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[pandemonium001]

Think we will need to put all this info in a Techi how to guide for different combinations of disc/caliper/ wheel size, on a budget, so it is not lost and an easy reference for future posts.
I bags 16" when i get round to it!

[nas80]

i will do - i already did one on how to fit the old wilwoods, I will do a proper write up once i have got the brakes mounted and working lol - in fact as I am making brackets I might get a few sets made up - just in case anyone else wants them? dont worry its easy to grind the "mazda" logo off the calipers (they are alloy).

I have been busy in the meantime since my car went to the bodyshop though - i am currently extending the garage that I will be finishing building my car in while its at the bodyshop - its currently a 16ft x 8ft and although i can just about fit the car in i cant work comfortably in there - so the plan is to extend it into a 20ft x 16ft. and then have an metal shed next to it as a storage parts. I must have spent all day today, digging my garden all by hand and by myself - i am a bit knackered (its my age) Managed to excavate an area of 7m x 2m - 10" deep - just got to order a load of hardcore rubble and put the shuttering up-I should be ready for the premix concrete to be poured next weekend.

Mal has also been busy - hes done some smoothing of bodywork and the car is in the final stages of prep - primer is ready for its final sanding down and we can shoot colour next week.

plenty of scabby edges on the underside of my bonnet.












I am very happy with the progress so far, Mal clearly knows what he is doing and has been very patient with me even though i harrass him about my car, on a daily basis.

[e21-Mark]

Excellent to see progress mate.

[nas80]

Excellent to see progress mate.

i think at the rate Mal is going at - the car will be back in two weeks time.

[problemchild75]

looking forward to seeing it in colour.

[e21-Mark]

Are you still going with green metalflake?

[nas80]

I am changing the colour. i am sick of bronzit now and seeing as id never sell the car (if it ever fell into the in the wrong hands.... ) and its probably the same amount of work involved.

Mal gave me some several colour swatches based on how i described the ideal colour - so i drove about with them for a couple of weeks to see them in various lights.. some of them were original colours and some he custom mixed for me. I have chosen a colour - its think it will look epic but then again it could easily ruin the whole thing.

its defo not green metal flake - only (problem child (Jamie) likes that stuff lol.

[e21-Mark]

The whole ''what colour to choose'' thing has been driving me mental for weeks. I've even been dreaming about different shades of flugplatz blue and made a ''definite final decision'' about 3 times now!

[nas80]

yeah i know exactly what you mean. i spent weeks looking at hod rods, custom paint jobs on choppers, jap car, aussie old school cars, and the sema show, original colours on everything from kias to lambos lol...

[e21-Mark]

This is what started the blue thing....

[Jason_323i]

I think e46 laguna secca blue as nod to the more modern engine under the hood, at the evergreen you could get the z3m coupe in

[e21-Mark]

It is a lovely colour.

Maybe U94/2 would be better?

[Jason_323i]

It is a lovely colour.

Maybe U94/2 would be better?

I looked at that expensive and hard to get but I got the primer for the ford focus metalic orange and it is pretty close

[e21-Mark]

I'll take a look.

Back on topic though.....

i will do - i already did one on how to fit the old wilwoods, I will do a proper write up once i have got the brakes mounted and working lol - in fact as I am making brackets I might get a few sets made up - just in case anyone else wants them? dont worry its easy to grind the "mazda" logo off the calipers (they are alloy).

I have been busy in the meantime since my car went to the bodyshop though - i am currently extending the garage that I will be finishing building my car in while its at the bodyshop - its currently a 16ft x 8ft and although i can just about fit the car in i cant work comfortably in there - so the plan is to extend it into a 20ft x 16ft. and then have an metal shed next to it as a storage parts. I must have spent all day today, digging my garden all by hand and by myself - i am a bit knackered (its my age) Managed to excavate an area of 7m x 2m - 10" deep - just got to order a load of hardcore rubble and put the shuttering up-I should be ready for the premix concrete to be poured next weekend.

Mal has also been busy - hes done some smoothing of bodywork and the car is in the final stages of prep - primer is ready for its final sanding down and we can shoot colour next week.

plenty of scabby edges on the underside of my bonnet.












I am very happy with the progress so far, Mal clearly knows what he is doing and has been very patient with me even though i harrass him about my car, on a daily basis.

[nas80]

lol spammer!

no one asked what colour im going for which is ok - let me suprise you in a week or two.