The previous owner snapped this photo as I was driving out of St. Louis




Got her home and up on the lift to get things started.




Here is all the work done to the rear end of the car. It's basically all brand new. All new hardware from Ray at Malloy.









All the brand new hardware for the front end





RZ Spec calipers straight from Mazda Japan




The front end is currently all stock so I'm tearing it all out for the new shiny parts.

 

Got the engine bay mostly tore down for paint.




Cleaned up the engine bay tonight. Sanded, primed, painted and 4 coats of clear.

 

Cleande up and re-sprayed the front fender wells.





Sprayed the liners as well

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Before and after the sand blaster.



After 4 coats of clear.



FD Wind Chimes!

 

Refinished the master cylinder and got the new bushings pressed in.






Finished up the suspension, installed the upper control arms and started putting the engine bay back together.





Got my subframe from Justin samberg this week and got back to work on this thing.

Rear brakes all finished up.





Subframe installed.





Lower control arms back in.

 

Spindles and shocks bolted in place.






Got the Power steering rack and RZ brake dust shields mounted up and waiting for the new Hubs to arrive from Malloy Mazda.






Before and after.

 

Got the front hubs, rotors and calipers mounted up today. Also got a nice package in the mail!!

The hubs were new from Mazda but were bare steel. The old ones were rusted out real bad so a quick coat of engine enamel should do the trick.









Fast 92/92 with 42lb injectors and rails.

 

These beauties are on the way from Jimlab!

 

WOW really nice work! Definitely want to see this car finished. Looks like you are building a brand new car with all of those new parts.


john

 

Thanks. I'm hoping to have it wrapped up by the end of the month. The bay is ready for the engine. I'm just waiting on it to come back from the shop.

 

That is some darn fine work. Where do you find the time? Can you send me some so I can fix up my silver bullet? Engine rebuild too?

 

Wheels showed up today!!! They look even better in person.

 

The suspension and body look great, I'm in the process of doing the same thing. Good luck with your build.

 

So YOU are the one who got those fine wheels.
Build is looking great man.

 

Not to much going on while I wait for the motor. I did get in my wheel decals and started messing around with the new fender roller.

 

I'm lovin it.

 

Looking sweet!

 

So far so good, looks like your taking care of every detail, sweet!

 

I want your brakes

 

Super clean build. I cant wait to see more.

 

Finally got my engine back. Pulled the LS2 pan, pickup and tray last night and getting it ready for accessories and install. I hope to drop it in tomorrow.





Kaitech Rod Bolts

 

Where'd you source your brake rotors?

 

Rotors came from a company no longer in business. They were part of a group buy like 6 years ago. Luckily for me they came new in a box of parts when I bought this roller.


Got the motor set in place and starting to massage the firewall to fit the FAST Intake.

 

Some nice port work from TEA.




Wrapped the clutch line with some heat shield.





Installed the headers with these sweet split lock bolts.

 

Looks really good. How long til you're driving?

I hadn't seen floating hat stock sized rotors before. Totally jealous. Rishie is gonna hook me up with some slotted stockers from stoptech.

I think you might be in the market for a big brake kit with all that power on tap LoL!

 

They are not stock size. they are the JDM RZ Spec size. The calipers have longer mounting legs to accept the larger rotors front and back.