Sam's 1.6 MX-3- LT Turbo project.

[Josh]

You are going above and beyond what I thought you would do. Cheers to taking the time and doing it right!

When you are done it will look like they came that way.

[youdirtyfox]

Haha you know that Brother, pretty proud of myself for doing these right! was a bit sketchy at first as one wrong move = game over, but after the first two wheels I was pretty confident.

Will be taking two wheels back into work tommorrow to give them the sculpting treatment with emery & parrafin, then I can finally get some gold paint on them..damn cant wait to see what they look like Factory fresh I hope

[AaronTietje]

That absolutely MAKES those wheels. They are going to POP when you get them painted too.

[youdirtyfox]

Hell yeah should make the whole car sing! Bit of a lunchtime emery & paraffin session bought good results, maybe a bit more elbow/grease autosol will get them mirror finish.

[mx3matt]

those wheels are incredible.

[youdirtyfox]

Cheers matt, come out alright haven't they, apart from a few scuff marks (one pit mark has filler in it, so I cant polish that,lol)
Next time you see these they will have some paint on

[wednesdayslatest]

you have 4x4 drive train? with a 1.6L sohc? i only have front wheel drive with my rs. its rusted like crazy i needa fix up the body. i was thinking about going turbo but then i figured if just tune out the SOHC and motor swap to a DOHC a nice one and then turbo that one out (although im not sure what im going to do because i already got corksport headers)

[Evo_Spec]

you have 4x4 drive train? with a 1.6L sohc? i only have front wheel drive with my rs. its rusted like crazy i needa fix up the body. i was thinking about going turbo but then i figured if just tune out the SOHC and motor swap to a DOHC a nice one and then turbo that one out (although im not sure what im going to do because i already got corksport headers)

sam's car is FWD, as with 99% of the car's on this forum.

[wednesdayslatest]

yes i get that but someone said you can make the mx3 4x4 but i never really heard much about it

[youdirtyfox]

Had to stump up another £57 to get my clutch out of customs & delivered to me, so here it is now! ON the dining room table,lol


Having a real difficult time deciding exactly which wheel colour, as metallic grey has been thrown out there as being a bit more modest and understated then Gold, although I do love the Gold as brings some colour into the mix I feel grey might be more me and
in keeping with the nature of the mx3?! (plus I don't how I would feel driving a red car with gold wheels, maybe too flash,lol)

This would be the other paint:

[RobMinhas]

Gold wheels on MX-3s are too much flash, always found that Cops paid more attention to mr hen I had my gold wheels.

And have you considered silver rims? I think it's called hyper silver but I've seen it on a couple red cars and it looks awesome.

Gunmetal Grey would look nice too I think.

[Josh]

Not to blow up your WL with pictures I will add the URLs

These all look quite nice with gold/bronze!

http://www.superhonda.com/photopost/dat ... heels4.jpg

http://www.rx7club.com/attachment.php?postid=2491735

http://www.iputinwork.com/wp-content/up ... 02_800.jpg

If you go for a silver I would suggest going for something a little darker like a gunmetal metallic. What you have above is nice too. It is your car and you should be happy with whatever color you choose. I would put two wheels on your car take a pic and start photoshopping to make an informed decision

[youdirtyfox]

E-Tech Championship White ftmfw

[Josh]

You going to run heavy clear on them or leave them as is?

I really cant seem to get enough of them

[youdirtyfox]

Haha Good times! The centers will be cleared but the dishes left 'oh natural. Need to score rim wax to give them a fighting chance
of staying clean!