Working on it trying to finish all this stuff up on the engine bay. Shaving the bay takes so long. I thought I had talked myself out of doing it. But I guess it didn't last.

 

Looking forward to the next update

 

made these little pieces to finish out the front of the bay. ill have it all primer on it tomorrow.

 

Loving this build. Got me so motivated I'm going to go do something to my car.

 

Looking good Joey. How are your hands feeling after all that sanding. LOL

 

Soooo much work! Lovin it!

 

Looks like a lot of work lol, but the car is coming along great

 

Yea car is coming alone real nice. I'm really happy with how it's all turning out
. Can't wait to show it to u all when it's done

 

Well take a break and come over to my pool party. LOL they can wait.

 

in for updates

 

sould have some updates this week sry things are going slow. have a lot of stuff going on

 

its easy pedal pressure.. drove to / from work on it for months.

 

got the whole front of the car done just have to finish up the fire wall and behind the shock towers.









and how i left it sould be finishing it up this week and ppicking the motor up and putting it in this weekend

 

got all my port work done and all polish up. mike quinn from unique precision rotary did one hell of a job. thanx mike







wat do u guys think anything u would like to see more of ?

 

Lets do a custom upper manifold man. With a 90mm accufab throttle body and an sr20 style plenum.

 

i want pics

 

so i got the bare motor in the car today. its actually starting to look like something now. need a throttle body and a turbo then i can start making my turbo manifold. also need a rad and a core for a intercooler so i can make that also

putting tranny on



motor all together



bout to go in



money shot



so much room in front of the motor



got the intake manifold on also



thanx to all following my build

 

Coming along nicely. Well thought out builds are always fun to follow, and helpful. I'm still gathering parts before I tear mine down so I can enjoy it until that day, but I'll start a thread too. What color are you painting the car?

 

im thinking bout painting it a teal color havent quite pin pointed the color yet tho. and yea i know wat u mean i wanted to enjoy this car a little but didnt feel like paying for insurence and all that. so i just tore it all apart lol.

 

Are you wanting to go with the original Mazda teal, or something custom?

I was wanting to stay similar to my original paint, but change the color to something more unique. Sticking with a Mazda color, I chose Velocity Red Mica. It's a tricoat with an orange pearl, and I will put four coats of pearl on it. I already did this to my new light covers to test out the color, wet sanded them with 2000, 2500, and 3000 grit. I'm very happy with the color.

 

I'm open to options really I'm not to set on a color. The car will be getting painted inside and out so it Dosent much matter. And Id like to see the color it ur car how it all turned out. Do u have any pics?

 

The amount of metallic looks somewhere in between these two pics in person. The thing that's hard to see in any pics is the color flop from dark red to bright orange red. I'll have to paint a bigger panel to show that more. You can also look at other Mazdas painted that color OEM, but the 4 coats of pearl and wet sanding adds a lot of depth to it.

 

Color looks good. Paint is so far out for me lol. Wish I was right around the corner tho

 

updates?

 

not very much to update been really busy with with work. just got back from vancover wat a beautiful place.





also just got a new pup



pressed in the rear diff bushing



also found the color i want to paint the car