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Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: August 29th, 2011, 8:51 pm
by Ryan
I love the expanded mouth on the bumper... I may copy you some day.

Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: August 29th, 2011, 10:23 pm
by Evo_Spec
Ryan wrote:I love the expanded mouth on the bumper... I may copy you some day.
+1

Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: August 30th, 2011, 1:53 am
by youdirtyfox
Thats fine Fellas I dont mind people copying it, just do the design justice :wink:
Treat it like a sculpture ie. consider it from all angles, mark the lines out with tape and always cut inside the line and file up to it. I used a very worn down hard disc cutter in the angle grinder to do mine. The grill mesh is pinned in by the bumper bar at the top then I made some special 'L' brackets to pull it in at the bottom, and you really want a import square plate on the side for full effect too 8)

@ Josh, the spoiler has been shelved for now, its way down the list on things to do Im afraid I may not even use it and stay smooth, as Im about to plate over the aeriel and bung up the washer jets on the bonnet/roof.

Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: September 1st, 2011, 2:14 pm
by youdirtyfox
Knocked up this stainless steel fuse box cover today, need some velcro
dots to attach it with though.
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Ive also got a cheeky little waterslide decal to go on there.
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probably all need clearcoating once its on there.

Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: September 5th, 2011, 12:24 pm
by youdirtyfox
Heres a nice mod I found for my
euro hotrod styling, these little valve stem covers.
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Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: September 6th, 2011, 2:46 pm
by youdirtyfox
now with added old skool BMX dice valve caps.
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next up some centre emblems.

Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: September 7th, 2011, 2:48 pm
by Josh
Nice!!! love the Dice

Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: September 7th, 2011, 5:25 pm
by cWs306
yaah im loving the matching dice/stem covers/lugs. :2thumbsup: . And if they get stolen you can always make more :P. drill out the #1 and push a black cap into it. ive been through so many pairs of black ones already haha.

Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: September 7th, 2011, 6:12 pm
by youdirtyfox
The dice I'll keep for shows etc and use the green caps that came with the stem covers for everday :P

Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: September 13th, 2011, 12:18 pm
by youdirtyfox
Well after a few hours and many different designs on
photoshop I have decided the best centre cap for me is plain black :lol:

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sourced these off ebay and they pop in there perfec :D

Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: September 13th, 2011, 5:47 pm
by Josh
Very nice! A buddy of mine has a laser engraving machine and he made a couple sets of center caps with the Diamond Mazda logo. If you want one with a M logo or something let me know.

Keep up the good work

Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: September 14th, 2011, 3:42 pm
by youdirtyfox
Ta, oooh that would've be nice, because a few of the designs that i did like were black lettering on black background but just with grey shadows, thanks for the offer :)

Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: September 18th, 2011, 6:55 am
by youdirtyfox
The obligatory " ground clearence" photo:
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Our driveway has now been refurbed so I can get the car back on the hardstanding outside my flat and starting working Her again, with some more lowness on the front, new 4" tailpipe sniper exhaust backbox, a boot hatch delock bung plug which Im going to machine and have painted along with removing and blanking off the rear washer jet and aerial... then it might be ready for some photshoots....

Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: September 18th, 2011, 1:00 pm
by cWs306
Have you went under your car with a hammer n checked how your undercarriage is holding up? maybe its just me, but in that pic^^ it looks a little ruff.. Hope it not though n its just me trippin out. :(

Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: September 18th, 2011, 2:59 pm
by youdirtyfox
Its just surface rust, it's pretty solid underthere tbh.