Mazda Rx7 Project!!!!

[cruz]

Working on this curbside Mazda, box stock but nice!!!!

Wheels and tires!!!!

Primered and ready to receive Tamiya's Mica Blue paint......

Painted and polished......

Will look even better when I build the ground effects kit in place....

Hope you guys like!!!!!!

[Robert81]

If no one else likes it, I do. That blue suites the RX-7. After seeing your other builds, I'll be watching this one.

[Raul_Perez]

Looking good so far!!

Too bad that it's only a curbside. One if the things that I enjoy most is building a variety of engine types, and the Rx7 engine certainly is different...

[Tonioseven]

I love it and hope to see yours completed soon! I have one "in progress" myself!...

Edited December 17, 2007 by Tonioseven

[bestfreshman]

Sweet! Racing and Show look definetly a great build so far. I like those mazda's, great look and speed for a good street race. I will folow up this one.

EDB

[cruz]

Hey Antonio, that one looks preety sweet man, hope we can post at the same time @ the Under Glass section, I like those white rims!!!!!!

[jbwelda]

hi marcos, that looks great so far and with the right stance will look like its ready to clean up the contest table!

but i notice something that ive faced myself. ive only done one car with a modern body kit (the garage defender nissan silvia) but that body kit was *way* off fitting the body without mods. i ended up half molding it into the body, had to lengthen the side pieces and narrow the front air dam, build up some areas to match the lines of the body, a lot of mods.

then again on the real cars those kits typically dont fit worth a d*mn either!

so i notice on your photo of holding up the rear panel to the painted body...kind of looks off like mine did, though i cant really see well. are those panels going to fit on? did you mod them before now and just dont show a photo of the work in process? i assume from your other builds that youre not going to be happy with it not looking right, i sure know i couldnt with the silvia.

anyway great looks so far, i will be interested in seeing how that body kit fits or what mods you have to do to the body. i have that kit as well and if its easier than that silvia was it might bubble up higher in the "get it done" queue!

[Tonioseven]

Hey Antonio, that one looks preety sweet man, hope we can post at the same time @ the Under Glass section, I like those white rims!!!!!!

Thank you; I hope I can finally get it finished soon! I started it before I moved to Florida over a year ago and am just now getting around to working on it again. Yours is looking awesome!

[cruz]

hi marcos, that looks great so far and with the right stance will look like its ready to clean up the contest table!

but i notice something that ive faced myself. ive only done one car with a modern body kit (the garage defender nissan silvia) but that body kit was *way* off fitting the body without mods. i ended up half molding it into the body, had to lengthen the side pieces and narrow the front air dam, build up some areas to match the lines of the body, a lot of mods.

then again on the real cars those kits typically dont fit worth a d*mn either!

so i notice on your photo of holding up the rear panel to the painted body...kind of looks off like mine did, though i cant really see well. are those panels going to fit on? did you mod them before now and just dont show a photo of the work in process? i assume from your other builds that youre not going to be happy with it not looking right, i sure know i couldnt with the silvia.

anyway great looks so far, i will be interested in seeing how that body kit fits or what mods you have to do to the body. i have that kit as well and if its easier than that silvia was it might bubble up higher in the "get it done" queue!

On the picture I was just holding the panels against the body without glue so they might have moved a bit on me, I did have to sand a little around the inside parts of the side skirts to make them fit better but other than that they are fitting pretty good. I also pinned the parts that make up the spoiler in the rear but I will have to be careful because even though I pinned the part that holds the spoiler to the trunk I have not made the holes on the trunk itself so hopefully I won't mees it up!!!!

[Wildrice]

Good looking start. I like hat blue.

[jbwelda]

>I pinned the part that holds the spoiler to the trunk I have not made the holes on the trunk itself

>so hopefully I won't mees it up!!!!

yeah i did the same thing and in the same order. i was worried about drilling the holes in the trunk lid too but it came out nice.

yours is looking great, looking forward to seeing it in the under glass section!

[MoparMarc]

Looking good, love the blue. I have been wanting a few of those RX-7 veilside kits myself so I will be watching to see if you have any problems with yours.

[cruz]

>I pinned the part that holds the spoiler to the trunk I have not made the holes on the trunk itself

>so hopefully I won't mees it up!!!!

yeah i did the same thing and in the same order. i was worried about drilling the holes in the trunk lid too but it came out nice.

yours is looking great, looking forward to seeing it in the under glass section!

Last night I decided to paint the optional rear spoiler that comes in the kit and I am liking it more than the Indy type one, I will probably go with this instead but I am still unsure, I have never been a fan of the big and high spoilers!!!!

[Randy Kern]

That appears to be coming along nicely, Cruz! I hope you'll have it done for the Jan. meeting contest. Yes, the Japanese kits are quite "vicey"! I have a Tamiya 360 Modena going together, and a Fujimi Dino 246 GTS started

[Ken]

I have both those kits and ended up cutting away the original body panels and fitting the aftermarket to them. I just thought they looked funny standing off from the body a bit. Yours are farther along than mine though. I just have them in primer. Maybe I need to break them out and paint 'em