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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!

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.

Excellent to see progress mate.

e21-Mark wrote:Excellent to see progress mate.

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

looking forward to seeing it in colour.

Are you still going with green metalflake?

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.

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!

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...

This is what started the blue thing....

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

It is a lovely colour.

Maybe U94/2 would be better?

e21-Mark wrote: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

I'll take a look.

Back on topic though.....

nas80 wrote: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.

lol spammer!

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