I was going to reply individually to all the posts referring to me as an attention *****, but then realized that would make me......an attention *****

What can I say? If I'm going to enter the car show, I'm in it to win it

David, was great to meet you and thanks much for letting me drive your 20B. Looking forward to seeing ya again at the Carlisi Memorial event

 

Too funny Rich. You have a beautiful car and I'm already plotting how to take the title from you next year

Along those lines, anyone know where I can pick up a Nardi wheel with the perforations like Rich's? I need it to have an airbag though - don't want to lose the safety feature.

I'm headed out in about one hour to take the car back to Jesus for a retune and a bumper respray.

 

My photos from killboy.com came in today:

 

those are great photos. You can really see in the third picture how rich your tune is. Good luck with the re-tune.

 

It was so rich the car shot flames out of the back, burning the backup lights. Ordered new ones from Ray Crowe. The car is at Kilo Racing being retuned and while it's there, having the boost turned up a bit for a new dyno run. Will be between 16-18 PSI for high boost and 12 for low.

 

That car sure has come along way in its journey

 

Congrats Dave car looks awsome

 

You are correct sir

 

Just received these Deals Gap Rotary Rally pics from US129photos.com:







Does anyone know how to add borders to pics? I have Adobe Elements and I would like to add a black border to my pics but I don't know how.

 

That car is just sick David. I bet you had a blast. Were there any P-cars up there for you to show up??

I'm not familiar with Elements but you would think it would be pretty basic considering it's made specifically for rudimentary photo editing...In PhotoShop it's just as simple as expanding the image size a few pixels, adding a layer, and painting it the color you want the border to be.

 

wow they got some great pics!!!

i'm surprised that they didn't catch a fireball pic though.

 

You can actually add an easy shadow in Word. Just open a picture in Word (or Publisher) Then go to format->border and shading. There is also a menu bar in word for simple photo editing, cropping, shadows, etc. Just right-click on the menus bars and open up the picture menu bar.

 

I don't know why I didn't think of this. Works great. Thanks!

 

David, your front lip looks brand new after the guys from the body shop finished with it.

 

David, which specific items did you order from that website? They have some bangin' shots of my FD, but there are like 75 different ways you can order the pic and I don't see any examples at all.....

 

Those pictures are sex.

 

That is what your dad said. I'm very excited! He also says the front and rear bumpers look so go I now need to paint the rest of the car.

I might get down today as I am taking my mom out to lunch. She lives in Deland so we'll see.

 

Rich, I ordered the simple "full resolution photo on a CD" option and picked a few shots that I liked. The interesting thing is although I selected just two shots (and two from killboy.com), US129 sent me all the photos they had of my car (seven of them). Don't know if this was a mistake but I am happy. They did not put enough postage on the package so it did cost me .54 more but I'll take it.

 

Thanks, I like them.

 

btw rich did you ever get the two DVD's full of photos that i sent you??

 

Saw the car today. The paint on the front and rear bumpers came out great! Looks brand new. Should have everything else wrapped up in a week or so I would guess.

 

updates?

 

None really. The car is still at Kilo having the retune done and while it is there I am sprucing up the engine bay a bit. Spoke to Jesus yesterday and he's waiting on the engine parts that are being chromed/blacked out to come back in.

I did get my Miata steering wheel finished and ready for install. Not sure if I mentioned this in the thread. Here is how it turned out:







The one part on the FD I don't like is the clunky 80s looking steering wheel so I sourced a Miata wheel with cruise control off of eBay and bought the airbag from a Miata forum. The airbag's flying m emblem had a scratch on it. It looked cheap anyway so I decided to use a 3D chrome emblem from a Miata (same size as the flat original sticker) and retrofitted it into the wheel. Also use a carbon fiber insert on the emblem. Turned out pretty cool and should be a nice addition to the car. The scratches on the airbag cover were caused by me using (poorly) an x-acto knife and if I were to do this again, I would know how to do it without any scratches. The flash makes them look much more prominent than they really are and you don't notice them at all in daylight so I'll be good to go. FYI - my total cost for the project was $140. Compare this to the $400 - $800 you'll pay to buy one of the RX7 wheels like mine and you still don't get cruise control

 

David,
God-forbid you're in a situation that deploys your airbag, isn't that emblem going to become a projectile at your face?

 

No, the emblem is glued to the airbag cover, not the airbag. If you look at the airbag cover, it is designed to tear away right below the "SRS Airbag" logo and flip up and out of the way. See the first pic of the wheel and you can see where this is. This flap will take the emblem with it and out of the way just like it would have with the OEM aluminum piece that was there.

Check out any higher end auto and they all have 3D, better quality emblems on them and they all work this way.