Engine bay painting
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Turbo Wannabe
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Engine bay painting
well I took the car off in a ditch at a hillclimb last weekend. I killed the oil pan and muffler and a couple little bits. We had a turbo motor that was ready to drop in a first gen so instead of just swapping the oil pans I said hey, what the hell.
So we pulled the engine and I was looking at the ratty paint in the engine bay so I said, hey, what the hell and after roughly 8 hours of sandblasting and painting and repainting since we had no idea what color to use, here's what came out
So we pulled the engine and I was looking at the ratty paint in the engine bay so I said, hey, what the hell and after roughly 8 hours of sandblasting and painting and repainting since we had no idea what color to use, here's what came out
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Turbo Wannabe
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From: Huntsville, AL
I meant to say that i'll put up real pictures tomorrow. We didn't find the battery charger for the camera until the last coat of paint is on. All the paint was done with rattle cans. The red shows one of the many attempts at trying something different. It just has a silver fog on top of the red.
After trying every can at lowes / advanced that looked appealing we had to choose between gloss white and that rustoleum blue. the blue looked better even though it wasn't quite a match to the miata blue on the rest of the car.
Since we're going to make this car street legal again I'm going to go ahead and make a wiring harness just for the lights and stuff and put all the original stuff in a box just incase we want to go IT racing with it one day. The logbook on the car goes back to the late 80s IIRC. Good thing alabama doesn't require a title for anything 1974 and older.
To bwaits, do you still need a RX-3 strut/hub assembly for the brake kits? we'll have the car down for a while and you'll have plenty of time to do your magic with it. Other ideas were to make a custom control arm and a splined sway bar to get the camber we need with an RX-7 strut and run the TII kit (mark I iirc?) or just get 2 peice rotors for the RX-3 hub in the TII size and make a bracket for the 4 pots. I'm going to need to stop this thing once it has more power as i start to run out of brakes at the end of a hillclimb weekend. 2 very agressive drivers just nuke the stock size and carbotech pads. I'd like to run blues but they'd eat my last set of rotors in a heartbeat. These rotors have been on for 3 years of hard autocrossing, hillclimbs and timetrials with carbotechs and still look new. just need to bleed the brakes twice a day.
sorry for the wall of text, I tend to ramble
After trying every can at lowes / advanced that looked appealing we had to choose between gloss white and that rustoleum blue. the blue looked better even though it wasn't quite a match to the miata blue on the rest of the car.
Since we're going to make this car street legal again I'm going to go ahead and make a wiring harness just for the lights and stuff and put all the original stuff in a box just incase we want to go IT racing with it one day. The logbook on the car goes back to the late 80s IIRC. Good thing alabama doesn't require a title for anything 1974 and older.
To bwaits, do you still need a RX-3 strut/hub assembly for the brake kits? we'll have the car down for a while and you'll have plenty of time to do your magic with it. Other ideas were to make a custom control arm and a splined sway bar to get the camber we need with an RX-7 strut and run the TII kit (mark I iirc?) or just get 2 peice rotors for the RX-3 hub in the TII size and make a bracket for the 4 pots. I'm going to need to stop this thing once it has more power as i start to run out of brakes at the end of a hillclimb weekend. 2 very agressive drivers just nuke the stock size and carbotech pads. I'd like to run blues but they'd eat my last set of rotors in a heartbeat. These rotors have been on for 3 years of hard autocrossing, hillclimbs and timetrials with carbotechs and still look new. just need to bleed the brakes twice a day.
sorry for the wall of text, I tend to ramble
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