RX7 Progress Pics
 

Hi :wave:

Here are a few pics of our just painted RX7 :jump:

Not quite ready to take home yet but we can't wait till it's ready :bluesuit:

What do you think :grouphug:

We were quite shocked when we saw it this morning :wtf1: , but we love it :score:

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Here are some before pics:

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interesting color....not liking the body kit to much....wtf did they do to they hood....?

man whhyyy the wing\!!!!! why???

just gota be honest here

hood: invader AND with funky paint? bad

color: meh just dont like orange, just my opinion.

that spioler: wtf were u thinking???



it would really be ok but i would seriously think about losing the spoiler. thats like the exact same thing u see on hondas n shit. otherwise its not bad

the car looked best in the first before pic. now im gona go away before i let my emotions get the best of me.

Idk...its unique...

thats the color i was thinking of painting mine! haha...hmm its not that bad...i dont care for how they painted the hood though

You better have some gnarly ass single turbo set up to counter act all that rice!

Didn't think you guys would like it, never mind. Though it was worth a try.

Oh buy the way it is a twin turbo - sorry to disappoint :fawk:

See Ya

I actually like the color a lot :D... but for my tastes the wing is nasty and the hood would look better all painted. It's original, though.

like the color but the kit,wing and tail lights... ??? aihhhhh.. not cutting it..

Thats the beauty of it though. Who cares!? Seriously, if its what you like, thats great! Right? Who cares what our views are of your car.

Your not american, so that is one of the reasons why most of us dont like that taste so much. Its more of a flashy style that ive noticed that lots of europeans and such like. Nothin wrong with that, its just that americans tend to like the classy, closer to stock approach.

Good luck with finishing your project!

The colour is very nice and the body kit isn't too radical,IMO. Post pictures of the finished car, I'm sure it'll look even better then. :icon_tup:

I think it is unique, too. From a style issue, it is very homogenous. It's a little extreme for the taste of most around here (mine is stock, no wing), but so what? The paint job is flawless and you won't find another 3G painted like it anywhere. I don't think the wing is all that bad considering the rest of the design. That's what I look for. I want to see consistency and some original vision if you are going to mess with body kits, wings, that sort of thing.

The hood is pretty extreme, but my only issue is that it lacks functionality. Look at photo number 2. I've seen some hoods like this used on muscle cars in the 60s but there should be slots directly under the point where the front of the hood arcs upward. The point would be to draw air upwards through the radiator and expel any heat from the forward engine bay. It would work that way if there were slots under the upward curvature, I believe. They wouldn't normally be more than an inch or so deep but would would extend across the length of the two flaps.

I'd like to see more photos from a little more of a distance, quite frankly. Tight shots like this in a garage tend to be shot on the wide angle lens side. Show me any cute model who looks good shot with a wide angle lens. She'll look like hell. Shoot some with a 100-135 mm focal length and then let's see.

aww he got butt hurt and he's never going to come back....too bad.......


ROFL

yeah like said above, as long as your happy with it thats all that matters, but honestly im not feeling the wing or hood, i think that color would be nicer if the car still had the orginal look to it with some dark windows :)

hahau guys r way too nice. cmon that looks like what would happen if u went on ebay and bought all the crappy junk for our car they sell and slap it on. GAAAAAH...
its like a big orange frankenstein!

the feed style bumper is a good choice...but it looks reallly weird with the cwest sides....my problem is the hood. its that retarded invader thing that like someone pointed out, is not functional at all its just a rice part. and thats some goofy universal spoiler that runs rampant on neons and civics and cavaliers, etc...

sorry im a dick...

i say lose the hood and spoiler, and instead of the sqaurish looking cwest sides, go with some amemiya style sides to go with the flow of the rear skirts, and u got a pretty good looking car. the colors alright....

but yeah maybe thats not their taste, but DAMN thats some fugliness...

Don't listen to what they say about the color because mine is painted the exact same, I even have the same front end. Let me guess the color code; lamborghini orange?

R.K.

Here are some pics of mine.

R.K.

Niceeee, it is a good color, just has to be on the right body

I never liked rice, but when it's done right I gotta say "great looking car". I like the color, dislike the wing, and think the hood is actually pretty cool looking. Very unique and lots of hard work put into it. Great Job!!

:werd: :rofl: ...pwnt.. your wing seriusly looks like shit. :fawk: you back :rlaugh:

lol

I gotta agree

If I attempted to do something like that to my car, I would hope my wife (or anyone else) would have enough sense to slap me upside the head. It looked much better in the "before" pics. That's just my opinion though... :)

The only thing that matters is whether or not you like it. Looks like the quality of the paint job is very good. Congrats.

-Rob

Tyson007 the color is nice but the kit is just to much. CrazyRX7, nice 7 "Thumbs up".

Great color, just get rid of the wing

Hey I like the wing, looks like my tall brother

Thanks for the positive comments.

R.K.

color is not exactly my taste but it looks okay, feed type2 front bumper is nice.
just get rid of the honda wing.

Fortunately yours is way more metallic saffron than this guy's gonzo orange. Hence, it looks right and TysonOrange's doesn't. :)

ewww not near as bad but still! we needa get both u guys to lose those things...maybe we can glue yours on top of his and market it as a new honda performance part!

:scratch:

The paint IS flawless and looks really beautiful as far as gloss goes. The color...might take a bit to get used to but I have seen much, MUCH more...controversial...colors/paint schemes on most show cars that make the circuits.

I really can't get into the hood at all, and I am one of those 'wingless' guys that prefer the FD that way.

Having said this, the main issue (like many others have already said) is not what WE like, but if you like it. You spent probably half-again what the car is actually worth on the body kit and paint, right? You wouldn't have done that if you didn't WANT it that way.
Look, when I repaint my car (hopefully next year sometime, or later this year) I intend to go with a DuPont CHROMALLUSION or House of Kolors Kameleon paint like what RX7JOCK has, the constantly changing all color/no color prism effect stuff. Definitely not for everyone, but I DON'T CARE WHAT ANYONE ELSE THINKS!
And neither should you, or at least it shouldn't be a factor in how YOU do YOUR car.

Hey Thanks Guys, this makes interesting reading :wtf:

This car will be a show car, we already have a 'show winning' MX5 Turbo that is used everyday along with our MGZT190+. The RX7 is our little hobby and once finsihed will be taken to all the UK Modifying shows this year (can't wait) along with the MX5 (Miata).

It's a shame we won't meet you guys face to face, pretty lucky really :Kill1:

It seems that you guys get really worked up over this modifying stuff, you guys need to chill out :devil:

Anyway we have had a great reception in the UK.

But what happened to the 'Fast and the Furious' fans over there - wasn't that an American film :patriot:

See Ya - Wouldn’t want to be ya :lach:

P.S - Don't worry you haven't seen the last of us - we will keep you posted on the next developmemts. :pat:

You asked for opinions and you got them. No need to cry like a baby now.

lose the wing and hood. :pfanndina

You car is WAY less rice. I don't love orange but it looks clean. the first car...... well um..... well...........

when i saw the hood pic...i thought you wanted to be batman or something
paint the wing and make it a cape

now someone turn on the bat signal

Like the colour, but i hate the crazy english styling bling bling rice thing, wtf is it whit you guys? hmmm, get rid of the wing, repaint the hood and you have a much better car.. P.S har u have som more smylies to your colection: :suitdance :bottom: :icon16: :lol: :rl: :pat: :squintfin :chomper: :Tigger: :weedpoke: :( :Kill2: :aroused: :iwstupid:

Yeah . . . . i've noticed the U.K. "tuning scene" has this thing with chrome and ugly ass wings. Pic up any copy of "Max Power" and you'll see it . . . . however, just like here in the U.S. there are ricers and true car enthusists. Hopefully, our friend will see the light soon :D

Ok, first off, this car looks like something that would come out of the Pimp My Ride show on MTV. Ok color, but the wing? The hood? Not very tasteful. Extreme? Sure.. I guess you could call it that.

And about your post.. are you saying you would inflict bodily harm/attack these forum people because your car looks stupid? I wonder how your customers would react if they knew that you would attack people that didn't like your car. And then you insult America as a whole because the movie "Fast and the Furious" was made here?

You must really not want to make any friends on this forum. Nice touch.

i smell haters

I smell rice in this thread... lots of it... I'm getting kind of hungry.

Fun thread. Good luck on your tour. It's nice to realize that people can still get up the nerve to customize, show, argue for the preservation of: a 13 year old car. Short of an XKE or Porsche Turbo, it's evidence that we are all driving around in a classic to be.

The color is not that bad. It's the funky bodywork. If the bodywork were more subtle, the color would just be crazy - but crazy in a good way. Atleast it's not lime green.

HAHahA i KNEW butt hurt was a houston term!!! that term got me through my first three years of college

Not a fan of the two tone hood, but everything else looks good.

GTFO rx7club and GTFO of rotaries... you make us look bad.

You said it all right there my friend. I (and others) tried to give the car a true evaluation, as that seemed to be what he really wanted. Now granted some of the responses were pretty brutal, but that is what you get when you ask like that in a public forum. However, it seems that when everyone wasn't ooohing and ahhhhhing that this car wasn't some sort of end-all, be-all FD, the chap gets his panties all in a wad and resorts to immature attacks! :pow:

Anyone that has spent any time on the show-car circuit has seen FDs that are much more extreme than that. They have a LONG way to go to make that car a contender, unless the U.K. circuit is lame. If the car is NOT going to be shown and just be a normal car, simply painting the hood all one color and losing that hideous rear wing would make it pretty kick-ass.

Awg!! My Eyes!!!!
 

This car looks, as someone said before like a'pimp my ride' project hell, put some hydrolicks on it, and some 13x12 gold spokes and you could put this ride in Lowrider magizine lol!! I'm just waiting for the update where we are shown the new xbox 360 installed in the back....and maybe a popcorn machine in the dash, wall to wall velour would be nice too.....

Yeah I sound a little harsh, but seriously, those are my true impressions.

And just because its on the show circuit doesnt mean crap, I've see alot of distastefull rides at car shows,this wont be the last, but one question.......

Why would you ruin a car whose design harkens back to the beautifull GT cars of the late fifties to early sixties (Ferrari GTO, Jag, shelby daytona etc), by turning it into its current Orange lowrider-meets-battlestar-galactica form?

Hope your happy with it, but to most of us, its just one more ruined rx7, that will never have the chance again to show its true beauty and refinement, so as you said to so many others here while you abused our eyes with this sacrilige.......

:fawk: