Monday, December 13, 2010

Soooo, i bought a turbo kit for the mx5..

About half a week ago, i was doing my random "scout out parts" for my cars on eBay and came across a a bargin turbo kit for the mx5.  The kit consisted of:
  1. Begi Manifold
  2. Garrett Turbo
  3. Exhaust
  4. Intercooler -No piping though..
  5. Wolf V500 Ecu
  6. Sump with oild drain pipe
  7. Braided stanless pipes for coolant and oil supply
Not bad for $755 seeing as if the wolf ecu is pretty much 2k by itself!!

Some pics of the gear..





Sunday, December 5, 2010

Skylinesaustralia cruise 5th Dec






Tagged along on a cruise that www.skylinesaustralia.com organised. Good day out  Ill try upload some vids too
Thursday, December 2, 2010

1 guard done


Pulled the guard out nicely and I rolled the lip at the same time too. Should have a problem now when I lower her

Guard roller tool


Bought a guard roller off eBay to pump my guards out so I can fit my xxr 15x8 on the rolla
Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Tinting the tail lights

Since im going for a blacked out look, I decided to tint my back tail lights :D Found a transparent spray that tints your tail lights, indicators etc..

Here is the can i used (VHT - NITE - SHADES):



Before


Progress



After





Sunday, May 30, 2010

Roof Progress








After Constant hours of work, finally sanded it all back to bare metal.
Now for the priming..


Started priming the roof just before the sun started to go down, wanted to get at least the primer on before the end of the day.
Next morning, gave the primer coat a sand and started with the paint..
Sanded the paint down a bit so it was smooth. now ready for another coat when the shitty weather decides to clear up

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Still Painting...

Slowly Getting there, one panel at a time..

Sunday, April 25, 2010

More spraying pics (front drivers panel)

Friday, April 23, 2010

Started Respraying the car in Matt Black





Finally decided to do something about the shitty paint work on the car. I didn't want to go all out on the the paint as i want the car pretty much to be a sleeper. So i figured matt black paint from a car would be alright.
Here's what I have been using to respray the car panel by panel at a time.
  • 3M Enamel Primer
  • 3M Acrylic Matt Black
  • Also assorted Wet/Dry sandpaper mainly 400grit, 1200 grit and whatever else is lying around.
  • Sander with 80grit pads for the bare metal respray parts

Started the Bonnet, gotta hand it to panel beaters, removing rust from steal is a bitch!

Heres some random pics of how its going, not all of them are in order













So far, ive done the bonnet, boot, front bumper and rear bumper


Wednesday, March 17, 2010

New Clutch!

Clutch started to slip a couple of weeks ago, so it needed replacing.
So i ordered a Exedy heavy duty cushion button clutch and within about 5hrs, it arrived. hows that for delivery!.


This isnt the actual image of the clutch, i didnt have my camera on me when i picked it up. But looks the same.

The old clutch was that worn down that it was wearing down on the flywheel and scratched it, so I had to get the flywheel machined too.
Friday, March 5, 2010

First Small Project, Spraying the old Wheels







So Ive decided to keep the original wheels that came with the car for now.
I attempted to polish one of the wheels, although it came out alright, it also took me about 4 hours to get just one of them done. With not much difference between the polish wheel and the originals besides the mirror finish, I decided to pain them instead.




Thursday, March 4, 2010

The Beast as I got it :p



Well here she is, my 1985 Mazda 929
Currently running with a series 5 rx7 13b engine running on LPG