new engine (plus car build thread)

[MaLicE]

finished one!

its hard to take pics of but its mirror shiney

will get the other front done over the weekend, gotta strip the paint off the other 2 centres and the rears are easy to polish up i will do a side by side pic with a polished and un polished there is a MASSIVE difference though!

 

[Christopher]

Good effort. When will you have the centres back?

 

[Feirny]

Pissing hell, this is very impressive.

 

[BioHzrd]

What you going to use to protect your hard work mate ?

 

[MaLicE]

rim wax and elbow greese lol! laquer doesnt stick to polished alloy too well, could get a clear powder coat on them, but it yellows and hazes when it gets cold...

centres go to the coaters monday... i hopefully will have them back a day or 2 later... if i can convince them to rush them lol! i need the rx7 back in my life, mx5 is killing me!

 

[BioHzrd]

rim wax and elbow greese lol! laquer doesnt stick to polished alloy too well, could get a clear powder coat on them, but it yellows and hazes when it gets cold...

centres go to the coaters monday... i hopefully will have them back a day or 2 later... if i can convince them to rush them lol! i need the rx7 back in my life, mx5 is killing me!

You got PM mate.

 

[MaLicE]

second rim is done....

this shows what the surface is like before i go near it... see all the corrosion and nastyness... these have been hit and left to soak for a while with wonderwheels.... so thats how strong the corrosion is!

that isnt curbing its more corrosion

finished by unfinished... the finished one the marks around the bolt holes is just polish i havent cleaned off propperly lol....

both fronts finished... i will go over them with a bit of autosol then look at of a way of protecting them....

 

[Jason_E]

Nice work mate

 

[Rob]

Bloody nice work! Love the amount of dedication

Bet you can't wait to get it on the road, these wheels should make a serious difference as before they just didn't look special.

 

[MaLicE]

rears will be quicker and easier there is no hand sanding or polishing to do as i can get my mops in all the areas i need too centres were dropped off today guy is gonna get them done this week for me.... need to decide what size rubber im gonna run.... *sigh*

 

[Scrooge]

I'm so glad I don't have polished rims anymore lol. Good work, great amounts of effort!

 

[MaLicE]

i honestly cant wait to get the centres back! the finish is AMAZING! seen a couple american cars in the JDM scene with similar.... i havent really seen anyone in the uk with the same effect

 

[Rob]

It'll look h'exellent, as for the rubber, I wouldn't worry too much, you won't be able to tell wtf it was after about 5 minutes :evil:

 

[Dave..]

I love this thread.

 

[MaLicE]

lol i need to decide what widths and profile im gonna go for 225/40/17 for the rear prob and 205/40/17 on the fronts i guess

 

[Skinny]

Can't wait to see them on the car. Going to make a hell of a difference.

 

[Englebert]

Shame the wheels aren't wider than that, i would want some 305s on the back!

 

[Christopher]

225's on the back?! Seems very narrow!

RS Meganes have 225's all round.

 

[Gaz.]

225's on the back?! Seems very narrow!

RS Meganes have 225's all round.

I've got 225s on my 9Js and it's only a subtle stretch.

 

[jon_r]

Alice, try some Brasso to finish the wheels off. Brought mine up an absolute treat!

 

[MaLicE]

shall give it a go jon!

they are 9's rear and 8.5's front.... these tyres wont last long, mapping will prob kill them off, and as its now been made a pure weekend/fun car when they are dead r888's will be going on.

 

[Winston]

*Edit*.. after reading further back lol... good work

 

[MaLicE]

lol what did you say? picking the centres up tomorrow

 

[MaLicE]

got the centres back

its sooo hard to get a photo of them, deeeeeeeeeeeep purple with glitter and a pearl on it, goes from like a black, to gold to green to stupidly bright purple.... overly happy

 

[Paul.M]

Those wheels look awesome!

Cracking read this thread, best of luck with the rest of it

 

[bomber]

sexual rimming, just what we like

 

[Scrooge]

They promised, they delivered. Very nice!

 

[Rob]

ZOMG. I <3 it!

M25 run, you're doing one, I'm coming to take a look!

 

[Gaz.]

Those are just sick with a capital SICK.

 

[theduck]

Want, there is lots of it in this thread!

 

[jamesybear]

those wheels look amazing!

 

[MaLicE]

POW!

and 1 front done...

i got one rim to finish polishing, 2 sets of bolts need to be polished, i also need to buy 2 new bolts aswell, as i was retarded and snapped them both

 

[Firas]

good effort man. Always thought the wheels let your rx7 down but now i cant wait to see them fitted . you keeping it at the same height malice?

 

[MaLicE]

im not sure about height... its pretty low as it is tbh, if i go much lower im worried the rad will get hit.... will see what its like... will get some spacers before i adjust the height, plus it was corner weighted but that wont make much odds now as i have loads of stuff in random places now lol!

 

[Skinny]

ZOMG. I <3 it!

M25 run, you're doing one, I'm coming to take a look!

This. But i'll come in rob's car. If rob will have me.

 

[Rob]

You won't add much weight, so I'm game. Wheels look awesome built up, now get them wrapped and on the car!

 

[Christopher]

F*cking awesome.

 

[MaLicE]

just test fitted a rear as i was bored and had just built it up... i got one rim left to do and will have the rubber fitted either tomorrow or monday depending on when i get the last wheel done!

rubber turned up, went with federal 595's cheap as chips and actually pretty good, alot of drifters are using them because they last a while and dont delaminate and the performance is pretty good!

new spline drive nuts in steel not alloy so no wheel falling off issues lol!

then just a couple new stickers both jimmy up limited edition ones first is glitter purple to match the wheels...

second is brushed gold and platinum

i got some more stickers coming next week lol... i have an obsession lol!

 

[Gaz.]

Sweet. Let us know how you get on with the 595s.

 

[MaLicE]

not heard anything bad about them yet gaz... im not sure how well they will last once mapped... need to pull my finger out, was gonna go trax in it... but dont see it happening, was gonna go with my gf but split up last night so i might just go get wrecked on a 3 day bender lol!