My new RX3 and restoration

[HaywardRotary]

The underneath of RX3 should be pretty good as they were all Galvanised.
Nice buy there Steve!
Regards
Carl[/quote
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha-ha! Not all of them as you well know!!!!- But not as well as me!!!!!!

Well race cars were not so well protected that is true.
LOL
Carl

[Ultraman_Cosmo]

Steve, I think it\'s brilliant how you\'ve just steamed in there with this car, it\'s taken me years sometime to get that much work done on one car! I saw it on Ebay at the time and thought despite the way it looked it was probably not so bad. Great stuff, cant wait to see it finished. If you decide to go for a 10A, give me a shout. I have a fair few bits and a complete engine which you could maybe use to make one out of the two? Cheers, Phil.

[Ultraman_Cosmo]

Oh, and does anyone know where the yellow rx3 saloon recently on ebay went to? that was right under my nose but alas no money to buy!

[steve garbutt]

Steve, I think it\'s brilliant how you\'ve just steamed in there with this car, it\'s taken me years sometime to get that much work done on one car! I saw it on Ebay at the time and thought despite the way it looked it was probably not so bad. Great stuff, cant wait to see it finished. If you decide to go for a 10A, give me a shout. I have a fair few bits and a complete engine which you could maybe use to make one out of the two? Cheers, Phil.

Cheers for that.

The car did go on hold for a while but its full steam ahead again, so shouldn\'t be long before its up and running.

Haven\'t a clue where i going engine wise at the mo but its nice to know there are a few spare engines around to maybe make a good one, thanx for the offer.

As for the yellow 4 door on ebay, i was wondering that myself.

[Ada7]

Great work steve. This is more along the lines of the VW stuff i also follow (Bugs and Vans) with all the resto work that has to be carried out. :Thumbs-up
Dont think to hard about the engine yet, just get it up and running and have some fun in it. Can always change the engine later on

Adam

[merv73]

Hi guys, I\'m Andrew and the person who bought the yellow RX3 in question.
I\'m moving it to a new location this weekend so I\'ll take some photos and post them in the old school Mazda\'s.
Nice work on your RX3 coupe restoration Steve....looks like you\'ve been busy since buying it.
I was a bidder on that one too but missed out to you, I\'m happy the saloon came along to so quickly though.

[Ultraman_Cosmo]

look forward to seeing your progress too :-)

[666FLO]

Hey how are you coming along with this project? I want to see more pictures of the car i never won .. drrroooollllll :Laugh

[steve garbutt]

Well it has a 12a engine and a gearbox in now as well as one of the sides and the floor is dun.
when i striped the interior and carpets i found only 2 small holes about the size of a 50p so not a lot to do there.
iv also striped off all the running gear and im slowly but surely blasting them and painting them with smooth hamerite.
I Keep trolling ebay and iv managed to pick up a set of new shocks for it for £12 as well as new ball joints all round, track rod ends etc all new.
Iv decided to make this car mint so im taking my time as i now have the RX4 as well as the RX7 FD pp to play with.

[steve garbutt]

Ok so now this is back on track and making progress, so ill be posting a few more pictures of the restoration soon.

[Grant Monkhouse]

Good to see you are now progressing with the car again. I started my own thread about the rx4 but haven\'t had time to update it as I have been working every hour possible these last few weeks. If it helps you with some motivation, I thought I would let you know that the rx4 is fully painted and buffed up to g10. Needs polishing now and then ready to be put back on some wheels!

[dr50376272]

awesome job ! my rx4 coupe is now having everything removed for all the rust to be done and also resprayed in a metallic silver. ill be throwing in a 12a 6 port with extractors and a 5 speed gearbox as mine was auto, ill try to also throw a sa22 non turbo 4.11 diff center and tailshaft in but im not sure if they bolt right up to the rx4 coupe 12a auto diff. does anyone know if it will? thanks !

[steve garbutt]

More work completed this week.

The whole rear under carriage is off the car and has been cleaned up.
Diff has been split (no pics) found to be in good condition, so its been flushed and is waiting for nice fresh oil.

[steve garbutt]

And now all nice and clean.

[steve garbutt]

Next is to replace brake lines and brake components before its ready to be reinstalled.