After 2.5 weeks of waiting, I am off to go get my 7 from the paint shop! Will post pics when I get back from vacation on monday. It sucks that I am getting my car back at 3:00 and leaving for vacation at 3:30. Oh well.

 

what color and how much did it cost ya?

 

Sunlight silver metallic (mazda color) $850.00 including major rust removal.

 

sorry, lighting in my garage is horrible

 

take it outside and take another pic... please dont tease us

 

here we are.

 

how did they do for 800 bucks? anything you notice yet like overspray?
did you do any preping?

 

Damnit...Taking a picture like that to show us is like showing a picture of Jenna Jamison with a sensor bar over the good parts.......

 

ha

 

Before you put it back together have you considered painting the rub strips to match? That silver is hot on rx-7's especially when the strips are body matched..IMO

 

anymore zinngers rrtec?

 

sorry bout the highjack.... i need to head off to class..... look foward to seeing more pictures of her. Whats it got going under da hood?

 

From his AVITAR it looks like a leaky coolant seal..(drum roll , cymbal!)

 

the avatar was during a mmo treatment. car is relatively stock. rb streetable header and partial rats nest removal. Primary intake runners are ridged secondary runners are polished. Air flap removed from filter box. Electric fan. etc. I removed the trim from the car first, and attempted to fix some of the rust, realized that I had no idea what I was doin and payed for someone else to do it. They did a really good job for the most part, but nothing in life is completely perfect.

 

I pray that someday I will own a nice SILVER 7 like yours....

 

Thanks RRtec. I really lucked out with this car, my step father gave it to me 2 years ago. He had let his son drive it for a couple of months and saw how he was treating it and took it from him. She has been garage kept all her life but got some cancer in the wheel wells anyway. Only 112,000 miles on her (thats less than my 95 s10)

 

95 s10 huh? Here's the one I just gave to my brother in law.. needs some work but a good project for a 16 year old.lol..

 

Oh, yeah, rub strips are going back on black. sorry. I just like the way that looks better.

 

Nice 7. You might look into replacing that radiator, the top looks real rusty.

 

Tis a new radiator. The seal was missing from the coolant level sensor for a while and it leaked and the paint peeled off. (that is brass showing)

 

paint peeled from coolant?? what do you use... acid?

 

That's a good prive for paint btw. I paid more than double that.

 

I am pretty good friends with one of the guys at the shop. Hot antifreeze seems to be a good paint stripper. I use 50/50. I use plenty of acid, but not that kind.

 

how long will krylon paint last on trim anyway????

 

I wasn't talking krylon I was thinking having the paint shop do it..