Finally got some decent quality shots of the car. We finished painting it last week. Car came out very well. Absolutely zero texture...looks like a freakin mirror.

 

 

Looks awesome TIm!

 

Seeing what a new MB paint job looks like has really made me appreciate the color. All the 10+ year old MB RX-7's look so bad that it made me wonder why anybody would want that color. After seeing your car I realized it really is a nice.

Car looks great

 

I hear ya...just look at the pics in my sig for comparison...

 

really nice job!

 

Its really difficult to appreciate good MB paint from photos such as these...When I saw my first MB I had the same feeling most have...Why would anyone want that? It wasn't till I saw my buddies new MB paint that I realized how nice it really is...I have pretty new silver paint and I actually considered going MB if I had to repaint. Looks great, man!

 

Nice!

What SMIC is that?

 

Peter Farrell Stock Mount. I had it polished about 6 months ago.

 

Looks Good! What primer base brand and color did you use?

 

I forget what primer we used, the paint was "matrix systems" paint, the color was the stock 94 MB color code. I'll have to look up what it was.

http://www.matrixsystem.com/

 

Interesting, they are located right down the road about 20 minutes from where I live. Glad to see positive results from a company's products close to me, as I'm looking into having my FD repainted.

The car looks excellent, I've always liked the look of quality MB.

 

Did you modify it? because I didn't know that peter made 2 diferent versions.

The only ones I have ever seen have bent pipes on both sides of the IC.

 

Beautiful!

Makes me long for the day when:
a.) I get my car running again and
b.) I get it repainted

 

WOW, a-fucken-mazing,,,

 

Very nice. Did you see my new MB paint?

https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generation-specific-1993-2002-16/few-quick-pics-my-mb-99-spec-fd-worth-wait-399121/

 

Looks awesome. I always liked that color. Thoght it would be the color FD I would eventually buy. It's unlike any other color I've seen on a production car.
But, hey, I love my brilliant black too.

 

Yes, mine has the bend on the hot side cut off. I have a pipe going straight back to the y-pipe now rather than having that nasty bend. I don't have an airpump, so it was an unnecessary restriction to the flow.

 

Sure did, looks awesome. I've always liked the 99spec front end, but I did this paint job on a budget. You should see Herblenny's MB 93...he has the 99spec front end along with the R1 wing and its an awesome combination. I read that you like the "wingless" look though. I love your rims, if I had the cash, I would buy them from you in a heartbeat.

 

Wow do you have your own paint shop? You did alot of color sanding didn't you?

 

My fiance's brother in law has done paint/body work for about 15 years now. We did all the prep work in a little "shack" out in the middle of the country...then, when we needed to spray the paint/clear, we used a friends paint booth. Then we took the car back to the shack for wetsanding/cutting/polishing/etc. We spent A LOT of time blocking the entire car when it was still in primer. That saved us a lot of time in the wetsanding area...as it was practically smooth as a baby's butt immediately after spraying the clear. But yes, we spent quite a bit of time wetsanding/cutting/polishing as well. This has been a project we were doing in our spare time and on our weekends off. I'd say we actually started about 2 1/2 months ago.

 

Some real rims with a nice lip would really set the car off.

My MBM is a 94, so I think my paint condition really helps with MBM's impression. I didn't like the color as much seeing it in photo's (people take some seriously hideous angle/lighting shots) but in person it gets better. It's black at night too

Nice job, nice car!

 

nice paint job !!

 

Nice to see the color back to the way it was intended to be seen.

 

nice... I am impressed. How much is it done your way, versus just simply letting the shop (or any other shop for that matter) do all the work?