Team Chihuahua's MX5 MKII Mini Project

[Kruizer]

Wait till its running the RX8 engine and gearbox

[dav3design]

Thanks fella The lad who owns it seems really happy anyways

Make the car look a million times better!

LOL I meant "they make the car look a millions times better"


AHAHA

[Kruizer]

I just wanna get under the bonnet, not looking forward to refurbing the wheels to be honest, pig of a job cause its polish a cast metal so lots of sanding first

[Kruizer]

Chris (Bodyshop) sent me on a few pic's so enjoy Dor's still need the refurb but that'll be done this week, coming very close to the end

[ullyeus]

Paint looks good. Can't wait to see it with the wheels on!

[rsingh3g]

You my friend are awesome. Three projects at the same time, hell yeah

[Strawhat]

In all seriousness dude, your skills are fucking amazing.

[MikeyRa]

Holy crap, wasn't expecting this when I came in here! Sub'd for more!

[Kruizer]

Paint looks good. Can't wait to see it with the wheels on!

Ya should look good fella...

You my friend are awesome. Three projects at the same time, hell yeah

Ah I don't own this one but ya I do have 3 projects, RX7, RX8 & KP61 LoL

In all seriousness dude, your skills are fucking amazing.

Thanks man, I wouldn't say that now, I just tip away in my own time, real job is in Logisitics.

Holy crap, wasn't expecting this when I came in here! Sub'd for more!

Glad your enjoying it mate.

Went out to Chris last night to get a proper look at the car and take some normal sized pic's











Split the wheels to drop the centre's out for paint (TVR Purple) got a look at the challenge ahead. Due to flipping the centre's for more dish the inner linner is cast and has alot of pits in it so bring up a good finish will be hard enough :




The car should be ready either this weekend or next so finished pic's soon

[rsingh3g]

I can't wait to see the Dori's finished up

[Kruizer]

Right so I haven't had much to do with this recently and I was reluctant to start on the wheels having given one a quick attack while I had the car. Anyways they needed to be done so I used a mix of compounds that I think has given the best results. the problem with reversing the dish is that the inner dish is of a lower grade material that the outer dish. When you sand the dimpled surface away your left with pits in the metal, kind of like stone chips on paintwork so to cut past that level of imperfection you really have to dig into the metal, the hardest part of this refurb is getting past all the imperfections in rge metal itself first. I have 3 wheels done however I am only half way throught the 4th, once they are all cut back I'll begin the preparation sanding for polishing however to get to this level was with a 60 grade !

[Anonymoose]

You've got a Starlet? Pics!

[Kruizer]

You've got a Starlet? Pics!

Yes I have a KP61 that I am fitting a Beams Engine from an Altezza too, might throw up a thread once I have more done. If you wanna check it out as it is there are pic's on Team Chihuahua.

[loekaaz]

seats look dope on themselves, but kinda heavy in combo with the tiny MX-5...
nevertheless, like the work you did so far.
keep up the good work

[Kruizer]

seats look dope on themselves, but kinda heavy in combo with the tiny MX-5...
nevertheless, like the work you did so far.
keep up the good work

They are heavy to be fair however it was more a case of doing something different for the owner so we lashed on Cheers mate

So after machine sanding the cast metal back to within an inch of its linfe with a 60 grit head I took it up to 120 > 240 > 400 > 600 > 800 > 1200 > 1500 and then finally fingerprintless gave it a polish with a mix of compound and peek...

Cast Wheels = Never Again (Well who knows if I get bored )






Next week the centre's will be soda blasted and painted a lovely fresh colour