Shiny blue subframe

1990_fc3s_t2 · December 10, 2010, 01:59:00 PM

Snapped a bolt off in the subframe when taking off the control arms so thought i might aswell get it shotblasted and painted while it\'s off.

Looks amazing i\'m well happy with the colour as i didn\'t know what blue it was gonna be but it came back not far from the mazdaspeed blue.

Hubs and the control arms up next but might just get the arms cleaned up and polished with some sort of clear coat on them.

Before,

Was gonna go for powder coating but the engineering firm only do shot blasting and send the stuff off to a different company for the powder coating, think regular paint will do fine!

And nice clean light blue,

And the best bits of this lot up next....can\'t wait to put it all back together

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

shaunwil · December 10, 2010, 02:05:49 PM

Are you doing the arms too ?? Looks very nice

Shaun

1990_fc3s_t2 · December 10, 2010, 02:14:32 PM

Yeah hubs are gonna be the same blue but the arms im not too sure think they might look better polished or maybe painted silver? decisions decisions!!

Got these too, christmas has come early for me :Party

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220702190220&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

dthebuk · December 10, 2010, 02:14:44 PM

sweet! how much did that all cost you?

It was something i wanted to do to mine but thought it may cost too much monies

dthebuk · December 10, 2010, 02:18:41 PM

just saw the coilovers. They look pretty nice, but i doubt they\'ll go too low

still, they were a bargain price!!

1990_fc3s_t2 · December 10, 2010, 02:25:42 PM

Â£45 all in for the blasting bolt removal and paint. Im well impressed with the finish just a shame it\'s under the car :rollin

dthebuk · December 10, 2010, 02:44:07 PM

dam! i didnt realize it was so cheap!! I thought you\'d be looking at a couple of hundered!

1990_fc3s_t2 · December 10, 2010, 03:39:32 PM

Quote from: dthebuk;732168just saw the coilovers. They look pretty nice, but i doubt they\'ll go too low

How much of a drop dya think i\'ll get? At least it\'ll be lower than it is now

dthebuk · December 10, 2010, 04:35:14 PM

well they don\'t look liek they can wind down too much and they\'re huge!!

Additionally it looks like hight is adjusted through the spring.

Probably more perfromance than looks based. Good for the price though!