The upholstery shop is not doing any leather work... this time around at least. Just a custom cloth top and carpet.


Yeah, they are a huge rip off. Like $200+ for a set. ******* crazy really, your at the mercy of Mazda with those. The upholstery shop could not even get them from local dealerships. They all told them they were discontinued. So I gave Ray a call at Malloy Mazda and he got them for me.



I'll stop by the shop Teusday or Thursday to see how things are going.

 

I used one of those small blasters on mine and sprayed them with the same black I used on my car, they have held up great. Did you buy them because they had some surface rust on them?

 

I bought them new because they had some surface rust and I lost a couple of them.

I had thought about cleaning them up and painting them. But the boot fasteners would rip up the paint on them eventually. So i just decided to get new ones so I would not have to deal with that.

 

Could have ceramic coated them "chrome" or gloss black and they would have held up well.
coulda-shoulda-woulda

 

They were pretty far gone. Turn around time for coating would have been like a month. Not sure what the cost would be to ceramic coat such small items would be either.

I just got a call from the shop a couple minutes ago because they had a question for me. They are working on the top right now, so we are moving forward!

 

Sweet.

 

I have never used the boot for the car, you should have just went with standard bolts, but I guess with the money your spending on the car whats another $200!

 

Went to the shop on Thursday and walked in to get a little surprise!

Initially I didn't want to have to mess with the reclining mechanism to try to get the Cobra seats to fit. But after taking a look at what would actually need to be done I figured I'd try it. So I removed the adjustment ***** and the pictures speak for themselves. I'm going to put the rod back into the seat and try to see if I can have something made that is much smaller than those *****. I'm thinking something along the lines of a lever that operates like a ratchet wrench that can change directions with a switch on it to turn the rod, we'll see how that goes.

The carpeting is installed. The new headliner fabric is hanging from the rear section of the top in these pics\vids but its not in its final resting position obviously.


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The bubble wrap and padding on the roll bar from shipping hasn't been taken off yet.







Headliner removed from the targa section. You can see a bit of the headliner for the rear section in this pic.


I dropped off the passenger seat & rail on Friday. The shop is shooting for completion by the end of next week.

 

this is one of my favorate biulds ever.

 

+1000

 

Man I can't waiting to see it finished. One of my favorite builds.

 

you don't know how ******* long i've been waiting for those upholstery photos.

what are you going to do about the broken plastic(s) surrounding your door jamb?

 

****, me too! Things are moving too slowly. I dunno if I'll have enough time to be able to get all the mechanical work done in time for the Steve Kan session in 1 month. I gotta stop by A-spec after work today or tomorrow and talk to Sean about putting my engine back together so I can toss it back in. Nothing ever moves as fast I'd like it to with this car.

Replace them with trim from a donor car.

 

Damn! $285 shipped from RHDJapan now!
http://www.rhdjapan.com/jdm-low/Mazd...E3P-RX-8-23730

 

ridiculous, its not that nice of a ****, I have the non-illuminated one sitting in front of me, how much is that one worth ?

 

And 7 hours later they're $298 plus shipping...wow, I wonder what my custom orange LED ones are worth now? lol I just wanted to thank you Juiceh, they match the rest of the interior lights beautifully! Now, if there was just a way to replace the door/map light bulbs with LEDs...

BTW, after looking through my pile of parts I got back from A-spec I found that broken wire we were hunting for, too.

 

RHDJapan has those listed at $199... But Rx7.com lists them at $99 and they have been listed for $99 on Rx7.com for a a long time.

Yeah, RHDJapan.com prices fluctuate with the exchange rates. Yours are definitely worth the price to an FC guy more now since they actually match the stock orange lighting.

I'm glad you like them man!

I'll eventually get around to those on my car. I haven't even looked at them at all. My door panels are in storage. I think I'll pull them out of storage tonight if I have a chance and take a look at them and see what I can do before the weekend. After Friday I may not have much time to worry about them.

LoL! Where was it? I didn't see it in your car. If you want to send that one back to me I'll repair it with the original piece so it will look way cleaner, when uninstalled.

 

I grabbed my panels from storage on my way home from work. These are a simple LED swap.


Here are your solutions:
http://www.oznium.com/194-aluminum

 

Uh so how the **** does it LOOK ? ? Hurry up :P

 

I just ordered the bulbs and some other stuff. I'll post pics of what it LOOKs like when I actually have the stuff installed. I was just showing what I was gonna try.

 

Cool, I just ordered a bunch of those things! The one I really want to replace is the overhead/map bulb but the fsm doesn't give it a number, just a wattage.

 

this is one of the most painful and pleasureful builds to watch. Good luck

 

The shop called me today because they ran into a minor snag. The passenger rail needs to be slightly narrowed. After installing the rail and bolting the seat in they found that the rail pinches itself and gets stuck. So they are cutting and rewelding it to narrow it a few millimeters to fix it. They also asked me when I'd be able to come by to test fit and see where I want the crotch strap gromet put in the seats. So, I drove right over there and took care of that about an hour after they called.

I did not have my camera with me when I went over there, because I wasn't planning on going over there today. But I got to see some good progress. The Targa section has been recovered and they were bolting the fasteners to the back of the rear section with the fresh new cloth. They are gonna call me towards the end of the day tomorrow to let me know where they stand with being able to get it done for Friday. Then I can start arranging the tow truck to haul this bitch back to A-spec. I spoke with Sean @ A-spec yesterday when i stopped by there after work. He knows I'm coming.

I'll have more pics on Friday, maybe some tomorrow.

 

Finally some push on Juiceh's part, I'm so proud, snif snif my boy has grown *****. hhehehhe.

 

^Finally? If you were in front of me I'd smack the **** out of you.