SOOO...........Pull out the wallet and....

presto!


So then it got sent away for paint. And I can't find those pictures for some reason... Happiest day of my life when it came back tho...

Took a while to get assembled. But long story short it now looks like THIS!!!


With a sexy black interior..




And thats how its done, ladies and gents. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Thanks for coming and have a safe drive home...


Comments questions?

 

That is one nice car and the quality of work is amazing.
How did you get those seats to work with the car?

 

more importantly, what seats are they? did i see mazdaspeed written on them?

 

The seats DO say Mazdaspeed... I got 'em off ebay at some point. Lucked out on them. Haven't seen a set since. I did, however, have to build completely new seat perches on the floor... Not fun. I have pics somewehre. I'll dig them up....

The seats BARELY fit. They're about a half inch from hitting the door when I close it. I have to run the regular seatbelts through the shoulder harness holes...

BTW if ANYONE HAS A SET OF BLACK SEATBELTS I NEED THEM!!!
My dyed ones are slowly returning to brown...

 

niiiiiiiice, clean. excellent job. great job on craftsmanship.

 

Very impressive amount of work. Well done.

 

So did you build those side skirts and rear end yourself?

 

WHERE WERE YOU 2 WEEKS AGO.

I just threw out a complete pair from the retractor/belts to the seat belt lock No one wanted them for a while.

Anyways, Great car! Thats some quality craftsmanship there.

 

looks cool, except for the fake mazdaspeed seats.

 

looks amazing but that rear still bugs me.. its like theres no texture to the car's rear end anymore or lines.

 

Great work man,
I was waiting for a thread like this about a year ago! hahah

Its neat to see the transformation the car took, I especially love seeing real metalwork!!
You better bring it out to auto-x this summer dude!

BTW, I believe I have a set of black '79 seatbelts if your interested...

 

Nice work, but looks better stock imo.

 

Hey I was wondering if you could tell me the width of your seats

 

nice metal work thats for sure..

 

Is that a stock paint color?

 

The front of that car looks amazing. I applaud your craftsmanship and good work with the metal work. I think the rest of it is not to my tastes, but you did amazing work. I want that front end!!

 

man thats some good quality fab work right there.
nice job man.
+1

 

I was wondering if you could post a close up of the side marker front or rear as I was wondering how it would look untrimmed with rubber or whatever but sunk in flush like you have it. I was trying to decide in my mind if it would look good without a rubber trim around the edge of the hole or not.

 

^+1

 

Nice,


I think getting rid of the rear wiper would be nice also.

 

If you hadn't added IMO, I probably would have found out who you were and killed you... Now I can't even get mad at you. Ouch though. You just took 6 months of work and slapped me in the face with it...

Nope. GM code 71U...

See it in real life... The pictures don't really do it justice, IMO. But I'm biased...


I'll try to get a closeup of the marker lights and find the width of the seats... It's under a car cover right now tho, and won't get worked on til next week due to a lineup of midterms...

 

wow! nice car man