What'd you do to your car this week/weekend?

chris · Post by **chris** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:01 pm

Angreal ^ Next time you see the mx5 it should be slightly different

however, it may also be multi colored =[

Born_disturbed · Post by **Born_disturbed** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:02 pm

Mines 4 different colours right now, its all good

chris · Post by **chris** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:04 pm

Soon mine will be blue, red and white ;D haha

Mr. Shine · Post by **Mr. Shine** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:05 pm

Mine is mostly the same shade of red. I want to source a new rear window moulding for my hard top and possibly paint it black at the same time. Considering just rattle canning the bootlid the same (metallic) black, too

chris · Post by **chris** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:08 pm

I rattle canned my boot interior.. Mine is white, but it was a very very close match! And looks much better

Mr. Shine · Post by **Mr. Shine** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:15 pm

Yeah, I saw your post and it got me considering doing the same to mine, I have some colour match paint I could use, and could probably do with touching up my parcel tray (no soft top) too.

Born_disturbed · Post by **Born_disturbed** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:16 pm

I have White bonnet, green divers door, primer bootlid, garnish and rear bumper and then 3 shades of black on everything else

chris · Post by **chris** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:16 pm

I was really careful when I did it, because i didnt want the underside of my boot being a different color to the outside. So I sprayed a very small area to test it out on

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:45 pm

Mr. Shine wrote:
Furai wrote:MRSHINE it was you who beat me on that! I was gonna make a spoiler Haha
Haha, sorry dude. I'd argue I need it more - my current bootlid has a actory spoiler held on by SCREWS, and I don't want a spoiler anyway!

If you're after a bootlid to play around with, you're welcome to mine free if you want to remove the spoiler and play around with the bare lid? I think it may originally have been a non-spoiler bootlid. It'll have possibly rusty screw holes on the sides, though :S

That would be sweet, I will either make and paint the boot lid or get a mold off it well see. I just slapped on a $30 autobid and went to eat haha didnt really care.

Mr. Shine · Post by **Mr. Shine** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:01 pm

Furai wrote:That would be sweet, I will either make and paint the boot lid or get a mold off it well see. I just slapped on a $30 autobid and went to eat haha didnt really care.

Yeah, it'll have two rangi screw holes on each side of the bootlid but if you're going to be working on it it'd be easy enough to fill in, and if you're taking a mold from it then they shouldn't be a problem at all. I wouldn't mind fibreglassing a factory bootlid, or one with a built-in lip spoiler.

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:12 pm

Im going to take a crack at a RS Factory style one.

chris · Post by **chris** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:23 pm

Okay, so last night I picked up a fron bumper (in blue) for $50.00 Sweet! I also got a strut brace and a firewall brace (?)

Just picked up some carbon wrap for my dash - will apply this tonight!

ps. anyone know how to get to the two screws on the far sides of the bumper? O.o

Mr. Shine · Post by **Mr. Shine** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:36 pm

chris wrote:Just picked up some carbon wrap for my dash - will apply this tonight!

In for pics of this!

chris · Post by **chris** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:42 pm

On Sunday night/Monday morning I went to a mates place who just brought some and we did his petrol flap. That looked cool! So can't wait to see how the dash pieces look

Mr. Shine · Post by **Mr. Shine** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:45 pm

Yeah, I've been considering it for a while. Toss up between doing dash parts in carbon vinyl/leather/suede/flock.

Angreal · Post by **Angreal** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:45 pm

Last night I wrote up a list of things that I need to do on the car and realised it was rather long... I then gave up and started on the beers. Not looking forward to next month when I need to get it all done before I can get a wof

chris · Post by **chris** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:55 pm

^

I did that.. I had an order of things I was going to get.. but I kinda gave up on that, if I see a good deal I struggle to not take itt

Born_disturbed · Post by **Born_disturbed** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:57 pm

I have massive floor to ceiling sliding mirrors in my room and one of them is covered nearly top to bottom in my car to do list..

SLYDIT · Post by **SLYDIT** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:40 pm

Angreal wrote:Last night I wrote up a list of things that I need to do on the car and realised it was rather long... I then gave up and started on the beers. Not looking forward to next month when I need to get it all done before I can get a wof

WOW! ts like you live in some sort of parallel universe! i did exactly the same!
I setlled for readjusting the car cover and spraying the grass growing around it....

chris · Post by **chris** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:29 pm

New Hardtop!

m1atamad · Post by **m1atamad** » Thu May 03, 2012 9:10 pm

Spent easter weekend polishing my Chev --- well, three days - sometimes sux having a huge car. ITM 400 taking photo's and this coming weekend I will be taking photo's of Triumph Spitfires and a real Spitfire plane.

Unfortunately the MX5's are sitting unloved in the shed...will get around to them one day :-/

chris · Post by **chris** » Fri May 04, 2012 8:47 am

CHEV?! OM NOM!!! haha That sounds cool! Do you have pics n a blog or anything?

Mr. Shine · Post by **Mr. Shine** » Fri May 04, 2012 9:52 am

I'll be picking up a set of Z1 Star Specs tomorrow plus a wheel alignment. Hoping to spray my daisy wheels gun metal or metallic black, and should be picking up some Volk Duralumin wheel nuts too!

Hopefully can get to work on my bootlid this weekend, too!

Angreal · Post by **Angreal** » Fri May 04, 2012 11:04 am

m1atamad wrote:Spent easter weekend polishing my Chev --- well, three days - sometimes sux having a huge car. ITM 400 taking photo's and this coming weekend I will be taking photo's of Triumph Spitfires and a real Spitfire plane.

Unfortunately the MX5's are sitting unloved in the shed...will get around to them one day :-/

I got up close and personal with 2 spitfires at Warbirds over Wanaka and the RNZAF airshow. Made me want to get a kitset replica spitfire (cheaper and more newer parts) or the T51 Titan Mustang

dellinator · Post by **dellinator** » Fri May 04, 2012 5:55 pm

Wll mine blew an O-ring on the injectors, hot turbo with petrol spraying everywhere rather scary

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