Mazda Project

Well I do have to say that these things are sexy, I cann't lie.
Thanks to Metal Prep Services for the great work.
I will now be getting my car out of storage and drive it for the first time in almost 5 months!!!
Zoom Zoom!

Getting my wheels sandblasted! Thanks Bobby! My wheels have three layers of powder coating on them, and that makes it very difficult to blast off. I used some crazy powerful Paint striper to help soften up the layers. That should make the blasting easier.
I'm so excited to get my car out finally!!!

I disassembled my headlight housing to eliminate the nauseous glare of chrome. The flat black looks miles better, but I have yet to see how it looks completed considering that my car still doesn't have a front bumper, or wheels. I'm hoping in the next week and a half to get everything back together.
Home Work and Parties have recently taken prominence over my car. yea! Someday I will pull up in something other than my piece O' Junk Truck.

I finaly descied to remove the ugly door guards, all it took was a heat gun and about 30 munites.

As you might have seen in an earlier post, I had some rust that I'd found on the front beam of my 6. It was warm enough for me to get that cleaned and painted today, so here it is.

I had some connections to get that clutch bracket welded, so last friday I had her patched up. I am going to install it this afternoon because it's in the 40's, then adjust the clutch to make sure the engagement point and disengagement point are safe, and were I want them. So here is what I have done so far!

This is what the whole assembly looks like.




It's not a perfect weld, but the guy used $28 rods.


In this picture and the next you can see I added a brace, so in the future it should stay strong.




After I got done putting all parts back on the clutch bracket, you can see I only had 1/16" and 1/32" of an inch on each side of the brace. I am the happiest man on earth, cause I just eyed it. If it were different I would have to do some grinding for all the parts to fit.


Some of the welding. Sorry you can't see the details. lol.

This is a pretty extreme body kit, I have mixed feelings about it...