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5-30-2013
Thank you for subscribing!! I'm going to be more active here and share some product reviews and answer questions.
Regarding wheels. Here is a pic of HRE calls their mono forged wheel.
As you can see it starts off as a general shaped forged block and no specific designed die pressed forged block like how RAYS, BBS, or now Advans do with dies.
Yeah. It's not complicated to change out the barrels. But what I've noticed from another multi piece wheel I recently help swap centers, the holes on the centers were bigger and gave some play. That's when I realized what if its not centered perfectly.
WOrk wheels don't care if you do it or not. But who knows what they would do after I say this. Forgeline however will not sell you barrels unless they assemble your wheels. This is liability purpose and I could understand that as a company. They also want to make sure trained personnel did the work. Which again going back to my friends three piece where the centers are swapped and different torque on the bolts. Yikes!! Another problem is you just can't tell if these small shops do any testing on their design and just o make them pretty. I don't want to be the test dummy.
6-6-2013
meh. Photography took these photos at a local C&C
6-9-2013
Just saw this and thought I share.
9-17-2013
Here is an update..
Thank you!
Modified Just uploaded a better cover photo.. I still haven't seen the magazine yet 
9-18-2013
Latest photo of the MB... I mean flat black..
Loving the SakeBomb's AP Racing brakes and these T1-Sport Toyo Tires are pretty awesome!
9-28-2013
Sure!
To show the great glory of Rich's feature, here are the photos from the Modified Magazine..
More Photos of Rich's Car that "G" thinks it was rigged and doesn't think it deserves it..
Those Spirit R seats were in MUCH better condition than mine. Only those understand why having a mint Spirit R seats are so much harder than to just recovering them. Just look at all the new Mazda parts he put on this car.. Attention to detail was superb!!!
10-28-2013
Back on Topic..
This came online today on Modified Magazine website...
1993 Mazda RX-7 - Built In Bama - Modified Magazine
Many many people to thank on this project but only people I should really thank are the people at Modified for the kind words, their love for rotaries and continuing to feature them, and also rotary related events. Thanks Modified Magazine!!!!! So, go subscribe their mags!
10-29-2013
Couple of photos from past Sunday at Import Alliance gathering...
Showing off my new color (plasti dip) on what used to be my 2 rotor Montego Blue FD.
11-14-2013
1-2-2014
Update... Long over due..
To Start, my cover feature came out on Modified Mag.. Nov 2013 issue. Which is now online: 1993 Mazda RX-7 - Built In Bama - Modified Magazine
Some photos from the shoot.
Also just before the Holidays, My plastidipped MB/satin blk FD was featured in Stance Nation. Photos from Stance Nation:
Sinister Rotary // Phils Mazda RX7. | StanceNation
^^is Plasti Dipped (www.DipYourCar.com)
Below is a comparision satin painted the FD from 5-6 years ago (My 1st Black FD where this thread was started).
My opinion about Plasti Dip:
I been getting a lot of questions from people.. So I will state some pros and cons compared with my experience with satin paint, 3M vinyl, and plasti dip.
Satin Paint is by far most expensive and super hard to keep it nice. it chips easy and once chipped, that's it. You can't buff, wax, etc.
Vinyl, the theory is nice. but quite expensive if you hire someone to do. I did couple of test run on my MB FD and also my daily TL when 3M first introduced their 'car' vinyl. it was fairly easy to do and held up well. Until, I decided to pull it off. TL, vinyl came off easy and without any issues. However, my repainted/aftermarket painted FD3S? vinyl took my paint off. Apparently this is a VERY common issues with non-OE paint. Of course 3M did not disclosed this nor would they do anything about it since I installed it myself.
Plasti Dip (purchased from www.DipYourCar.com) is by far best, easiest, and cheapest solution. I heard about this 2-3 years ago. Been watching videos and about a year ago, decided to give it a try (for DGRR). I mainly wanted to use this stuff to protect my MB paint (costly paint job) while I drove around town and DGRR. Bought 4 cans from Lowes, experimented on my lower part of FEED flares (where rock chips were common). One side of the car was vinyl and otherside was plasti dipped. Most people for 6 months had no idea one side was dipped and other side was vinyl.
I also used my daily as test subject and plasti dipped the front grill and few other areas to see how well it will hold up since it was parked outside and saw more environmental elements. 6 months, I had no issues on either cars. Cleaned up easily and peeled off without an issue.
I than talked to guys at DipYourCar.com and decided to get their full car kit (under $400 with the sprayer). The satin black FD you see here is 3-4 layers of their black. I did the entire work in 1 day and drove in the rain about an hour after spraying. I also did 2 track days with this and performed great!! I had very little chips, clean up was easy (just water and microfiber towel, in 15 mins), and than I layed 3-4 more dip after running it for 2-3 months (still using the left over from the kit).
With the new color, I have about 6-8 coats of this stuff. I've put over 1000 miles, another day at the track, and the plasti dip is still in great condition. All, under $400.
I'm going to do one more layer in different color before peeling this stuff off. I'll post a results of 1 year of dip later this spring.
