My car spends too much time at Jimmy's
Brake issues fixed and back on the road as a daily work horse. New clutch still feels amazing. Car is nimble and quick downtown.
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My car spends too much time at Jimmy's
Brake issues fixed and back on the road as a daily work horse. New clutch still feels amazing. Car is nimble and quick downtown.
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Default User (01-21-2017),Mazduh (01-26-2017)
Went in for an oil change on Monday.
Both front Prokits had snapped (thankfully close to where they are seated in the shock), bought used for cash, no receipt ect.
I Ordered Tein S-Tech springs off Amazon & Picked up 2 rear trailing arm bushings and a passenger side axle seal from MoT today. It will all be swapped in at Jimmy's soon and I'll have an alignment done afterwards.
I also have to re-finish the headlights as the 3M kit wore off after 2 years. They foggy again.
After all that I might sell the car, Lease something new, take the bus again, buy something else and not mod it. I dunno. It's up in the air. If I was offered $4-5K for everything on the car now, winters & spare parts, I would sell it.
I have worked out the numbers - for traveling on the weekends in the summers / holidays it would be cheaper for me to rent through Enterprise (corporate discount code) whenever I need a car. I could rent economy countless times and it would be cheaper than owning my 3 (gas, maintenance, insurance, registration ect). I'm just paying for a luxury and convenience of driving whenever I want.
(I have a new Cadillac ATS lined up for this weekend which would be the same price as a kia rio without the discount code.)
Updated list - 2008 Mazda3 GS 2.0L Sedan 5sp Manual
MODS
Soon to be installed Tein S-TECH lowering springs
Koni orange shocks
Corksport skid tray
Thule roof rack with fairing
2 sets of powdercoated Mazda 6 wheels.
- candy red summers on Bridgestone Potenza RE760 Sport
- gloss black winters on Hankook I-Pike RS
Mazdaspeed rear sway bar
Corksport SRI
JBR mudflaps
Tinted windows 35 side, 20 back, tinted vinyl wrapped tail lights
RHO relocation plate
Hella horns
Morimoto halogens installed by Hyper Garage
Zalman 2 CH dashcam
Gloss black vinyl wrapped hood
New clutch - Exedy OEM replacement + OEM flywheel
SPC Rear camber arms
Newer brakes OEM rotors and Halk HP+ pads
Most important - regular maintenance and countless replacement parts installed by Jimmy at Street Performance. He is the reason my car is still running as well as it is today.
Last edited by Kiewan; 07-20-2017 at 06:10 PM.
Light bar installed.
It took longer than I expected....
The RHO plate bolt broke off when taking off the plate so we had to drill out the bolt and use a self tapping bolt in its place.
The Aluminum bars are S bent and bolted on the top cross bar (existing holes on gen1, bolt threaded up), and to the bottom through the skid plate. Its Hard to see in pictures but the bottom of the bracket was brought forward in order to get the hanging light bar to shine level.
So far so good, I'm really happy with it so far and I hope it holds up well. (I'm getting really good at removing that damn bumper)
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Mazduh (09-11-2017)
Nice! I've been debating this as I'm going to be doing a lot more highway soon
I'll take better shots tomorrow.
It's not the prettiest, I knew that before I started. Just to slow rust and cut out the rot. The car's paint is F'd anyways so yeah.
I will try to blend it in a bit better tomorrow.
Before:
During
After.
End results:
Masked areas were done along the body lines of the car. I don't really mind how it looks, even though its a hard edge, better than Rust.
The door sucks, I'll see what else I can do there, hopefully buff the f*** out of it .
The fender was Swiss cheese. I should have prevented this a while ago. I cut out an inch infront of the wheel with my angle grinder, and that anoying inner lip. The metal was gone.
Steps I used:
Masking
Angle grinder
Sanding
Bondo
Sanding
Primer
Sanding
More primer
Sanding
Paint
Clear coat
Would I recommend this: no.
If you have the money, do it professionally.
I didn't want to spend $$$$ on it (car not worth much).
I'm happy with the results being very cost effective.
I couldn't look at the rust anymore.
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Last edited by Kiewan; 10-13-2017 at 11:42 PM.
Jackal (10-14-2017)
Not a bad job considering....
A few more coats of paint with some light wet sanding would have made the paint come out a little better. (More time needed obviously)
A light buffing might help it look a tad better though.
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Not bad. Painting cars is always challenging. Can’t see the rust so that’s a plus. Next time look into blending the paint and clearcoat so you don’t have a line. Now do some compounding and polishing. Then a wax or sealant.
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Check out this video. Annoys me that they can do this with aerosol cans. Lol. Anyway they did the whole panel.
https://youtu.be/nnILSQo_svI
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Kiewan (10-14-2017)
The door still looks like ass
It'll get me through the winter and hopefully slow the rust. I'll likely repaint both doors next year using better paints (duplicolour sucks) and a better technique.
Not happy with the results but I'm happy I cut out the fender rot. It would have been a lot worse next year. It was also really cheap in comparison to what I was quoted from a few shops. Not spending that kind of money on my car.
Meh.
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Next year for sure. Both doors as there is some rust I found on the back door too....
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Jackal (10-14-2017)
Then this. Polish and compound.
https://youtu.be/tz7YZflOw-4
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@Kiewan -Who's that in the trunk?
Kiewan (10-17-2017)
Door v2 complete.
I'll buff and polish later this weekend.
4 coats paint, 4 coats clear coat.
I'm happy with it. I would have bought the 2K clear coat for a more professional job but it retails around $89-100 per can before shipping. Duplicolour will do.
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Default User (10-20-2017),Jackal (10-20-2017)
Just a tip - you can use a plastic bag to mask your side mirror
Chemical guys: Wash, clay bar, jet seal & Pete's 53 wax
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Graffiti pics, driving around downtown this morning. Couldn't get anything good from graffiti alley behind queen. It's all in the shade as the buildings are too tall, and the hobos were out in force this morning.
By 10AM there are already multiple photoshoots in that Alley - full frame DSLRs, strobes, reflectors and everything.
Also the roads are sketchy to say the least. Not for low cars. I was bottoming out on prokits....
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Last edited by Kiewan; 07-08-2018 at 01:17 PM.
Default User (07-09-2018),Jackal (07-08-2018)
i tell you a little trick for blending. fold 1/3 of the tape over to the halfway point and put the folded section over where you want to blend, its gonna fume in under the tape there and you wont have that solid line.