Sam's Proper MX-3 - LT Turbo project *Parting out*
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Looks fantastic mate! Well done. Strange how long the car looks that low.
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Nice!! Keep those wheels nice and clean, winters coming
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Those look great man props!!!
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Thanks guys means a lot, makes it all worth while plus the looks I get as I scrub and scrape down the road is pretty amusing. My neighbours have been telling me that the car tripods coming up the driveway with one wheel actually locking itself up! Going to have to raise the rear just 5mm I think, already dug the arch into the tire so the damage has been done, but fook it the noise of constant rubbing is getting annoying now,lol
Will do Gulfy that poorboys wheel sealent is a great deterent against brake dust sticking to the wheels though, hardly a spec on there from driving around all weekend, few specs of ground up rubber on the rears though!
One final pic before I sign off for a good few months, got some boring DIY to do, but then a trip to Russia planned in January so I am going to need some decent thermal wear! Will be back though to complete the project :D :D :D
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oooooooooooo. Those rims! Me likey!
Looking great pal.
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Cheer Bro, over the moon with the wheels and the fitment. Little bit of negative camber should let me get back down low as I was before :D
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You need to get that hatch garnish sprayed red now bud…
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Funny that, I think you are about the 5th or 6th person to say that! best get a 'shop done :D
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@e096e70ac3=youdirtyfox:
Funny that, I think you are about the 5th or 6th person to say that! best get a 'shop done :D
Thata boy!
Get it done!
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I am on it! Now where that freakin memory stick get to lol
Got a really cool share off of a fan appreciation week on FB recently from
http://speconesociety.com/143 likes! :D :D :D
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Have another like bud ;)
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& another… :)
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Wicked thanks Guys! Been uploading this latest Photo to MazdaFitment, retrostance, SlammedUK, Banzai magazine & Japanese classic car FB pages as well now…
After getting really fuct off with the mess my tools where in I picked up
this cheap (£65) Roll Cab. from B&Q, has made the world of difference cutting job times in half. Speaking of which swapped out the sump in record time this morning, lets hope this mofo don't leak.
Next job up is to throw a little bit of negative camber on the rear so I can get a little bit lower again and if RX7 front ball joints were not so expensive I would having some of those up front too :D
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Nice work, just searched my locak B&Q for one and they don't even stock em… :cry:
Could bloody use one as well.
Sump looks good. 0.o
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That's a shame man you could probably pick one up online but I bet the postage would be a killer! Sump is all good now, not one drop on the ground so one is well 'appy
So a little catch up of what I have been doing lately…
Dialed in about 2.5 degrees of negative camber on the rears via the way of slotting the hubs with a drill file, so the hub carrier can pivot more. Used a serrated flange nut to hold it all in tight. Works very nicely can now hard corner again without ripping the sidewalls to shreds.
Result:
Stuck some decals on the rear window.
Adding more bits to the Turbo kit…
20mm ID hose finishers for the sump line.
M8 copper coated self locking nuts for the manifold.
Oh yeah and we also got a post up by Mazdamovement on Instagram!!!
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3" Oval to round Turbo dump pipe welded, power pressed back into shape
and then lightly polished.
In other Metal news today, Man cuts in half spun aluminium Air Con. Body and tapes them to His Car! Could be Epic, could be Epic fail? We just don't know yet!
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Nahh! not for me Mr fox! :shock: Besides, ya'd have to double, nay tripple! the width of ya rims to fill them foooookers!!! :(
Fandango! and all that! :rofl:
Why not…..........go the easy route and do a longitudinal cut and shut!!!!!! adding a 12" section down the center to everything, body, screen, bumbers, bonnet, roof, hatch, oh........... and ya garage walls by an equal amount! :rofl: (PS ya could still use same wheels too!)
Ya could probably squeeze another seat between ya fronts 'Matra bagheera'(?) stylee.
Nice mock ups tho fella, BOL if ya go ahead :D
kev b.
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Haha yeah you are right I was just looking at 16x10 -108ET Diamond racing wheels to fill them because I just cant help myself and I like finding things on the net!
I met Fandango once in a dream, He told me "Life's too short not to get them big ass bitches"
Funny you should mention longitudinal cut, just been checking out how they widen arches by slicing a nice cut and jointing in new metal, would be a great phat breathing monster of a project to undertake, but how the flip would widen the windscreen?lol man that would take some Pilkington Jedi shit right there!
Cheers Fella
:D
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Glass could be cut from one of these fancy new coaches or double decker buse screens with similar contours? bet there's a prototyper out there that could/would take it on too? :shock: :D
Next time you meet 'Fandy' in the deserts of Neptune, ask him how he'd do it? :rofl:
kev b.
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Haha I have found the elusive Meister 'F' He was sitting in a shed smoking a Panama, He said "Go big or go home Son"….. I went home lol (For now)
So a little bit of work done here as I fancied a swanky CF spark plug wire cover but was not prepared to pay the 50-70 quid quoted for a miata jobbie! So it was a bit of a trawl up the interweb to find this extra wide 50mm PVC channel capping that I could use instead, and who'd av thunk the little fighter
popped right in the gap, proper interference fit!
Although I kinda wanted it sitting outside the gap so I beefed it up a bit with some 10mm quadrant epoxied in place.
Wrapped in 3D CF Vinyl.
Not sure how I am going to bolt this down yet, but this is all part of a larger plan to have a really smooth rocker cover as I have an idea for a unique design I want airbrushed onto it in the future.
