nice work. but, i still don't see front, installed shots of the RB T2 nose... is it not installed yet?

 

haha he said on monday. they'll be working on it this weekend.

 

nevermind, i found a link. hmm... it's a bit sharper on the bottom with a flatter front air dam.. but i'm not sure i like it. the type 1 nose is even worse though...

http://www.racingbeat.com/FRmazda4.htm

 

I will try to take pictures if I can find a camera... the guy whose camera I'm borrowing is getting mad, I think I have to give it back tommorow haha.

As for RB's pictures... honestly, mine is not going to look much (if any) different from their pictures, because my car is silver also. The only thing that will be different is the grills will not be black, they will be gun metal gray.

I pulled out the fiberglass box today, I will work more tommorow on it. I was going to install the new tailights tonight as I picked up all my parts today, but I decided I was way too exhausted from work. Maybe tommorow... cheers,

Will

 

Stock - - I don't have a warranty & 1 is getting moisture in it. The other is scratched from the wreck.

 

ouch... i say time to experiment and do something custom

 

lol, well, I don't know about the chrome tailight thing. But, I was thinking about smoking them. I am going to have my friend test spray some black/clear coat on my old tailights in different shades to see how it looks. I think it would look good on silver. Maybe I should do it the color of the trunk instead of black.. hmm

 

Holy cow Missy...when you smoked your taillights your entire backend changed! :D

 

Oooh, I'll like that, looking good missy. I'll have to see if he can expirement with my old tailights!

Edit: Does anyone have pics of their silver 8 with smoked tailights?

 

Missy, nice car - but why did you have to replace the pretty pipes with that raincatcher exhaust?

 

I like the double tipped mufflers... just wish I could afford one Maybe some other day. I replaced both tailights and put on the rx8 B Pillars today.

Missy, you should of seen it. When I was replacing the tailight that was getting moisture, When I pulled it away from the bumper like 2 full cups of water came pouring out of my tailight when I flipped it upside down, LOL! I was like hmmmm, that's not supposed to be like that, haha!

 

goldfish any one?

 

Say no to fish cruelty! haha. How would they breathe and eat? Oh and everytime you hit your brakes you'd give them a good zap, LOL!

 

Ok, I worked today from 8am-9pm on the car with my friend. We decided we would end up with a better look and save us some trouble if we resprayed everything that the pevious body guy had done in the previous pics (all the two tone paint), because there were a bunch of minor imperfections that stood out to a trained eye. We popped out the dents out, bondo'd, and primed the quarter panel. Sanded down the hood, roof, left side of car, the MS replica side skirts, and the RB Bumper. The mazda OEM back bumper I ordered required no prep work. The RB bumper and replica side skirts were primed after sanding, then sanded again. The side skirts required another few coats of primer and will have to be sanded again (for the 3rd time) tommow. Damn visionautdynamics for wearing out my arm having sand out the little rivet on the replica side skirts by hand 3 times... lol.

The RB bumper went about 3x faster than the sideskirts, as we were able to use the orbital air sander on the whole thing. After it was sanded, the bumper was a lot smoother than I thought it would be, very slick. It went in the booth and we primed it in under 20 minutes, after that it baked for 30 minutes. Sanded once more with the orbital sander and it was ready for paint. If you yourself were to have this done at a shop, it would cost a fraction of what it would cost for a urethane bumper. Like I said earlier, the bumper took 3x less time than the replica urethan side skirts.

It is all starting to come together, today I also installed Mazda foot lamps and a HID headlight kit. Both were fairley easy to install. If you are installing the foot lamps, be aware that there are 2 blue/black wires in the connector where the directions say to tap into. Make sure you have the right one... luckily we were in a auto body shop, and they had a drawer of alligator clips so it wasn't a big deal. The hardest part on installing both the foot lamps and the HID kit were the unassembly/assembly of the car to get to the things you need to hook it up. For the HIDs, you need to take off the bumper and then the headlight unit, and for the foot lamps you have to take off the door scuff plate, the plastic around the fuse box, the footrest, and pull back the carpet. Using a wire to fish the passenger side light through the center console worked suprisingly well, just make sure to spin the light to take off the plastic casing before you fish it through.

I am tired... I will post pictures tommorow if we get it all done, we are starting early again tommorow...

<3 Overdrive

 

MissyK what front lip is that?

 

veilside.