Mazda + Toyota

[jared1988]

So nothing crazy has happened, finally got my windshield banner made, new HID fog lights, wrapped the car white.

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First a spoiler went missing, oh yeah, got bored and was experimenting with white spray paint vs plastidip as sidewall paint (regular paint last longer and doesn't yellow with time). My 13 year old thought "legit" would be cool, she all hip at that age I guess...
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It was a slow process. My friend wants to own a wrap shop, he wanted practice, so he got some white on a black Friday deal and I got a free wrap. Not perfect but we will fix it as we go, just wanted to get the car all white first.
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At the monthly mazda meet, rockin the pokeball status
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Well, they make white mazdaspeed3's so we needed to add something to make me stand out so we decided to do a matte black accent panel
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Then it was all done. Worked on it a few hours almost every Saturday. Learned a lot, bumpers suck, cutting sucks, glassing sucks, so basically wrapping sucks haha.
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Thats gonna be his logo, I drew it, had someone digitize it, pretty hyped about it
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New fog light HIDs for my birthday from my friend, slim ballasts mounted all nice now instead of ziptied
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More birthday presents, neo-chrome washers for the plate to make it look less basic. The pollen was free from mother nature.
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[jared1988]

Got rid of the GPS, un-routed the cable from behind the stereo and what not, took off the little disk the mount would suction to.
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Took off IRON MAN too, going to be painting the wheels and emblems white.... some day... Didn't want to have IRON MAN shadow in the paint.
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Need to get another subway handle too, ugh

[jared1988]

Received some window visors for my birthday as well. I really like them, super sleek you can barely tell they're there. Rolled doen the front 2 windows this morning, got some decent airflow, never had rain guards so not sure how much flow is good flow
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[jared1988]

I think I also fixed a flapping plastic noise I would hear at highway speeds. 1 of those little plastic screw/rivet things on the front of the under tray things came undone. Overall W for the day

I lied, the flapping noise still persists....

[jared1988]

Finally did this (rear motor mount);
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44k later... Wife ordered it for my b-day. She wrote a note to CS saying "if he doesnt like it he can go F himself", so CS wrote that little post card. Installed it Saturday, didn't take long, I didn't strip anything, woot. I think I also fixed a flapping plastic noise I would hear at highway speeds. 1 of those little plastic screw/rivet things on the front of the under tray things came undone. Overall W for the day

[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

[jared1988]

Got some WeatherTech Digital Fits for christmas, yay!

[jared1988]

I really like those Z40 wheels on there!

- Renato

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

[TWM Performance]

I really like those Z40 wheels on there!

- Renato

[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 ........

[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.

[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)

[loekaaz]

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

[Loaf31]

Looks fantastic, man. keep up the good work!

[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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