Sancho's nb8c

sanchodotdj · Postby **sanchodotdj** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:02 am

Hey guys, fairly new to the forum,
owned mazdas all my life but usually of the wankel variety.
Was looking for a clean NA for a while but couldnt bring myself to pay 10k for such and old car so ended up with an NB8C and i love it!
Shes black, came with fully sick 18's, standard exterior (besides the birdshit and tree sap) and tiny rip in roof (suspected stab) standard interior bar the cd player ad fully sick chrome gearknob.
Bought her in late october, first weekend she was washed, claybarred, polished, cleaned.

Modification #1: removed orange reflectors, smoothed and colour coded
Modification #2: removed blown front speakers and replaced with response 6inch
Modification #3: removed fully sick chrome gearknob and replaced with standard leather one (thanks boyracer)
Modification #4: removed chatty grey universal floor mats and replaced with genuine ones (thanks boyracer)
Modification #5: removed fully sick 18 inch wheels and replaced with SP 17inch racing harts (thanks hjt)
Modification #6: wheel alignment done at spinning wheel tyres (getting that done today)
Modification #7: roof tear repaired by vinyl specialist (getting done today)

its now the second weekend of owning the car.... i think the modification bug has bitten already

pics from the start coming later this weekend

Hjt · Postby **Hjt** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:46 am

Looking forward to the pictures, the wheels are from the limited edition SE range the SP didn't get any fancy wheels unfortunately. Keep the dairy coming!

sanchodotdj · Postby **sanchodotdj** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:56 am

im used to the SP being the special editon (rotary boy) lol
thanks for the correction. and thanks for the wheels! drives soooo much better that the 18s.

next mods planned:
machine brake disks (or replace depending on condition)
red wheel nuts for a bit of bling factor
cold air intake and filter
coilovers
exhaust (undecided)
some leather bits inside
and eventually some guard rolling, 0 offset wheels and stretched tyres :lol:

Regie · Postby **Regie** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 1:38 pm

looking forward to some pics!

check my garage for inspiration if you are keen

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sanchodotdj · Postby **sanchodotdj** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 9:42 am

this is how it looked when i first got her (pic quality isnt the greatest lol)

then the ugly rims came off and new wheels went on

new wheels on and wheel alignment done, made the world of a difference!

Hjt · Postby **Hjt** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:42 am

The design of those 18s made them look even bigger! Looks nice with the new wheels, really like the black on a mx5.

emex · Postby **emex** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 1:22 pm

Very nice, amazing how a set of wheels can transform a car. Well done & congrats!

Regie · Postby **Regie** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 1:48 pm

You bought this car from stoney creek road in bexley aye??

Used to see it everyday on my way to/from work

sanchodotdj · Postby **sanchodotdj** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 1:58 pm

haha yep thats where it was bought from, old owner is a friend of mine.
it lives out west with me now

slimx · Postby **slimx** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 2:19 pm

Looking good i was looking at getting se rims to but i thought might look too high the body itself. I lyk being low to the ground

Looks gd out west aye.. Penrith west or like parramatta west.. How west we talkn

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Aussie Stig · Postby **Aussie Stig** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 2:33 pm

Hey dude, you got this for around 10K, unbelievable. I guess the 18" wheels must have knocked 3K off.
They would look good on a focus turbo but just silly on the 5.

sanchodotdj · Postby **sanchodotdj** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 2:47 pm

i was about to spend 10k on an NA, so i stretched the budget a little and got this instead :lol:

sanchodotdj · Postby **sanchodotdj** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:15 am

over the weekend i fixed the drooping eyeball vents, did a quick google search. was quite a simple job, a credit card, some cloth tape, and 5 minutes later it was fixed

sanchodotdj · Postby **sanchodotdj** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 10:31 pm

So the past few weeks have been fun,

-pulled out the headlights, took them apart, and painted the insides black to look like SE lights
(youtube helped take them apart)

- installed HID kit (thanks to skreem performance)

-tinted side indicators (left ring untinted for that z4 look)

-front bumper repaired debadged and resprayed
-rear bumper repaired and resprayed
-bootlid repaired debadged and resprayed

-yellowspeed coilovers ordered

-new wheels ordered

-trying expensive ass rotiforms (17x8.5 +20) for size/poke/clearance/offset/brake clearance

sold the 17inch racing harts, put shitty boat anchors on in the meantime til new wheels arrive,
popped one of the 18's, running space saver at until i get a new tyre next week

here is how i want the car to look eventually (forza 4)

Not what you usually see on mx5cartalk but its what i like and what i want :JDM:

yo!

Hjt · Postby **Hjt** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 1:31 am

I think XXR make rims that are similar to the model you showed, also how much amber light comes out the side blinkers?

Nice work also on the headlights, did you use the oven?