Mazda + Toyota

[jared1988]

Always wanted of these, those wheels look phenomenal on there!

I'm from Baltimore but unfortunately I'm in Pittsburgh most of the time for school. All my friends back home are great at photography at well(one actually shoots for Stanceworks, another for CAtuned, etc etc) I'll see if any of them have some free time and want to take some pictures sometime.

Heyyy thanks, welcome to the 1% that likes these pie plates lol.

That'd be sweet dude. I live in the Severn area. Hit me up if you ever come back home, looking for other fitment homies to chill with. At the very least I'll make all your rides look better haha.

[jared1988]

So I went around and tightened all the nuts and bolts just now. I put the car on 4 jack stands on the lower control arms to best simulate the car sitting its wheels and not hanging freely. Noticed the rear shocks had about 1/2" of compression left before it hit the bump stop and I could tell the car wasn't simulated exactly at ride hight. So I cut some of the bump stop off and took a quick ride around the block. Seems less harsh of a ride now and it looks like the rear dropped a little more too.

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[rice4life]

Those wheels look really good on this car. Definitely unique, and very OEM+. The one thing that really detracts from the car is those tail lights. That tint looks cheap compared to everything else on the car.

Keep it up man, good thread!

[pl43]

Very nice. I like it

[jared1988]

Those wheels look really good on this car. Definitely unique, and very OEM+. The one thing that really detracts from the car is those tail lights. That tint looks cheap compared to everything else on the car.

Keep it up man, good thread!

Haha thanks! If you noticed in the earlier pictures they looked super nice and glossy but time definitely beat VHT nite-shade junk. I'm going to find someone to strip them down and cover them in some ruby red dragon laminate, I think. Still not 100% sure what I want to do with them.

Very nice. I like it

Thanks man.

[jared1988]

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Did things, stickers and un-smoked my rear tail lights, look so much better.

2009
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The old 2015
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The new 2015
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Removing the Nite Shade was easy enough. Bought Goo Gone, didn't work, got it confused with Goo Off. Found a little can of Goo Off in the garage, practiced on the 3rd brake light, figured it would be the cheapest to replace in the inevitable event I fuck something up. Noticed it was eating away at the plastic on the back side of the LED, but the lens was fine.. Then I remembered I had a headlight restoration kit in the garage and gave that a whirl on the rest of the rear light and quite pleased with the outcome. Thinking about doing something like THIS on the tails though...

Stickers because 5 years behind sticker bomb trend...
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So I got all black ones because I wanted them to be subtle. I should have bought more of the matte black ones, don't know why I didn't, bought them years ago, just never felt I had the car up to my standards to warrant stickers.
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Random iPotato snaps with my buddy and his G35, and him photobombing his own car.
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At Sonic. I'm a big *****, he's riding lower than me and he didn't even want to lower his car until I convinced him to do it
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[Loaf31]

Looks fantastic, man. keep up the good work!

[loekaaz]

Never would have guessed those wheels would look that good on the car. Nice work!

[skyrkt]

I've always loved your car Jared! Just read through the thread and boy, some great progression has been made. Love the wheels! Awesome to see that you're still rocking the MazdasNW sticker. I certainly miss those "good old days" and the well attended monthly meets. (I was skyrocket on MazdasNW)

[RubbderDucky]

Looks good dude, literally all of the MS3s in Orlando are riced out to hell or beat down. Nice to see one taken care of.

[jared1988]

Changed oil, yay.

Looks fantastic, man. keep up the good work!

Thanks boss.

Never would have guessed those wheels would look that good on the car. Nice work!

Neither did I, welcome to the 1%'ers lol.

I've always loved your car Jared! Just read through the thread and boy, some great progression has been made. Love the wheels! Awesome to see that you're still rocking the MazdasNW sticker. I certainly miss those "good old days" and the well attended monthly meets. (I was skyrocket on MazdasNW)

Eyyy man, nice to see you over here. MNW looks all but dead but still gotta rep the home town. I actually just put the sticker on there so its minty fresh lol. I only went to 1 mini meet, Martin, Hao and a young kid with an mp5 came. It's definitely nice to be back stateside with my car and finally getting to modify it.

Looks good dude, literally all of the MS3s in Orlando are riced out to hell or beat down. Nice to see one taken care of.

Thanks man, I'm building it how I want it, some may think it's rice though, so don't **** me haha My taste is "questionable" sometimes but coming from Japan, people do what they want and give no fucks (click HERE) and thats my mentality. Having said that... I have been looking at under-glow ........

[TWM Performance]

I really like those Z40 wheels on there!

- Renato

[jared1988]

I really like those Z40 wheels on there!

- Renato

Thank you sir, can't wait to paint them.

[jared1988]

Got some WeatherTech Digital Fits for christmas, yay!

[jared1988]

Stuff that happened last week;

Traded these wheels;
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for these;
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They're 350z wheels and they need center caps, road rash repair, TPMS, tires, and paint. Probably need to get a real roll/pull too I still need to dip my z40s It's my birthday this month, maybe I will get some plastidip.

Also changed the oil. The Mazda dealer I would take my car to for oil changes finally got fed up dealing with my "excessively lowered" car (somehow or another it was a 2 man job to get it on the lift) and decided they will charge me an additional $40 to do an oil change. So I guess I'll stop being lazy and do it myself