I have had a few Fb's over the last ten years, a black '82, a gold '83, and now a persimmon red '85 SE. I am slowly building up and modding my SE. I have tons of ideas of what i want to do to it. It started out stock, and the motor was still original getting a little old i decided to pull it and rebuild it. I street ported the irons before putting it all back together. Once i got her running well, I started looking for some after market wheels. I stumbled on some SSR Reverse Mesh. I looked around for a while and found a set the fronts are 15x7 offset +12 and the rears 15x7.5 offset of -3. They weren't in the best of condition and the fronts were gold and the rears silver so I figured I would restore them. I had to change to Illuminas (set on 5) and RB springs just to hold my car up and keep the wheels from rubbing. I soon hope to get the ground control front set up (coils and camber plates). I have been looking around for alternative rear suspension options a coil over or something like that. there were a few options for a coil over set up but they required custom fab to work. so i thought if I am going to fabricate something I want it to be cool. I found a civic guy that had done a cantilever suspension for his rears using CBR 600RR rear shocks that he picked up on ebay. Before I go too heavily into building my suspension I am going to restore my wheels. I pulled them off last week, pulled them apart and began to bead blast them.

 

Got some work done on my wheels today

 

Pulled them apart and started to bead blast them

 

Car looks great, What color are you going with?

 

For the wheels im going to do the stock silver for the centers and polished lips. Still dont know what color hardware I want.

 

Keep the pics and updates coming! I love the color!

 

Got a couple updates since I last posted. I have gotten the ground control front weld on coilovers I went with 400# springs, they are all welded up and feeling good! The only problem I have with my front suspension is that the illuminas are pretty much bottomed out. i plan on doing what DMclean did with his. what he did was take 2" strut tubes and get the koni 8610's for the front. I also got bored one day so I made some new badges for my car. I modeled them after the old 1936 logo. The triple "M" stands for Mazda motor manufacturing.

Below I have pictures of the front and rear badges I made, and my coilovers before with the racing beat springs and then after with the ground control coils.