Scissor Scraper

[TWM Performance]

Can't wait to see this thing with those wheels on!

[ztfoss]

Nice, always glad to see a miata treated well and youve got some sweet plans

[DawsonLiri]

Nice to see some RS on a Miata, and not the usual RM

[high.classhole]

RS Rebuild pt.7

Not really a rebuild update but I realised I hadn't posted any decent photos of them finished yet not taken with a potato ahaha!







I actually managed to find some RS001's that are 4x100, not redrilled and in need of some love so I bought those and am in the process of painting them white, the wheels will look exactly the same as they do now, I just won't need adapters to put them on the car! I also used an acrylic paint out of a rattle can to do the original set I got and the RS001s are now done in a poly urethane and will be much glossier and harder wearing which is perfect! I'll post a few photos once they are done but it's literally exactly the same as the process I originally went through! I also changed my mind on the barrels, so instead of a very logical and easy to keep clean black? They are now white.. Stupid I know, but they look amazing! I apologise for yet another potato pic ahaha

[high.classhole]

Update

I figured the soft top could do with a bit of love while the hard top was in progress, just a bit of vinyl paint and it came up good as new! The whole car needs to be a bit lower and I cannot wait to get rid of those wheels!

[high.classhole]

I vote naming the seats Ass Carbon Max or Classhole Classics Carbon XD Love this thing

Ahahaha! Unfortunately I have a partner at work who I doubt will approve of those names but hilarious nonetheless!

Damn dude, its awsome how you are making your own seat mold and also a replacement hard top. Cant wait to see what else you come up with.

Thanks man, it's just what we do at work, definitely a very handy skill to have! I am planning on doing a few more things down the track, probably a carbon hood at some stage, maybe a front bumper and some other small things around the place. I **** how all the normal MX5 side skirts you see are warped so maybe some of those in carbon might go alright :P

This is crazy! Love what you're doing to this little car, and the wheels came out awesome

Thank you, I'm heaps happy with how they are too, thankfully I ended up finding some 4x100 centres so no need to run adapters now! I'll post about them soon

I love the composite work going on, also subbed for the floating center caps. Doesn't Rolls Royce use a similar idea for their wheels?

Thank you Yeah Rolls do exactly what I'm trying to achieve, I found guy who managed to split his RS caps like I was trying to with boiling water, mine didn't seem to work as well though Might need to start looking into another way of doing it!

[FearNLoathing]

DUB uses them but theyre not exactly center caps. Its like one arm that stays pointed down while driving. Same concept ?

[DeltaAlpha9]

I love the composite work going on, also subbed for the floating center caps. Doesn't Rolls Royce use a similar idea for their wheels?

[fackinsteve]

This is crazy! Love what you're doing to this little car, and the wheels came out awesome

[imschwaggy]

damn!

[hinrichs]

Damn dude, its awsome how you are making your own seat mold and also a replacement hard top. Cant wait to see what else you come up with.

[CDeez5]

I vote naming the seats Ass Carbon Max or Classhole Classics Carbon XD Love this thing

[high.classhole]

In other news

Hayden, my brother in law has been hard core guiding me and helping me learn how to weld as I really had no idea what I was doing, just kinda pulled the trigger and hoped for the best, if I could drop it without it breaking, it was mint
Now with his help I've kinda got the hang of MIG welding, and I reckon I am doing alright at it, this photo is unrelated to the mx5 but I figured I would practice on building a few things for work before setting out to fabricate something on the car I drive to work at 100kph every day



Not exactly weld porn, I know, but I'm happy with it none the less, definitely aiming for that penny stacked look, I'm pretty confident now that I could make my own control arms which is exactly what I plan to do in the future as the stupid OEM ones are such a tight fit around my coils that I can't go any lower, which is killing my vibe. Time to make some new ones from scratch!

I also relined and extended my oven to take a few bigger bits of carbon to come in the future



Everyone, meet Hayden

[high.classhole]

Carbon hardtop

So, I mentioned a couple weeks back I was moulding a hard top to reproduce in carbon fibre? Well that went south pretty quickly when I tried to get the window out.. Trust me, that is not as easy as it looks/sounds.
Because the last time it was painted it wasn't masked well, there was paint bridging between the roof and the seal so once it was off it left this rise, around where the seal had been.. When it comes to making anything in composites, your final product is only as good as your mould, which is only as good as your buck (what you mould), so ANYYY defect in the original part will show in the final carbon one. This meant the roof was rubbed back, and I set to work on priming, filling, priming, rubbing, priming, painting, clearing, rubbing, clearing again and now its ready for it's final rub and polish!
Keep in mind I'm only a YouTube qualified painter, the orange peel is strong in the clear thank god for sand paper

first primer and fixing small issues and defects



Final primer



Base



Clear



In any other instance, we wouldn't go through this much trouble to repaint it the right colour or use clear, but the roof isn't mine and has to go back to it's owner once we are done, so we had to take the long way around it.
Thankfully it's all 100% perfect now and ready to be moulded in the next week or so!

[high.classhole]

The little things

In less exciting news, I finally got around to making a little side mount number plate bracket. I went to the effort of making it brushed aluminium and then realised literally no one will ever see it.. might have to take my plates off at shows just so it wasn't a complete waste of time



My girlfriend pointed out my paint was looking a little dull and personally I didn't see it... Until I hit it with the polishing thing, this was just the first cut using a 400 grit.. liquid? I don't know what to call it, this is literally the first time I'd ever polished anything. Surprisingly, the car looks at least 2394892 times better now, you can even see the difference in the centre brake light