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Oldschool drags was fun, diddnt get to stay long because of other priorities but a good shakedown of the car and 13.1 best im pretty happy with that, was cool seeing some of the cars, now to see why my gearbox is not shifting right

Correct s4 lights, painted jet black base clear, came out nice

Some bits and pieces and went to the beach

Cut and polishnearly all done but need to give whole car a clean again and some finishing but there goes some decals ...2 days of sanding etc etc lots of clearcoat equals no burn through to base anywhere, except where i was a bit careless with buffer and cooked the paint but thats fixable... live and learn or something

I'm looking for another chrome pair but no luck so far, and they look good on it for sure

And got these riverside stich wheels, 1st I pulled them apart to check my maximum fitment for new lipsThen imported lips from ssr hardware, pricey but worth it i think. Couldn't find any anywhere else, final fit with half decent 215 45tyres just for cruising on so i think its a good result and they fit great, could probably have done a bigger tyre in the rear but owell, would like to find another pair of chrome riversides for the front but mismatch will have to do right now.

Been working on these in the background tig welder run over the buckled parts, beat back into shape and lots of sanding and polishing later... , 17x8 because of the offsets but they are just running on street so 205 to keep it all in the guards . I believe these are zauber mesh correct me if I'm wrong and I'm looking for center dish and caps for these if anyone knows of any ...

Hard to capture colour, but it looks good for a shed job haha, better front bumper, passenger mirror, works well with the carbon fiber bonnet

Finallllyyyy done painting, this time I took it real easy on base coats, light 1st and just wetting the following 5 or 6 coats then 3 coats of clear, will show car in daylight when I've got a moment

Sooo, being naive, I thought I could do a good paint job 1st time around, I sprayed it and came across several obstacles, one I did not wipe the whole thing 100% and had a bunch of small fish eyes, but I managed to catch this and wipe the whole thing again much more thoroughly before continuing. 2 my sanding was not 1000% and some light sanding shows through some of the base. Three because I had 2 different shades of primer in some areas they also show but this may have been rectified by more coats.. Four, my gun setting were not ideal and I was getting some runs, blotchyness and un even coating, which by the end of spraying I had dialed out and I got a pretty good feel for spraying uniform. 5 I had some dust contamination but really not much. six, all is not lost, I used 500ml of the 2l paint, but now I have a car in one colour, everything is much more visible and now I can wet sand the whole thing again at 800 grit, and my theory is the next time around I will be much farther ahead, all panels are straight...exept the rear bumper which is wavy on the top ..but im not filling that up with bog... And if anything the sanding should easily smooth out the light scratching, and I have a feel for spraying metallic, should have around 5 more coats left in paint I estimate 3 or 4 should do it, and I'll do clear straight after.

Also new clutch, old one was smoked, warped badly, and was impossible to drive stop starting , they do not do a sprung center twin plate for fc, so solid it is, imported through north shore toyota os giken dealers, they were great to deal with. Sanding the car for a while now taking my time, up to 800 grit wet, should be ready to do a final paint soon when the weather is right...

Home job, epoxy primer, going with tornado dark metallic mazda colour, even got a new compressor to do it hopefully semi decent!

Found rear seat and carpet etc Went to jaycar and got a shift light, and a momentary button for launch control, so when it gets final tune that will be an option, drilled through the gear shift but doesn't interfere in the thread or how you put it on.. you do have to press it in fairly hard so wont hit it on accident shifting gears etc, both go through relays and fuses, i may change it to steering wheel maybe will see how it works.

Also don't know hahaha, this is how it came to me and I've only had one other rotary car a rx8, but yea im pretty new to rotarys

I'm not suure, I haven't had much to do with aligning, but that's how the shop put it? I might do some research on that, it needs to be re aligned anyways