My major project!

[interloper393]

if you cn fit the jack under there its still 2 high lol, iv got to use a scissor jack then the trolley to lift mine lol

Cars looking good tho bud

[leeroy_25]

Interloper.. Do you drive your car onto some 4x2" blocks of wood before trying to jack it up?! Try that.. it\'s  lot easier than faffing with the scissor jack and safer! Use more blocks if need be!
I reckon I need to raise it at least 1/2" otherwise the wheel will come out of the top of the arch when I hit a bump or do some hardcore cornering! I am hoping that I don\'t get any other rubbing issues on the wheels and bodywork.. but time will tell on that one.

All being well (and weather permitting) I will get it on the deck and outside for some pictures this weekend. Might even see what the other rear wing looks like on it. Although I am pretty sure I will use the REA one for now at least!

Lee

[S3TH]

Leeroy, top work as usual- 1 question re the bunrout arches to the front bumper, in the pics it looks slightly angled? Is it because only the burnout bumper can be used with burnout arches or something else?

I just bought some burnout arches... they\'re farking expensive! (look how much u influenced me!)

[leeroy_25]

nice one S3th! Blimey I don\'t want everyone to start building rx7\'s with a burnout kit!! The blend between the arches I would say is almost certainly because I don\'t have a matching bumper. if you have the money go for the burnout kit complete! I would except I cannot justify spending that much! if any comes up second hand I will grab it though! You may find another front bumper fits a bit better? trail and error I guess but at the end of the day the burnout kits is designed to go together so the transistion between panels should be expected to be better (perfect!). the other option is to seriously mod any other bumper to get the desired blend. I toyed with this but decided I could live with the fit as it was.. it only really notices from certain angles.

Did your get yours direct?

[Kevin]

The burnout front arches can be used with any front bumper, we have an FD at the moment with burnout front arches and an RE-Amemiya front bumper.  I see what you mean though they are very angled, I think the picture however makes it stick out more than it actually does.

[interloper393]

nah only use the jack to lift the car maybe half an inch, just enuff to slide the jack under, all wheels still be on the ground lol

[S3TH]

Did your get yours direct?

I got them off ebay, but genuine burnout nonetheless! Yeah I\'m thinking burnout front arches & bumper, feed carbon sills, rolled arches (read as I\'m coming to your place to do this :rollin:god)  & undecided about the rear bumper- maybe burnout, or a diffuser :3Confused.

[leeroy_25]

Your coming to my place!! LOL! Let me get mine finished first! If you are gong with the burnout arches (which incidentally I think I saw those on ebay!) I would suggest you need to get some sort of blister for the rear. Just a flare alone won\'t look right. really you at least want the burnout rear blisters to follow through with the styling on the edge of the arch. I dare say the same effect could be achieved with a meg bit of arch rolling and bugger loads of filler but it would be a long winded way of going about it and very time consuming. he other blisters I have seen, like feed ones have softer egdes so might look a bit out of place but hard to say without seeing it all together. Trying looking on ebay USA.. you never know your luck!

[Travis]

:InLove...looks fantastic!

[dandan]

little hijack but where did you get that intercooler from as it sits very nicely in there.

Um don\'t quote me \'cos I didn\'t buy it but I think it is exactly the same as the dragon v-mount kit, big money but worth it by all accounts. And yes it does fit incredibly well, it\'s a very nicely engineered piece of kit.

[leeroy_25]

Really starting to get there now!!

It didn\'t feel like I did much on Saturday as it is all the little finishing bits of painting and putting back together that I am doing now. Also had to fiddle with the suspension. After setting it a bit low last weekend I think now it has gone the other way. I wanted to raise it about 15mm and it looks to me like it\'s gone up nearer 25mm! So may need another tickle later..
I fitted the rear brake pads and cleaned and painted the calipers. Whilst waiting for paint to dry I had to polish the wheels again before fitting them as they had only had a quick clean previously! Then I decided to go and get some replacements discs for the rear as the ones on it were shagged! Fortunately I new where there was a car I could rob them from!
Once that was done. I put it back on the ground complete with wheels for the first time!
That\'s when I realised why I have been working my ass every Saturday for the last 6 months or so!




Well I was pleased anyway! Car still isn\'t actually polished off so looks a bit dull and the sun wasn\'t shining! But hey! Also I stil have the bonnet and rear wing to sort which leads me to my last major bodywork dilema, which wing to fit..
Do I run the REA Low wing;




Or do I run my carbon GT stlye wing?




They create two very different looks to the car. I had started edging towards the REA one but now I am thinking the GT one has the edge!

Votes please!

Either way I will run the REA one to start with as I need to get some mounts and endplates for the GT one. Anyone no where you can get the mounting feeting from?

[S3TH]

Looks great Leeroy, loving the join between the fender and the bumper, absolutely mint... 1 vote for REA from me... I don\'t usually like that spoiler but it goes really well with your car as you mentioned about it flowing with the cwest bumper, also flows quite well with the rear widearch... The GT wing is too low, if you were going down that route get a higher one.....

[Ricco_04]

Thats looking very good!! :cool

ReA one looks ok but not quite right

Having said that the GT wing looks a little on the small side considering the wide arches and all - what make is it??

[leeroy_25]

Well S3th Thank you!

I am in partial agreement with you both. Definately to low on the GT wing front. I had already planned to make some pillar extensions if I go that route!

I thought it was a little narrow too.. But the when it\'s sat low it\'s not too bad.. If you put it up to high it would need to be much wider! Swings and round abouts I guess. Not sure what make it is as I got it second hand. If I do decide to go that way later I may tidy this one up and sell it and get a dirty great drift one!

I remembered what else I did this weekend! I had to refurb all the curb rash out of the rims brefore I polished them! I still need to repolish the edges up! But now they look smooth at least!

[Archbish]

NO WING!!!  looks awesome and I feel the wings will detract from the work you\'ve put in...