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

Posted: December 17th, 2010, 2:06 am
by ethand
yeah, too ricey for me... haha

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

Posted: December 17th, 2010, 1:16 pm
by youdirtyfox
modded the stock lights.
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Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: December 19th, 2010, 8:55 pm
by ethand
nice work! look forward to seein them with the new rear design... the pics you had remind me of the BA 323 Astina a little!! only its a coupe, so automatically hotter ;)

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

Posted: December 20th, 2010, 12:55 pm
by youdirtyfox
Thanks, all being well I should have them on thursday/friday
will be going for the second design I put up using
some black vinyl across the boot lid > more RX-7 then 323 :)

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

Posted: December 20th, 2010, 3:08 pm
by fillpereira
Im curious to see this done :D

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

Posted: December 20th, 2010, 11:43 pm
by ethand
ah, yeah, sorry, my bad, didnt see the second pic!! i second fillpereira! will be very interesting!! ensure you post up pics! :D

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

Posted: December 23rd, 2010, 9:03 am
by youdirtyfox
alrighty! applied 3 coats of clear lacquer
a couple of days ago, so put the lights on
this afternoon, still need to cut the lacquer
back in a couple of weeks so then I will
decide on the black vinyl chioce to go across
the middle and apply the flyeye tint.

after lacquer
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full painting write up here:
http://www.uk-mx3.com//forum/viewtopic. ... &start=120

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

Posted: December 23rd, 2010, 11:26 am
by youdirtyfox
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Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: December 26th, 2010, 5:02 am
by youdirtyfox
next mod up will be these 25mm spacers! :D
to give me that 8J look 8)
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Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: January 7th, 2011, 3:27 am
by youdirtyfox
quick shot with my new cameraphone :D
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..and something Im leaning towards
doing with a spare bumper I have coming!
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Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: January 7th, 2011, 6:25 am
by fillpereira
Thats gonna look sick, hope it works out

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

Posted: January 7th, 2011, 12:13 pm
by youdirtyfox
Thanks, its not going to be easy....
works well in white too :wink:
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Re: UK Sam's 1.6 Turbo MX-3 project

Posted: January 7th, 2011, 7:05 pm
by AaronTietje
So, how about I just ship you a US bumper that does not have fog holes and you can ship me one that does. :D :D :D :D :D

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

Posted: January 8th, 2011, 4:00 am
by youdirtyfox
haha that would be welll cool and save me a lot of
expensive filler and time, but shipping costs are like
250GBP ?!

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

Posted: January 8th, 2011, 11:56 am
by AaronTietje
Wow that is expencive. :shock: